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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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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
MSNBCW 05/30/2014
Ellsberg: He would be facing a jail cell from the time he stepped off the plane here, the plane that John Kerry has offered him. He would be stepping into handcuffs and he would probably never get out unless the Espionage Act is changed as it should be, to allow a defense of public benefit, public interest in which these matters could be brought up. That's what Congress should do and even before that the Supreme Court should at last rule on those aspects of the Espionage Act that they are unconstitutional, violations of the first amendment of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Mitchell: We are going to have to leave it there. It is a fascinating parallel. Thank you so much for bringing it full circle.
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Andrea Mitchell
NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Host of Andrea Mitchell Reports
MSNBCW 06/01/2014
Mitchell: Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden making headlines once again with another document leak shedding new light on the U.S. government surveillance capabilities. According to top secret documents obtained from Snowden earlier and now published by the New York Times, the NSA is collecting millions of images a day from emails, text and social media for use in its facial recognition programs. The technology is becoming extremely important to intelligence agencies to try to track suspected terrorists and other targets. And in an interview with Brazil's Globo News, Snowden has now revealed he has applied for asylum in several countries including Brazil. His options are limited. The state department revoked his passport. His asylum in Russia was granted only on in a temporary basis expiring at the end of July.
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Keith Alexander
General, Former Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
MSNBCW 07/20/2014
Mitchell: "New York Times" is reporting that your successor Admiral Michael Rogers says it really wasn't so bad (damage to National Security from the Snowden NSA leaks). The sky isn't falling. Do you want to respond to that? Alexander: Yeah, I took it a little bit different. I took what he said is it's manageable. There is change, but, look, he has to come into an agency now that is faced with all this, and he has to manage and lead them out of it. That’s what our nation wants him to do. We need an NSA. We need them ready to defend this country. He has to do it, he has to manage it. I think he would also tell you there has been great risk with what's happened, what we've lost, and just look around what's happened to our country, what's happened to all of us. It has been significant.
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Andrea Mitchell
NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Host of Andrea Mitchell Reports
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Mitchell: Hearing more about the so-called torture report. The Senate intelligence report years in the making that there is a draft, was incredibly e-mailed by mistake to the Associated Press from the White House. A draft which appeared to try to water down the use of the word torture and the state department had some comments about that. One of the conclusions was that Colin Powell when Secretary of State was kept pretty much in the dark in the initial planning on this policy, the enhanced interrogation techniques by the White House led by the CIA and some people in the Vice President's office. What more do we know about the evolution of this document? It's about to come out.
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Andrea Mitchell
NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Host of Andrea Mitchell Reports
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Mitchell: So the Inspector General has, and we were reporting on this ourselves, I guess, about two months ago. The Inspector General has done his or her review and has found that the CIA was spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Basically busting into their computers. As Dianne Feinstein had claimed. and at the time people in the White House and the CIA were denying. This is dicey because John Brennan , the CIA Director, former NSC Deputy for Terrorism working very closely with the President. Very popular. Very close to the President. And the White House initially was siding with him and going up against the Senate on this.
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Barack Obama
President
KNTV 08/01/2014
Mitchell: After receiving a still-secret Senate report into the Bush CIA's post-9/11 interrogation, President Obama said today the United States tortured prisoners. Obama: In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right. But we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values. Mitchell: the president banned waterboarding and other harsh techniques right after taking office.
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John McCain
U.S. Senator (R-AZ),
KNTV 08/01/2014
Mitchell: Bush officials have always denied that waterboarding done at secret black sites, prisons in Poland and other cooperating countries, was torture. Senator John McCain himself tortured for years as a Vietnam P.O.W., says the long-awaited senate report leaves no room for debate. McCain: I think the evidence is very clear that waterboarding was used as a routine technique, which is the definition of torture. Mitchell: Still today the CIA's former top lawyer defends the practices. Rizzo: They were harsh. But I didn't think then and I don't think now that they constitute torture.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
KNTV 08/01/2014
Mitchell: That Senate report is described by some as dynamite. But tonight Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein is complaining that the White House, which has the final say on who gets -- what gets declassified and released to the public, cut too much out of it and she's not going to release it in its edited form. The fight continues.
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Pete Williams
NBC News Justice Correspondent
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Mitchell: How important is Section 215 and the metadata compared to social media, twitter, newer forms of communication by these terror groups. Williams: Well I think a lot of intelligence people think that where the action is right now is in monitoring e-mails and monitoring social media chat. That's where a lot of the people who’ve been arrested in the U.S. for being ISIS-inspired, that's where that information has come from not so much from the telephone meta data program. The government will continue to want to keep this, Andrea but if they had a choice they'd much rather throw this overboard and keep the ability to monitor those other things.
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Loretta Lynch
Attorney General
MSNBCW 05/07/2015
Lynch: Section 215 has been a vital tool in our national security arsenal. But the department has as you note, been operating under the new directives by the President with a view towards modify the program. We are reviewing that decision but given the time issues involving the expiration of it we are also and have been working with this body and others to look for ways to reauthorize section 215 in a way that does preserve its efficacy and protect privacy. Mitchell: Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifying today at a budget hearing on the federal and the effect now of a Federal Appeals Court ruling which said today that the NSA’s controversial data collection of all phone records is illegal even as The Patriot Act and that provision Section 215 is about to expire next month.
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