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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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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Tapper continued: intelligence officials acknowledged in a letter that there have been some violations. With today's declassified information, can you shed any new light on what these violations on Americans' privacy were? Wyden: I can't get into those details, but again I will try to add a little bit of context. First, those violations at the intelligence community, General Clapper, specifically referred to were violations of court orders, Jake. Violations of court orders with respect to the bulk collection of the phone records. So when you hear somebody from the
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
CNNW 01/14/2014
Tapper: The Freedom of the Press Foundation is announcing that Snowden is joining its Board of Directors. Daniel Ellsberg is a co-founder of The Freedom of the Press Foundation. You’ll of course remember him as the former U.S. military analyst who gave the infamous Pentagon Papers to "The New York Times" back in 1971. Mr. Ellsberg, thank’s so much for being here. Why has the organization decided to add Snowden to the board of directors even though he's not actually a journalist? Ellsberg: Well, I’m not a journalist either. In fact, I’m a source, actually exactly the same sort that Edward Snowden has been. And he represents the values, I think, of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, pressfreedomfoundation.org. It's essential to the first amendment, freedom of the press, and of speech.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
CNNW 01/14/2014
Tapper: What is your response to those who say, not all of these leaks have been good ones and not all of them have been in the name of what the Freedom of the Press Foundation stands for? Ellsberg: Look, judgment has to be exercised in the question of what the public needs to know and ought to know and what has been withheld and there may be individual aspects of that where judgments may differ. But remember, we heard these same warnings at the beginning, middle, and end of -- I should say, the beginning and middle of the prosecution of Chelsea Manning over a matter of years. Blood was on people's hands and so forth. At the end of the trial, they have not produced one scrap of evidence supporting those assertions that anything or any person has been harmed as a result of those revelations, which was the largest since the Pentagon Papers and the largest until Edward Snowden’s.
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Jeremy Scahill
Co-Founder, The Intercept
CNNW 02/10/2014
Scahill: this is effectively what amounts to death by metadata. We're living in an era of precrime where we're using analysis of signals, intercepts of the activity that is registered on behalf of a s.i.m. card or a telephone handset. We don't necessarily have evidence that the individuals holding that s.i.m. card or that moble phone handset are in fact the individuals that we're targeting. And so what is effectively happening is that instead of confirming that target x is in fact this individual that the U.S. is trying to kill, they are effectively killing the cell phones. And this is a system that is rife with error and what we see is that the U.S.. has basically outsourced its human intelligence capacity, so called human capacity and it's now relying in some cases 90% or more on the use of signals intelligence or imagery intelligence and that leaves the door open for killing of phones not targeting of individuals.
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James Clapper (quoted)
Director of National Intelligence
CNNW 02/18/2014
Baldwin: Now back to James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, made these candid remarks about the phone data collection by the government. This is what he said in this interview here. Let me quote him. He said, Clapper (quoted): "Had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldn't have had the problem we had with the explosive public reaction." Baldwin: It is worth pointing out, phone data collection proceeds the Obama administration, so Clapper wasn't there to make those early decisions. Do you think he's shoving blame for the heat he’s taken on to the Bush Administration here? Tapper: Well obviously there's some of that, because he's talking about this needing to have been done ten years ago. But I think more theoretically, and obviously, President Obama could have come in and Clapper, when he was appointed Director of National Intelligence, could have come in and announced (that this program section 215, the collection of metadata, the surveillance on Americans, they could have announced it at the time.)
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CNNW 05/28/2014
Snowden: When they say I’m a low level systems administrator that I don't know what I'm talking about, I’d say it's somewhat misleading. Tapper: But the office of the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, says nonsense. "Edward Snowden was an I.T. contractor, he was not a covert intelligence officer. Like many of his previous public statements. Many of the recent claims fall well short of the truth.
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