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.
Edward SnowdenAll I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
Edward SnowdenI hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
Edward SnowdenIf you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.
Edward Snowden