Defense Quote by Noam Chomsky

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security.…

— Alan Dershowitz

“One of its analysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who at the time was back in the States compiling the report that—after he leaked it to…

— Mark Bowden

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

— Timothy Noah

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

— John F. Kennedy

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like…

— Nick Turse

“Had I been given The [Pentagon] Papers themselves that early, I would probably have become a prisoner of them—as it was, I had a…

— David Halberstam

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public…

— Michael Hastings

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.

— George W. Bush

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

— Barton Gellman

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

— Stephen Harper

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

— Barton Gellman