Bank Quote by Sharyl Attkisson

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have…

— Preet Bharara

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

— Nat Hentoff

If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?

— Ronald Kessler

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it…

— George W. Bush

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so…

— Adam Cohen

So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…

— Matt Blaze

“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in check by…

— Glenn Greenwald

In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI, a national…

— James Comey

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

There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do…

— John Ashcroft

We accept that warrantless wiretapping may be necessary in extreme circumstances. We accept the added delays and inconvenience of increased airport security. And we…

— Mike Johnson