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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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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Alexander continued: Nato allies have collected in defense of our country's and in support of military operations. Rogers: So if I understand you correctly, this information was likely collected external from the country in which it may have been reported in defense of operations ongoing in the world in which Nato participates is that correct? Alexander: That is correct.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: So you would collect information in those cases and share it with our allies in a way that was appropriate? Alexander: That is correct and it may not be actually collected in Europe because it's a global network. Rogers: But it could be in Europe or it could be someone else. It could be in the Middle East or could be in Asia or in the United States by a FISA warrant collected by the FBI. Is that correct? Alexander: That’s correct. Rogers: So you share information with their European the allies and if I understood you earlier, they share information
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: So the very certain accusation that the National Security Agency was collecting information on these citizens of their respective nation states, i just want to get on the record again, is false. That did not happen. Is that correct? Alexander: That is correct. Those shots that show were, at least lead people to believe that we, NSA or the United States, collected that information is false and it's false that it was collected on European citizens. It was neither.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Alexander: (answer to Schakowsky about outside odfficials) The issue that I see, we tried that back a couple of years ago with the court. And it got up to nine days and the court gave us back that authority to do it. I would propose a counter offer where every one that we do is within 48, 96 hours we send to the court and if we make a mistake or something, disagree with, have a way of doing that. So that we meet the timelines that you need or as Chris mentioned for some of these options where it is time is of the essence. i use the Najibullah Zazi case where this was a one-week thing. You can't afford that. So I would say we would absolutely be willing to work with you on something along those lines or with the committee.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Alexander: Our analysts think somewhere around three years is probably the least that you could do. And so if we did that, it goes back to what Congressman Ruppersberger said, I think three years makes sense that's what our analysts come up with.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Alexander: If we take away that program, what you do is you create a gap. Now that's a risk that the Congress and the policy makers will set up. We will follow faithfully, the laws that you establish as we always have in the policies that are set up. What you're asking me is there are a risk and the answer is yes. We know that risk because that's where we existed in 9/11. We know that risk because that's where we existed in 9/11. And this is one of the programs that we took.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
FOXNEWSW 10/31/2013
Alexander: This is not NSA breaking into any databases it would be illegal for us to do that. and so I don't know what the report is, but i can tell you factually we do not have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers, dot dot dot. We go through a court order. Wallace: General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA reacting to a new report that his agency has broken into Yahoo and Google communications links.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
FOXNEWSW 12/01/2013
Wallace: Edward Snowden may have put together something that's been called a "doomsday cache" of top secret documents, much more damaging than anything he's released so far, and that they will be released if anything happens to him. do you think that that is a legitimate and real concern? Hayden: I've seen those reports, Chris. I have no reason to doubt them. Wallace: Do you believe it? Hayden: I have - again, I'm not in government, I don't know the secrets but it's the kind of thing that someone as clever as Snowden has shown himself to be, would probably do.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
FOXNEWSW 12/11/2013
Herridge: Before the Senate Judiciary Committee the NSA Director, Keith Alexander gave a spirited defense of his agency and the bulk collection of American’s phone records saying it’s like holding a hornet's nest. Alexander: We're getting stung. You've asked us to do this for the good of the nation, to defend the nation, to get the intelligence we need. Nobody has come up with a better way. If we let this down, I think we’ll have let the nation down.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
MSNBCW 07/08/2014
Wagner: NSA officials who have asserted for over a year that this type of internet data collected under section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act was limited to foreign nationals outside the U.S. Rogers: Is the NSA have the ability to listen to Americans' phone calls or read their e-mails under these two programs? Alexander: No, we do not have that authority. Rogers: Does the technology exist at the NSA to flip a switch by some analysts to listen to Americans' phone calls or read e-mails? Alexander: No. Rogers: So the technology does not exist for any individual or group of individuals at the NSA to flip a switch to listen to Americans' phone calls or read their e-mails? Alexander: That is correct. Wagner: Administration officials had repeatedly ridiculed Snowden's claims that he had access to such content. As recently as May, the former NSA chief assured the “New Yorker” that he didn't get that database, he didn’t have access to.
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