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" I have no regrets. "
Edward Snowden
Regrets
No Regrets
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" Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else. "
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" What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate? "
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" After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. "
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" No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. "
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Society
Any
System
" They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from, and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we, as the public, trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives? "
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Walk
Things
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" If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home. "
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Go
If I Could
Home
" My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. "
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Name
Motive
" I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. "
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History
Think
Right
" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "
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History
American
Problem
" What we've seen over the last decade is we'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. "
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Work
Society
Sight
" Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies. "
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I Am
World
Relationship
" I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. "
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Spy
Almost
Been
" It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders. "
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Own
American
Focus
" I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression. "
Edward Snowden
Made
Act
Been
" Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? "
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People
Fighting
Innocent
" I'm an engineer, not a politician. "
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Engineer
Politician
" You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care very much about those values. "
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Change
Sacrifice
Government
" If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. "
Edward Snowden
Want
Results
Phone
" Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone. "
Edward Snowden
People
Feel
Thought
" Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. "
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Constitution
Service
Mean
" I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want. "
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Want
Though
See
" What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing? "
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Want
Question
Government
" Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. "
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World
Only
Okay
" Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else. "
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Yourself
Do The Right Thing
Hurt
" If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. "
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Data
You
Time
" When you use any kind of internet-based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war. "
Edward Snowden
Actor
You
War
" I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions. "
Edward Snowden
Understand
Suffer
Will
" All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. "
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Say
Truth
Truth Is
" I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer. "
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Information
Consultant
Intelligence
" I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under. "
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I Am
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