Again Quote by Michael Hayden

The [George W.] Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue…

— Nat Hentoff

Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

— Nat Hentoff

“As has been seen, Obama clearly lied about transparency. As shall be seen, he lied just as spectacularly about the rule of law.”

— Jack Cashill

One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which…

— Edward Snowden

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have…

— Al Franken

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court…

— Tom Udall

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some…

— Sarah Palin

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

— Candy Crowley

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums…

— Andrew McCarthy

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

— Bashar al-Assad

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden