Acquisition Quote by Barton Gellman

“for a thirty-day period ending in February 2013, one unit of the NSA collected more than three billion pieces of communication data from US…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Glenn Greenwald

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

— Edward Snowden

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not…

— Edward Snowden

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and…

— Edward Snowden

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the…

— Luke Harding

“The NSA and allies scamper through the plumbing of the internet like mice through the nooks and crannies of an old house. Huge slices…

— Edward Lucas

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential…

— Al Gore

“Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to…

— Glenn Greenwald

The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities…

— Edward Snowden

“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in check by…

— Glenn Greenwald

“NSA has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not…

— Glenn Greenwald