32 Quotes by Steven Aftergood

If you think about all of the infrastructure needed to support that number of people, you start to get a sense of just how vast our intelligence system has become. Think about all the things going on that we don't know about.

I don't think anybody welcomed that proposal. It wouldn't serve the interests of those who benefit from the status quo.

These incidents will have served a constructive purpose if the Pentagon is willing and able to learn from them. By exposing and highlighting vulnerabilities, the attacks can actually help to inoculate the system during times of crisis. But only if the appropriate lessons are learned now.

The idea that this law is some kind of dinosaur is a misunderstanding.

The development of this type of data-mining technology has serious implications for the future of personal privacy.