Agreement Quote by Louis Stokes

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written…

— Noam Chomsky

I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record…

— Noam Chomsky

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information,…

— George W. Bush

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never…

— Barack Obama

People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because…

— Edward Snowden

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute…

— Paul Ryan

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not…

— Noam Chomsky

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also…

— Trevor Paglen

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

— Gerald Posner

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required…

— Benjamin Wittes

It is a little bit difficult to talk about things that do involve classified matters in public. But I think the public needs to…

— James Comey