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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 01/16/2015
Obama: With respect to the issue of intelligence gathering, signal intelligence, encryptions this is a challenge that we have been working on since I have been President. Obviously it was amplified when Mr. Snowden did what he did. It has gone off the pages -- the front pages of the news, but we haven't stopped working on it. We have been in dialogue with companies and have systematically worked through ways in which we can meet legitimate privacy concerns, but also meet the very real concerns that David Wright identified and my FBI Director Jim Comey identified.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: Social media and the internet is the primary way in which these terrorist organizations are communicating. Now that’s no different than anybody else, but they are good at it. When we have the ability to track that in a way that is legal and forms with due process, rule of law, and presents oversight then that‘s a capability that we have to preserve.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: The biggest damage that was done as a consequence of the Snowden disclosures was I think was in some cases a complete undermining of trust. Some would say that was justified. I would argue that although there are some legitimate concerns there, overall the United States government and from what I have seen, the British government, have operated in a scrupulous and lawful way to try to balance the security and privacy concerns. We can do better. That is what we are doing.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: But we’re still going to have to find ways to make sure that if an al Qaeda affiliate is operating in Great Britain or the United States that we can try to prevent real tragedy. And I think the companies want to see that as well. They are patriots. They have families they want to see protected. We just have to work through in many cases, what are technical issues. So it’s not so much that there’s a difference in intent. But how to square the circle on these issues is difficult. We are working with partners like Great Britain and the United Kingdom but we are also going to be in dialogue with companies to try to make that work.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: There are going to be situations where there are hard cases but for the most part, those who are worried about big brother sometimes obscure or deliberately ignore all the legal safeguards that have been put in place to assure people's privacy and to make sure that government is not abusing these powers and on the other hand there are times when law enforcement and those of us whose job it is to protect the public are not thinking about those problems because we are trying to track and prevent the particular terrorist event from happening. And it is useful to have civil libertarians and others having us on the shoulder in the midst of this process undermining us that there are values at stake as well (and I think that David and I welcome that kind of debate.)
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: The technologies are evolving in ways that potentially make this trickier. If we get into a situation which the technologies do not allow us at all to track somebody that we’re confident is a terrorist, if we find evidence of a terrorist plot somewhere in the middle east that traces directly back to London or New York, we have specific information, we are confident that this individual or this network is about to activate a plot, and despite knowing that information, despite having a phone number, despite having a social media address or an e-mail address, that we cannot penetrate that, that’s a problem.
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Barack Obama
President
CSPAN 01/16/2015
Obama: And so that is the kind of dialogue that we're having with these companies. Part of it is a legal issue part of it is a technical question, but overall I’m actually confident that we can balance these imperatives and we shouldn’t feel as if because we’ve just seen such a horrific attack in Paris that suddenly everything should be going by the wayside. We have, unfortunately, this has been a constant backdrop, and I think we will continue to be for any Prime Minister or President for some time to come and we have to make sure that we do not overreact but that we remain vigilant and we are serious about our responsibilities there.
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Catherine Herridge
Chief Intelligence Correspondent for FOX News Channel
FOXNEWSW 01/16/2015
Herridge: (they said they want more, not less,) cooperation, also from the big internet providers. Cameron: Not asking for backdoors. We have-We believe in very clear frontdoors through legal process that should help to keep our countries safe and my only argument is that as technology develops, as the world moves on we should try to avoid the safe havens that could otherwise be created for terrorists to talk to each other. Herridge: At one point during that news conference Mr. Obama pointed to the Boston marathon bombing. As you recall one of the brothers was in contact with individuals overseas and had a very sort of robust youtube channel with radical islamic videos. But I would point out that it was not a failure to collect phone records or internet traffic in that particular case. It was a culture failure. The FBI failed to share this information about the Tsarnaev brother with the Boston cops because they didn't feel they had the need to know. So collection would not have made a difference in this particular case.
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Barack Obama
President
CNNW 01/19/2015
Blitzer: The "Times" report says the NSA started breaching North Korea's hacking networks back in 2010. The North Koreans have denied hacking Sony but this report says U.S. intelligence agencies were able to track it back so quickly because of the monitoring they had done for at least a few years. Tonight, Kim Jong-un knows how the U.S. government came to point the finger at him for the Sony cyber attack. Obama: We can confirm that North Korea engaged in this attack. Todd: How could the President be so confident just a few weeks after Sony had been hacked? “The New York Times" reports the National Security Agency, America's super-secret eavesdroppers, had infiltrated North Korea's shadowy cyber warriors since 2010. Winkler: It appears that what happened was NSA established footholds in various parts of North Korea's computer infrastructure. They basically established footholds in the Chinese region and they apparently established footholds in the Malaysian region.
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