Nsa Quotes - Page 5

• Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Able, Eras

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Eye, Priorities

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

  Ted Cruz

  Freedom, Data Collection, Government

  "Posturing on the National Security Agency ruling" by Jennifer Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. May 7, 2015.

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• The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

  Peter King

  Reality, Europe, President

  "Peter King: Obama should ‘stop apologizing’ for NSA". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

  Peter King

  Believe, Moral, Compromise

  "Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate with Journalist Chris Hedges & Law Scholar Geoffrey Stone". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.truth-out.org. June 13, 2013.

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.

  Laura Poitras

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

  Luke Harding

  Communication, Safety, Quests

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• You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Class, Agency

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.

  Ron Paul

  Phones, Government, Wish

  "Edward Snowden Is A Ron Paul Supporter" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2013.

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• What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Surveillance, States

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• It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Believe, People, Debate

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• I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Zero

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• There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.

  Matt Damon

  Law, Democracy, President

  "Matt Damon: Obama 'broke up with me'" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. August 08, 2013.

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• I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Able, Constitution

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The president began this program by executive order. He should immediately end it by executive order. For over a year now, he has said the program is illegal, and yet he does nothing.

  Rand Paul

  Order, Years, President

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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• The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

  Michael Gerson

  Book, Rights, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.

  James R. Clapper

  Doe, Citizens, Mail

  "Clapper’s Lie" by Charles C. W. Cooke, www.nationalreview.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

  Matt Drudge

  War, Giving, Reason

  "Matt Drudge Asks: 'Why Would Anyone Vote Republican?'" by Josh Voorhees, www.businessinsider.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

  David Letterman

  Numbers

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", January 25, 2006.

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• According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy on American citizens, they feel they have to spy on FUTURE American citizens as well.

  Jay Leno

  Phones, People, Spy

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• These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

  Edward Snowden

  Manipulation, Terrorism, Economic

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• Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

  Edward Snowden

  Citizens, Destroyed, Conscience

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

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• Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA

  Bruce Schneier

  Mean, Giving, Wells

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