Approach Quote by Harry S. Truman

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

— Pavel Durov

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by…

— Pavel Durov

“Telegram is a secure, encrypted chat, audio, and file sharing program for mobile phones that quickly became the preferred ISIS communications application. In September…

— Malcolm Nance

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

— Nancy Pelosi

“Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.” “Of course. The national security of spying on U.S. citizens.”

— Kenneth Eade

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

— Timothy McVeigh

“You can't trust the government to do anything right-except, of course, to conspire and cover up. Then it becomes diabolically efficient. The very people…

— Richard White

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The Government of the United States neither confirms nor denies that I was an agent of theirs. That's a little something, anyway, that they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising…

— Cass Sunstein

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they…

— Scott Anderson