According Quote by Barton Gellman

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

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

— John Ratcliffe

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making…

— Edward Snowden

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it.…

— Rachel Maddow

I think one challenge that agencies can face is when they shrink their own powers and authorities by not actually using the authorities that…

— Lina Khan

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the…

— Charles M. Blow

The worst sense of security is a false one. It's hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge…

— Erin Brockovich

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

— Edward Snowden

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