Nsa Quotes - Page 3

• All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Able, Milestone

  "5 takeaways from Edward Snowden's Washington Post interview" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2013.

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• The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Normal

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Way Forward, Giving, Abuse

  "Sen. Rand Paul calls NSA spying an 'utter, frank hypocrisy'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2013.

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• One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  "Around The World" with Michael Holmes, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.

  Michael Shannon

  Cutting, Phones, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’

  Eric Holder

  Communication, Secret, Branches

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Key Quotes About the N.S.A. and Americans' Phone Records" by Alex Gangitano and Amelia Schonbek, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2013.

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• The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Usual, Return

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• Good things come in small packages.

  Aesop

  Humility, Good Things, Small Packages

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Government, Records

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

  Edward Snowden

  Art, Thinking, Black

  "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.

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• The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

  Edward Snowden

  Israel, Together

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• It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Doe, Earth

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• You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

  Edward Snowden

  Machines, Goes On, Safe

  "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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• When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Three, Lied

  "NSA spies on more US citizens than Russians – Snowden". www.rt.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, People, Office

  "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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• I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Dying, Prison

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Watches, World

  "NSA spies on more US citizens than Russians – Snowden". www.rt.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process.

  Ray McGovern

  Rights, President, Bills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Division, Fads

  "Snowden: NSA pressured EU into creating ‘European bazaar’ of spy networks". www.rt.com. March 7, 2014.

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• We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, War, World

  "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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• When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Names, Numbers

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Community, Ordinary, Surveillance

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• Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

  Rand Paul

  Liberty, Trade, Security

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• Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Running, War

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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