Edward Snowden citations

Edward Joseph Snowden, né le 21 juin 1983 à Elizabeth City, Caroline du Nord, est un informaticien américain, ancien employé de la Central Intelligence Agency et de la National Security Agency ,, qui a révélé les détails de plusieurs programmes de surveillance de masse américains et britanniques.

À partir du 6 juin 2013, Snowden rend publiques par l’intermédiaire des médias, notamment The Guardian et The Washington Post, des informations classées top-secrètes de la NSA concernant la captation des métadonnées des appels téléphoniques aux États-Unis, ainsi que les systèmes d’écoute sur internet des programmes de surveillance PRISM, XKeyscore, Boundless Informant et Bullrun du gouvernement américain, et les programmes de surveillance Tempora, Muscular et Optic Nerve du gouvernement britannique. Pour justifier ses révélations, il a indiqué que son « seul objectif est de dire au public ce qui est fait en son nom et ce qui est fait contre lui. ».

À la suite de ses révélations, Edward Snowden est inculpé le 22 juin 2013 par le gouvernement américain sous les chefs d’accusation d’espionnage, vol et utilisation illégale de biens gouvernementaux,.

S'exilant à Hong Kong en juin 2013 puis à Moscou, Edward Snowden obtient le 31 juillet 2013 l’asile temporaire en Russie. Le 1er août 2014 il obtient un droit de résidence pour trois ans en Russie.

Le 14 avril 2014, l’édition américaine du Guardian et le Washington Post se voient décerner le prix Pulitzer pour la publication des révélations sur le système de surveillance de la NSA, rendues possibles grâce aux documents fournis par Snowden,,.

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“La démocratie en Amérique est aujourd’hui en panne […] Je pense que la logique du secret entourant cette violation de la vie privée a été excessive, donc, je pense que l’avoir porté à la connaissance du public aura sans doute été salutaire sur le long terme.”

America has no functioning democracy at this moment […] I think that the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive, so I think that the bringing of it to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial.
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Jimmy Carter

“Le travail d’une génération commence ici.”

The work of a generation is beginning here.
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Déclaration entérinée en commission des libertés civiles du Parlement européen. Lecture du témoignage par Jesselyn Radack, Bruxelles, le 30 septembre 2013.

“Ma seule motivation est d'informer le public sur ce qui est fait en leur nom et ce qui est fait contre eux.”

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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“J'ai la conviction que vous avez agi de manière appropriée en exposant ce que je considère comme une violation caractérisée de la Constitution des États-Unis d’Amérique.”

I believe you have done the right thing in exposing what I regard as massive violation of the United States Constitution.
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Gordon Humphrey

“Aux agents de la NSA et du FBI lisant mon courriel : s’il vous plaît, veuillez considérer si la défense de la Constitution des États-Unis contre tous les ennemis, étrangers ou de l’intérieur, nécessite que vous suiviez l’exemple de Snowden.”

To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden’s example.
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Edward Snowden: Citations en anglais

“You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.”

Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why, The Guardian, 10 June 2013.

“Privacy is the right to a free mind.”

Snowden, Chomsky, and Greenwald discuss privacy https://vimeo.com/160952562, on 35:21.
2016

“Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.”

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message

“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.”

Source: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message

26 December 2013

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Reddit, May 21, 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36ru89/just_days_left_to_kill_mass_surveillance_under/crglgh2
2015

“No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.”

2014
Source: theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview-transcript

“It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.”

Penguin Books 2015 edition, page 45.
No Place to Hide (2014)

“I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.”

Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview, published by The Guardian on 8 July 2013.
Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 2

“Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.”

2016
Source: Twitter, February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/697077569250787328

“The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.”

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message

26 December 2013

“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.”

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message

26 December 2013

“This country is worth dying for.”

Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 1

“The government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.”

Edward Snowden accuses US of illegal, aggressive campaign in his first appearance in the airport http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-accuses-us-illegal-campaign, published by The Guardian 12 July 2013.
Interview with Glenn Greenwald, 6 June 2013, Part 2

“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.”

Snowden's first U.S. television interview, to NBC's Brian Williams; Snowden: "Sometimes To Do The Right Thing You Have to Break a Law", Gawker (29 May 2014) http://gawker.com/snowden-sometimes-to-do-the-right-thing-you-have-to-b-1583145785

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