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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
KNTV 05/28/2014
Williams: Did you say earlier you were still serving your government? Snowden: Yes. Williams: How so? Snowden: When you look at the actions that I‘ve taken, when you look at the carefulness of the programs that have been disclosed, when you look at the way this has been filtered through the most trusted journalistic institutions in America, When you look at the way the government has had a chance to chime in on this and to make their case, and when you look at the changes that it's resulted in
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: When you look at the changes that it's resulted in, we have had the first open federal court to ever review these programs declare it likely unconstitutional and Orwellian and you see congress agreeing that massive surveillance, bulk collection needs to end. With all of these things happening that the government agrees all the way up to the President, again, make us stronger how can it be said that I did not serve my government? How can it be said that this harmed the country when all three branches of government have made reforms as a result of it.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: I have no relationship with the Russian government at all. I have never met the Russian president. I'm not supported by the Russian government. I'm not taking money from the Russian government. I'm not a spy which is the real question. The best way to make sure, for example, the Russians can't break my fingers and compromise information or hit me with a bag of money until I give them something was not to have it at all. And the way to do it was by destroying material that I was holding before I transited through Russia.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Williams: What do you miss about home? Snowden: I think the only -- the only answer to something like that for somebody in my situation is, you know, what don't I miss? What would you miss? What wouldn't you miss? I miss my family. I miss my home. I miss my colleagues. I miss the work. Because caught up in all these issues, people have unfairly demonized the NSA to a point that's too extreme. These are good people trying to do hard work for good reasons.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: The problem that we are confronted with, the challenge that we are facing is not the working level guy, some mustache-twirling villain out to destroy your life. It's the fact that senior officials are investing themselves with powers that they are not entitled to, and they are doing it without asking the public for any kind of consent.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: It's the sort of conspiratorial thinking that can emerge sometimes when we see the government has committed real and serious abuses that lead us to think they can do no good and the government has legitimate programs and purposes and they can do great things. The NSA can as well. I think it's important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. They don't say good-bye to their families, actually pack up without saying good-bye to their families. They don't walk away from their extraordinarily comfortable lives. I made a lot of money for a guy with no high school diploma, and burn down everything they love for no reason.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: I think no American could be prohibited from coming home or traveling anywhere else without feeling a sense of loss. But, again, I may have lost my ability to travel, but I have gained the ability to go to sleep at night, put my head on the pillow and feel comfortable that I have done the right thing even when it was the hard thing. And I'm comfortable with that.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: The way to think about this is, again, I already know how to deal with counterintelligence. Beyond that, I took nothing to Russia, so could give them nothing. Williams: You say you're not carrying around any of these materials. You’ve handed them off. If I gave you a laptop, could you access the documents? Snowden: No, no. Williams: no, you couldn't remotely, electronically access material? Snowden: No. Williams: It's gone from your control? Snowden: Right. I don't have any control
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: It’s no secret that the U.S. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people. I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word. I lived and worked undercover, overseas pretending to work in a job that I'm not and even being assigned a name that was not mine. Now the government might deny these things, frame it in certain ways and say, oh, he's a low level analyst but what they are trying to do is they are trying to use one position that I have had in a career here or there to distract from the totality of my experience.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: I’ve worked for the central intelligence agency undercover overseas. I’ve worked for the national security agency undercover overseas. And I worked for the defense intelligence agency as a lecturer at the joint counter-intelligence training academy where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world. So 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.
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