“Often, what we think are the facts of the past are in reality simply reflections of what we want to believe about the present.”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
“To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn’t you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
“The email began: “The security of people’s communications is very important to me,”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
“the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
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