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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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Keith Alexander
Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, NSA
CSPAN 06/18/2013
Q. Does the NSA have a database that you maintain that holds the content of American’s phone calls? Do you have recordings of all of our calls? So if we're making phone calls is there a national database that has the content of our calls? A. We're not allowed to do that, nor do we do that unless we have a court order to do that. And it would be only in specific cases, and almost always that would be an FBI lead, not ours.
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Keith Alexander
Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, NSA
CSPAN 06/18/2013
Q. So do we maintain a data base of all e-mails that have ever been sent by the American people? A. No. No, we do not. Q. Is there a data base of our government that maintains the text messages of all Americans? A. No, none that I know of, and none at NSA.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN 06/18/2013
Bachmann: Let me ask you a question. How damaging is this to the security of the American people that this trust was violated? Alexander: I think it was irreversible and significant damage to this nation. Bachmann: Has this helped America’s enemies? Alexander: I believe it has, and I believe it will hurt us and our allies.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
MSNBCW 07/31/2013
Video of Black Hat Hackers Convention in Las Vegas: Hayes: Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, one of the most powerful men in the world, a man who up until now has been content in the shadows, defending himself on video, before a crowd peppered with hecklers. Alexander: our nation takes stopping terrorism as one of the most important things. Audience: freedom. Alexander: exactly. And with that, when you think about it, how do we do that. Because we stand for freedom.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
MSNBCW 07/31/2013
Continued: Audience: [ bleep ]. Alexander: not that. But i think what you're saying is that in these cases, what's the decision, where's the discussion, and what tools should we have to stop those? Audience: they’re all saying I don't trust you. Audience: You lied to Congress. Why would we believe you’re not lying to us now? Alexander: I haven’t lied to Congress.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
LINKTV 08/02/2013
Video from Aspen Security Forum: Williams: One other question about privacy, and read your statement from a former NSA employee named William Binney who recently told a hackers conference the NSA is putting together dossiers on every US citizen, listing who we have relations with, what our activities are. Is there any truth to that and why do stories like this persist that you are spying on all of us? Alexander: First of all It’s not true.,
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
LINKTV 08/02/2013
Alexander continued: we're not putting dossiers up on every US citizen. In fact, we don't have a dossier on you. I have never seen one of your e-mails from an intelligence perspective or otherwise, actually. From my perspective, these are grossly out of the truth. They really are. To think we would be collecting on every US person, one, that would be against the law. Two, we get great oversight by all branches of the government. I must have been bad when i was a kid. We get supervised by the Defense Department.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
LINKTV 08/02/2013
Alexander continued: like these seem to persist. You see them bounce around. It only hurts because people think, well, they must have something, there must be some element of truth there. From my perspective, when you walk all the way through this, The reality is Congress knows we're not doing that, all branches of our government see that we’re not doing it. All of them can audit it. From my perspective, I’d add that to Bill McCravens, not only should we stop leaks, but we should stop reporting this clearly, not right.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN 09/25/2013
But I do have that ask there and that ask is upfront. We need your help. We need to get these facts out. We need our nation to understand why we need these tools and what those tools mean to civil liberty and privacy and what they mean to defend in this country.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN 09/25/2013
And so what's hyped up in a lot of the reporting is that we're listening to your phone calls, we're reading your emails. That's not true. You know, Edmond Burke has this great saying, all that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. We can't do anything if we don't know the threat is there.
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