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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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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 09/26/2013
Wyden: About two dozen other Senators have asked in the past whether the NSA has ever collected, or made any plans, to collect American’s cell site information in bulk. What would be your response to that? Alexander: Senator, On July 25 Director Clapper provided a unclassified written response to this question amongst others
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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 09/26/2013
Under section 215 NSA is not receiving cell site location data and has no current plans to do so. As you know I indicated to this committee on Oct. 20th 2011 that I would notify Congress of NSA’s intent to obtain cell site location data prior to any such plans put in place.
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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 09/26/2013
Renewing this program, the FISA court made clear in footnote number 5, that notice to the Court in a briefing would be required if the government were to seek production of cell site location information as part of the bulk production of call detail records. Additional details were also provided in the classified supplement to Director Clapper’s July 25th response to this question. So what I don't want to do, Senator, is put out in an unclassified form anything that is classified here. So I’m reading you exactly. So we sent both of those to you. I saw what Director Clapper sent and I agree with it.
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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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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Would you agree that the 54 cases that keep getting cited by the administration were not all plots, and of the 54 – only 13 had some nexus to the U.S. Would you agree with that? Yes or no. Alexander: Yes.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
In our last hearing, Deputy Director Inglis’s testimony stated that there is only one example of a case where, but for the use of Section 215 bulk phone records collection, terrorist activity was stopped. Is Mr. Inglis right? Alexander: He is right. I believe he said two, Chairman. I may have that wrong but I think he said two. And I would like to point out it could have only applied…
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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.
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Alexander: He is right. I believe he said two, Chairman. I may have that wrong but I think he said two. And I would like to point out it could have only applied to 13 of the cases because of the 54 terrorist plots or events, only 13 occurred in the U.S. Business rcords FISA was only used in 12 Leahy: I understand that but what I worry about is that some of the statements that all is well, and we have these overstatements of what is going on, we are talking about massive, massive, massive collection. We are told that we have to that to protect us.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Is the NSA compiling profiles or dossiers of the American people? Clapper: In every case for valid foreign intelligence purposes. Let me go to General Alexander. Alexander: Those reports are inaccurate and wrong. Leahy: So the New York Times is wrong in its article? Alexander: Absolutely. Here are the facts. What they have taken is the fact that we do take data to enrich it. What is not in front of the statements is the word foreign. Foreign information to understand what the foreign nexis is of the problems that we are looking at.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
What if anything is accurate in the New York Times article? Alexander: the accuracy is that Secretary of Defense and the Attorney General did approve the supplemental procedures governing communications metadata analysis in 2009. What that allows us to do is use metadata that we have acquired under executive order 12333, and chain, whether it's phone records or e-mails, through U.S selectors to figure out social networks abroad.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Is what you're doing being reviewed by the FISA court? Alexander: Not in all cases. Some of these cases that deal with executive order 12333 are not reviewed by the FISA Court. Those that fall under business records 215, 702, 3 and 4 would be. So these would not be reviewed, but they are reviewed by the administration and audited by our people.
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