In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.

We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.