“threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The agency regards itself as needing no specific justification to collect any particular electronic communication,” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“for a thirty-day period ending in February 2013, one unit of the NSA collected more than three billion pieces of communication data… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The email began: “The security of people’s communications is very important to me,” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like.… — 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
“I realized,” he said, “that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media… — 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 ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“much of the data collection conducted by the NSA has manifestly nothing to do with terrorism or national security. Intercepting the communications… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Snowden had been clear from our first conversation about his rationale for distrusting the establishment media with his story, repeatedly referring to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“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 Image
![“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?" […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories have revealed, and that is–and I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole or melodrama…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb7/glenn-greenwald-1215_american-politics_every-time-i-do-an-interview-people-ask_2405639.jpg)
