Administration Quote by Barton Gellman

“The quite unnecessary damage caused by Snowden makes it hard to believe that his aim was solely to expose wrongdoing. It looks far more…

— Edward Lucas

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

“Snowden had been clear from our first conversation about his rationale for distrusting the establishment media with his story, repeatedly referring to the New…

— Glenn Greenwald

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and…

— Henry Giroux

“The single biggest lesson of the whole Snowden fiasco is that America's own sloppiness made it vulnerable: whether to misguided whistleblowers, saboteurs or foreign…

— Edward Lucas

“More importantly in my view, the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with scandalous harshness, especially those from inside the intelligence community. The hardest point…

— Edward Lucas

“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history of American…

— Edward Lucas

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary…

— Barton Gellman

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“If the NSA is able to intercept the communications of a top Russian politician, surely it deserves praise (in private), not censure and exposure…

— Edward Lucas

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

— John Ratcliffe