American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“the NSA databases “store information about your political views, your medical history, your intimate relationships and your activities online.” The agency claims… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism: Overall, 47% say their greater concern about… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group. Governments… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Since such assumptions are limited only by one’s imagination and are encouraged daily by revelations of government and institutional invasion of privacy,”… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“From its inception, FISA has been the ultimate rubber stamp. In its first twenty-four years, from 1978 to 2002, the court rejected… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm—our “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” as the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“NSA has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
“We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share
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