“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but… — 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
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of… — 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 NSA databases “store information about your political views, your medical history, your intimate relationships and your activities online.” The agency claims… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The Obama administration had waged what people across the political spectrum were calling an unprecedented war on whistle-blowers. The president, who had… — 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
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
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
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
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 idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point… — 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
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
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
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
“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and… — 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
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
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
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
“threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.” — 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
