National security Quote by Todd Donovan

Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on…

— Samuel Alito

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those…

— Margaret Carlson

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the…

— Asha Rangappa

“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same…

— Tim Weiner

“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more National…

— Luke Harding

On the question of information security, he claims that, in a Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not spy on its own citizens. If…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“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 NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about…

— Nat Hentoff

“The president and the vice president wanted the FBI to execute searches in secret, avoiding the strictures of the legal and constitutional standards set…

— Tim Weiner

“Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.” “Of course. The national security of spying on U.S. citizens.”

— Kenneth Eade

President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has…

— Helen Thomas

This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of…

— William Safire