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“This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.”

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Saxby Chambliss

Saxby Chambliss was a distinguished United States Senator from Georgia, serving from 2003 to 2015. He was a member of the Republican Party and held various leadership roles within the Senate. more

“While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”

“One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“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.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

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