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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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Peter King
Representative, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
KPIX 08/11/2013
I think that much of the stuff being said on television by, you know prominent politicians saying that the government is listening to their phone calls-- that's all nonsense. It spread paranoia in the country. The President should have been out there sooner.
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Peter King
Representative, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
CSPAN 08/12/2013
With the NSA for instance, let me just put it right up front. No American is having his phone calls listened to by the NSA. No American is having his e-mails looked at by the NSA. What the NSA does is collect metadata, which means his phone number to phone number of every call that is made and the time and the date. There's no names. No one is listening to the calls. All that information is stored.
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Peter King
Representative, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
CSPAN 08/13/2013
“Last year there were only 300 times they (NSA) had to drill down into numbers in the metadata.
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Peter King
Representative, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
FOXNEWSW 08/19/2013
Doocy: Senator Peter King from new York says the NSA has a high batting average when it comes to preventing terror attacks and protecting individual rights. Senator King said billions of phone calls were collected but only 2800 violations were self reported by the NSA. He says that means no one's rights from violated.
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Peter King
U.S. Senator, R-New York, Homeland Security Committee
CNNW 12/19/2013
King: That is absolutely disgraceful to compare General Clapper with a traitor. The fact is general Clapper was put in an impossible position because the senator who asked the question had already gotten the information in a classified setting. He knew that General Clapper could not give the full answer because it would let our enemies know what we were doing. The question was wrong. General Clapper gave the best answer he could, and for Senator Paul to compare that patriot, General Clapper, with someone like Snowden, who is a traitor, who has put American lives at risk, Senator Paul should be ashamed of himself. He’s an absolute disgrace. He disgraced me. He disgraced his office and he owes General Clapper an apology immediately.
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Peter King
U.S. Senator, R-New York, Homeland Security Committee
CNNW 12/19/2013
Blitzer: spokesman for General Clapper issued a statement among other things just a little while ago, responding to) other republican lawmakers who have sent a letter calling on him to resign. This is part of the statement. Let me put it on the screen. “DNI, Director of National Intelligence Clapper, had been testifying before members of Congress for more than two decades and he enjoys a well-earned reputation as a doggedly honest and honorable public servant. He apologized for the confusion caused by his response and is focused on working with the intelligence committees to increase transparency.” A lot of republicans want him -- apparently there's a letter out there as you well know, including members of the House republicans who want Clapper to resign. You totally are opposed to all of that. King: Absolutely. That comes from the isolationist wing of the party. That goes back to the days of Charles Lindbergh. These are people who are apologizing for America. That is not the republican tradition that is not the tradition of Ronald Reagan.(It’s the tradition of the radical left wing democrats of the 1960’s.)
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Peter King
U.S. Senator, R-New York, Homeland Security Committee
CNNW 12/27/2013
King: Let me say several things. First of all, e-mails are not being surveilled. The NSA on its own stopped doing that more than two years ago because they felt they cannot ensure privacy because there was so much extraneous information in an e-mail. So they stopped that. There is no e-mail surveillance. It stopped more than two years ago.
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Peter King
U.S. Senator, R-New York, Homeland Security Committee
CNNW 12/27/2013
King: As far as General Clapper, he was in a position, He was asked a question by a senator that the senator knew the answer to. It had already been discussed in a private confidential top secret session because we did not want the enemy to know what we were doing and what we were capable of. What General Clapper was trying to do, first of all, he didn't expect a question like that would be asked in public, because of its top secret nature, and he tried to give an answer which he thought was the least offensive, where he would be protecting the men and women of the NSA and those -- and protect the (programs we are using to stop al quaeda. There's nothing in this for the NSA. They have not abused this, are not using it for political purposes, they're not going after anyone. They are doing it to save American lives and it has worked. That's what General Clapper was trying to protect.
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