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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
ALJAZAM 01/17/2014
Ellsberg: They put so much emphasis on, its only metadata. Why should we believe that? As a matter of fact, Russell Tice, who was involved in these programs when he was in the NSA, a few years ago, some years ago, says they were lying then and are lying now. I heard him say that today when he says they are not taking content. Actually,
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
LINKTV 02/14/2014
Ellsberg: nondisclosure agreement in this case and the secrecy, conflicted with his oath, so help me God, to defend and support the constitution of the united states, and was superseding authority there that was his responsibility really to inform the public because as he said, he could see that no one else would do it. He saw the head of the NSA but also the Director of National Intelligence who quoted here, Clapper, lie to Congress. And actually what he’s mostly revealed in particular is not that Mr. Clapper was violating his oath in the sense of trying to deceive congress. Clapper knew that the false statements he was making, that they were not collecting data on millions, any data, on millions of Americans were false, but he knew that Congress knew they were false that, the people that he was talking to.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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LINKTV 02/14/2014
Ellsberg: What we saw, what Snowden saw, what we all saw was that we couldn’t rely on the so-called oversight committee of congress to reveal, even when they knew that they were being lied to, and that’s because they were bound by secrecy, NSA secrecy and their own rules. Secrecy in other words has totally corrupted the checks and balances on which our democracy depends. I am grateful to Snowden for having given us a constitutional crisis, a crisis instead of a silent coup, as after 9/11. An executive coup. A creeping usurpation of authority
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Daniel Ellsberg
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LINKTV 02/14/2014
Ellsberg: He’s (Snowden) confronted us. He’s revealed documents that prove that the oversight process, both in the judiciary in the FISC, the secret court, and the secret committees in congress who keep their secrets from even when two them, Wyden and Udall felt these were outrageous, were shocking, probably unconstitutional, and yet did not feel they could inform even their fellow colleagues or their staff of this. What Snowden has revealed is a broken system of our constitution and he has given us the opportunity to get it back, to retrieve our civil liberties, but more than that to retrieve the separation of powers here on which our democracy depends.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
CSPAN 04/23/2014
Ellsberg: Snowden, I believe, looked at these examples, looked at Thom Drake’s example, he looked at Chelsea Manning, he looked at Julian Assange what was going after him, and realized that he had to be out of the country if he was going to put up this amount of information and be able to tell what he had done and why he had done it and to comment as he has been doing to speak now. I was personally 40 years ago, able to speak. I was out on bail, on bond throughout my trial. And I was able to speak to demonstrations and lectures and this and that. There isn’t a chance in the world that Snowden, I think, would have been allowed to do that, as he knew, from looking at Chelsea Manning. He would be in an isolation cell like Chelsea for the rest of his life, essentially. No journalist to this day, 3.5 years almost 4 years now, after this stuff came out No journalist has spoken to Chelsea Manning.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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CSPAN 04/23/2014
Ellsberg: No journalist to this day, 3.5 years almost 4 years now, after this stuff came out No journalist has spoken to Chelsea Manning. No journalist has spoken to Chelsea Manning, not in four years. No interviews no nothing. And they won’t either. They are not allowed to speak him in prison now. So Snowden more or less had to be out of the country. He learned from that. He also learned that you need to put out a lot of documents, that they should be current documents. And all the more reason he had to be out.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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CSPAN 04/23/2014
Ellsberg: I identify with Snowden completely. And I identify with Chelsea Manning, with all the differences in our background and our personalities and whatever. I identify with them very strongly. I feel that they went over the same trajectory that I did. They acted for much the same reason. They did what I would have done in their circumstance and so forth. And so when it’s patriots or traitors, I realize I’m back explaining why I don’t think I’m a traitor. If they’re not a traitor, if they’re a traitor, where am i? I've been saying for three years now, Chelsea Manning and now Snowden is no more a traitor than I am -- and I find that I have to say, and I am not, to make that very clear. The fact is it has taken me back 40 years. I kind of got out of fearing that question all the time. But I did hear it a lot at the beginning with reporters asking and they were saying how does it feel to be regarded as a traitor. by the way, i was not charged in court. It happens that the constitution narrows the legal definition of traitor very significantly.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
MSNBCW 05/30/2014
Ellsberg: I think for him (Kerry) to characterize Mr. Snowden, whom I regard as an American hero and a very great patriot, as a coward, a traitor, and someone who betrayed his country, is a despicable statement. And I think very poorly for Mr. Kerry for having said that.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Author of
MSNBCW 05/30/2014
Mitchell: Tell me why you disagree with the argument that he should have stayed, gone through the chain of command and faced the music, that he should be willing to stand trial and defend himself. Ellsberg: There’s several parts to that. On the first, chain of command- Snowden had seen what had happened to every person who went through the chain of command in NSA. Highest officials in NSA, technical people, Bill Binney, Ed Loomis, Kirk Wiebe, Thom Drake, all of them had gone to the inspector general and for that had their careers ruined. Several resigned, all of them raided by the FBI and lost their computers on suspicion that they had given the truth of what they were saying to the IG, inspector general and to Congress about the NSA’s criminal listening in without a warrant on hundreds of millions of Americans. They had told that, but not to the press, as they should have.
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Daniel Ellsberg
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MSNBCW 05/30/2014
Ellsberg: They had gone to the Congress and to the IG, exactly as Kerry is asking him to do, and for that they were identified as trouble makers and potential whistleblowers and were suspected of giving the information to
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