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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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Amy Goodman
Host and Executive Producer for Democracy Now
LINKTV 02/19/2014
Goodman: A court in Britain has ruled police acted legally when they detained the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald at Heathrow airport in London under an anti-terrorism law. David Miranda was carrying documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he was detained for nearly nine hours. While acknowledging the detention marked
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Glenn Greenwald (quoted)
Co-Founder The Intercept
LINKTV 02/19/2014
Goodman: The ruling comes just days after Greenwald and three other journalists won the George Polk Award one of journalism’s highest honors, for the reporting on the NSA. Greenwald said the court ruling makes it clear the top British spy agency was monitoring
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
CSPAN 04/05/2014
Greenwald: I think Daniel Ellsberg is the most constructive example. Because in modern times, he’s universally, or not perhaps universally, but wildly considered to be heroic. If you invoke Daniel Ellsberg and point out that he’s a defender of Edward Snowden, almost nobody will attack Daniel Ellsberg. As a means to responding they’ll try to distinguish the two. But if you go and look at how Daniel Ellsberg wins talked about a 1971 and 1972 and through that decade, the court, the government, the media, and by most Americans, he was talked about in exactly the same terms as Edward Snowden. And over time he got so vindicated. And I think history so appreciated the information that he let us know about, what the government was doing, all that sort of died away and we realized that he engaged in an incredibly heroic and self-sacrificing act that he didn’t need to do for the public good, and I am convinced that Edward Snowden already today around the world is very much viewed in those terms
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
KNTV 05/12/2014
Snow: Glenn Greenwald has a new book revealing more allegations of widespread surveillance by NSA employees. Greenwald: Internally when they thought they were talking in private they boast about the fact that they are a system of ubiquitous spying, collecting all forms of communication between everybody on the planet. Snow: This never-before-seen power point slide from the NSA says sniff it all, know it all, collect it all. And with this secret form, Greenwald says any NSA employee can search a giant database. Greenwald: All they need to do literally is enter the e-mail address, pick from a pulldown menu, a “justification” that entitles them to do it and then hit search. Snow: Greenwald writes the NSA had been able to tap into skype video chats, a broad range of facebook data, even e-mails sent by people using wifi on an airplane. Greenwald: The mindset of the NSA is that there should never be a place on the planet that you can go where you are able to evade their surveillance net.
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
KNTV 05/12/2014
Snow: An internal NSA newsletter brags that shipments of computer routers and servers headed all over the world are intercepted by the NSA and redirected to a secret location so they can implant surveillance devices. No way of knowing how widespread this is? Greenwald: We know that it's systematic. That there are divisions in the NSA and teams in the NSA devoted to doing this. Snow: The NSA says the implication that NSA’s foreign intelligence collection is arbitrary and unconstrained is false. NSA's activities are focused on valid foreign intelligence targets. Greenwald says he still has thousands of documents and plans to reveal more on the intercept, a digital magazine whose parent company has a collaboration agreement with NBC News. Greenwald: Several of the top, say, 5 or 10 are stories that are left to be told. Ones that will really shock the world.
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
ALJAZAM 05/14/2014
Greenwald: There's a huge, huge difference, fundamental difference between having the single company collect the information about you that they’re able to know when you use. their service. And Google can collect your Google searches. Yahoo can collect your Yahoo emails. And it's all divided and fragmented in the hands of these companies. Versus having the United States government systematically collect in a centralized way everything there is to know about you on line. There's a difference between corporate and government power. It’s the government can put you into prison, that can take your property and even that can kill you. Which is why the Bill of Rights and the Constitution can limits what the government can do because we look to government and state powers as being threatening.
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
CSPAN 05/14/2014
Greenwald: It's a good question because so much of what is said here in Washington is designed to deceive and mislead the public. Such as Mr. Snowden should have invoked the protections he had under the laws of a whistleblower. Which is something President Obama himself said. And the reason that particular claim is so patently false is because the law that president Obama was talking about doesn’t even apply to private contractor employees such as Mr. Snowden which is significant because a huge part of the national security state is outsourced to private corporations. Something like 70% of the overall budget according to the investigative journalist Tim Shorrock that goes to the NSA ends up going to the functions of private corporations. But the broader point is about this idea that there are all these great whistleblowing procedures that he should've gone to Congress. The way the U.S. government is structured is to hide, not to eliminate secret wrongdoing by people in power.
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
CSPAN 05/14/2014
Greeenwald: The best proof of that is that there are two democratic senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall who sit on the senate intelligence committee who have been going around the city and everywhere they can for years before Edward Snowden emerged warning the public that there are these radical surveillance policies that the Obama Administration has embraced. These are democrats. And the public would be stunned to learn about what it was that was being done. And yet, those two senators didn’t have the courage to disclose these programs even though they thought they were illegal because the system is designed to gag even powerful senators when they believe they’ve discovered the national security state doing wrong. And so Edward Snowden knew he couldn’t go to people like Ron Wyden and Mark Udall because they were impotent. The system ensures that they are and they themselves ensure that they were. And his only way to get the information to the public was to do what Daniel Ellsberg did which was go to newspapers and ask them to publish it.
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Glenn Greenwald
Co-Founder The Intercept
CSPAN 05/14/2014
Greenwald: To me, the most difficult thing to understand was why was this 29-year-old who had a very stable life, had a prosperous career, a girlfriend whom he loved, a family that was supportive. Why was he willing to unravel his whole life, to throw it all away? Not to enrich himself, not to exact vengeance, but in defense of his political principle? And I need to know for myself, before I helped him do this, that he had thought this through and there were motives that were genuine that he understood. He finally was able to access those during that time and said, conscious demands that I not let these injustices linger. Because I don’t want to spend the rest of my life knowing that I did nothing I can only look at myself in the mirror if I know I took action in defense of the things I said I believe in.
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
KQED 05/20/2014
Narrator: One of the first files they discussed was this one. It directed Verizon Business Services to turn customer phone records over to the NSA. The journalists were stunned. Greenwald: What this document revealed is that the NSA surveillance system is not directed at very bad people or about terrorists. It's directed at the American citizenry and other citizenries around the world, indiscriminately, in bulk.
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