1. Had the 4th Amendment been brokened?The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
None. Because
a) The authorities did not break into anyone's home. What is defined as 'Private'?
Your house is private. Your computer is private. BUT you along did not lay the cables, or send up your personal satellites into space. It came from the People through social spending. Your data is no longer owned, but shared.
b.) The NSA had authority from the judiciary - The 3rd arm of the government, to authorise the collection and looking into data for source out for the terrorists, criminals or any acts of violence upon mankind or intended acts of violence, in this fight of real terrorism in our world
c.) As for other matters unrelated to criminality or violence, the judiciary will NOT allow those informations to be used in a court of law as their authorisation did not cover EVERY issue over information obtained, except for crime and violence
Thus, NSA will have no use for other information except to archive it, as it is already archived in all govt and private servers around the world - data which is shared and never fully owned, but protected by the 4th amendment should any govt or private entreprise tries to use it for blackmail or for profit.
2. Is Snowden a traitor?
Yes. Because he broke his oath as govt security officer who had acess to NSA files. He is crook, as he had INVADED the privacy of NSA using such access and STOLEN those file, and worse, fled to a foreign nation to share such secrets and files to foreigners, including to terrorist organisations world wide.
He broke the 4th amendment law himself as he had no authority from anyone to do so. Is there a need to worship him as a hero? No. Instead he must be hauled before justice for trial, so that others - from the president to the cleaner, knows that they cannot simply break societal laws and hope to get away with it, or others will follow and chaos will only reign.
He has no grasp of the real world we live in, which is not Disneyland, but one where there are others whom are prepared to cause hurt and harm to others, as proven by the numerous terrorist attacks and crimes for centuries.
Today, we now have such surgical tools to weed out the criminals and the insane living amongst us, constitutionally, and is one way that we mankind survive and lesser innocents die. Snowden had only made the criminals more careful now, and rendered those tools inefficient now unless more upgrades be made.
I do not enjoy NSA's ability to read my private cheesy love poems, but should my chessy love poems stand in the way of NSA's searching for terrorists - hiding amongst us and misusing our laws to turn us against each other so that they can freely continue to hurt and harm innocents around our world?
The answer is a no brainer.
