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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
CSPAN2 06/23/2013
For example, last year the Director of National Security Agency spoke over at the American Enterprise Institute when he said publically, “We don’t hold data on US citizens.” That statement sounds reassuring. But, of course, the American people now know it is false. In Fact, it is one of the most false statements ever made about domestic surveillance.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
Madam president, my view is the American people have essentially been presented with false choices. Americans have been told you really can have one or the other. You can have your security or you can have your liberty but you really can't have both.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
A big part of the problem in the past is that leaders in the intelligence community have made misleading statements, repeatedly. It's not just a question, madam president, of keeping the American people in the dark, which was true. But the American people were actively misled on a number of (occasions).
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
In effect 702 does all the work, and the bulk collection program which does intrude on the rights of millions of law-abiding Americans essentially is along for the ride. But you wouldn't know that when you hear these statements from a number of the leaders in the intelligence community when they just say these programs, of course are what keeps us safe.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
…and others have said where are the violations? Haven't seen any, you know, violations. Well the Director of National Intelligence madam president said last Friday in a letter to you and I and Senator Udall and 23 other of our colleagues, is yes, there have been violations of the Patriot Act. When he said specifically that the government had violated court orders on the (bulk collection of those phone records.)
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
Turned out that the intelligence community was unable to provide any such evidence. Intelligence agencies had made statements to both Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that they had significantly exaggerated the effectiveness of the bulk e-mail program when Senator Udall and I pressed them to back these statements up, they couldn't do it. The bulk e-mail records program was shut down that year (2011).
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
I have seen no evidence -- none -- that this dragnet phone records program has provided any actual unique value for the American people. In every instance in which the NSA has searched through these bulk phone records it had enough evidence to get a court order for the information it was searching for. In getting a few hundred additional court orders every year clearly would not overwhelm the Foreign Service Surveillance Court.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
I believe it is vitally important to protect the safety and the liberty of our people. I don't see any evidence that this program helps protect either. That ought to be the standard of any domestic surveillance program. If the bulk collection program doesn't protect privacy or security then it ought to end -- plain and simple. The Executive branch simply hasn't shown anything close to an adequate justification for this massive (dragnet)
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/30/2013
The Executive branch simply hasn't shown anything close to an adequate justification for this massive dragnet surveillance that has compromised the civil liberties of millions of Americans. I'm not sure they ever could but I'm confident that I haven't seen it as yet.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 06/30/2013
Senators and house members, regardless of political philosophy, are seeing that the FISA court process is one of the most one-sided approaches in American government. I know of no other court that doesn't have some kind of adversarial discussion where there are two points of view.
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