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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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Steven Scully
Senior Executive Producer and Host C-SPAN
CSPAN 08/18/2013
The two democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, both members of the intelligence committee said in a joint statement there are more details to come,
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 09/26/2013
When I started serving on this committee two years ago, I determined early on that our surveillance laws needed reform. Since then, I have been proud to lead the fight, along with Senator Wyden and others. And now that more details of the NSA’s surveillance programs and their legal justifications have emerged, we are seeing a growing consensus, you see it here on this committee, that the status quo is unacceptable and that reforms are needed.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 09/26/2013
Udall: Is it the goal of the NSA to collect the phone records of all Americans? You talk about building a haystack and that you want the haystack to be the ultimate size. Alexander: I believe it is in the nation’s best interest to put all the phone records in a locked box. That we could search when the nation needs to do it. Yes. The way we do it, the way we comply would ensure better security for this nation.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 09/26/2013
Udall: In the spirit of transparency General, would you agree to declassify the whole history of the bulk collection program? Clapper: Not having read it, i would like to take it off the record. As a general premise, i think we are pushing transparency, and we will declassify as much as we can. I would rather read these documents and get some advice from general counsel about it. Udahl: My time is running out. I have many many more questions
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Udall: Let me move to the Snowden disclosures and what I think has been a clearly out lined as trust deficit that exists between the public and the intelligence community. This committee was created to address the severe breach of trust that developed when it was revealed the CIA was conducting unlawful domestic searches. The Church Committee went to work and found that to be true.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Udall: I agree that we must depend on the law to constrain potential future abuses of government surveillance, but I believe the House passed bill, the topic of our hearing today, falls short of this goal and is not the true reform I demanded and many other Americans have for years. In addition to my concerns that the House passed bill omits many of the surveillance reforms included in the original U.S.A. Freedom Act, the section 215 language in the House passed bill describing the specific selection term used to secretly collect records is vague enough to still allow the collection of mass information. I believe it is not this Administration's intent to interpret the language so broadly, by the NSA has shown time and time again it will seize on any wiggle room in the law and there's plenty of that in this bill.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Udall: So Mr. Cole, let me ask you, even if it is not the intent of this administration or even of this Congress, what would stop the FISA court from interpreting the specific selection term very broadly should the government asked it to do so? Cole: I think a lot of what would prohibit that is the legislative history, the statements of intent, the legislative history that we’re creating here today by making clear and unambiguous statements that isn't intended to stop bulk collection and that what we are focusing on is some focused, tailored inquiries that will depend on the facts and circumstances and it's impossible to predict all of them ahead of time. But to make sure that we do have focused inquiries and focused collection of information for our investigations.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Cole: I think in addition if there were an interpretation by the FISA court that it is very broad, that would be a novel and significant order and opinion and would be given to the United States Congress, given to the Senate, and the Senate would then have an opportunity to pass additional legislation to rein it back in. But I would be very, very surprised to see it go in that direction based on the language that's here and the legislative history. Udall: We do have a moment in time where we have to get this right, and with all due respect I don't remember the FISA court showing a great deal of restraint in the past.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Wagner: Senator Udall issued a statement that says ”I have lost confidence in John Brennan. I am concerned about the director's apparent inability to find any flaws in the agency he leads.” The White House is defending John Brennan, but one would imagine that the Senators on this intelligence committee are not going to let it simply end here with an apology from John Brennan. Landay: Well, I suspect not. Because you've already had several senators including Senator Wyden demanding to know, having a clear accountability of what happened, who, perhaps, ordered this intrusion. How it happened. I think there will probably be some internal wrangling over this, because look, the White House has said, John Brennan has said, and a lot of people on Capitol Hill have said they want to get this report out and put this entire matter behind them.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Kornacki: Colorado Senator Mark Udall, another democrat on the intelligence committee, vowed today to hold president Obama to his promise to declassify the report. Quote, “The CIA should not face its past with a redaction pen, and the white house must not allow it to do so.” The White House, for its part, defended the redactions this week, from that democratic criticism. Josh Earnest: There was a good faith effort that was made by the administration and by national security officials to evaluate this information and make redactions that are consistent with the need to protect national security, but also consistent with the president's clearly stated desire to be as transparent as possible about this. Kornacki: The President has said that we tortured some folks. He's also said that part of our national reckoning with that history is to make that history as transparent as possible in the hopes that putting it out on the public record will help ensure that it never happens again.
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