History Quote by Edward Lucas

“There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“The single biggest lesson of the whole Snowden fiasco is that America's own sloppiness made it vulnerable: whether to misguided whistleblowers, saboteurs or foreign…

— Edward Lucas

“The Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank…

— Edward Lucas

“The quite unnecessary damage caused by Snowden makes it hard to believe that his aim was solely to expose wrongdoing. It looks far more…

— Edward Lucas

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

I do not agree with what Mr. Snowden did. He has damaged American international relations and compromised our national security. He leaked classified information…

— John Lewis

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

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

“More importantly in my view, the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with scandalous harshness, especially those from inside the intelligence community. The hardest point…

— Edward Lucas

“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“Much of the left—which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather…

— Michael Wolff