Administration Quote by Barton Gellman

You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama…

— Rush Limbaugh

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

— Bob Graham

“The FBI—not for the first time—had produced evidence that undermined a presidency. “No one was more shocked and angry than I,” Bush wrote in…

— Tim Weiner

The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

— Glenn Greenwald

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus…

— Anthony Romero

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a…

— Ari Melber

I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made…

— Roy Romer

In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or…

— John Burroughs

“The answer was Stellar Wind. The NSA would eavesdrop freely against Americans and aliens in the United States without probable cause or search warrants.…

— Tim Weiner

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence…

— Ron Wyden

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

— John Ratcliffe

The Bush administration opened several lines of attack against the rule of law and the integrity of an independent Justice Department. The scandals are…

— Ari Melber