Since the revelations, we
Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet. Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden
Has the center of
Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past? Edward Snowden
I don\\’t think I
I don’t think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US. Edward Snowden
I\\’m not a communist,
I’m not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed. Edward Snowden
When we look at
When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn’t. Edward Snowden
Presidents should not be
Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to. Edward Snowden
People at civil-liberties organizations
People at civil-liberties organizations say it’s a sea change, and that it’s very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to … Read more
[Bill] Binney will argue
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy … Read more
People do not like
People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise. Edward Snowden
People in both parties
People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees – all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies – go on these Sunday shows and they say: \”Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong – he works for the Russians.\” Edward … Read more