100 Quotes About Nsa

I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.

The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.

There's something totally crazy about this.

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter.

Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.