“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 e-mails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”
“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 President…”
“To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that’s the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so.”
“I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.”
“…they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.”
“I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”
“I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”
Edward Snowden
“I refuse to be lectured to by a traitor.” – Charles Krauthammer.
“I refuse to listen to Charles Krauthammer.” – Iska Waran
“I refuse to be lectured to by a traitor.” – Charles Krauthammer
“I consent to be lectured to by a true patriot.” – TJF