In 2013, a scandal broke all over the world, shocking especially the Americans, when Edward Snowden, computer expert and CIA systems administrator, leaked to the media confidential government documents about the details of extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence (Kim 531). On June 6, 2013, Glenn Greenwald published in The Guardian newspaper its first exclusive based on Snowden’s leak, revealing a secret court order showing that the US government had forced the telecoms giant Verizon to hand over the phone records of millions of Americans (Greenwald). The National…