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There's something totally crazy about this. -- Carl Bernstein
Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. -- Barack Obama
There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper. -- Dianne Feinstein
I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people. -- Al Franken
Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read! -- James R. Clapper
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. -- Edward Snowden
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things. -- Edward Snowden
I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice. -- Lindsey Graham
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks -- Dana Perino
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. -- Sherrod Brown
This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years. -- Saxby Chambliss
For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to. -- Harry Reid
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. -- Edward Snowden
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. -- John Conyers
If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy. -- Barack Obama
... Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information -- Jay Carney
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
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. -- Robert Mueller
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. 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
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 scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians. -- Edward Snowden
Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. -- Mitch McConnell
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
The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together. -- Edward Snowden
NSA, the only part of government that actually listens. -- Dan McCall
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations -- Glenn Greenwald
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control -- William Binney
I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA. -- Barton Gellman
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally. -- Barton Gellman
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record. -- Barton Gellman
The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing. -- William Binney
Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number. -- David Letterman
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. -- Edward Snowden
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events. -- Barton Gellman
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records. -- Rand Paul
Buy American Doesnâ??t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA -- Bruce Schneier
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. -- Barton Gellman
Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?! -- Matt Drudge
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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
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. -- Edward Snowden
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. -- Barton Gellman
The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes. -- Glenn Greenwald
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. -- Gail Collins
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. -- Barton Gellman
If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda. -- Sushma Swaraj
We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of. -- Louie Gohmert
Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else. -- Ben Shapiro
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
We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix. -- Bruce Schneier
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 that. -- Nat Hentoff
[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional. -- Edward Snowden
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
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[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity." -- Edward Snowden
Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building. -- Eoin Colfer
If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail. -- Stephen Colbert
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
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
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale. -- Barton Gellman
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
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
There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA. -- Barton Gellman
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
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
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
The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court. -- Rand Paul
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
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
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it. -- Edward Snowden
The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore. -- Sandra Cisneros
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats. -- Barton Gellman

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