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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
Journalist and Activist
MSNBCW 11/27/2013
Greenwald: So Americans, or U.S. persons are not exempt from this program. Then thirdly, there is a long, ugly history, Lawrence in the united states of the U.S. government deeming certain ideas radical such as the civil rights movement or socialists and communists or anti-war protesters and then taking action to destroy them either their reputations or, their, their professions. And, I think we all as Americans ought to be aware of that history and wary of these kinds of programs.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist and Activist
MSNBCW 11/27/2013
Greenwald: of course if the U.S. government believes there are people in the world who are expressing view points that are dangerous, of course the U.S. government like any government wants to go out and undermine them. There are a lot of people who express radical views all the time including on lots of cable tv stations who I would look to go in and undermine. that doesn't mean I want the state trolling through the most private data and releasing it to the world in order to humiliate them
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist and Activist
MSNBCW 11/27/2013
Greenwald: and destroy their reputations. That's not something that we want the state, authorized to do. And remember we are talking here, the document says that these six people are exemplars of how this can work. So it’s not confined to just this six or even, Muslim radicals. It’s just anybody the U.S. government thinks are radicalizing people with their view points.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist and Activist
MSNBCW 11/27/2013
Greenwald: We have a certain set of documents that our source provided to us. We have far from the entire set of documents in the NSA. But what this document is clearly doing is, a document that implicates at least 15 different government agencies at the highest levels of the government and it’s talking about these kind of nefarious plans. We don't know if they released this information. We know they collected it and then discussed and planned ho they could release it to destroy these people’s reputations. And that's what surveillance scandals in the past have been about.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist, lawyer, bolumnist, Blogger, author
CNNW 12/16/2013
Cooper: Should this vindicate Ed Snowden in the eyes of those who still believe he’s a traitor? Greenwald: how could it not vindicate him? Let’s just use common sense for a minute. Here is an American citizen working inside of the government who discovers that the United States government is doing things without the knowledge of the American people that is so illegal, so against the core constitutional guarantees of the constitution that a George Bush appointed judge today said that it's not even a close call. He said James Madison would be aghast if he knew that the U.S. government would be collecting extremely invasive data on every single American without any remote suspicion, let alone probable cause. And I think it’s not only the right but the duty of an American citizen, and Edward Snowden’s situation to come forward at great risk to himself and inform his fellow citizens about what it is that their government is doing in the dark that is illegal.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist, lawyer, columnist, Blogger, author
ALJAZAM 01/30/2014
Greenwald: He (Snowden) has brought to light enormous amounts of lying on the part of high level government officials, unconstitutional and other legal forms of surveillance. MacVicar: After the leaks, The Privacy and Civil Liberties Board investigated the NSA’s collection of phone data and concluded, “The government should end it’s 215 bulk telephone records program.” MacVicar: And last month a U.S. district judge ruled that the collection of U.S. domestic telephone records was “probably unconstitutional.” Greenwald: Only real check on abuses of power is if we the public know what they are doing. And that’s why it was so imperative that Mr. Snowden came forward and shined a light on these things. MacVicar: Snowden remains in exile without a U.S. passport, facing espionage charges here.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist at The Intercept
CNNW 02/09/2014
Stelter: You're coming to us from Brazil. You haven't been back to the United States since the first stories were published last summer but you've hinted you're going to come back this spring. I want to bring that up because there's been claims in recent days from some government official they might hold you accountable and might try to prosecute you in some way. Let's play the exchange between the chairman of the house intelligence committee Mike Rogers and the FBI Director from earlier this week. Rogers: There have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. Mr. Comey, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, is that a crime? Comey: Yes, it is. Rogers: And would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the United States government, would that be a crime? Comey: It would be. It's an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering news promulgation function, but in general fencing or selling stolen property is a crime.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist at The Intercept
CNNW 02/09/2014
Stelter: Glen, your blood must boil when you hear that. What was your reaction to that? What do you think they’re trying to do by saying those kind of things? Greenwald: Extraordinary aspects to that attempt by Mike Rogers to suggest that journalists such as myself are engaged in criminal conduct or selling documents and the like. But first is that he's not only lying and he is lying, but he not only is lying but knows that he's lying. You know this is what Mike Rogers is notorious for in Washington. He’s just literally making things up and smearing political opponents and journalists he doesn't like. He recently did it when he said that there was indications that Edward Snowden was working with Russian intelligence and every major newspaper in the country said not only is there no evidence of that, but that investigators have said it's not the case, that he acted alone. But I defy Mike Rogers, if he wants to make that accusation, to come forward and present actual evidence that any journalist has stolen -- has sold documents or stolen material or engaged in any kind of criminality. He has no evidence. He's just making things up.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist at The Intercept
CNNW 02/09/2014
Greenwald: But the second extraordinary aspect of it is what he's talking about, that process has always in the United States been called journalism where you go to media organizations when you have something to report. You get paid for your reporting and then you report it, what the public should know. What this is, is nothing less than an attempt to criminalize journalism like all petty tyrants try to do when reporters and other journalists expose that which they want to hide. And I don't think anybody should mistake what this is really about.
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Glenn Greenwald
Journalist at The Intercept
CNNW 02/09/2014
Stelter: Yet every time we talk, every time you're on television, people on twitter call you a traitor. What is that like to hear the word traitor at the same time you hear hero from other people? Greenwald: Yeah. You know, I think that it's always the case that if you are adversarial to the U.S. government there are certain people who view criticizing the government or exposing bad acts that are done in secret of the government, as being treasonous. If you go back and look at what was said about one of my political heroes, Daniel Ellsberg, who everybody now regards as a hero, but 40 years ago you had the Mike Rogers and James Clappers of that era calling him a Russian spy and a traitor and engaging in treason and endangering the United States. It's really just a very similar pattern. And I knew a long time ago when I went into journalism that it wasn't the profession to go into if you want to be universally loved. If you do it the right way it means you're going to make a lot of powerful people and their loyalists unhappy and I'm perfectly okay with that.
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