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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
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: He said, if a federal attorney, and I quote here, served the grand jury subpoena for such a broad class of records in a criminal investigation, he or she would be laughed out of court
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: yet in the decades since the law has been extended several times with no public discussion about how the law has actually been interpreted. the results, the creation of an always expanding, omnipresence surveillance states that now chips away needlessly at the liberties and freedoms of our founding fathers established for all of us.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: And it is all done without the benefit of actually making a safer. So today at the Center I’m going to deliver another warning. If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we are all going to live to regret it. I’ll have more to say about the consequences of the omnipresent surveillance state that is
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden continued: listen to this talk, ponder that most of us here have a computer in our pockets that potentially can be used to track and monitor us 24/7. The combination of increasingly advanced technology with a breakdown in the checks and balances that limit government action could lead us to a surveillance of state that cannot be reversed.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: It is now a matter of public record that the bulk phone records program has been operating since at least two 2007. And it is not a coincidence that handful of Senators have been working since then to find ways to alert the public to what is actually going on. months and years went into trying to find ways to raise public awareness about secret surveillance authorities and to do it within the confines of the
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: the FISA court got the job of interpreting these new unparalleled authorities of the Patriot Act and the FISA amendments Act. It was their decision to issue binding secret rulings that interpreted the law in the constitution in the startling way that have come to light in the last six weeks.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/23/2013
Wyden: Outside of the names of the FISA court judge's, virtually everything else is secretive about the court. Their rulings are secret which certainly makes challenging them in an appeals process almost impossible. Their proceedings are secret but I can tell you they’re almost always one sided.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
I think the idea that security and liberty are mutually exclusive is just wrong. I think it is possible, with sensible public policy, to have both.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
In a number of these areas, what we want to make sure that when it relates to national security, and for example that means keeping intelligence operations secret, we're going to do that every step of the way. But that is different than keeping the law secret. We are going to spell out there is a difference between secret operations, which have to be protected to address those issues that Governor Chris Christie was talking about, and secret law, which is not what our system of government is all about.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
The idea of vacuuming up these phone records, who we called, when we called, where we called from, in effect laying bare our personal lives to the scrutiny of government bureaucrats and contractors, is not with the country is about. What we want them focused on is people who are suspected of terrorism and the terrorists they deal with.
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