"There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied."

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I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.

— Edward Snowden