Around the world Quote by Luke Harding

“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

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

“More remarkable is the fact that in country after country, revelations that the NSA was spying on hundreds of millions of their citizens produced…

— Glenn Greenwald

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras

“In an interview on German TV, Edward J. Snowden said that his “breaking point” was “seeing Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie…

— Noam Chomsky

“The quite unnecessary damage caused by Snowden makes it hard to believe that his aim was solely to expose wrongdoing. It looks far more…

— Edward Lucas

“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

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 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

[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the…

— Edward Snowden

When people like Glenn Beck throw around the word Nazi without taking that kind of care, they are engaging in demagoguery. I am doing…

— Naomi Wolf

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

— Mark Weisbrot