Glenn Greenwald

Surveillance breeds conformity.

— Glenn Greenwald

“the powerful and the powerless.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

— Glenn Greenwald

My inbox is the enemy.

— Glenn Greenwald

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

— Glenn Greenwald

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

— Glenn Greenwald

“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

— Glenn Greenwald

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

— Glenn Greenwald

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

— Glenn Greenwald

“One NSA slide details PRISM’s special surveillance powers:”

— Glenn Greenwald

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

— Glenn Greenwald

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean…

— Glenn Greenwald

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

— Glenn Greenwald

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

— Glenn Greenwald

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know…

— Glenn Greenwald

“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

— Glenn Greenwald

“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a…

— Glenn Greenwald

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they…

— Glenn Greenwald

“being debated by the UN that involved imposing new sanctions on Iran. A similar surveillance document from August 2010 reveals that the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

“what goals drive all institutions of authority. “Doing something wrong,” in the eyes of such institutions, encompasses far more than illegal acts,…

— Glenn Greenwald

As the American Muslim community gets a little bit freer in terms of not being under the thumb of that kind of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Ultimately, beyond diplomatic manipulation and economic gain, a system of ubiquitous spying allows the United States to maintain its grip on the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has…

— Glenn Greenwald

One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different…

— Glenn Greenwald

[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A…

— Glenn Greenwald

The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful…

— Glenn Greenwald

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

— Glenn Greenwald

“The email began: “The security of people’s communications is very important to me,”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.”

— Glenn Greenwald

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.

— Glenn Greenwald