Edward Snowden Quotes About National Security

Quotes about: National Security

• It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Years, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they'll take it.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

• The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.

  Edward Snowden

  Years, Challenges, Lasts

  Source: www.thenation.com

• We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.

  Edward Snowden

  Emotional, Keys, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

• Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Way, Damage

  Source: www.thenation.com

• We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Sight, Departure

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Needs, Surveillance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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