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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
MSNBCW 06/30/2013
Also we had a big development last Friday when General Clapper, the head of the intelligence agencies admitted that the community had violated these court orders on bulk phone record collection and I'll tell your viewers that those violations are significantly more troubling than the government has stated.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: It may also surprise you that when president Obama came to office the administration agreed with me that these rulings need to be made public. in the summer of 2009i received a written commitment from the justice department and the office of the director of national intelligence that a process would begin, would be created to start redacting and declassifying FISA court opinions so that the American people would have some idea of what their government believes the law is allowed to do.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: In the last four years exactly zero opinion have been released.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: Especially troubling is the fact that there is nothing, nothing in the Patriot Act that limits the sweeping bulk collection to phone records. The government can use the Patriot Act business records authority to collect, collate, and retain all sorts of sensitive information, including medical records, financial records, or credit-card
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: purchases. They can use this authority to develop, for example, a database of gun owners, or readers of books and magazines that are deemed subversive. This means government’s authority to collect information on law abiding Americans is essentially limitless at this time. If it is a record held by have business, a membership organization, a doctor, a school or any other third party it could be subject to the bulk collection authority under the Patriot Act.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: So we ought to reject the idea that governments may use the power to arbitrarily bypass that consent. Today government officials openly tell the press that they have the authority to effectively turn American smart phones and cell phones into location enabled homing beacons. Compounding the problem with the fact that the case law is unsettled on cell phone tracking and the leaders of the intelligence community have consistently been unwilling to state
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: what the rights of law-abiding people are on this issue. I know that because I repeatedly asked this in public hearings. And without adequate protections built into a law there is no way that Americans can never be sure that the government is not going to interpret authority more and more broadly year after year until the idea of a telescreen monitoring your every move turns from dystopia to reality
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: For years senior justice department officials have told the Congress and the public that that Patriot Act business record authority, the authority used to collect the phone records of millions of law-abiding Americans is analogous to a grand jury subpoena. Those quotes they say it is analogous to a grand jury subpoena. That statement is exceptionally misleading
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: and certainly strains the word is analogous beyond the breaking point. Certainly true that both the authorities have been used to collect a wide variety of records, but the Patriot Act has been secretly interpreted to permit ongoing bulk collection, and this makes that authority very, very different from regular grand jury subpoena authority.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: The fact is that no one has ever seen a subpoena like that because there aren't any. this incredibly misleading analogy has been made by more than one official on more than one occasion and often is a part of actual testimony to the united states Congress. The official who served for years as the justice department’s top authority on criminal surveillance recently told the
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