Able Quote by Glenn Greenwald

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

— Barry Eisler

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the…

— Luke Harding

The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening…

— Edward Snowden

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson

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

— James R. Clapper

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

— Edward Snowden

“When we communicate, everybody wins. Especially the NSA.”

— Jarod Kintz

“NSA has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not…

— Glenn Greenwald

A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower,…

— Barack Obama

I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback.…

— Michael Shannon

Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is…

— Edward Snowden

The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret…

— Edward Snowden