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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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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/19/2013
Litt continued: which the narrowly focused query's can be made. As in the grand jury and civil discovery context, concept of relevance is broad enough to allow for the collection of information beyond that which ultimately turns out to be important to a terrorist related investigation. While the scope of the collection at issue here is broader than might typically be acquired through grand jury subpoena or civil discovery request, the basic principle is similar. the information is relevant because you need to have the broader set of records in order to identify within them the information that is actually important to a terrorism
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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/19/2013
Litt continued: which the narrowly focused query's can be made. As in the grand jury and civil discovery context, concept of relevance is broad enough to allow for the collection of information beyond that which ultimately turns out to be important to a terrorist related investigation. While the scope of the collection at issue here is broader than might typically be acquired through grand jury subpoena or civil discovery request, the basic principle is similar. The information is relevant because you need to have the broader set of records in order to identify within them the information that is actually important to a terrorism
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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/19/2013
Litt continued: approved by numerous judges in the FISA court, each of whom is determined that the application complies with all of legal requirements. and congress reauthorized section 215 in 2009-2011 after the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees of both houses had been briefed on the program and after information describing the program had been made available to all members of Congress. in short, all three branches of government have determined that this collection is lawful and reasonable in large part because substantial protections would provide for the privacy of every person whose telephone number is collected.
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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/19/2013
Litt: I specifically want to make a few points about the Fourth Amendment. First, Under established supreme court rulings the person has no legally recognized expectation of privacy in information he or she voluntarily gives to a third Party. So Obtaining those records from that third party is not a search as to the person I’ll return to this point in a moment. Second, the fourth amendment generally does not apply to foreigners outside the United
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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 07/19/2013
Litt continued: United States. And Third, the Supreme Court has said the reasonableness under the fourth amendment of searches without a warrant depends on balancing, quote, the intrusion on the individual's fourth amendment interests against the search’s promotion of legitimate governmental interests.
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Chuck Grassley
U.S. Senator, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Grassley, Cole, Litt continued 1: Grassley: section 215? Litt: I begin by noting number of judges repeatedly over the years have found that these records are in fact, relevant. The reason is the standard of relevance we are talking about here is not the kind of relevance you think about in the Perry mason sense of the criminal trial. It is a much broader standard of relevance and in a number of circumstances such as civil discovery, it is a well accepted concept that if you need to get a large group
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Robert Litt
General Cousel, Office of Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Grassley, Cole, Litt continued 2: Litt: of records in order to find a smaller group of records that actually provides the information you need to move forward, that the larger group of records can be relevant. That is true in this case because of the kinds of controls that the deputy attorney general mentioned. The fact that the queries are limited, the access to the data FISA court, and the has repeatedly found these
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Chuck Grassley
U.S. Senator, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Grassley, Cole, Litt continued 3: Litt: records are relevant. Grassley: Is there any legal precedent that supports such a broad definition of relevance to an investigation? Litt: I’d actually defer that to the Deputy Attorney General Grassley: OK Cole: The legal precedent comes from the history of all the orders that have been issued. The courts having looked at this under the FISA law and under the provisions of 215 and making sure that under the provision (of 215)
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Al Franken
U.S. Senator, D-Minesotta
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Franken continued 2A: release these documents this morning or not because it’s generally not a good idea to release things on the morning of the hearing. Litt: We came to the conclusion that once we made the determination that the documents should be declassified, there was no justification for holding them up any longer. Franken: Did you just start thinking about that decision, like, yesterday? You’ve know this for a long time. You might have thought about this weeks ago and said maybe not the day of. Litt: We have been thinking about this for some time
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Al Franken
U.S. Senator, D-Minesotta
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Litt: continued: We’ve been processing these as quickly as we can. You’ll note that the documents that were released contain some redactions of information that remains classified. It’s a rather time-consuming inter-agency process to reach a consensus on what can safely be released. Franken: my time is up. I think that we should create a strong permanent set of public reporting requirements that will empower the public to reach their own conclusions
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