Snowden was right. Actions of the Supreme Administrative Court deemed illegal by the District Court of Appeal

This is a very important sentence that will definitely go down in the history of the United States. The question remains: what's next with Edward Snowden?

The case concerns the surveillance of American citizens by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which the whole world learned about thanks to documents taken from the US headquarters by Edward Snowden .

If it weren't for Snowden, the NSA would still be eavesdropping on American citizens.

The disclosure of this activity is echoed around the world to this day. Many entities are still unable to trust the United States, whose services saw nothing wrong with the comprehensive surveillance of their own citizens - from recording their phone calls to the creation of extensive folders in which there was room for all internet activity of a given citizen.

Snowden, by revealing the activities of the NSA at the time, unleashed hell. Fortunately, he was so foreseeable that he unleashed them while already abroad. More specifically: in Hong Kong, from where he passed the information he obtained to selected journalists. The publications that followed immediately proved the scenarios, so far downplayed as conspiracy theories, to be true. Such an act of disobedience made Snowden the nation's traitor. In the United States, he is facing charges of theft of government property and violation of the Espionage Act.

The US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Snowden

Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.

And yet that day has arrived. https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U

- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 2, 2020

Following Snowden's disclosure of NSA's activities, the agency defended itself on the fact that its surveillance helped prevent many terrorist attacks and thus did nothing wrong. Fortunately, Americans are a bit obsessed with their civil liberties, which put the case of illegal wiretapping conducted by the NSA to the District Court of Appeals, where during the trial NSA representatives failed to prove a single case in which their mass surveillance actually contributed to thwarting any terrorist attack in the United States.

Millions of overheard conversations, billions of private e-mails, social media monitoring, and thousands of other tricks designed to strip Americans of any privacy. All this turned out to be useless from the point of view of national security. In turn, from the point of view of civil rights - absolutely illegal. That's right, the entire NSA surveillance program was declared illegal on Wednesday, September 2 . 5 years after the end of the program itself.

What's next for Snowden?

This question is extremely interesting. In a very simplified theory, since the program Snowden disclosed turned out to be illegal, Snowden did nothing wrong. The reality, unfortunately, is not that simple.

Not all of the documents Snowden released to the media concerned the citizen surveillance program itself. The information about the actions taken by the United States against Al-Qaeda, accidentally published by the New York Times, caused real damage to the intelligence service.

According to General Martin Dempsey, much of the documents Snowden stole were not about citizen surveillance, but about military secrets and procedures that should never see the light of day. We will also not find out how the information provided by Snowden to the media was used by competing intelligence services and how much it affected the condition of American intelligence.

Snowden's only chance of returning home safely would be a pardon from the President of the United States. Donald Trump, who currently holds the position, said at a recent conference that he would start looking at the matter.

Snowden was right. Actions of the Supreme Administrative Court deemed illegal by the District Court of Appeal