When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

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

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President