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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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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: it's reportedly gathering information -- or communications information from online gaming sites. The stories suggest the activities are directed abroad. We know the NSA was making plans to obtain cell site location information under section 215. We also know that the NSA engaged in bulk collection of internet meta data under the FISA PEN Register statute.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: It suggests to me under that kind of legal interpretation of FISA the NSA could collect the same massive amounts of information domestically that this recent stories suggests they're collecting abroad.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: But under the current law, 90 would the NSA be able to restart the bulk collection of internet data? Litt: if the nsa and the department of justice were able to make a showing to the FISA court that the collection of internet meta data in bulk, which, of course, is a category of information that's not protected by the fourth amendment, that if it were relevant to an authorized investigation and could convince the FISA court of that, then, yes, it would be authorized.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: So to restart the bulk collection of internet data, would you have to go to the court? Litt: I believe we would. Leahy: Mr. Cole? Cole: Yes, Mr. Chairman. Under the FISA statute, i think you would have to get court authority just like you would under 215 to be able to do that. And that would only last for a period of time. it would have to be renewed periodically. there's no active authority for it right now.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: The FISA pen register statute authorize you to obtain all internet meta data, not just e-mail meta data? Cole: I think that is correct. Again, it would be limited to the meta data in that regard.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: the only limitation (under the FISA pen register statute) would be that it would be meta data? Cole: It cannot be content. In the latest order of the FISA court under 215, it specifically excluded cell site location as well. Litt: I was going to add only that you'd have to show that the categories of meta data that you're seeking was, in fact, relevant to the authorized investigation.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
FOXNEWSW 12/11/2013
Leahy: We give up too much privacy in this country and frankly I worry about giving up too much. Herridge: Citing new leaks, including a Washington Post report alleging the NSA is tracking web traffic using cookies, your computers version of an id card. The Committee’s Democratic Chairman said his legislation to scale back data collection is needed now, not later. Leahy: I'm worried as technology gets greater and greater, the temptation whether it is this administration, the next administration or the administration after that, to people who misuse it.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Leahy: I’ve had the privilege of serving in this body now my 40th -- 40th year. I've heard thousands of speeches on this floor. I cannot think of any speech by any member of either party as important as the one the Senator from California just gave. What she is saying is if we're going to protect the separation of powers and the concept of congressional oversight, then she has taken the right steps to do that.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Leahy: I think back, Mr. President, the very first vote i cast in this body was for the Church Committee, which went into the excesses of the C.I.A. and others of our agencies, everything from assassinations, to spying on those who were protesting the war in Vietnam. There was a famous George Tames picture, where then chairman of the armed services committee, John Stennis was berating Senator Frank Church for proposing this committee saying that he, Senator Stennis, could find out what he wanted to find out but didn't really want to know everything. I was standing behind George Stennis when he took that picture in my first caucus.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Leahy: There was pressure on our junior members, new members, I was the most junior member of the senate at the time, not to vote for the Church Committee. Senator Mike Mansfield told me, as Senator Fritz Mondale, as did others, that the Senate is bigger than any one senator. We come and go. The Senate lasts. If we do not stand up for the protection of the separation of powers and our ability to do oversight, especially when conduct has happened, that is in all likelihood criminal conduct on the part of a government agency, then what do we stand for?
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