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Newsmax reports that according to according to KRC Research about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him. However 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have a positive opinion of Snowden which contrasts sharply with older age cohorts. Among those aged 35-44, some 34 percent have positive attitudes toward him. For the 45-54 age cohort, the figure is 28 percent, and it drops to 26 percent among Americans over age 55, U.S. News reported. Americans overall say by plurality that Snowden has done “more to hurt” U.S. national security (43 percent) than help it (20 percent). A similar breakdown was seen with views on whether Snowden helped or hurt efforts to combat terrorism, though the numbers flip on whether his actions will lead to greater privacy protections. “The broad support for Edward Snowden among Millennials around the world should be a message to democratic countries that change is coming,” says Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “They are a generation of digital natives who don’t want government agencies tracking them online or collecting data about their phone calls.” Opinions of millennials are particularly significant in light of January 2015 findings by the U.S. Census Bureau that they are projected to surpass the baby-boom generation as the United States’ largest living generation this year.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Thursday April 23 2015, @05:31PM
So how exactly has national security been damaged? Have we experienced an increase in terrorist attacks since Snowden? Blackmail, cyberattacks, or physical attacks from foreign countries? Enemy nations exploiting national secrets to do... things... scary things?
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(Score: 1) by VitalMoss on Thursday April 23 2015, @06:18PM
I'm sorry, but that's classified.
The Integrity of National Security is at stake.
Also, uh, terrorism and child molesters!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday April 23 2015, @06:32PM
He damaged the national security apparatus as well as national insecurity by encouraging more and stronger encryption.
I hope we continue to feel the "damage" for years to come.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday April 24 2015, @12:00AM
Even if we did experience an increase in terrorist attacks, that would be the fault of terrorists, as they are responsible for their own actions. Snowden merely revealed unconstitutional and unethical surveillance.