Axes Quote by Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras

“The NSA?" "Yeah, they called and offered to help out. Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery." Venkat shrugged. "It's amazing how…

— Andy Weir

“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“More remarkable is the fact that in country after country, revelations that the NSA was spying on hundreds of millions of their citizens produced…

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories,…

— Ted Koppel

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

— Edward Lucas

“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

“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

“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…

— Edward Lucas

“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