Information Leak Quotes

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

I have no privacy anymore.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

Many complaints have reached me from the army of the advantages conferred upon the enemy by the publication of intelligence from the seat of war, not only in letters from the correspondents of the English newspapers, but in letters written by officers to their friends at home in the spirit of confidential intimacy, and which those friends send to newspapers…

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

Sometimes there are times you actually don't want to be in the information loop on some rumors; because once you're in the loop, then if something leaks, you're one of the people in the loop.

It’s very hard to hold onto new technology. It gets around.

The conversation we should be having is, what does Russia have from Hillary Clinton's server?

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

I did not email any classified material to anyone. There is no classified material.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

Once the collection of conversations between the Israeli government and members of Congress occurred, had it been inadvertent, then they would have been destroyed instead of redacted for further use. Had they been inadvertent, then they would not have been forwarded to the White House for review in their redacted form.

You can't run a government that is leaking all over the place.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

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.

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

If there was a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

The information walls are completely crumbling.

If I tell him [President Abraham Lincoln] my [war] plans they will be in the New York Herald tomorrow morning. He can’t keep a secret.

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

This WikiLeaks document dump is showing - it's demonstrating, it is illustrating - that there is no boundary between the media and the Democrat Party, that it's one and the same.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in.