America Quote by Edward Snowden

“for a thirty-day period ending in February 2013, one unit of the NSA collected more than three billion pieces of communication data from US…

— Glenn Greenwald

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

— Edward Snowden

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

— Edward Lucas

“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our every word,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored…

— Barton Gellman

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of…

— Barton Gellman

I believe there is significant overreach by the NSA in how it monitors American citizens.

— Erik Prince

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

The problem is that I don't think the American people realize how much of our intelligence is actually derived from our partners. If our…

— Andrew Exum

Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to…

— Jill Stein

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

— James R. Clapper

We do know from our intelligence community that Russia had a design to discredit the U.S. elections, and took sides in favor of Mr.…

— Ben Cardin