It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

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

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

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

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.