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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

Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Gregory: Senator Feinstein, is there any chance that some of your colleagues who disagree with you will be successful in shutting down the program, the bulk collection of this metadata? Feinstein I don't believe so. The President has very clearly said that he wants to keep the capability. He wants to look for, other than the government, holding the material. So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant majority, everybody virtually, except two or three on the senate intelligence committee, would agree with that. He wants to make some changes in the FISA court that you have to have the approval of the court before you query. That the amicus concept involving a panel would come into being. But the important thing to me is the President very clearly said, we need this capability to keep people safe.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Feinstein: Now let me say something about Mr. Snowden. I heard him on television say that he went there with the intent to scrape our systems. That he obtained a scrape tool and he began to scrape, over I believe a two-month period, as much as he could get ahold of. This isn't somebody who comes upon something and says, this isn't the right thing for the government to do. I want to go out and talk to people about it. He came there with the intent to take as much material down as he possibly could. Gregory: And do you agree with Chairman Rogers that he may have had help from the Russians? Feinstein: He may well have. We don’t know at this stage.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Gregory: Do you agree with Chairman Rogers that he may have had help from the Russians? Feinstein: He may well have. We don't know at this stage. But I think to glorify this act is really to set sort of a new -- a new level of dishonor. And this goes to where these data, this metadata goes because the NSA are professionals. They are limited in number to 22 who have access to the data. Two of them are supervisors. They are vetted. They are carefully supervised. The data goes anywhere else. How do you provide that level of supervision? Gregory: So is it critical then to get to the bottom and reinvestigate who might have been involved and whether there was any link to the Russians? Feinstein: Absolutely, absolutely. Rogers: Absolutely and that investigation is ongoing.
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Barack Obama
President
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Obama: Given the unique power of the state, it is not enough for leaders to say trust us, we won't abuse the data we collect. For history has too many examples when that trust has been breached. Gregory: Good Sunday morning. So no matter what you think of Edward Snowden and his decision to spill secrets of how the government conducts domestic surveillance, he started one big debate. Without him and what he did, it is hard to imagine the President giving the speech he gave this week. Bottom line, the spying programs are here to stay it appears
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