“The members of the committee were aware of the programmes concerned, having been briefed on them in classified sessions. The question was, in a sense, a trap, aimed at bouncing Clapper into revealing more than he wanted. But for all… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“More importantly in my view, the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with scandalous harshness, especially those from inside the intelligence community. The hardest point… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The single biggest lesson of the whole Snowden fiasco is that America's own sloppiness made it vulnerable: whether to misguided whistleblowers, saboteurs or foreign… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The idea that the material is safe because it is encrypted is shockingly naïve: it is child's play for a sophisticated adversary to place… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Kremlin also is determined, along with China, to wrest control of the internet from the American-based committees which run it now. It wants… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is only a mild caricature to say that the presumption behind the leaks is that the intelligence agencies in the West are the… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is important not to concentrate the defence case too narrowly on terrorism. That is a grave threat, but not the only one. Invoking… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Relationships have decayed; trust has ebbed. This is not a new problem. George W Bush's administration made a bonfire of American soft power with… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Snowdenistas' exaggeration stems from a conflation of self-criticism with self-hatred. In their eyes, democracy, the rule of law and constitutional government have been… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Rahul Sagar, a professor at Princeton, has defined these well in his new book Secrets and Leaks:73 First, a whistleblower must have clear and… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“I freely admit that it is possible that Snowden conceived his plan on his own, and with honourable if mistaken motives. It may well… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the gravest charge was that America conflated commercial espionage with statecraft. That would be shocking if true. It would be illegal under American… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
