Different ways Quote by Edward Lucas

““Relationships have decayed; trust has ebbed. This is not a new problem. George W Bush's administration made a bonfire of American soft power with its botched war in Iraq. In different ways, the Obama administration's remote, chilly and arrogant style has compounded the damage.””

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

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“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…

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“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…

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“The idea that the material is safe because it is encrypted is shockingly naïve: it is child's play for a sophisticated adversary to place…

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“The Kremlin also is determined, along with China, to wrest control of the internet from the American-based committees which run it now. It wants…

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“It is only a mild caricature to say that the presumption behind the leaks is that the intelligence agencies in the West are the…

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“It is important not to concentrate the defence case too narrowly on terrorism. That is a grave threat, but not the only one. Invoking…

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“The Snowdenistas' exaggeration stems from a conflation of self-criticism with self-hatred. In their eyes, democracy, the rule of law and constitutional government have been…

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“Rahul Sagar, a professor at Princeton, has defined these well in his new book Secrets and Leaks:73 First, a whistleblower must have clear and…

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“I freely admit that it is possible that Snowden conceived his plan on his own, and with honourable if mistaken motives. It may well…

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“Perhaps the gravest charge was that America conflated commercial espionage with statecraft. That would be shocking if true. It would be illegal under American…

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“If the NSA is able to intercept the communications of a top Russian politician, surely it deserves praise (in private), not censure and exposure…

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