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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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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 09/26/2013
General, if you’re responding to my question by not answering it because you think that’s a classified matter, that is certainly your right. We will continue to explore that because I believe this is something the American people have a right to know whether the NSA has ever collected or made plans to collect cell site information. I understand your answer, I’ll have additional questions on the next round.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: Do you even know how many Americans are being swept up, have been swept up in this NSA surveillance that is actually targeted on overseas terror threats? Wyden: Suffice it to say, we have asked this question, in classified sessions, in public sessions. And largely have been stonewalled. Now of course from the information that has been declassified, you know, recently, indicates that thousands of Americans have had information, you know, collected on them. And that really leads to the central privacy question. The advocates of the bulk collection of all these on law abiding Americans say this is not surveillance. They're saying it is data collection. And they're saying we're not listening in. And for that reason it's not surveillance.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Wyden: I want it understood for your viewers that when the government knows who you called, when you called and for how long you called, you're getting alot of private information about individuals. For example, if the government knows that you called a psychiatrist three times in 24 hours once after midnight, they know a lot about you.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Wyden: The argument that we're not going to abuse them because we have a bunch of our own little internal, you know, rules, that's not in sync with the constitution. The fourth amendment doesn't say you can invade people's privacy but it's really kind of okay if the government then sets up some sort of general rules to make it okay. The fourth amendment in effect says you've got to have reasonable grounds to believe somebody is involved with terrorist activity, nefarious activity, in order to get this information. All along people like me were told look, you're raising all these concerns but the reality is the FISA court is going to make sure that everything is okay. What we've learned in the last few weeks is the FISA court repeatedly said things were not okay. In effect saying that they were lied to repeatedly to the point where they couldn't see how there was much of a system of rules at all.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: In this post 9/11 world, however is there any reluctance on the part of lawmakers to second-guess the intelligence professionals? Given that the cost of being wrong is so high. Wyden: The government has emergency authorities that basically say when there's a threat they can go get the information, get the warrant later. Of course protecting the safety of the public has to always come first. And I don’t take a backseat to anybody in terms of that.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Wyden: on this whole matter of collecting millions and millions of phone records, on law-abiding Americans. Now this country wants to be safe. And all of us in the intelligence committee know it's a dangerous world. But the evidence does not support the proposition that there is a significant measure of safety that's added as a result of collecting all these record on law-abiding Americans.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: the head of the NSA Keith Alexander said in testimony that 50 terrorist plots had been foiled by this exhaustive surveillance. You don't buy that? I mean you're a member of the intelligence committee. Wyden: Congressional testimony doesn't support that proposition. In fact, John Inglis, one of the deputies there when he was asked to actually asked to unpack that assertion, that really found when he had to address it specifically, that it was at most a couple. And part of this is that there has been, what I call a culture of misinformation among the intelligence, you know, leadership. Consistently over the last few years, the intelligence leadership has said one thing in public and then quite another in private.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: Do you think the NSA has been given license to collect data overseas in too aggressive a manner? Is the technology outstripping the policy? Wyden: There's no question that the technology has dramatically changed this debate. For example, it used to be that because there were technological limitations, those technological limitations provided a measure of privacy for Americans. Now with essentially no technological limitations, the technology can do practically anything, the only way to strike the appropriate balance between liberty and security is to embed that balance in the law.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/13/2013
Warner: What did you make of the eight big U.S.-based internet giants this week, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Microsoft coming out and actually saying they thought the balance between the power of the state and the rights of individuals has gotten out of whack. Wyden: The statement from the companies has enormous implications. One very thoughtful technology organization, which Intel belongs to, an important employer in my state, estimated that the damages in terms of lost revenues result of these NSA practices would approach, $35 billion between now and 2016. And I think it is going to be bad for the country, bad for their customers here. Bad for their brand overseas.
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Anderson Cooper
Host of CNN Anderson Cooper 360
CNNW 01/23/2014
Cooper: We've taken public servants on their word before only to find out they weren't telling the truth or were exaggerating. Listen to this exchange from senator Ron Wyden and director of national intelligence James Clapper. Wyden: What i wanted to see is if you could give me a yes-or-no answer to the question does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? Clapper: no, sir. Wyden: It does not? Clapper: not wittingly. There are cases where they could Cooper: Again, when the facts finally came to light, we learned that statement by director Clapper was not true. It was false.
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