“US journalists, for years overwhelmingly enamored of Barack Obama, were now commonly speaking of him in these terms: as some sort of… — Glenn Greenwald Freedom Copy Share Image
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform. — Glenn Greenwald Acts 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 Access Copy Share Image
Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet… — Glenn Greenwald Actually Copy Share Image
“The true measurement of a person’s worth isn’t what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those… — Glenn Greenwald Faith Copy Share Image
“We shouldn’t have to be faithful loyalists of the powerful to feel safe from state surveillance. Nor should the price of immunity… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Attributing dissent to personality disorders is hardly an American invention. Soviet dissidents were routinely institutionalized in psychological hospitals, and Chinese dissidents are… — Glenn Greenwald Mental illness Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Accept Copy Share Image
“From its inception, FISA has been the ultimate rubber stamp. In its first twenty-four years, from 1978 to 2002, the court rejected… — Glenn Greenwald Politics 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 Accusation Copy Share Image
“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecom… — Glenn Greenwald First time Copy Share Image
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. — Glenn Greenwald Closing 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 Bigs Copy Share Image
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization. — Glenn Greenwald History Copy Share Image
“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 2002 Copy Share Image
“in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.” — Glenn Greenwald Character Copy Share Image
“The same contradiction is expressed by the many ordinary citizens who dismiss the value of privacy yet nonetheless have passwords on their… — Glenn Greenwald Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Most remarkably, Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism:” — Glenn Greenwald Danger 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 Government Copy Share Image
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. — Glenn Greenwald Justify Copy Share Image
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve… — Glenn Greenwald Achieve Copy Share Image
“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has… — Glenn Greenwald Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“the Justice Department failed to “cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
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