These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

The power of the presidency is important, but it is not determinative.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

Privacy is a function of liberty.