Some consider him a hero, and others consider him a traitor. Who is he? Edward Snowden. You might remember Snowden from 2013, when he leaked hundreds of highly classified documents concerning invasion of privacy against Americans by the National Security Agency. We know what Snowden did, but who really is he? Edward Snowden, or as he prefers to be called, Ed, was born on June 21, 1983 in North Carolina. He dropped out of high school and enrolled at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland to study computers. However, he later earned a G.E.D. He scored above 145 on two separate I.Q. tests. Snowden’s mother, Elizabeth B. Snowden, works for the federal court of Baltimore. His father, Lonnie Snowden, is a former United States Coast Guard officer. “We always considered Ed the smartest one in the family,” his father once stated, “he is a deep thinker and a sensitive and caring young man.” …show more content…
Using encryption, they communicated through emails about Snowden’s intentions to leak documents he had been copying from NSA’s databases for years. In early 2013 while Snowden, Greenwald, and filmmaker Laura Poitras met in Hong Kong, Snowden leaked hundreds of highly classified documents concerning privacy invasion by the NSA on millions of Americans to Greenwald and Poitras. On June 5, The Guardian published numerous of the papers revealed by Snowden, causing headlines globally. The next day, the Washington Post