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I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

I do talk to individuals still in the business of tracking individuals in the homeland and abroad. A lot of them have felt that they were hanging on by their fingernails a bit in terms of tracking all the potential threats out there.

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.