Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?