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Edward Snowden stated on April 05, 2015 in an interview on "Last Week Tonight":

"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."

By Katie Sanders• April 9, 2015

Tom Cole stated on July 30, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:

Says about NSA data collection: "Every member in both parties who served on the Intelligence Committee voted in favor of this."

By Becky Bowers• August 2, 2013

Lynn Westmoreland stated on June 20, 2013 in an article:

"It is against the law for the NSA to record or monitor Americans’ phone calls without getting a specific FISA warrant to do so."

By Eric Stirgus• July 8, 2013

Arizona Grassroots Action PAC stated on April 20, 2016 in a political advertisement:

Says former state Sen. Kelli Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona."

By Anthony Cave• May 11, 2016

Marco Rubio stated on May 10, 2015 in a USA Today op-ed:

"There is not a single documented case of abuse" of the bulk metadata collection program.

By Kirby Wilson• June 4, 2015

Mike Rogers stated on June 09, 2013 in an interview on ABC’s "This Week":

"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the United States."

By Becky Bowers• June 13, 2013

Lindsey Graham stated on June 02, 2015 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:

The USA Freedom Act undercuts privacy because "the phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government."

By Lauren Carroll• June 4, 2015

Marco Rubio stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."

By Lauren Carroll• December 16, 2015

Bill Foster stated on October 15, 2013 in a Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9 debate:

"Unemployment in the city of St. Petersburg is below the state average."

By Katie Sanders• October 17, 2013

Donald Trump stated on March 20, 2017 in a tweet:

"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."

By Lauren Carroll• March 20, 2017

Bloggers stated on August 19, 2014 in stories:

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.

By Derek Tsang• August 19, 2014

Facebook posts stated on June 02, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Fauci’s emails leaked.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• June 4, 2021

Hillary Clinton stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate:

Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."

By Jon Greenberg• October 14, 2015

Mark Udall stated on June 09, 2013 in a Senate speech rebroadcast on ABC's "This Week":

Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• June 13, 2013

Tom Cotton stated on April 04, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

"It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests.

By Lauren Carroll• April 6, 2017

Bill Kristol stated on December 22, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says President Barack Obama "came into office very concerned about" wiretappings but "then he became president of the United States, he got all the briefings … (and) he decided … the balance is probably pretty appropriately struck."

By Katie Sanders• December 22, 2013

Hillary Clinton stated on February 24, 2015 in a conference in Silicon Valley:

"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."

By Louis Jacobson• March 3, 2015

Mike Rogers stated on November 03, 2013 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

In 1929, the Secretary of State shut down a program that was "collecting information to protect America" because it was "unseemly," but that move led to "millions and millions" of deaths in World War II.

By Louis Jacobson• November 4, 2013

Jon Stewart stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":

Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."

By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2013

Donald Trump stated on May 12, 2017 in Twitter:

Says James Clapper "and virtually everyone else" said "there is no collusion" in the Russia investigation findings.

By John Kruzel• May 12, 2017

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