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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
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Wyden: I am particularly concerned about it because as global communications get increasingly interconnected, this loophole is going to grow and grow and grow as a threat to the privacy of law-abiding Americans. So for purposes of getting on top of this and working with all of you, my question today is how many of these warrantless searches for Americans communications have been conducted under section 702? For you, Mr. Lodgett.
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Richard Lodgett
National Security Agency Deputy Director
CSPAN2 06/05/2014
Lodgett: We have provided as you know detailed information to the committee on the background on this, and we will work with the DNI and the rest of the IC to provide additional information to you. Wyden: So when would I get an answer to the question. It's a very specific question. The Director admitted to me in a letter that these warrantless searches are taking place and I’m going the next and saying how many of them? When will I get a letter telling me how many of them have taken place? I’d like to within two weeks because it is obviously relevant to making this part of the Senate bill because it was be omitted in the House. Lodgett: Yes, sir. Wyden: Can we have it within two weeks? Lodgett: We will work on that, sir. We’ll get you a response within two weeks. Wyden: Thank you. Making some progress.
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Elisebeth Collins
Privacy Oversight Board
FOXNEWSW 07/06/2014
Emanuel: The panel also issued detailed proposals to tighten up. Collins: The recommendations are designed to prevent the section 702 program from transforming over time from a foreign intelligence program to a means of effectively surveilling U.S. persons. Emanuel: The surveillance became public following leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. On Capitol Hill, some liberals and conservatives have joined forces in recent months to speak out about privacy and civil liberties. Wyden: A particularly vigorous oversight over the intelligence field needs to get more attention. It's not something you can minimize. Liberty and security are not mutually exclusive. Paul: Some say it's only records held anonymously, only rarely accessed. What's your beef? What they rarely mention is that they don't believe any of your records have any fourth amendment protection.
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John Brennan
Director of the CIA
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Wagner: According to McClatchy, an internal agency review finds that CIA employees did, in fact, improperly access computers used by the committee while its staff was researching a report on the CIA's highly controversial detention and interrogation program. So those claims by Senator Feinstein, the ones John Brennan called “ the scope of reason,” it turns out they were dead on. So dead on that Brennan himself actually apologized yesterday to Feinstein and the committee's Vice Chair, Saxby Chambliss. Hours ago, Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate intelligence committee tweeted, “the CIA broke into senate computer files and tried to have senate staff prosecuted. Absolutely unacceptable in a democracy.
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Mark Udall
Senator (D-Colorado) Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Wagner: Senator Udall issued a statement that says ”I have lost confidence in John Brennan. I am concerned about the director's apparent inability to find any flaws in the agency he leads.” The White House is defending John Brennan, but one would imagine that the Senators on this intelligence committee are not going to let it simply end here with an apology from John Brennan. Landay: Well, I suspect not. Because you've already had several senators including Senator Wyden demanding to know, having a clear accountability of what happened, who, perhaps, ordered this intrusion. How it happened. I think there will probably be some internal wrangling over this, because look, the White House has said, John Brennan has said, and a lot of people on Capitol Hill have said they want to get this report out and put this entire matter behind them.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/01/2014
Wyden: The public deserves to know who is responsible for ordering and carrying out this unconstitutional act. And particularly I want to know whether Director Brennan deliberately lied to the American people. As you know, he told your network and others, Oh, the search is the furthest thing from what he would be interested in. I've long felt that with the intelligence leadership there is a culture of misinformation. This may be another example.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/01/2014
Wyden: It may take an independent counsel here, chuck. And let me tell you what I know at this point. If a 19-year-old hacker had searched Senate files this way, that hacker would be sitting in jail right now. Now, back in January I asked Director Brennan whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applied to the CIA. That act has criminal penalties, and I think the Director owes the American people a public explanation.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/01/2014
Wyden: I want a public accounting at this point. I want to know who authorized this act. I want to know why they thought it was legal, and I want to know who is going to be legally held responsible. You've got to have the ability on our committee to get straight answers. And again and again, as you know, I asked Director Clapper at one point whether the government collected any type of information at all on Americans. They said no. We have another example here where Director Brennan's spokesperson said they had a strong interest in looking at these files and then Director Brennan told your Andrea Mitchell and various other networks they had no interest in it. The facts don't add up and this is part of the culture of misinformation.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/01/2014
Wyden: My sense from the very beginning is the agency wanted to do everything they could to play stall ball here. They don't believe that where the committee, in my view, is going to end up, with profoundly shocking and disturbing information that would be made public. They don't want that released. And so again and again they have thrown up one hurdle after another. And you asked about what's going to happen with Director Brennan. I think he's got some heavy lifting to do in order to establish his credibility again. As far as I'm concerned, this inquiry is going to have to run right to the top.
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-Oregon), Member of Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/01/2014
Wyden: Director Brennan is the one that I want to have inform the American people about whether he deliberately lied about this matter. He told your network and others that a search like this was the furthest thing from his mind. We now know that wasn't the case. He ought to explain to the American people whether he deliberately lied or just didn't know what his agency was doing.
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