Nsa Quotes - Page 2

• I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Communication, America

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, June 10, 2013.

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• The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

  Dana Perino

  Government, United States, Terrorist

  "Bush denies massive spying on U.S. citizens" by John O'Neil, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2006.

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• If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Wife, Email

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Powerful, Agency, Risk

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

  Bob Woodward

  Powerful, Government, Secret

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Numbers

  "Obama revamps U.S. surveillance" by Josh Gerstein and Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. January 17, 2014.

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

  Edward Snowden

  Government Spying, Infrastructure, Passwords

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

  Sherrod Brown

  Phones, President, Phone Calls

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• Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming.

  John Bolton

  Kings, Thinking, Way

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• We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew.

  Angela Merkel

  Allies, Needs, Partners

  "Germany and France warn NSA spying fallout jeopardises fight against terror" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.

  Jay Carney

  Communication, President, United States

  "US denies spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. October 24, 2013.

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• That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

  Dick Cheney

  Strong, Important, United States

  "Allies spy on allies because a friend today may not be one tomorrow" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Challenges, Liberty

  "President Obama's speech on NSA surveillance reforms - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2014.

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• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Desire

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• Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Organization, Two

  "Obama Outlines 'New Approach' For Phone-Data Program". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 17, 2014.

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Data, Allies

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• What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.

  Francois Hollande

  United States, Should, Stakes

  "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Europe, Fundamentals, Matter

  "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Community, Program, Reviews

  "NSA: Dianne Feinstein breaks ranks to oppose US spying on allies" by Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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• We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

  James R. Clapper

  Impact, Community, Correcting

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• With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  People, Email, United States

  "Using Metadata to Catch a Whistleblower" by Peter Van Buren, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

  Michele Bachmann

  Traitor, Snowden

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• What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?

  Glenn Greenwald

  People, World, Terrorism

  "Greenwald: Spying not about terror" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

  Edward Snowden

  Doe, Want

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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