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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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Ryan Gallagher
Reporter for The Intercept
KCSM 08/28/2014
Gallagher:(The military ban on viewing The Intercept) This is a continuation of what has happened to Wikileaks in 2010 and then what happened to the guardian last year. The military has this completely absurd policy to just block any public news website that is publishing stories based on classified information. Actually these kind of draconian warnings to their staff that if they dare to read these news reports that they’ll have dire security consequences and all the rest of it.
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Ryan Gallagher
Reporter for The Intercept
KCSM 08/28/2014
Gallagher: We know for a fact there are people within the military, who are disturbed by this. It is based on a policy the DOD has in place that says you can't view classified information on an unclassified computer until the information is formally declassified. But that kind of policy in the age of Manning and the age of Snowden just is totally archaic and it doesn't fit the modern world. They need to review it because you can have a situation where an intelligence analyst within the government with top security clearance is in a position that he can't read public news reports. Now if that is the case, how can that intelligence analyst whose job is to make sense of the world from inside the government, how can they do that properly if he can't even read news websites? So it is a counterproductive policy that I find personally completely absurd.
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Ryan Gallagher
Reporter for The Intercept
KQED 09/26/2015
Sreenivasan: first of all, explain the scale of surveillance that was happening from the British equivalent of the N.S.A., the G.C.H.Q. Gallagher: well, the scale is quite phenomenal. I mean, it's hard to translate it when you just see the numbers. but you're talking about 50 to 100 billion metadata records of phone calls and e-mails and other communications every single day, so vast, vast quantities of information they're sweeping up. And they're talking by 2030 having in place the world's largest surveillance system, surpassing even what the N.S.A. In the U.S. has built
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Ryan Gallagher
Reporter for The Intercept
KQED 09/26/2015
Gallagher: One of the interesting parts of the story we just put out is that we had a bunch of specific cases where, for example, we had monitored something like 200,000 people from something like 185 different countries, so almost every country in the world who had listened to radio shows through their computer. In one case they actually decided to pick out just one of these people, it seems like at random, what web sites he had been viewing. It's kind of an all-seeing system when you're gathering that amount of information, there’s going to be something in there on almost everyone. So that's something that does have an impact and effects on all of us. Sreenivasan: The G.C.H.Q. has much more lax oversight than even the N.S.A. What are they doing with this information? You in your article you pointed to a couple of cases of almost corporate espionage.
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Ryan Gallagher
Reporter for The Intercept
KQED 09/26/2015
Gallagher: We have the case where they were monitoring people listening to internet radio shows. There are a couple of other really fascinating and important case where's they've used this information to—into major European telecommunications companies. The reason they did that is they wanted to get into these companies’ systems and steal information they held in their systems because that would help them spy on other people. Also, in these cases, they caused, these amounted to major cyber attacks, cyber attacks in Europe on allied countries, companies in allied countries causing millions of dollars in Euro currency damage and so, you know, the ramifications are quite severe, even in terms of the European union, for what the U.K. agency is doing in Europe.
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