Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

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