Court Quote by Ari Melber

In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights leaders, black…

— Asha Rangappa

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying…

— Ellen Tauscher

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best -…

— Wendy Kaminer

The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.

— John Ratcliffe

I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA…

— Jonathan Turley

“In an interview on German TV, Edward J. Snowden said that his “breaking point” was “seeing Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie…

— Noam Chomsky

“If disclosing proof that top-level national security officials lied outright to Congress about domestic spying programs doesn’t make one indisputably a whistle-blower, then what…

— Anonymous

“Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to most of…

— James Bamford

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the…

— Edward Snowden

“If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.”

— U.S. Dept. of Fear

“There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them”

— Victor Hugo