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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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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: Director Hayden briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee. He assured us that this was not destruction of evidence as detailed records of the interrogations existed on paper in the form of C.I.A. operational cables describing the detention conditions and the day-to-day C.I.A. interrogations. The C.I.A. Director stated that these cables were -- quote --
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: The resulting staff report was chilling. the interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the C.I.A. detention sites were far different and far more harsh than the way the C.I.A. had described them to us. as a result of the staff's initial report, I proposed and then Vice Chairman Bond agreed and the committee overwhelmingly approved that the committee conduct an expansive and full review of the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program. On march 5, 2009, the committee voted 14-1 to initiate a comprehensive review of the C.I.A. detention and interrogation program.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein:(in 2009, then-Vice Chairman Bond, then-Director Panetta, and I agreed in an exchange of letters that) the C.I.A. was to provide a -- quote --
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: The C.I.A. started making documents available electronically to the committee staff at the C.I.A. leased facility in mid 2009. The number of pages ran quickly to the thousands, tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands, and then into the millions. The documents that were provided came without any index, without any organizational structure. It was a true document dump that our committee staff had to go through and make sense of.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: In May of 2010, the committee staff noticed that the documents had been provided for the committee -- that had been provided for the committee's review were no longer accessible. Staff approached the C.I.A. personnel at the offsite location who initially denied the documents had been removed. C.I.A. personnel then blamed information technology personnel who were almost all contractors for removing the documents themselves without direction or authority. And then the C.I.A. stated that the removal of the documents was ordered by the White House. When the committee approached the White House, the White House denied giving the C.I.A. any such order.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: After a series of meetings, I learned that on two occasions, C.I.A. personnel electronically removed committee access to C.I.A. documents after providing them to the committee. This included roughly 870 documents or pages of documents that were removed in February 2010. And secondly, roughly another 50 that were removed in mid-may 2010 this was done without the knowledge or approval of committee members or staff and in violation of our written agreements.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: The matter was resolved with a renewed commitment from the White House counsel and the C.I.A. that there would be no further unauthorized access to the committee's network or removal of access to C.I.A. documents already provided to the committee. On May 17, 2010, The C.I.A.'s then-Director of Congressional Affairs apologized on behalf of the C.I.A. for removing the documents. and that, as far as I was concerned, put the incident aside.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: At some point in 2010, committee staff searching the documents that had been made available found draft versions of what is now called the internal Panetta Review. We believe these documents were written by C.I.A. personnel to summarize and analyze the materials that had been provided to the committee for its review. The Panetta review documents were no more highly classified than other information we had received for our investigation. In fact, the documents appeared based on the same information already provided to the committee.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: What was unique and interesting about the internal documents was not their classification level, but rather their analysis and acknowledgement of significant C.I.A. wrongdoing. To be clear, the committee staff did not hack into C.I.A. computers to obtain these documents, as has been suggested in the press. The documents were identified using the search tool provided by the C.I.A. to search the documents provided to the committee.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: We have no way to determine who made the internal Panetta Review documents available to the committee. Further, we don't know whether the documents were provided intentionally by the C.I.A., unintentionally by the C.I.A. or intentionally by a whistle-blower. In fact we know that over the years on multiple occasions the staff have asked the C.I.A. about documents made available for our investigation.
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