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Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.Collection: Nsa
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.Collection: Nsa
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.Collection: Nsa
Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.Collection: Nsa
I would argue, by the way, if the French citizens knew exactly what that was about, they would be applauding and popping Champagne corks. It's a good thing. It keeps the French safe. It keeps the U.S. safe.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
What I said was, ‘the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails.’ I stand by that.Collection: Nsa
Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!Collection: Nsa
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population controlCollection: Nsa
The NSA's vision statement is: keep the problem going so the money keeps flowing.Collection: Nsa
There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.Collection: Nsa
If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.Collection: Nsa
I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the CIA. But he is. He's afraid of the NSA as well. How else to explain that the National Intelligence director, who lied under oath to his senate overseers on the 12th of March 2013, is still the director of National Intelligence?Collection: Nsa
What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.Collection: Nsa
The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.Collection: Nsa
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.Collection: Nsa
I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.Collection: Nsa
My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.Collection: Nsa
What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.Collection: Nsa
Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.Collection: Nsa
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance RevelationsCollection: Nsa
Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.Collection: Nsa
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy rights and] the assertion that if you don't collect things as they happen, you won't have them later - because what the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation.Collection: Nsa
What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?Collection: Nsa
Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.Collection: Nsa
Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the PresidentCollection: Nsa
[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.Collection: Nsa
Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.Collection: Nsa
You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.Collection: Nsa
They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we as the public trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?Collection: Nsa
I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.Collection: Nsa
We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
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.Collection: Nsa
I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.Collection: Nsa
It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.Collection: Nsa
I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.Collection: Nsa
I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.Collection: Nsa
Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?Collection: Nsa
Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.Collection: Nsa
The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.Collection: Nsa