Barack Quote by Nat Hentoff

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

— Nat Hentoff

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I…

— Rand Paul

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

— Glenn Greenwald

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA…

— Michael Gerson

Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to…

— Cenk Uygur

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

— James R. Clapper

“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our every word,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist…

— Angela Merkel

If you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. It's reading your emails. When you call your…

— Michael Morell

“President Bush even authorized the National Security Agency to monitor— without preclearance from a judge—phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens. In”

— Todd Donovan

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

— Edward Snowden

I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm glad that…

— Lindsey Graham