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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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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Udall: Steve, thanks for covering this story. Let me start with that. And also, let me just say, those of us on the intelligence committee want to have the strongest intelligence functions possible. we want to secure the American people. But we want to do it under the constitution, and under our laws. And that's why this report is so important to be released, so the American people can draw their own conclusions.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Udall: With all due respect to Director Clapper, 85% doesn't get the job do done. You can imagine reading a novel or a non-fiction piece for that matter, and if all the nouns, the what, where, when descriptions are taken out of that novel and all you have left are verbs and articles and punctuation, you're not going to be able to follow what's happening. That's really what the white house and the intelligence committee is proposing with these redactions. We're going to stand our ground on the intelligence committee. There has to be more details released. We don't have to go this far with this kind of redaction. And in the end, the point is to learn from what we did. We detained people, we tortured people. It's a stain on our history, but we're at our best as Americans when we learn from those mistakes and vow never to make them again.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Kornacki: Senator, in your opinion, is the CIA, and the administration, for that matter, trying to protect itself, trying to protect the CIA with these redactions? Is that the motive here? Udall: I can only conclude that to be the case, Steve. I was taken aback by the President's comments the other day, but there's clearly an effort on the part of past and present CIA leadership to make it more difficult to understand what happened. We know what happened. We can be a bigger and better country once we acknowledge what happened. And it's in times of challenge and difficulty where we need to stand most by our values and by our constitution. My friend, Senator McCain, made that point this week. And that's why I'm not going to relent. I know Senator Feinstein is firm in her belief that there needs to be as much declassified as possible. We're America. We can embrace what happened and be the better for it.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Kornacki: Does president Obama want this report to come out? He's committed to it. You said you want to hold him to it. Do you think he really want this report to come out? Udall: I do. As you know, I called for Director Brennan to step down recently. And I don't relish making that call, but I think we need a leadership change at the CIA. The Director spied, under his leadership, the CIA spied on committee. Then he denied that they had done So. and then he called into account or into question our voracity on the committee. And to me, it just signals that there is a movement to prevent this report from being released in the fullest way possible. I trust us as a country to learn from what we did, and to be better for it. And for the life of me, I can't understand why it would say it wouldn't work with us. And frankly, respect, separation of powers, and our oversight role on the intelligence committee.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Kornacki: and quickly, Senator, are you confident this will ultimately come out in a way that is meaningful? And when do you think that will happen? Udall: Yeah, I am confident. I can't give you a date certain, but I want to underline, that Senator Feinstein is resolute, I'm resolute, Chairman Levin is resolute. Many members of the Democratic caucus are resolute. We all understand the stakes if we were to let this report be redacted to the point that it's meaningless.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/10/2014
Udall: The refusal to provide the full Panetta review and the refusal to acknowledge facts detailed in both the committee study and the patent review lead to one disturbing finding. Director Brennan and the C.I.A. today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture. In other words, the C.I.A. is lying. This is not a problem of the past, Madam President, but a problem that needs to be dealt with today.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/10/2014
Udall: Some of these people are still employed by the C.I.A. and the U.S. government. They are right now, people serving in high-level positions at the agency who approved, directed or committed acts related to the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program. It's bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the integrity of the U.S. government to protect them is incomprehensible. The President needs to purge his administration of high-level officials who were instrumental to the development and running of this program. He needs to force a cultural change at the CIA. Presidents also should support legislation limiting interrogation to non-coercive techniques, to insure his own executive order is codified and prevent a future administration from developing its own torture program.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/10/2014
Udall: The President must ensure the Panetta Review is declassified and publicly released. the full 6,800-page study on the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program should be declassified and released. There also needs to be accountability for the C.I.A.'s spying on its oversight committee and the C.I.A.'s inspector general's report needs to be declassified and released to the public. A key lesson I've learned from my experience with the study is the importance of the role of Congress in overseeing the intelligence community. It is always easier to accept what we are told at face value than it is to ask tough questions. If we rely on others to tell us what's behind their own curtain instead of taking a look for ourselves, we can't know for certain what's there.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 12/10/2014
Udall: This isn't at all to say that what the committee found in its study is a culture and behavior we should ascribe to all employees of the C.I.A. or of the intelligence community. The intelligence community is made up of thousands of hardworking, patriotic Americans. These women and men are consummate professionals who risk their lives every day to keep us safe and to provide their best assessments regardless of political or policy considerations. But it’s incumbent on government leaders, it's incumbent on us, to live up to the dedication of these employees and to make them proud of the institutions they work for. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but as I've said before, for Director Brennan, that means resigning.
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