In the same month, Snowden was charged with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence. Later articles revealed that the government was even spying on leaders of other countries, including Germany’s Angela Merkel.
government was tapping into the servers of nine Internet companies, including Apple, Facebook and Google, to spy on people’s audio and video chats, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs, as part of a surveillance program called Prism. Days later, The Washington Post and The Guardian reported that the U.S. The first story published in The Guardian revealed that the NSA was collecting and monitoring the telephone records and the texts of citizens. government relaxed its rules around surveillance. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the perceived need for heightened national security, the U.S. But the question remained: Was he a whistleblower or a traitor? Three days later the source unmasked himself as Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor.
The material exposed a government-run surveillance program that monitored the communications records of not just criminals or potential terrorists, but law-abiding citizens as well. That’s when The Guardian and The Washington Post published the first of a series of reports put together from documents leaked by an anonymous source. On June 6, 2013, Americans learned that their government was spying broadly on its own people.
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