Authorities Quote by Barton Gellman

“The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

— Edward Snowden

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

— Barton Gellman

NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.

— Dan McCall

What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor…

— Philip Agee

“Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama’s presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Edward Snowden

Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they…

— Edward Snowden

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their…

— Edward Snowden

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so…

— Glenn Greenwald