Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides…

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a…

— Ari Melber

The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review…

— Ari Melber

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

— Edward Snowden

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are collecting millions…

— Rand Paul

“Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.”

— Erin Kellison

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay…

— John Zerzan

“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

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and…

— Stephen Colbert

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

“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

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses…

— Tom A. Watson

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

— Barack Obama

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson