Access Quote by Edward Snowden

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or…

— Harold H. Greene

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the…

— Edward Snowden

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

— Edward Snowden

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never…

— Barack Obama

The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.

— Peter T. King

When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew…

— Edward Snowden

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic…

— Al Franken

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people…

— Ronald Kessler

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda…

— Scott McClellan

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

— Timothy Noah

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and…

— Barack Obama