John Lewis Quotes

Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

Hillary Clinton exposed our nation's most sensitive national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I can't take classified information that I get as a senator and give it to someone with no consequence.

What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Some things simply cannot leak. And if they do leak, the government has to do something about it.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

The Snowden leaks did cause damage.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

Clinton set up an entire secret, unsecured communications structure outside of the government she was charged with serving at the highest level; she was the Secretary of State. Classified information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially bring harm to our country - and many in service to our country - was available to be appropriated.

I call people who are covering up NSA crimes traitors.

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