The National Security Agency has come under an increasing amount of scrutiny following the highly publicized document leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. These leaks have merely confirmed what many of us already knew about the NSA’s widespread spying and surveillance activities. Snowden’s role like other high profile whistleblowers is certainly questionable considering his bizarre past with the CIA and other government entities but what is not questionable is the fact that the NSA is nothing more than the real life version of 1984’s Big Brother.