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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.

Speakers

Cory Johnson
Anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television
BLOOMBERG 04/11/2014
Johnson: We actually just got a statement from the NSA and from the NSC. And I want to read it. But not the whole thing. Really quickly. The NSA , however, is denying that they knew about this until it was made in private sector cyber security reports. And the NSC, the National Security Council, say reports that NSA or any other part of the government were aware of the so called Heartbleed vulnerability before 2014 of April , 2014 are wrong. So the NSA denying it. Bloomberg News sticking with the story. So we’ll keep digging into that.
Cory Johnson
Anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television
BLOOMBERG 04/11/2014
Johnson: The disconcerting thing about this story, now again the NSA has denied this, but as a Bloomberg story and Bloomberg is sticking with it. And I think that the disconcerting thing is here, is what is the job of the NSA? And who are they protecting us from? And who are they not protecting us from? Are they willing to let our wallets get stolen, but to keep us safe from terrorists? Is that a decision that someone made along the line. That’s the really disconcerting thing about this story and something I think that’s going to be examined here as we sort through both the denials and the facts of the story.
Edward Snowden
U.S. Senator (I- Vermont),
BLOOMBERG 09/29/2015
Johnson: Edward Snowden is on twitter. The former NSA government contractor turned whistleblower tweeted out his first tweet this morning, saying
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