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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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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/17/2013
Conyers: It's clear to me that we have a very serious violation of the law in which the judiciary committee deliberately put in the issue of relevance and now you're going to help me out and defer to somebody else.
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/17/2013
Part 1 Conyers: We never had any point in this debate have approved the type of unchecked sweeping surveillance of united states citizens employed by our govt. in the name of fighting the war on terrorism. Section 215 authorized the government to obtain certain business records only if it can show to.
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/17/2013
Part 2 Conyers continued: the FISA court that the records are relevant to an ongoing national security investigation. What we think we have here is a situation in which, if the government
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/17/2013
Part 3 Conyers continued: cannot provide a clear, public, explanation for how its program is consistent with the statute, then it must stop collecting this information immediately. This metadata problem to me has gotten quite far out of hand, even given the seriousness of the problems That surround it, and created its need.
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/24/2013
Conyers: All this amendment is intended to do is to curtail the ongoing dragnet collection and storage of the personal records of innocent Americans. It does not defund the NSA and it would continue to allow them to conduct full fledged surveillance as
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/24/2013
Conyers continued: long as it relates to an actual investigation. Our joining together on this bipartisan amendment demonstrates our joint commitment to ensuring that our fight against terrorism and espionage follows the rule of law and the clear intent of the statutes passed by this Congress. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to vote for this amendment.
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, D-Michigan, Judiciary Ranking Member
LINKTV 07/24/2013
Goodman: Could he be brought up on charges of perjury? Massie: If this were any American citizen or civilian, they would certainly be prosecuted for what he just did. At a minimum, he should lose his post. Goodman: do you agree with that, Congress member Conyers? Conyers: yes, ma'am, I do, completely.
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, D-Michigan, Judiciary Ranking Member
LINKTV 07/24/2013
Goodman: (Clapper) himself admitted that he did not tell the truth. Conyers: I think we are now at the point of having a more honest disclosure of what is going on in our intelligence community, which we now find was very deliberately ignoring parts of the law that they knew perfectly well they were violating.
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Thomas Massie
U.S. Representative R-Kentucky
LINKTV 07/24/2013
Massie: If we accept the premise it is ok for government to lie to us or for one branch of the government to lie to another branch of government in order to protect our public safety, then we have crossed the threshold. We cannot accept it is ok for government to lie to us to protect us. Conyers: yes
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John Conyers
U.S. Representative, Judiciary Ranking Member
LINKTV 08/02/2013
Goodman: Do you think NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden did the right thing? Conyers: Well, i think he was overzealous and probably didn't -- he has clearly broken some laws for which they now, the government wants to prosecute him for, but inadvertently, he’s revealed to us a whole area of secrecy
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