People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

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

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

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.