Snowden Movie Quotes
Edward Snowden
Terrorism is just an excuse.
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Edward Snowden
I think the greatest freedom that I have gained, the fact that I don't have to worry about what happens tomorrow, Because I'm happy with what I've done Today.
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Edward Snowden
You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren't that long ago. Yeah, well, the big shots were the first trial, but then the next trial were just the judges, and lawyers, and policemen, and guards, and ordinary people just doing their jobs, following orders. That's where we got the Nuremberg principles, which then the UN made into international law, just in case ordinary jobs become criminal again.
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Edward Snowden
So, this is data collection for the month of March worldwide, emails and Skype calls. So France, 70 million. Germany, 500 million. Brazil, two billion. Inside the U.S., 3.1 billion emails and calls. That's not including any of the telecom company data.
NSA Dep. Director Lowell
Okay, so what's the collection in Russia?
Edward Snowden
Russia is 1.5 billion.
NSA Dep. Director Lowell
Wait, so we're collecting twice as much in the U.S. as we are in Russia?
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Corbin O'Brian
The modern battlefield is everywhere.
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Edward Snowden
And ultimately, the truth sinks in that no matter what justification you're selling yourself, this is not about terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse. This is about economic and social control. And the only thing you're really protecting is the supremacy of your government.
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Corbin O'Brian
[to Snowden]
In 20 years, Iraq will be a hellhole nobody cares about. Terrorism's a short-term threat. The real threats will come from China, Russia, Iran. and they'll come as SQL injections and malware. Without minds like yours, this country will be torn apart in cyberspace.
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Corbin O'Brian
Secrecy is security and Security is Victory.
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Corbin O'Brian
Bombs won't stop terrorism, brains will, and we don't have nearly enough of those. I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden.
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Edward Snowden
You didn't tell me we were running a dragnet on the whole world, Corbin.
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Edward Snowden
So, you're, um, an engineer?
Hank Forrester
Am I an engineer? Instructor and counselor, too. I'm supposed to keep an eye on you CTs, make sure you don't buckle under the pressure. Turn to drugs and booze.
Edward Snowden
Well, you won't have that problem with me. I don't drink or do drugs.
Hank Forrester
What is your sin of choice?
Edward Snowden
Uh, computers.
Hank Forrester
Well, then, Snowden, you've come to the right little whorehouse.
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Wolf Blitzer
The Washington Post and the Guardian in London reporting that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.
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Corbin O'Brian
With foreign site intel transfer. Transfers happen on collection now. They go straight to the Pentagon, Mossad if they need it.
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Catfish
In Vegas, looking at Afghanistan. We all knew that it was a kid. Poof. He's gone. But same village, two, three days later. We see the funeral party. We knew it was a kid that they were burying. Moms and dads wailing. And then the order comes down. Hit 'em. Poof. And they are gone in a cloud of dust.
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Edward Snowden
But Austria?
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Title Card
SNOWDEN
Title Card
The follow is a dramatization of actual events that occurred between 2004 and in 2013.
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Gabriel Sol
So think of it as a Google search, except instead of searching only what people make public, we're also looking at everything they don't. So... Emails, chats, SMS, whatever.
Edward Snowden
Yeah, but which people?
Gabriel Sol
The whole kingdom, Snow White.
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Hank Forrester
[about the Cray-1]
The first supercomputer. You can get all of this on a cell phone now.
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Gabriel Sol
Optic Nerve. It's camera and mic activation. I wish we could take credit, but the Brits wrote it. Yeah, her laptop's off. Or was, she just forgot to close it. Of course, how would she know? This shit is so sly, the webcam light doesn't even turn on.
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Edward Snowden
No matter who you are, every day of your life, you're sitting in a database just ready to be looked at.
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[first lines]
Laura Poitras
This is the only alligator.
Glenn Greenwald
Four minutes past. We walk in one minute. He was clear on that.
Laura Poitras
He's coming.
Glenn Greenwald
No, he is too young to have that kind of access.
Edward Snowden
Noon. But the food is a bit too spicy. This way...
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Hank Forrester
Sometimes, the more you look, the less you see.
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Hank Forrester
You would think intelligence would count for something in the intelligence business. Right. But you wanna know what it really is? What really sets the agenda? Military industrial happiness management. You keep the coffers open in Congress, you keep the money flowing to the contractors.
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Corbin O'Brian
Most Americans don't want freedom, they want security.
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Corbin O'Brian
What's the first rule of battle?
Edward Snowden
Never reveal your position.
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Lindsay Mills
What is it about this fucking job that makes it more important than your life?
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Edward Snowden
And it's just gonna get worse for the next generation, as they extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression.
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Edward Snowden
Look, Mr. MacAskill, uh, this is not about money or anything for me. There's no hidden agenda. I just wanted to get this data to established journalists like yourselves, so that you can present it to the world, and the people can decide either I'm wrong or there's something going on inside the government that's really wrong.
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Thomas Drake
To other whistleblowers, to others in the government, not to speak out. Do not tell truth to power. We'll hammer you.
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Trevor James
You know it. We track 'em, you whack 'em.
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Barack Obama
Every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.
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Barack Obama
That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.
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Edward Snowden
The thing is... you're not just following your bad guy targets, you're also following their metadata. Which is basically, all the phone numbers that they're in touch with. Let's say your target is a shady Iranian banker operating out of Beirut. Ok, so you're watching his stuff; you're also watching all the people that he talks to. Including, you know, his cousin, who is just some dentist living in Buffalo, and then you have to watch all pf that guy's contacts. And by the time you go a third hop out from the original target, you're watching this bartender chat with her mother about botox. 'Cause three hops from anyone with, say, forty contacts, you're looking at a list of 2.5 million people. And there's that moment when you're sitting there, and the scale of it hits you. The NSA is really tracking every cell phone in the world. No matter who you are, every day of your life, you're sitting in a database, just... ready to be looked at. Not just terrorists or countries or corporations... but you.
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