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Curated research library of TV news clips regarding the NSA, its oversight and privacy issues, 2009-2014

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Primary curation & research: Robin Chin, Internet Archive TV News Researcher; using Internet Archive TV News service.

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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
CNNW 12/16/2013
Cooper: There is this from leaker Edward Snowden today. A statement, “I acted on my belief that the NSA’s mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today” he goes on, “a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights. It is the first of many.
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Judge Richard Leon
D.C. District Court Judge
CNNW 12/16/2013
Cooper: A court ruling that deals a body blow to the NSA mass surveillance program. Once a top secret program until Edward Snowden revealed it. A program that can collect phone records on each and every call that Americas make. D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruling the program likely violates fourth amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. He writes “I can not imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.” Judge Leon, a George W Bush appointee called the program “almost Orwellian” and says that founding father James Madison would be aghast at the scope of it. All the same, he did hold off shutting the program down giving the government six months to make a case for continuing it. The Justice Department had little reaction beyond saying they are studying the opinion and believe the program is in fact constitutional.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
CSPAN 12/31/2013
Brawner: Snowden appeared in a televised Christmas message released to the British public by TV station Channel 4. Here is what he had to say. Snowden: Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book, microphones, video cameras, tvs that watch us, are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
CSPAN 12/31/2013
Snowden: They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surround us, and the government that regulates it. Together, we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance, and remind the government, that if it really want to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying. Brawner: Edward Snowden on December 25th released that Christmas message to the British public by TV station Channel 4.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Gregory: Edward Snowden himself when he was interviewed in the
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
ALJAZAM 01/26/2014
Betz: Edward Snowden says national security is not the N.S.A.'s only purpose. In his most recent interview airing today he says the N.S.A. also collect data to help U.S. corporations. Seipel: does the N.S.A. spy on Siemens, on Mercedes on other successful German companies, for example, to prevail, to have the advantage of knowing what was going on in the scientific and economic world?
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
ALJAZAM 01/26/2014
Snowden: I don't want to pre-empt the editorial decisions of journalists, but what I will say is there's no question that the U.S. is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemans that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they’ll take it. Betz: That interview was was held in an undisclosed location. Meanwhile, a Russian law-maker recently said Moscow plans to extend its offer of asylum to Snowden beyond August.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
ALJAZAM 02/03/2014
Gizbert: Snowden used an interview with the New Yorker Magazine to accuse the U.S. mainstream media of abdicating their ability to hold power to account. He was talking about interviews done January 19th by Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein. Rogers: I believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms of an FSB agent in Moscow. Gizbert: The two had congressional intelligence committees both muse allowed on the possibility that Snowden, exiled in Moscow has been working for the Russians all along. Snowden denies that and says “it is not the smears that mystify me. It’s that outlets report statements that speakers themselves admit are sheer speculation.” He added “It’s just amazing that these massive media institutions don't have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean these are pretty serious allegations.”
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
LINKTV 02/10/2014
Goodman: U.S. intelligence officials are claiming Edward Snowden stole internal NSA documents by using cheap and widely available software that still went mostly undetected. Speaking to "The New York Times," investigators looking into Snowden’s case, say he deployed a simple web crawler that automatically downloaded some 1.7 million files. In a statement, Snowden responded “It’s ironic that officials are giving classified information to journalists in an effort to discredit me for giving classified information to journalists. The difference is that I did so to inform the public about the government’s actions, and they’re doing so to misinform the public about mine,” he said.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KGO 03/10/2014
Ashley: NSA leaker Edward Snowden made has made his first on camera appearance since fleeing to Russia. Snowden: I took an oath to support and defend the constitution and I saw that the constitution was violated on a massive scale. The interpretation of the Constitution had been changed in secret. Ashley: Snowden spoke today by video link at the SXSW (South by South) Festival in Austin, Texas
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