About Quote by Barton Gellman

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from…

— Edward Snowden

The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.

— Jared Polis

“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

“The NSA had enormous resources and used a vast network in order to capture a large number of mobile conversations in a certain region…

— Stieg Larsson

“the Justice Department failed to “cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.”

— Glenn Greenwald

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the…

— 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

“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the 1960s, the…

— Edward Lucas

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program…

— Rand Paul

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

— Sherrod Brown

I bet the NSA stopped monitoring your phone records after seeing they were all drunk dials to exes at 4 a.m.

— Anonymous

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras