Glenn Greenwald Quotes

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• Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
• History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A…
• The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if…
• The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called…
• Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
• It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
• He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
• When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
• A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern.…
• Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
• For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
• I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,…
• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear…
• There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal,…
• Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that…
• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S.…
• Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they…
• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the…
• As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

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