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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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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Leahy continued: already collecting data on millions of innocent Americans on a daily basis. Based on a secret legal interpretation of the statute that does not appear to authorize this kind of bulk collection. So what is going to be next? When is enough ? I think Congress has to carefully consider the powerful surveillance tools that we grant the government and have to ensure that there is stringent oversight and accountability and transparency. This data should not be limited to those surveillance programs about which information was leaked.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Leahy continued: That is why i have introduced a bill that addresses not only section 215 and section 702, but also national security letters, roving wiretaps, other authorities on the Patriot Act. And we’ve seen in the case of reform, the Protect of Americans Privacy is not a partisan issue. I think Senator Lee of Utah and others for their support of my FISA bill. I hope others will join that effort.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Leahy & Inglis: Leahy: You have to have a certain amount of trust but don’t you have people doubled checking what somebody is doing? Inglis: We do, sir. Leahy: Who double checked Mr. Snowden? Inglis: There are checks at multiple levels, there are checks in terms of what an individual might be doing at any moment in time. There are. Leahy: you obviously failed. Inglis: in this case I think we can say that they failed but we do not yet know where. Leahy: You think you can say they failed. I mean he’s sitting over at the airport in Russia with millions of items . Inglis: I would say that uh with the benefit of what we know now they did fail but we do not know where precisely they failed. We may find
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Leahy & Inglis: Inglis: We will hold them accountable. Leahy: Are you taking any steps now to make sure such a screw up doesn’t happen again? Inglis: we have instituted a range catch someone who might want to repeat what Mr.. Snowden did. There are many other ways that someone might try to beat the system. Leahy: you can understand why some people have used the old expression, locking the door after the horse has been stolen?
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
KPIX 08/16/2013
Andrews: the fact that there were thousand of (NSA) privacy breaches stunned many members of Congress, including Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Leahy: I want to know if, whether it's NSA or anybody else, has made a mistake, we ought to know that. If they're tapping into people's telephones where they have no right to, we ought to know that.
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Nancy Pelosi
Minority Leader, House of Representatives
MSNBCW 08/16/2013
Melvin: Senate judiciary chairman Pat Leahy says he plans to hold another hearing on the NSA surveillance program. (Former) House speaker Nancy Pelosi called the report, quote, "extremely disturbing" in a statement saying in part, “Congress must conduct rigorous oversight to ensure that all incidents, all incidents, of noncompliance are reported to the oversight committees and the FISA court in a timely and comprehensive manner and that appropriate steps are taken to ensure violations are not repeated.” The report stems from an NSA audit obtained by the post from leaker Edward Snowden.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Would you agree that the 54 cases that keep getting cited by the administration were not all plots, and of the 54 – only 13 had some nexus to the U.S. Would you agree with that? Yes or no. Alexander: Yes.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
In our last hearing, Deputy Director Inglis’s testimony stated that there is only one example of a case where, but for the use of Section 215 bulk phone records collection, terrorist activity was stopped. Is Mr. Inglis right? Alexander: He is right. I believe he said two, Chairman. I may have that wrong but I think he said two. And I would like to point out it could have only applied…
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
We get far more in the newspaper and we get a crossword puzzle too but we get more in the newspapers than we do in the classified re-things that you give us. According to the article the NSA associates and locates Americans now if it's accurate it appears to contradict earlier representation that the NSA does not compile dossiers of files on the wrecking people.
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN2 10/02/2013
Is the NSA compiling profiles or dossiers of the American people? Clapper: In every case for valid foreign intelligence purposes. Let me go to General Alexander. Alexander: Those reports are inaccurate and wrong. Leahy: So the New York Times is wrong in its article? Alexander: Absolutely. Here are the facts. What they have taken is the fact that we do take data to enrich it. What is not in front of the statements is the word foreign. Foreign information to understand what the foreign nexis is of the problems that we are looking at.
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