Quotes for All
There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. … Read more
Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable. Elizabeth Warren
There were no whistleblower protections that would’ve protected me – and that’s known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively. Edward Snowden
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community – being someone who had broad access, who was exposed to more reports than average individuals, who had a better understanding of the bigger picture – was that the post – World War II, post – Cold War directions of societies were … Read more
The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn’t limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn’t limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It’s also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing. Edward Snowden
A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they’re really sore – the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment – they’re the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of … Read more
The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized. Edward Snowden
The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They’re afraid of death by a thousand cuts – you know, leaks and things like that. Edward Snowden
People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy – one of the early charges leveled against me. But it’s a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if … Read more
When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew about these people in advance. We know that these countries were involved in intelligence sharing premiums, that they benefited from mass surveillance, and yet they didn’t stop the attacks. Yet at … Read more