Snowden

& Drill Sergeant: Snowden! Where the fuck is Snowden?

& Corbin O’Brian: Any other influences?
    Edward Snowden: I’d say Joseph Campbell, Star Wars, Thoreau, Ayn Rand...
    Corbin O’Brian: One man can stop the motor of the world. Atlas Shrugged.
    Edward Snowden: Yes, sir. I believe that.
    Corbin O’Brian: Let’s try again. Why do you want to join the CIA?

& Edward Snowden: 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.

& Hank Forrester: You would think intelligence would count for something in the intelligence business... You wanna know what it really is? What really sets the agenda? Military industrial happiness management.

& Corbin O’Brian: 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. I don’t want to risk losing you for some horseshit war over sand and oil.

& Edward Snowden: How is this all possible?
    Gabriel Sol: Um, keyword selectors. «Attack,» «take out Bush.» 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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& Edward Snowden: Is there some kind of trick to it?
    CIA Agent Geneva: It’s all about finding the pressure point. Everything else is just pushing on it.

& Corbin O’Brian: If you want to play with all the new toys and be safe, you pay the price of admission.
    Edward Snowden: Yeah, except people, they don’t even know they’ve made that bargain.

& Corbin O’Brian: Where’s the modern battlefield, soldier?
    Edward Snowden: Everywhere.
    Corbin O’Brian: What’s the first rule of battle?
    Edward Snowden: Never reveal your position.
    Corbin O’Brian: And if one unauthorized person knew? If Congress knew?
    Edward Snowden: So would the enemy.
    Corbin O’Brian: That, Mr. Snowden, is the state of the world. Secrecy is security, and security is victory.

& Edward Snowden: I feel like I’m made to do this. And if I don’t do it, then I don’t know anybody else that can. It’s like I’m on a trajectory that I can’t turn back from.

& Trevor James: You make it sound criminal, man. It’s war. It’s a job.
    Catfish: Oh, I don’t know, man. You saying jobs can’t be criminal?
    Trevor James: Not if you’re working for the government.
    Edward Snowden: You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren’t that long ago.
    Trevor James: Yeah. And we hung the Nazi big shots, right?
    Edward Snowden: 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... Just sayin’.

& Edward Snowden: What’s keeping you safe is that you don’t know anything.

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