Résumé:
The present dissertation explored the whistleblowing phenomenon in the United States and
highlighted the case of Edward Snowden. Judging the persona of the whistleblower has
always been a matter of discussion in the American community. It is an area of debate where
the views vary and oppose one another. The exclusive case of the National Security Agency
(NSA) and Snowden made the government project him as a traitor while the public seemed to
support his message and consider him a hero. The deliberation about his image kept the
momentum of not settling on a final judgment. Within the scope of this dissertation, the
attained results affirm that the young whistleblower is a national hero. As reinforcement to
the confirmed hypothesis, the current work asserts a collection of convincing arguments to
put an end to the long lasting debate about the image of Snowden, proving that
whistleblowers are often subject of rejection by the government if their message falsifies in
any shape or form the credibility of the system upon which it operates.
