Nsa Quotes - Page 7

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

  Edward Snowden

  Greatest Fear, America, Government Spying

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

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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

  Two, Google, Slides

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• There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.

  Guy Lawson

  Country, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Names, Ideas

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• 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

  Hollies, Building, Artemis Fowl

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• I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

  James R. Clapper

  Memorable, Truthful

  "James Clapper Hails Checks And Balances While Treating Oversight “Too Cute By Half”, www.emptywheel.net. June 10, 2013.

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• 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

  Numbers, Needs, Tables

  Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, www.dailykos.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

  William Binney

  Goal, Population, Ultimate

  "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control". William Binney's speech at the conference organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2014.

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, People

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• Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.

  Edward Snowden

  Numbers, People, Bombs

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, America, People

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

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• A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Government, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Traitor

  "The Snowden Index: A glance at opinions about the NSA leaker", www.cnn.com.

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• I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.

  Edward Snowden

  Impact, People, Goal

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Article by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other than he intended. That's something [NSA whistleblower] Bill Binney and I share.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Axes, Interesting

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• [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

  Trying, Encryption, Bills

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• The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Secret, Use

  "Statement by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport". wikileaks.org. July 12, 2013.

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• The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Keys, People, Proposal

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014

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• Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Eyebrows, Phones

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• The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Names, Doe

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

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• Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Phones, Victory

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• I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Jan 04, 2016

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Sometimes, Interest

  "White House. Red Chair. Obama Meets Swisher." by Kara Swisher, www.recode.net. February 15, 2015.

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• My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Good Man, Valleys

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