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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
Snowden: I’ve never told anybody this, no journalist. But I was on Ft. Meade on September 11th. I was right outside the NSA, so I remember, I remember the tension of that day. I remember hearing on the radio the planes hitting. And I remember thinking my grandfather who worked for the FBI at the time was in the pentagon when the plane hit it. I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: And I think it's really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories. To sort of exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that had never been shown to keep us safe but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don't need to give up, and our constitution says we should not give up.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Williams: Why not cast the widest net possible? Innocent people around the country were -- all felt the same way. I've got nothing to hide. We've got to find this enemy we can't see. Snowden: The definition of a security state is any nation that prioritizes security over all other considerations. I don't believe the United States is or ever should be a security state. If want to be free we can't become subject to surveillance. We can't give away our privacy. We can't give away our rights. We have to be an active party. We have to be an active part of our government. And we have to say there are some things worth dying for. I think the country is one of them.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: In 2004, I joined the U.S. army under the 18 x-ray special forces recruit program. Now, I have to give high respect to everyone in the military and especially the graduates of those programs because they are better men than I. I was injured very early on in the program and washed out. You know, I readily admit it, I don't hide that. Williams: Snowden reportedly left the military after breaking both of his legs in training. Snowden: But the fact is that I tried. You know, I saw what was going on in the world. I believed the government's arguments that we were going to do good things in Iraq, that we were going to free the oppressed. And I wanted to do my part to help share the national burden and create not just a better America but a better world.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/28/2014
Snowden: As time went on, as I rose to higher and higher levels of the intelligence community, as I gained more and more access, as I saw more and more classified information at the highest levels. I realized that so many of the things that we're told by the government simply aren't true. Much like the arguments about aluminum tubes and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Colin Powell's speech about the vial of anthrax that Saddam was going to bring against us. The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes of intelligence, I can't say for sure, but I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CNNW 05/28/2014
Snowden: 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. Tapper: But the office of the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, says nonsense. "Edward Snowden was an I.T. contractor, he was not a covert intelligence officer. Like many of his previous public statements. Many of the recent claims fall well short of the truth.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
KNTV 05/30/2014
Mitchell: The NSA said Thursday it found only one e-mail from Snowden asking for clarification on a legal issue, not whistle-blowing. Asked to comment today Snowden responded to NBC news saying “The NSA's new discovery of written contact between me and its lawyers after more than a year of denying any such contact existed raises serious concerns. Calling the NSA release “incomplete,” Snowden added, “The fact is that I did raise such concerns both verbally and in writing and on multiple continuing occasions. As I've always said and as NSA has always denied.” Still the White House is challenging Snowden's credibility. Susan Rice: He was not trained as a spy. We have no idea where that assertion comes from. And has Edward Snowden done damage? He's done immense damage.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
MSNBCW 05/30/2014
Mitchell: Edward Snowden is holding firm to his claim that he did blow the whistle about NSA abuses before the leaks leaving a paper trail to prove it. His interview with Brian Williams. Snowden: I voiced these complaints not just officially, in writing through e-mail, to these offices and these individuals, but to my supervisors, to my colleagues, in more than one office. Mitchell: Under pressure the NSA after a year released one e-mail, the sole e-mail it found from Snowden to NSA lawyers but Snowden has fired back about that release telling the "Washington Post" today the picture painted by the NSA is incomplete.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Snowden: If we can't understand the policies and programs of our government, we cannot grant our consent in writing. As someone very clever said recently, we don't have an oversight problem, we have an undersight problem.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
ALJAZAM 08/13/2014
Beban: For Edward Snowden, discovering that a top secret project called MonsterMind was in the works was the last straw. Once he learned about it, Snowden says in the new issue of “Wired” he decided it was time to go public and tell the world what he knew about the national security agency's surveillance programs. He says monster mind is designed to be an automatic program of tremendous power. Housed at the NSA's massive data center in the Utah desert. It would essentially be the ultimate cyber-cop, constantly on the look out for the beginnings of a foreign cyber-attack on United States computers capable of deciding on its own when and how to strike back. But attacks are often routed through computers in innocent countries. That's a problem, Snowden says. Security analysts agree.
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