The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Category Archive: 1983
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things… I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.
Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns… about 25 federal agents.
I think it’s important to remember that people don’t set their lives on fire. They don’t walk away from their extraordinarily, extraordinarily comfortable lives … for no reason.
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don’t vote in American or European elections. They don’t make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
I don’t want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they’re willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, ‘Hey, this is not appropriate.’
You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people’s Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.