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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
CSPAN 05/02/2014
Obama: But what I've also done is taken the unprecedented step of ordering our intelligence communities to take the privacy interests of non-U.S. persons into account in everything that they do. Something that's not been done before and most other countries in the world do not do. What I've said is that the privacy interests of non-U.S. citizens are deeply relevant and have to be taken into account and we have to have policies and procedures to protect them, not just U.S. persons. And we are in the process of implementing a whole series of those steps. We have shared with the Germans the things that we are doing.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 05/02/2014
Obama: I will repeat what I've said before, that ordinary Germans are not subject to continual surveillance, are not subject to a whole range of bulk data gathering. I know that the perceptions I think among the public sometimes are that the United States has capacities similar to what you see on movies and in television. The truth of the matter is, is that our focus is principally and primarily on how do we make sure that terrorists, those who want to proliferate weapons, transnational criminals, are not able to engage in the activities that they're engaging in. And in that, we can only be successful if we're partnering with friends like Germany. We won't succeed if we're doing that on our own.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 05/02/2014
Obama: So what I’ve pledged to Chancellor Merkel has been in addition to the reforms that we've already taken, in addition to saying that we are going to apply privacy standards to how we deal with non-U.S. persons as well as U.S. persons, in addition to the work that we're doing to constrain the potential use of bulk data, we are committed to a U.S.-German cyber dialogue to close further the gaps that may exist in terms of how we operate, how German intelligence operates to make sure that there's transparency and clarity about what we're doing and what our goals and our intentions are.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 05/02/2014
Obama: These are complicated issues and, you know, we're not perfectly aligned yet, but we share the same values and we share the same concerns. You know, this is something that is deeply important to me and I'm absolutely committed that by the time I leave this office, we're going to have a stronger legal footing and international framework for how we are doing -- how we're doing business in the intelligence sphere. I will say, though, that I don't think that there is an inevitable contradiction between our security and safety and our privacy.
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Barack Obama
President
KQED 05/20/2014
Harding: In Hong Kong, Snowden was sitting with three people under contract with the Guardian. They were sitting there on the bed watching the reaction on CNN. Obama: They are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. Greenwald: Obama was saying the NSA isn't listening to the telephone calls or reading the emails of Americans, which is absolutely wrong. There were documents that we had that proved President Obama's claims in that regard were false. And we just could tell, as well, that he at that moment didn't have any idea of the true magnitude of what was coming, given how dismissive and casual his tone was. Obama: Thank you very much, guys.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN2 08/01/2014
Obama: On Brennan, and the CIA, the RDI report has been transmitted. The declassified version that will be released at the pleasure of the Senate Committee. I have full confidence in John Brennan. I think he has acknowledged and directly apologized to Senator Feinstein that CIA personnel did not properly handle an investigation as to how certain documents that were not authorized to be released to the Senate staff got somehow into the hands of Senate staff and it's clear from the IG report that some very poor judgment was shown in terms of how that was handled. Keep in mind though that John Brennan was the person that called for the IG report and he’s already stood up a task force (to make sure that lessons are learned and mistakes are resolved).
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN2 08/01/2014
Obama: Even before I came into office, I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values. I understand why it happened. I think it's important when we look back to recall how afraid people were after the twin towers fell and the Pentagon had been hit in the plane in Pennsylvania had fallen and people did not know whether more attacks were imminent and there was enormous pressure (on our law enforcement and our national security teams to try to deal with this)
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN2 08/01/2014
Obama: It's important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job with those folks had. A lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots but having said all that, we did some things that were wrong. And that is what that report reflects and that is the reason why after I took office one of the first things I did was to ban some of the extraordinary interrogation techniques that are the subject of that report.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN2 08/01/2014
Obama: My hope is that this report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line and that needs to be, that needs to be understood and accepted and we have to as a country take responsibility for that so hopefully we don't do it again in the future.
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Barack Obama
President
KNTV 08/01/2014
Mitchell: After receiving a still-secret Senate report into the Bush CIA's post-9/11 interrogation, President Obama said today the United States tortured prisoners. Obama: In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right. But we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values. Mitchell: the president banned waterboarding and other harsh techniques right after taking office.
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