James Dempsey Quotations

If anyone came here today to hear remorse, they won't. Remorse is for a guilty man, and I'm not guilty.

What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for?

We do not need a new Fourth Amendment for cyberspace. But we need to recognize that people are conducting more of their lives online. The price tag for this technology should not include a loss of privacy.

This is not a decision the FCC can make on its own.

It should not be the end of the privacy debate to say that technological change takes information outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the courts 25 years ago, ... What we need is to translate the Fourth Amendment's vision of limited government power and personal privacy to the global, decentralized, networked environment of the Internet.

It's not a privacy problem, ... It's a mission, goals and methods problem.

I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.

Agents would have to jump through some additional hoops.

Agents would have a harder time getting a roving wiretap from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, but they could still get roving wiretaps under criminal laws that have been on the books since 1986. However, they would have to have more evidence of a crime.

All of this information that's being collected about us, ... increasingly, the government, of course, is seeking access to that information. And the rules just aren't there.