Barry Steinhardt Quotes (4 Quotes)

The FBI's position is essentially, 'Trust us, we're the government,' ... But we have a long history of the FBI abusing its authority.

There's absolutely no bar on collecting plates in public. There haven't been any legal challenges, because it's not illegal.

If the machines are limited to detecting explosives, then they are a step forward both for security and civil liberties from the pat-down searches and metal detectors. However, the technology can be used to identify anything that has a chemical trace, including, for example, drugs, so we wonder what this will morph into over time.

Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.