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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: So the fact is Mr.. Snowden has been charged with three felonies. If in fact he believes that what he did was right, then like every American citizen, he can come here and appear before the court with a lawyer and make his case. If the concern was that somehow this was the only way to get this information out to the public, i signed
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama continued: an executive order well before Mr.. Snowden leaked this information that provided whistleblower protection to the intelligence community for the first time. So there were other avenues available for someone whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions. But having said that, once the leaks have happened, what we’ve seen is information come out in drips and in drags,
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: a general impression has taken hold not only among the American public, but also around the world, that somehow we are out there willy- nilly just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. Now that’s not the case our laws specifically prohibit us from surveilling US persons without a warrant and there are a whole range of safeguards that are put in place to make sure that that basic principle is abided by
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: instinctive bias but intelligence community to keep everything close. And probably, what’s a fair criticism, is my assumption that, if we had checks and balances from the courts and Congress, that that traditional system of checks balances would be enough to give people assurances that these programs will run properly. That assumption i think proved to be undermined
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: i think it is important for us to go ahead and answer these questions. What i will be pushing the IC to do is, rather than have a trunk come out here and a leg come out here and a tale come out there, let's just put the whole elephant out there so people know exactly what they are looking at. Let's examine what is working, what is not. Are there additional protections that can be put in place and let’s move forward.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama: There's no question that Mr.. Snowden unleashed a much more response passionate than would have been the case if i had simply appointed this review board to go through and sat down with Congress and we had worked this thing through. It would have been less exciting . It would not have generated as much press to i actually think we would have gone to the same place.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Pres. Obama continued: And we would have done so without putting at risk our national security and some very vital ways that we are able to get some intelligence that we need to secure the country.
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Barack Obama
President
MSNBCW 08/09/2013
Obama: If you look at the reports, even the disclosures that Mr. Snowden has put forward, all the stories that have been written, What you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs. And listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's e-mails. What you’re hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused.
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Barack Obama
President
MSNBCW 08/09/2013
Obama continued: the prospect these could be abused. Part of the reason they are not abused is because these checks are in place and those abuses would be against the law and would be against the orders of the FISA.
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Barack Obama
President
MSNBCW 08/09/2013
Obama: ...see if they can catch us in some imprecision on something, in light of that, it makes sense for us to go ahead and lay out what exactly we are doing, have a discussion with Congress, have a discussion with industry, which is also impacted by this, have discussion with civil libertarians and see can we do this better?
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