Bills Quote by Edward Snowden

[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately…

— Edward Snowden

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

“The answer was Stellar Wind. The NSA would eavesdrop freely against Americans and aliens in the United States without probable cause or search warrants.…

— Tim Weiner

“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.”

— Tim Weiner

It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other…

— Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same…

— Tim Weiner

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of…

— Edward Snowden

“Stellar Wind blew past the Supreme Court on the authority of a dubious opinion sent to the White House the week that the Patriot…

— Tim Weiner

“the Justice Department failed to “cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an…

— Laura Sydell

“I realized,” he said, “that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it so that…

— Glenn Greenwald