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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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Margaret Warner
Senior Correspondent, PBS News Hour
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: Today, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported that one advisory group has drafted a host of recommendations, including new rules for collecting and storing phone data and tighter standards for spying on foreign leaders.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Wyden: on this whole matter of collecting millions and millions of phone records, on law-abiding Americans. Now this country wants to be safe. And all of us in the intelligence committee know it's a dangerous world. But the evidence does not support the proposition that there is a significant measure of safety that's added as a result of collecting all these record on law-abiding Americans.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: the head of the NSA Keith Alexander said in testimony that 50 terrorist plots had been foiled by this exhaustive surveillance. You don't buy that? I mean you're a member of the intelligence committee. Wyden: Congressional testimony doesn't support that proposition. In fact, John Inglis, one of the deputies there when he was asked to actually asked to unpack that assertion, that really found when he had to address it specifically, that it was at most a couple. And part of this is that there has been, what I call a culture of misinformation among the intelligence, you know, leadership. Consistently over the last few years, the intelligence leadership has said one thing in public and then quite another in private.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: Do you think the NSA has been given license to collect data overseas in too aggressive a manner? Is the technology outstripping the policy? Wyden: There's no question that the technology has dramatically changed this debate. For example, it used to be that because there were technological limitations, those technological limitations provided a measure of privacy for Americans. Now with essentially no technological limitations, the technology can do practically anything, the only way to strike the appropriate balance between liberty and security is to embed that balance in the law.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: What did you make of the eight big U.S.-based internet giants this week, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft coming out and actually saying they thought the balance between the power of the state and the rights of individuals has gotten out of whack. Wyden: The statement from the companies has enormous implications. One very thoughtful technology organization, which Intel belongs to, an important employer in my state, estimated that the damages in terms of lost revenues result of these NSA practices would approach, $35 billion between now and 2016. And I think it is going to be bad for the country, bad for their customers here. Bad for their brand overseas.
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Philipp Missfelder
Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation, Germany
KQED 01/30/2014
Warner: The German Magazine "Der Spiegel" revealed, based on the Snowden papers, that in fact, right on top of the new U.S. embassy right next to the Brandenberg Gate is one of these supersecret intelligence collection hubs. And in fact, it's used to spy on all these government buildings. What did you think when you learned that? Missfelder: I was really shocked because if you find out these kinds of details. Everybody is shocked because then you know who it was, when it was, where it was and this is something completely different. And it becomes so concrete. Warner: Has Angela Merkel's government received any satisfaction from the Americans on any of these issues other than not spying on her cell own? Missfelder: Honestly so far not. We haven't had the progress yet we need and I hope we are able to manage it until the Chancellor has her visits in June in America.
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