Agency Quote by Angela Merkel

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal…

— Mikko Hypponen

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

— Bob Beckel

There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is…

— Glenn Greenwald

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages.…

— Raymond Kelly

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time…

— Edward Snowden

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required…

— Benjamin Wittes

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and…

— John O. Brennan

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence…

— Ron Wyden

I would answer with the words of the Stasi alumnus Wolfgang Schmidt, who was asked that question: "What about these Americans who say, I…

— Ray McGovern

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of…

— Donald Rumsfeld