Able Quote by Marco Rubio

We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone…

— Barack Obama

USA Freedom Act did, however, take away a valuable tool that allowed the National Security Agency and other law - and other intelligence agencies…

— Marco Rubio

I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they…

— Lindsey Graham

“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecom providers, under…

— Glenn Greenwald

The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist…

— Rand Paul

The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign…

— Molly Ivins

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if…

— Rand Paul

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

— Rand Paul

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

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and…

— Edward Snowden

When you suveil a person abroad, you don't have to have a warrant to do so. That has never been so they don't have…

— Jeff Sessions

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

— Rebecca MacKinnon