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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 01/29/2014
Wyden: So for purposes of trying to move this dialogue along, because I don't think this culture of misinformation is going to be easily fixed, I would like to get into several other areas where the government’s interpretation of the law is still unclear. Director Clapper, law-abiding Americans want to protect the privacy of their communications and I see a clear need to strengthen protections for information sent over the web or stored in the cloud.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: Declassified court documents show that in 2011 the NSA sought and obtained the authority to go through communications collected with respect to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act and conduct warrantless searches for the communications of specific Americans. Can you tell us today whether any searches have ever been conducted? Clapper: Senator Wyden, I think at a threat hearing, this would – I would prefer not to discuss this and have this as a separate subject because there are very complex legal issues here that I just don't think is the appropriate time to discuss them. Wyden: When would that time be? I tried with written questions, Director Clapper, a year ago
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: to get answered. We were stonewalled on that in this committee can't do oversight if we can't get direct answers. When will you give the American people and unclassified answer to that question that relates directly to the privacy? Clapper: As soon as we can. Soon, I can Wyden: What would be wrong with 30 days? Clapper: That's fine.
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James Comey
Director of the FBI
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: I would like to ask you about the government’s authority to track individuals using things like cell site location information and smart phone applications. Last fall the NSA Director testified that we, the NSA, identify a number, we could give that to the FBI. When they get their probable cause, then they can get the locational information they need. I’ve been asking the NSA to publicly clarify these remarks but it has not happened yet. So is the FBI required to have probable cause in order to acquire American’s cell site location information for intelligence purposes? Comey: I don’t believe so Senator. In almost all circumstances we have to obtain a court order but the showing is a reasonable basis to believe relevant to the investigation. Wyden: So you don’t have to show probable cause.
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James Comey
Director of the FBI
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: So you don’t have to show probable cause. You have sited another. Is that standard different if the government is collecting the location information from a smart phone app rather than a cell phone tower? Comey: I don’t think I know. I probably ought to ask someone who is smarter on what the standard is that governs those. I don’t know the answer sitting here. Wyden: My time is up. Can I have an answer to that within a week? Comey: You sure can.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: The men and women of America’s intelligence agencies are overwhelmingly dedicated professionals. And they deserve to have leadership that is trusted by the American people. Unfortunately, that trust has been seriously undermined by senior officials reckless reliance on secret interpretations of the law and battered by years of misleading and deceptive statements that senior officials made to the American people. These statements did not protect sources and methods that were useful in fighting terror. Instead, they hit that policy choices and violations of the liberties of the American people. For example, the Director of the NSA said publicly that the NSA doesn't hold data on U.S. citizens. That was obviously untrue.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: Justice Department officials testified that section 215 in the Patriot Act is analogous to grand jury subpoenas authority and that deceptive statement was made multiple occasions. Officials also suggest that the NSA doesn't have the authority to read American’s e-mails without a warrant. But the FISA court opinions declassified last August showed that wasn't true either.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
Wyden: This is a request for the record. General Clapper, this is apropos of the good point Senator King meant. He asked you and General Comey whether bulk collection of all these phone records on law-abiding Americans, is necessary to prevent terror. And you all said that it was because of timeliness. As you know, the independent review commission, page 104 in their report, said that was not the case. They could get the data in a timely way without collecting all of these millions of phone records on law-abiding Americans. So if you all would, for the record, and I’ve asked this as well before, give us an example of a time when you have needed a record that was so old that the relevant phone company no longer had it. And I want to say, Mr. Director, that I think that’s possible within 30 days to have an answer to that since I’ve asked that repeatedly. If there’s some reason that you can’t do it, please let me know. Clapper: Yes, sir.
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
KQED 05/20/2014
Narrator: The document directly contradicted what Director of National Intelligence General James Clapper had said before Congress just a few months earlier. Wyden: 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 inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly. Greenwald: I think for Snowden, the Clapper testimony was the final nail in the coffin. Watching President Obama's top national security official go before the Senate Intelligence Committee and outright lie about what the NSA was doing convinced him, I think, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the only hope for public discussion and reform was for him to do what he was going to do.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Wyden: talking about the fact that the House bill does not ban warrantless searches for American’s e-mail, and here particularly I want to get into this with you, Mr. Lodgett, if I might. We’re talking of course about the backdoor search loopholes, section 702 of the FISA statute. This allows NSA in effect to look through this giant pile of communications that are collected under 702 and deliberately conduct warrantless searches for the communications of individual Americans. This loophole was closed during the Bush Administration but it was reopened in 2011, and a few months ago the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged in a letter to me that the searches are ongoing today. I am particularly concerned about it.
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