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 email began: “The security of people’s communications is very important to me,” — 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
“I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they… — 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
“We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be,… — 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.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“contrary to repeated claims from President Obama and the NSA, it is already clear that a substantial number of the agency’s activities… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“A prime justification for surveillance—that it’s for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The usefulness of the bulk collection program has been greatly exaggerated. We have yet to see any proof that it provides real,… — 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
“The same contradiction is expressed by the many ordinary citizens who dismiss the value of privacy yet nonetheless have passwords on their… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“But the importance of privacy is evident in the fact that even those who devalue it, who have declared it dead or… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“there are all sorts of things people do that they are eager to keep private, even though these sorts of things do… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“It is true that surveillance can at times promote what some may consider desirable behavior. One study found that rowdiness in Swedish… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“is in the realm of privacy where creativity, dissent, and challenges to orthodoxy germinate. A society in which everyone knows they can… — 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
“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance:… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by… — 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… — 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
