Documents Quote by Glenn Greenwald

“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

It doesn't thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but it seems…

— John Lanchester

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

— Barton Gellman

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

— Edward Snowden

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

— Ron Wyden

“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its…

— Glenn Greenwald

“One NSA slide details PRISM’s special surveillance powers:”

— Glenn Greenwald

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only…

— Edward Snowden

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether…

— Edward Snowden

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're…

— Mikko Hypponen

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence…

— Ron Wyden