As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

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.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.