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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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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: This clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, that's going to continue for the foreseeable future whether this report is released or not. There are those who will seize upon the report and say, See what the Americans did? And they will try to use it to justify evil actions or incite more violence. We can't prevent that, but history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. There may never be the right time to release this report. The instability we see today will not be resolved in months or years, but this report is too important to shelve indefinitely.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: At no time did the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques. The committee never found an example of this hypothetical ticking time bomb scenario. The use of coercive technique methods regularly resulted in fabricated information. Sometime(s) the CIA actually knew detainees were lying. Other times the CIA acted on false information, diverting resources and leading officers or contractors to falsely believe they were acquiring unique or actionable intelligence and that its interrogations were working when they were not.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: Internally, CIA officers often called into question the effectiveness of the CIA's interrogation techniques, noting how the techniques failed to elicit detainee cooperation or produce accurate information. The report includes numerous examples of CIA officers questioning the agency's claims, but these contradictions were marginalized and not presented externally.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: Beginning with the first detainee, Abu Zubaydah, and continuing with numerous others, the CIA applied its so called enhanced interrogation techniques in combination and in near-stop fashion for days and even weeks at a time on one detainee. In contrast, the CIA representations, detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques immediately -- stripped naked, diapered, physically struck and put in various physical stress positions for long periods of time. They were deprived of sleep for days. In one case up to 180 hours. That's 7 1/2 days over a week with no sleep, usually standing or in stress positions, at times with their hands tied together over their heads chained to the ceiling.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: The CIA in coordination with white house officials and staff initially withheld information of the -- withheld information of the CIA's interrogation techniques from Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. There are CIA records stating that Colin Powell wasn't told about the program at first because there were concerns that -- and I quote -- "Powell would blow his stack if he were briefed." source, email from John Rizzo dated July 31, 2003. CIA records clearly indicate and definitively that after he was briefed on the detainee Abu Zabuydah, the CIA didn't tell President Bush about the full nature of the E.I.T.'s until April of 2006.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: The CIA also misled other CIA white house officials. When Vice President Cheney's counsel, David Addington, asked CIA General Scott Mueller in 2003 about the CIA's video taping the waterboarding of detainees, Mueller deliberately told him that videotapes -- quote --
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: The second set of findings and conclusions is that the CIA provided extensive inaccurate information about the program and its effectiveness to the White House, the Department of Justice, Congress, the CIA Inspector General, the media, and the American public. This conclusion is somewhat personal for me. I remember clearly when director Hayden briefed the intelligence committee for the first time on the so-called E.I.T.'s at that September, 2006 committee meeting. He referred specifically to a -- quote --
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: As the executive summary notes, the CIA had engaged in rough interrogation in the past. In fact, the CIA had previously sent a letter to the intelligence committee in 1989, and here is the quote, that inhumane physical or psychological techniques are counterproductive because they do not produce intelligence and will probably result in false answers, end quote. That was a letter from John Helgerson, CIA Director of Congressional Affairs, dated January 8th, 1989.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: In November 2002 an otherwise healthy detainee who was being held mostly nude and chained to a concrete floor died at the facility from what is believed to have been hypothermia. In interviews conducted in 2003 by the CIA officer of the inspector general, CIA 's leadership acknowledged that they had little or no awareness of operations at this specific CIA detention site. And some CIA officials, excuse me, senior officials believed erroneously that enhanced interrogation techniques were not used there.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/09/2014
Feinstein: The CIA engaged two contract psychologists who had never conducted interrogations themselves or ever operated detention facilities. As the CIA captured or received custody of detainees through 2002, it maintained separate lines of management at headquarters for different detention facilities. No individual or office was in charge of the detention and interrogation program until January of 2003, by which point more than one-third of CIA detainees identified in our review had been detained and interrogated.
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