“To refer to the more or less indiscriminate storing of information relating to the private lives of individuals in terms of pursuing a legitimate national security concern is … problematic.”

“We must build a ‘system of systems’ that can provide the right information to the right people at all times. Information will be shared ‘horizontally’ across each level of government and ‘vertically’ among federal, state and local governments, private industry, and citizens.… We will leverage America's leading-edge information technology to develop an information architecture that will effectively secure the homeland.”

“The act of turning the military loose on civilians even if sanctioned by an Act of Congress, which it has not been, would raise serious and profound constitutional questions. Standing as it does only on brute power and Pentagon policy, it must be repudiated as a usurpation dangerous to the civil liberties on which free men are dependent.

“[The enemy moves in] a shadowy underworld operating globally with supporters and allies in many countries. Including, unfortunately our own.… Contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute ban on [military] intelligence components collecting US person information.”

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”