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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
CNNW 08/23/2013
Cuomo: You have said it is not the business of the US government to spy on its own people. The more it seems to come out the more questions seem to be raised. Are you confident you know everything that's going on within that agency and you can say to the American people it's all done the right way? Obama: yes. But what I've also said is that it can only work if the American people trust what's going on and what's been clear since the disclosures that were made by Mr.. Snowden is that people don't
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 08/23/2013
Obama continued: have enough information and aren't confident enough that, between all the safeguards and checks that we put in place within the executive branch and the federal court oversight that takes place on the program, and Congressional oversight, people are still concerned as to whether their e-mails are being read or their phone calls being listened to. Cuomo: especially hearing they are then mistakes are made, (shakes your confidence)
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 08/23/2013
Obama: what was learned was that NSA had inadvertently accidentally pulled the e-mails of some Americans, in violation of their own rules, because of technical problems that they didn't realize. They presented those problems to the court. The court said this isn't going to cut it. You're going to have to improve the safeguards given these technical problems. That's exactly what happened. All these safeguards, checks, audits, oversight, worked. Now, i think there are legitimate concerns that people
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 08/23/2013
Obama continued: have that the technology is moving so quick that at some point, does the technology outpace the laws that are in place and the protections that are in place and do some of the systems end up being like a loaded gun out there that somebody at some future point could abuse? Because there are no allegations, and i am very confident knowing the NSA and how they operate, that purposely somebody's out there trying
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 08/23/2013
Obama continued 2: to abuse this program or listen in on people's e-mail or -- Cuomo: you're confident in that? Obama: i am confident in that, but what i recognize is that we're going to have to continue to improve the safeguards and as technology moves forward, that means that we may be able to build technologies to give people more assurance and we do have to do a better job of giving people confidence in how these programs work. So what I've said is I am open to working with Congress to figure out can we get more
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 08/23/2013
Obama continued 3: transparently in terms of how the oversight court works, do we need a public advocate who people have confidence in, but we've also got to do it in a way that recognizes we have hostile folks out there that will potentially try to do us harm.
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Barack Obama
President of the United States
KPIX 12/17/2013
Obama: by sifting through this so-called meta data they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism. Crawford: But in his decision, Judge Leon questioned whether the program even works, saying the government does not cite a single instance where the program actually stopped an imminent attack.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/17/2014
Obama: All of us understand that the standards for government surveillance programs must be higher. Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough or leaders to say trust us and we will not abuse the data we collect. History has too many examples where the trust has been breached. Our system of government is built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power. It depends on the law to constrain those in power.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/17/2014
Obama: I believe we need a new approach. I am therefore ordering a transition that will end section 215 bulk metadata program as exists and establishes a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata. This will not be simple.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/17/2014
Obama: A Review board recommended that our current approach be replaced by one in which the providers or a third-party retain the bulk records with government accessing information is needed. Both of these options pose difficult problems. Relying solely on the records of multiple providers for example could require companies to alter their procedures in ways that raise new privacy concerns . On the other hand, any third party maintaining a the single consolidated database would be carrying out what’s essentially a government function, but with more expense, more legal ambiguity, potentially less accountability, all of which would have a doubtful impact on increasing public confidence that their privacy is being protected.
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