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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: At times the C.I.A. has simply been unaware that these specific documents were provided to the committee. And while this is alarming, it is also important to note that more than 6.2 million pages of documents have been provided. This is simply a massive amount of records. As I described earlier, as part of its standard process for reviewing records, the committee staff printed copies of the internal Panetta review and made electronic copies of the committee's computers at the facility. The staff did not rely on these internal Panetta review documents when drafting the final 6,300-page committee study.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: But it was significant that the internal Panetta Review had documented at least some of the very same troubling matters already uncovered by the committee staff, which is not surprising in that they were looking at the same information.
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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. provided its response to the study on June 27, 2013. As C.I.A. Director Brennan has stated, the C.I.A. officially agrees with some of our study but has been reported the C.I.A. disagrees and disputes important parts of it, and this is important. Some of these important parts that the C.I.A. now disputes in our committee study are clearly acknowledged in the C.I.A.'s own internal Panetta Review. To say the least, this is puzzling. How can the C.I.A.'s official response to our study stand factually in conflict with its own internal review?
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: There are several reasons why the draft summary of the Panetta Review was brought to our secure spaces at the Hart building. Let me list them. One, the significance of the internal review given disparities between it and the June 2013 C.I.A. response to the committee study. The internal Panetta Review summary now at the secure committee office in Hart is an especially significant document as it corroborates critical information in the committee's 6,300-page study that the C.I.A.'s official response either objects to, denies, minimizes or ignores.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: Unlike the official response, these Panetta Review documents were in agreement with the committee's findings. That's what makes them so significant and important to protect. When the internal Panetta review documents disappeared from the committee's computer system, this suggested once again that the C.I.A. had removed documents already provided to the committee in violation of C.I.A. agreements and White House assurances that the C.I.A. would cease such activities.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: As I have detailed, the C.I.A. has previously withheld and destroyed information about its detention and interrogation program, including its decision in 2005 to destroy interrogation videotapes over the objections of the Bush White House and the Director of National Intelligence. Based on the above, there was a need to preserve and protect the internal Panetta Review in the committee's own secure spaces.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: The relocation of the Internal Panetta review was lawful and handled in a manner consistent with its classification. No law prevents the relocation of a document in the committee's possession from a C.I.A. facility to secure committee offices on Capitol Hill. As I mentioned before, the document was handled and transported in a manner consistent with its classification, redacted appropriately and it remains secured with restricted access in committee spaces.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: Now, the January 15, 2014 meeting with Director John Brennan. In late 2013, I requested in writing that the C.I.A. provide a final and complete version of the internal Panetta review to the committee, as opposed to the partial document the committee currently possesses. In December, during an open committee hearing, Senator Mark Udall echoed this request. In early January, 2014, the C.I.A. informed the committee it would not provide the internal Panetta review to the committee, citing the deliberative nature of the document.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: Shortly thereafter, on January 15, 2014, C.I.A. Director Brennan requested an emergency meeting to inform me and Vice Chairman Chambliss that without prior notification or approval, C.I.A. personnel had conducted a search -- that was John Brennan's word -- of the committee computers at the offsite facility. This search involved not only of searching documents provided by the committee by the C.I.A. but also a search of the stand-alone and walled-off committee network drive containing the committee's own internal work product and communications.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: According to Brennan, the computer search was conducted in response to indications that some members of the committee staff might already have had access to the internal Panetta review. The C.I.A. did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review or how we obtained it. Instead, the C.I.A. just went and searched the committee's computers. The C.I.A. has still not asked the committee any questions about how the committee acquired the Panetta Review.
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