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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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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 12/14/2014
Wyden: We reviewed 6 million pages of documents. The full report has 38,000 footnotes. And what we sought to do was very careful. And that is to take the statements, the CIA made to the American people, made to the Congress, made to the Justice Department, made to the President, and we compared it to their own internal communications in realtime. There are a mountain of contradictions.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 12/14/2014
Wyden:The report and the Justice Department inquiry went on at the same time. So we weren't able to interview the CIA. So we thought that it was important to get materials that could be verified and documented. So we looked at the communications that CIA officers were making in realtime about torture. Now, during that period, everybody knew that we were having this inquiry, and certainly none of the people writing op-eds have come forward and said oh, we would have liked to be interviewed at that time, suffice it to say I'll speak for myself and my colleagues, we would be happy to have talked to them.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 12/14/2014
Todd: Do you think there should be criminal prosecutions? Wyden: The justice department has been clear with respect to that that there are not going to be. I hope they'll review the new facts. But Todd: You want them to change their mind? Wyden: I want them to review the new facts. But what I'm especially troubled by is John Brennan, on Thursday, really opened the door to the possibility of torture being used again. And that's why it's so important that our report come out. And what I intend to do with my colleagues right when we come back is I intend to introduce legislation to make it clear, for example, that if torture is used in the future, there would be a basis to prosecute.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 12/14/2014
Wyden: Director Brennan particularly on Thursday said some important things and also left out some things that were important. For example, he indicated that he would no longer be using the terms with respect to torture that the information would be otherwise unavailable. That's a real vindication of the committee because we showed that we were able to find Bin Laden, find KSM without torture. So that was good. What I was troubled also about was that he undercut the Panetta review. The Panetta review really agreed with what the committee found. Todd: But I go back, Director Brennan, you're comfortable with him running the CIA? Wyden: Not at this point. Todd: You think the president should fire him? Wyden: I want to give him the chance to end this culture of denial, to deal with the misrepresentations, if he doesn't do that, we're going to have to get somebody who will.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Wyden: First of all, Congress now has the opportunity to once and for all end this flawed and misguided program. What the court said today is that this program is based on secret law and it is illegal. The bottom line for millions of Americans, however, the millions of Americans who've done nothing wrong, this program is a federal human relations database. When the federal government knows who you called, when you called, and where you called from that is often very private information. And you can't tell me if the government knows that somebody called a psychiatrist three times in 36 hours twice after midnight. That's pretty private information.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Wagner: What about Mitch McConnell and some of the republicans that took to the floor of congress today? Mitch McConnell wants a reauthorization of the patriot act as is. Is he going to get it? Wyden: Not if I have anything to say about it and I'm certainly going to pull out all the stops to once and for all end this misguided program. And listeners who heard those arguments on the floor about how important this was I urge them to take a look at the report of the President's own advisory committee and there were some people who signed that report who are not exactly soft on terror and in page 104 of the report, your viewers will see that those experts said that this program was not of significant value in helping us win the fight against terror.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Wyden: I have long felt that so often, this debate is premised on the idea that if you’re going to protect liberty, you have to give up your security and I just don't buy that for a second. We have through the Warren process and particularly through emergency authorizations when the government feels that there is a threat to the well being of the American people the government can really move in a hurry. But that's very different than dragnet surveillance. What the court said today is that dragnet surveillance was illegal and the reality is I've been warning about this for years. I've been saying get it on the floor of the United States Senate. When the American people find out that there is a big gap between what they think is in The Patriot Act and what is the secret interpretation they're going to be very angry. They have been and today, the court said that that secret program and secret law is illegal.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Wagner: Edward Snowden is in large part the reason why this case was brought to court. Should this exonerate him at least in name? Wyden: My view is that having a public debate on this has been long overdue and that's what I tried to start with my talk on the floor of the United States Senate. I do think it would have been a lot better if that debate had been started by the intelligence leadership. In fact, the intelligence leadership didn't do it and when I asked them at a public hearing, the Director, I said does the government collect any type of data at all on millions of Americans? The Director of National Intelligence said no and that was false. Wagner: Do you think that James Clapper should step down? He’s the official you are referring to. Wyden: That's a judgment for the President of the United States. He makes those calls.
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