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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.

Speakers

Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator (I- Vermont),
CNNW 10/13/2015
Cooper: Senator Sanders? Edward Snowden? Sanders: I think Snowden played a very important role in educating the American people to the degree tin which our civil liberties and our Constitutional rights are being under minded. Cooper: Is he a hero? Sanders: He did break the law and I think there should be a penalty to that but I think what he did in educating us should be taken into consideration before he is (inaudible).
Jim Webb
Former U.S. Senator (D- VA)
CNNW 10/13/2015
Cooper: Senator Webb? Edward Snowden. Webb: I would leave his ultimate judgment to the legal system. Here’s what I do believe. We have a serious problem in terms of the collection of personal information in this country. One of the things that I did during the FISA Bill in 2007, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was introduced with Russ Feingold 2 amendments basically saying we understand the realities of how you have to collect this broad information in the internet age but after a certain period of time you need to destroy the personal information that you have if people have not been, if criminal justice proceedings have not been brought against them. We have a vast data bank of information that is ripe for people with bad intentions to be able to use and they need to be destroyed.
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