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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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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Greenwald: Everything single thing that both David and I carry, even personal items, things for his school, are protected by very advanced encryption which they can't access. So taking it doesn't enable them to know what is in there, either. It’s not going to stop our reporting and doesn't do them any good. All it did, as i said this week, is give them a huge black eye in the world and make them look thuggish and authoritarian interfering in the journalism process, creating international incidents with the government of Brazil which is indignant with what is being done for no benefit at all to themselves,
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Greenwald continued: which is why I said they will truly come to regret what they have done. Because aside from being oppressive and dangerous, it's also quite incompetent and really quite dumb.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
Stelter : Glenn, thanks for being here. In these last three months what have you personally learned from all of these disclosures? Greenwald: Well I think the main point is that the thing people most did not know is just how limitless the NSA's goals are when it comes to spying. What they're really doing is creating a spying system that literally has as its goal the elimination of privacy worldwide.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
The motto of General Alexander, who runs the NSA, which was pioneered in Iraq but then moved to American soil is, “collect it all.” In other words, every form of electronic communication that human beings have with one another should be collected, stored monitored and analyzed by the NSA. That's a very extraordinary thing to happen in a democracy with no public debate and no public knowledge. I think that's why the story has resonated the way it has.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
As you said the reports about the illegality and the abuse of spying have been things that have been self-reported. So how much abuse is there that they personally either haven't detected or haven't reported? I think a lot of the stories over the next two months are going to focus on exactly that question just how much abuse is there in this system.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
Jefferson warned 250 years ago that those who most fear investigations of their actions are always the first to attack a free press. Obviously the idea of trying to criminalize investigative journalism; the idea that if you have classified information that you're responsibly reported on that means you can be detained under terrorism statutes, or even declared a criminal; is exactly what Jefferson was warning about.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
What I would say is that to me what journalism is about, is providing an adversarial force against those who wield the greatest power, to shine light on what it is they're doing to inform people in democracies about what political leaders are doing in the dark. And everything that we've done and will continue to do on this NSA story has been to inform people about what those in power are doing. Obviously people appreciate it as you see in the massive shifts of public opinion about how they think about surveillance,…
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
And sometimes these issues can be complicated. Sometimes Americans think that well, there's probably good reason why my privacy is being invaded. And so sometimes these stories don't resonate. As you just suggested, not only has it resonated incredibly in the United States but around the world. There's huge debates taking place for the first time about the value of privacy and internet freedom and other dangers of the U.S. surveillance state here in Brazil in Latin America, in Asia all throughout the world. I think the reason for it is that people understand we're at this crossroads.
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Glenn Greenwald
Reporter for The Guardian
CNNW 09/01/2013
The internet can either be what it was always intended to be which is an incredible weapon of democratization and liberation and those working against those in power OR alternatively it can be history’s worst instrument of control. If we allow the government to use the internet to destroy privacy and monitor everything that we're doing, it really radically changes our relationship to the governments around the world and the (kind of life we can live)
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist and Activist
MSNBCW 11/27/2013
Greenwald: First of all that the -- none of the people who have been targeted are considered, even by NSA to be terrorists none of them involved in terrorist organizations or involved in terrorist plots in any way. They simply express views that the U.S. government considers radical. Secondly one of the persons is deemed by the NSA to be a U.S. person which means either he’s either a citizen or a valid green card holder which entitles him to substantially increase protections under the law.
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