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We don’t have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back (Edward Snowden Quotes)
We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I was living a charmed life (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me. (Edward Snowden Quotes)
Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies (Edward Snowden Quotes)
We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I’m not a spy, which is the real question (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I’m still working for the government (Edward Snowden Quotes)
What is right is not always the same as what is legal (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I do not expect to see home again (Edward Snowden Quotes)
There is a technical solution to every political problem (Edward Snowden Quotes)
Privacy is a function of liberty (Edward Snowden Quotes)
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed (Edward Snowden Quotes)
A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I would rather be without a state than without a voice (Edward Snowden Quotes)
There’s no saving me (Edward Snowden Quotes)
Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped (Edward Snowden Quotes)
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I don’t want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested (Edward Snowden Quotes)
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it’s all the same (Edward Snowden Quotes)
If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants (Edward Snowden Quotes)
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards (Edward Snowden Quotes)
The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can’t say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public (Edward Snowden Quotes)
The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped (Edward Snowden Quotes)
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power (Edward Snowden Quotes)
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law (Edward Snowden Quotes)
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be (Edward Snowden Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works (Edward Snowden Quotes)
I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement (Edward Snowden Quotes)