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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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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Leahy: 13 years ago this week a letter was sent to me, addressed to me, it was so deadly with the anthrax in it that one person who touched the envelope addressed to me that I was supposed to open, they died. They died from that. And we still don't -- haven't caught all the people involved with that. But notwithstanding that, Mr. President, when people came to me and said, well, maybe we should do away with some of our search and seizure, maybe we should do away with our laws and wiretap, after all, somebody tried to kill you, and if you had touched that envelope, would you have died. I said no. This is more than one senator, more than one person, more than one individual. This is the constitution of the United States.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Leahy: And if we, the 100 members of this body, do not protect our constitution, we do not protect our country, and we do not deserve to be in this body. Mr. President, I will continue to fight, and whatever years I have left in this body, I will continue to fight to preserve our constitution and our rights as Americans.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Leahy: And I would say to those both in this chamber and outside who went at this issue by fomenting fear, fomenting fear stifles serious debate and constructive solutions. That the carefully drawn reforms in this bill, And doing it at the last minute is all the more regrettable. This nation deserves more than that. This nation should not allow our liberties to be set aside by passing fears. America will always face the threat of terrorist attacks both outside our borders and inside.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Leahy: We didn't do away with all our civil liberties after the Oklahoma City bombing, even though that was an American who did that, someone who had served in our military, churchgoing, so forth. No more should we do it if the attacks come from outside our country. We talk about 9/11, we had all the evidence necessary to stop 9/11 before it happened. Everybody who has looked at that now agrees, that bothered to translate the material we had, if had bothered to listen to people in Minnesota who tried to warn about it, we could have stopped that. But because mistakes were made then, let's not take away the liberties of 325 million Americans
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
KQED 05/22/2015
Woodruff: Senators came to work this morning, confronting an impasse on surveillance, and a looming deadline Leahy: Unfortunately, the clock's been run out. Woodruff: On June first, the National Security Agency loses legal authority to collect bulk phone records, as key provisions of the "Patriot Act" expire. But the Senate is leaving for the Memorial Day recess and won't return until June first leaving Vermont democrat Patrick Leahy to point across the capitol. Leahy: The house worked very hard on this. They completed their work and they left. They're not coming back until after the surveillance authorities are set to expire. And the House leadership has made clear they will my not pass the extension even if they're in.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 05/31/2015
Leahy: The U.S.A. Freedom Act has got such strong support. It goes across groups as diverse as the National Rifle Association and the Center for American Progress. This broad consensus saw overwhelming support in the House. They passed it by a vote of 338-88. Some in this country say that no branch of government could have a vote that strong to say the sun rises in the east. Certainly there's been no major piece of legislation in years. We've seen a vote of that, 338-88. But now a minority of the senate has twice blocked the U.S.A. Freedom act from even getting a debate on the senate floor.
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