These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that...

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.