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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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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: Second, i will work with Congress to improve the public's confidence in the oversight conducted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court, known as the FISA. The FISA was created by Congress to provide judicial review of certain intelligence activities so that a federal judge must find that our actions are consistent with the constitution. However, to build greater confidence, i think we should consider some additional changes to the FISA.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: i have confidence in the court and i think they have done a fine job, i think they can provide greater assurances that the court is looking at these issues from both perspectives, security and privacy. So specifically, we can take steps to make sure civil liberties concerns have an independent voice in appropriate cases by ensuring that the government's position is challenged by an adversary.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: Number three, we can and must be more transparent. I directed the intelligence community to make public as much information about these programs as possible. We have already declassified unprecedented information about the NSA, but we can go further. So at my direction the department of justice will make public the legal rationale for the governments collection activities under article 215 of the Patriot Act. The NSA has taken steps to put in place a full time civil liberties and privacy officer and release
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama continued: information that details it’s mission, authorities and oversight. And finally, the intelligence community is creating a website that will serve as a hub for further transparency. This will give Americans and the world the ability to learn more about what our intelligence community does and what it doesn’t do, how it carries out its mission and why it does so. , Fourth, we are forming a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire intelligence and communications technologies. We need new
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: Fourth, we are forming a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire intelligence and communications technologies. We need new thinking for a new era. We now have to unravel terrorist plots by finding a needle in a haystack" of global telecommunications. And meanwhile technology has given governments, including our own, unprecedented capability to monitor communications.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: So I'm tasking this independent group to step back and review our capabilities, particularly our surveillance technologies and they’ll consider how we can maintain the trust of the people, how we can make sure that there is absolutely no abuse in terms of how these surveillance technologies are used. Ask how surveillance impacts our foreign-policy particularly in an age when more and more information is becoming public, and they will provide an interim report in 60 days and a final report by the end of this year so we can move forward
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: with a better understanding of how these programs impact our security, our privacy, and our foreign- policy. All these steps are designed to ensure that the American people can trust that our efforts are in line with our interests and our values. And to others around the world, i want to make clear once again that America is not interested in spying on ordinary people. Our intelligence is focused above all on finding the information necessary to protect our people and, in many cases, detect our allies.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: Let me close with one additional thought. The men and women of our intelligence community work every single day to keep us safe because they love this country and believe in our values. They are patriots. And i believe that those who have lawfully raised their voices on the behalf of privacy and civil liberties are also patriots who love our country and want to live up to our highest ideals. so this is how we will resolve our differences in the united states, through vigorous public debate,
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: No, i don't think Mr.. Snowden was a patriot. As i said in my opening remarks, i called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr.. Snowden made these leaks. My preference and I think the American people's preference -- would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws. A thoughtful
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama continued: fact-based debate that would then lead us to a better place. Because i never made claims that all the surveillance technologies that have developed since the time some of these laws had been put in place somehow didn't require potentially some additional reforms. That is exactly what i called for.
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