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• 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 scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Communication, Nsa

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

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• We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

  Edward Snowden

  Messages, Protection, Standards

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Government, Nsa

  "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

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• If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Administration, Harsh

  "Today's Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden". The Guardian's live question and answer session, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

  Edward Snowden

  Queens, Boys, Long

  "The NSA and Its Willing Helpers". Interview with Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, www.spiegel.de. July 08, 2013.

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• The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Rights, Spy

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

  Edward Snowden

  Greatest Fear, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden hailed as hero, accused of treason - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

  Edward Snowden

  Night, Authority, Known

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Government, People

  "We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

  Edward Snowden

  Hate, Talking, Ordinary

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• I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappointment, Thinking, Law

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Law, Administration

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, Law, Police

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.

  Edward Snowden

  Baseball, Powerful, Player

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, People, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Media, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Nsa, Use

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

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• I describe it as tribalism because they're very tightly woven communities. Lack of civility is part of it, because that's how Internet tribes behave. We see this more and more in electoral politics, which have become increasingly poisonous.

  Edward Snowden

  Community, Woven, Tribes

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on the Internet - get saturated. It's like a fashion trend, and becomes a sign of a lack of sophistication.

  Edward Snowden

  Fashion, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, People, Needs

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• There are unquestionable violations of our Constitution.

  Edward Snowden

  Constitution, Violation

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• 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

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• Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Government, Nsa

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

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• All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Drawing, Jail

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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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