A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.
Edward SnowdenWhen we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
Edward SnowdenIf we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.
Edward SnowdenWe've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.
Edward Snowden