History Quote by Glenn Greenwald

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of…

— Edward Snowden

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people…

— Edward Snowden

“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

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

— Barton Gellman

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

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?" […] There…

— Glenn Greenwald

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from…

— Edward Snowden

You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean,…

— William Binney

“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

“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecom providers, under…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Edward Snowden