Congress Quote by Laura Poitras

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

“Nothing evinced so far justifies the catastrophic damage that the Snowden leaks have done to national security—the worst disaster in the history of American…

— Edward Lucas

“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

I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset,…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great…

— Laura Poitras

The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.

— Geoffrey Hinton

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

“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 Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank…

— Edward Lucas

“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 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