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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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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Before these unauthorized disclosures we were always conservative about discussing the specifics of our collection programs, based on the truism that the more adversaries know about what we are doing the more they can avoid our surveillance. But the disclosures, for better or for worse, have lowered the threshold for discussing these matters in public. So to the degree we can discuss them, we will.
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Christopher Coons
U.S. Senator, D-Delaware
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Coons:I will repeat Senator Franken’s solid point that you’ve made some very significant progress in terms of transparency and commitment to response to the Congressional oversight, but temporary changes in policy and practice do not provide lasting assurance. Changes in statute will. Clapper: I completely agree with that. That if these changes whatever they are, are embedded in law, that would instantiate a degree of permanence that our doing it administratively would not.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: So part of that framework, is my understanding, is that plans and intentions of foreign leaders would be important for the united states to know. Clapper: As long as i have been in the intelligence business, 50 years, leadership intentions, in whatever form that’s expressed, is kind of a basic tenant of what we collect and analyze. Rogers: Why would that be important for policy makers to know, what the intentions of foreign leaders might or might not be?
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Clapper: For one to determine if, from an intelligence perspective, what they are saying, gels with what is going on, is invaluable to us to know where countries are coming from and what their policies are, how that would impact us across a whole range of issues. it isn't just leaders themselves. it's what goes on around them and the policies that they convey to their governments.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: Certainly in my time since being in the business as an FBI agent since 2004 on this committee, I have always found the best way to determine a foreign leader's intentions is to somehow, either get close to a foreign leader or actually get communications of a foreign leader. Would that be accurate? Clapper: yes it would.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: the intelligence committee might try to target foreign leaders intensions to try to determine what the best policy might be for the United States Clapper: It's one of the first things I learned in intel school in 1963. It's the fundamental given in the intelligence business, is leadership intentions no matter what level you are talking about. That could be military leaders as well.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: Do you believe that the allies have conducted at any time any type of espionage activity against the United States of America, our intelligence services, our leaders or otherwise? Clapper: Absolutely.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Clapper: I have to say, Chairman Rogers, some of this reminds me a lot of the classic movie Casa Blanca. My god there’s gambling going on around here, it's the same kind of thing.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Clapper: in all of this, whether we amend a tool or remove it entirely, it actually is the same impact as a cut, as a reduction in capability occasioned by sequestration. And the net effect is we will do the very best we can with the tools and capabilities we're given. But I think it's incumbent on all of us collectively to recognize the fact that when that happens we are incurring greater risk. i say that as a general comment.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Clapper: the (unauthorized) disclosures for better or for worse have lowered the threshold for discussing these matters in public so to the degree that we can discuss them we will. But this public discussion should be based on an accurate understanding of the intelligence community. Who we are, what we do and how we’re overseen. In the last few months the manner in which our activities have been characterize has often been incomplete, inaccurate or misleading or some combination there of.
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