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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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Laura Poitras
Documentary Filmmaker and Co-Founder of The Intercept
WHYY 10/25/2014
Trailer for CitizenFour: Ewen MacAskill: So I don’t know anything about you. Snowden: OK. I work for MacAskill: Sir I don’t know your name. Snowden: Oh, sorry. My name is Edward Snowden. I go by Ed. Edward Joseph Snowden is the full name. Rose: Poitras received the Polk Award and The Pulitzer for Public Service for her work on the Snowden leaks. She’s also the Co-Founder of the Intercept. It is a news venture funded by Piere Omidyar.
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Laura Poitras
Documentary Filmmaker and Co-Founder of The Intercept
WHYY 10/25/2014
Poitras: He's (Edward Snowden) definitely an idealist. He's somebody who very much grew up on the internet. He is a generation that came of age on the internet. And he came of age and says this in the film, where the internet was kind of a free place and he believes it was one of the most beautiful things that humanity ever had that you could have a means from which people from all over the world, from all, you know ages, communicating freely with each other. And I think that that’s what really motivated him. That to see that be something that was sort of taken away from people and used for other means -- means of surveillance, means commercial means. So I think he saw something that he thought was really profound and to be protected and that was slipping away. Rose: So that was his motivation? Poitras: I think that's the core motivation, yeah.
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Laura Poitras
Documentary Filmmaker and Co-Founder of The Intercept
WHYY 10/25/2014
Poitras: I think he (Edward Snowden) certainly accomplished a shift in consciousness globally around what states are capable of doing, what intelligence agencies are capable of doing. so I think he's raised that awareness. And I think he’s also, one of his main goals was that he felt that these things, that we live in a democracy, we have a rule of law and a constitution and there were things happening in secret that the public should know about.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
WHYY 10/25/2014
Film clip from CitizenFour-MacAskew: What’s the next step. When do think you’ll go public? Snowden: I think it's pretty soon. I mean, with the reaction, this escalated more quickly. I think pretty much as soon as they try to make this about me, which should be any day now, I'll come out just to go, hey, you know, this is not a question of somebody skulking around in the shadows. These are public issues, these are not not my issues. These are everybody's issues and I’m not afraid of you. You're not going to bully me into silence like you've done to everybody else. And if nobody else is gonna do it, I will. And hopefully, when I'm gone, whatever you do to me, there will be somebody else who will do the same thing. It will be the sort of internet principle of the hydra. You can stomp one person but there’s gonna be several more of us.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: I am broadly satisfied with what’s happened in the last year. We've seen an extraordinary change in public awareness. we have seen an increased openness. i would say innovative spirit in government, not by choice, but by necessity. I believe we had Bob Litt speaking earlier which was great to have him with us. And he mentioned they've decided to be more transparent in the future because they recognize these policies of over classification, over secrecy, are not helpful and, in fact, are damaging. I think we should really scrutinize the value of not just the government's, shall we say improvement, and not just around the world in the court systems, a number of panelists have spoken about beneficial things we're seeing in the united states court system.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: The first open federal courts review of programs found they're likely unconstitutional and even call them Orwellian in scope. The European Court of Justice struck down the European version of sort of the Smith v. Maryland, said the date of attention directed is unallowable, It’s a fundamental violation of rights. We've seen The United Nations issue reports that said mass surveillance is not permissible under any circumstances. It’s necessarily, it’s a contradiction of sort of our fundamental values and it's an inherent violation of rights. And we see a lot of things like that happen. But beyond that we see the real change that's happening is actually occurring outside of courts, outside of congress, outside of the executive agencies entirely and this is happening through things like technology companies.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: On the technological side sort of in the fabric of the internet where immediately upon the public awareness of the problem technologists, academics, engineers around the world all came together and they went, this is a serious concern and how do we address this? How do we solve these problems? How do we make sure we don’t have to deal with this in the future? And we see that individuals as well are taking action and taking steps to try to retrieve their rights that have been sort of unnecessarily taken out of their hands, out of their domain. This is a poll done by a Canadian group. They don’t really have dog in the fight, so this is why I sight them. They got a representative sample of internet users around the world and they found 60% of them around the world had heard of the revelations of the last year. And of those 60%, 39% of those had taken active steps to improve the security of their privacy of communications online.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: It was interesting how the media interpreted this. They said, well, this is a minority. People must not care that much. Nobody is really making changes. When you actually do the math of the 39% of the 60% of the world's internet users is, that is 702 million people around the world who are now safer today than a year navel ago. This is, I think really where we begin to see the framework of how we can move forward in the absence of political and legal reform and this is good.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: Because what we've seen politically around the world throughout the development of human civilization and history is that politics is about power (lost some audio). When you have people in great power positions, when you have super states, they will not cede any sort of authority that they’ve claimed back to the public, back to civil society, unless hey are afraid of a more undercutting alternative. And this is what is setting us up to really have a sort of renaissance of security, and of liberty in the way we associate the way we speak, the way we research online. And this is critical. Because when we think about reforms, when we think about all the challenges we have in the United States, these are big picture problems but at the same time these are only the things that are happening within the United States.
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Edward Snowden
whistleblower
CSPAN 12/12/2014
Snowden: And as bad as the policies of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency and F.B.I. have been, in regard to respecting sort of the boundaries of our rights, they are good, relative to many other governments around the world. And so we have to think about not just how to protect the rights of Americans but protect the rights of individuals around the world who live under regimes who are much less liberal, and much more authoritarian. The only way we can do that is to ensure that there are international standards that are well agreed upon as to what behavior is proper or improper. We have court mechanisms that can enforce these. And ultimately, fundamentally, we can enforce these through technology. On the basis of all of this I would say I'm tremendously satisfied.
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