Glenn Greenwald Quotes About Transparency

Quotes about: Transparency

• Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Real, Political, Abuse

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.21, Signal

• Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Exercise, Privacy, Duty

  "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State". Book by Glenn Greenwald, 2014.

• When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Dark, Light, People

• Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Government, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Glenn Greenwald Slams 'F**king Hawk' Hillary Clinton as 'Banal, Corrupted'" by Randy Hall, www.newsbusters.org. May 12, 2014.

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