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

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

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

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.