Belief Quote by 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

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the 1960s, the…

— Edward Lucas

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have…

— Al Franken

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

“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

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

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA…

— John Conyers

The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended…

— Edward Snowden

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would…

— Julian Sanchez

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

— Edward Snowden