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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
CSPAN 07/28/2013
What we have done, and we have been very specific about this, is that we would like the government to describe what is the unique value of the collection of all of these phone records of all these law-abiding Americans that you can’t get with the existing and quite sweeping emergency authorities and court warrant processes?
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
The government will not state clearly what the rules are with respect to tracking Americans on their cell phones. I have asked this repeatedly at public hearings and the intelligence committee. The government’s official position is: first, they have the authority to do it. Second, they said they are not doing it now, but they will not spell out what the rules are today with respect to the rights of Americans, law abiding Americans, with respect to cell phone tracking.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
The fact of the matter is that there has been a dramatic shift of something like a half of the country feels that, particularly the bulk collection of these phone records, is a violation of their liberty. I think that is what you saw on the floor of the House of Representatives this past week. I think it is especially important to note that A. there would not even have been a big debate on the floor of the House of Representatives eight weeks ago; B. you would not have had 200 votes, bipartisan vote, for fundamental changes; and C. this debate is (definitely going to continue. )
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
(Democrats and) Republicans trying to revise section 215 of the Patriot Act to ensure that when you try to spy on a person you have got to have some evidence that they are suspected of terrorism. That really is the bottom line. To do otherwise, to have just a dragnet surveillance where you vacuum up every one of the phone records, who people called, when they called where they called from, on millions and millions of law abiding Americans, I think will become increasingly unpopular.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 07/28/2013
I will indicate, as I did this week, that having that computer in your pocket (smart phone) increases the potential that certainly people could be tracked 24/7. And when the FBI director says in public forums when we have asked, and asked repeatedly, what are the rights of law-abiding Americans with respect to cell phone tracking, you can’t get an answer. Yes, I think there is reason to be concerned.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Wyden: What I can tell you is last December during the debate about the foreign intelligence surveillance act, I specifically spoke on the floor of is the united states senate about what is really called the back-door search loophole in the foreign intelligence surveillance act. And that's a loophole that allows for the examination of phone calls and e-mails on Americans without a warrant.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Wyden: that's something that I believe needs to be closed and apropos of your conversation, I think this is a unique time in our constitutional history. I don't think we should let this time go by without striking a better balance between security and liberty. Tapper: You seem to be suggesting though there are not enough constraints not safeguards on who has access to this information that we all now know about. Wyden: I particularly believe that the bulk collection of hundreds of millions of phone call records on
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Wyden continued: law-abiding Americans is a very substantial invasion of privacy. When you know who somebody called and when they called and where they called from you’ve been basically establishing a human relations data base. For example, if you know that someone called a psychiatrist twice in the last 36 hours, once after midnight you know a lot about that person. And it could have great implications for them, say with their employer.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Tapper continued: by clapper, can you say with any more specificity what wasn't true in the assertions that these officials were making about bulk e-mail data collection? Wyden: I can't get into the details, but let me be very specific about what concerns Sen. Udall and I. In the document that was declassified today, it talked about how the bulk collection of e-mail was
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 07/31/2013
Wyden continued: a vital capability. That was the specifics language used by the intelligence community. Senator Udall and I believed early on that that was not the case. We kept pressing the point. We were able to show that it was, in effect, worthless. That's the reason it was eliminated and yet on the intelligence community when they first described it a few days ago, they said it was for operational reasons. The fact of the matter is, Jake, on issue after issue, too many
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