William Binney Quotes

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.

The NSA has shown, time and time again, it will seize on any wiggle room in the law .

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?

The National Security Agency vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from or within the United States.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein in the allegedly renegade NSA and its wanton depredations of American privacy.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

To do that they, 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 analyses 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 they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.