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
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 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
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
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
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
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash… — 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
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
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
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they… — 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
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
A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever… — 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
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive… — 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
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
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — 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
There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside… — 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
[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
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
The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And… — 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
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
![“A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cba/glenn-greenwald-1215_around-the-world_a-snowden-has-enough-information-to-caus_1776965.jpg)
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