American Quote by Barton Gellman

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

“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

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not…

— Edward Snowden

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

— William Barr

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those…

— Margaret Carlson

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

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

— Erik Prince

“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecom providers, under…

— Glenn Greenwald

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only…

— Edward Snowden

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

— James R. Clapper