American history Quote by Daniel Ellsberg

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented…

— Daniel Ellsberg

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

— Daniel Ellsberg

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson

What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in…

— Loretta Sanchez

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and…

— Henry Giroux

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

— Michele Bachmann

“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history of American…

— Edward Lucas

“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

“Snowden had been clear from our first conversation about his rationale for distrusting the establishment media with his story, repeatedly referring to the New…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted…

— Glenn Greenwald

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald