Nsa Quotes - Page 6

• Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald

  Whistleblowers, Surveillance, Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.115, Signal

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• As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

  Jane Harman

  Believe, House, Essentials

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• The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

  Joe Trippi

  Real, Miracle, Listening

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

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• Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA.

  David Letterman

  Sleep, Thinking, Santa

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• Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

  Rand Paul

  Phones, Media, Land

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

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• I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, People, Causes

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

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• In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.

  Rand Paul

  People, Aftermath, Pages

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

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• Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Phones, Worry

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

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• It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House and refused even to open an investigation. We cannot effectively legislate on the NSA spying issue if we do not know the facts, and we will not know them if the Republican-controlled intelligence committee persists in refusing to do its job.

  Harry Reid

  Jobs, White, Issues

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• After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

  Edward Snowden

  Responsibility, Government, America

  Interview with Peter Maass, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2013.

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• You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions. 

  Rand Paul

  Queens, School, Rights

  Rand Paul's Speech on the PATRIOT Act and Government Surveillance, www.c-span.org. May 20, 2015.

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• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

  Gail Collins

  Dream, Rifles, Association

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

  Rand Paul

  Spring, Government, Broken

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

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• Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.

  Rand Paul

  Fall, Thinking, Data

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

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• I'm glad that the NSA is trying to find out what the terrorists are up to overseas and in our country. I'm glad that activity is going on, but it is limited to tracking people who are suspected to be terrorists and who they may be talking to... Yes, I am sure that that's what they're doing.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Talking, People

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• I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Techie, Has Beens

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• Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

  Barack Obama

  Protection, Congress, Immunity

  "Obama’s Statement On Dodd And Filibuster", shadowproof.com. December 17, 2007.

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• There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Office, Example

  The Guardian live Q&A, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Years, Important, Paper

  "Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America" by Daniel Ellsberg, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

  Edward Snowden

  Names, Done, Sole

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Uprising, Special, Middle East

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Numbers

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

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• The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

  Edward Snowden

  Lying, America, Inquiry

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

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• I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Light, Issues

  "Snowden to NSA: I told you so" by Lauren Ashburn, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2013.

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• [Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy rights and] the assertion that if you don't collect things as they happen, you won't have them later - because what the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation.

  Edward Snowden

  Ideas, Keys, Rights

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