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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 1A: notify Congress before obtaining cell phone location information under this program. But is there any legal impediment to expanding the program for cell phone location? Cole: I don’t believe there would be a legal impediment. And yesterday the 5th circuit issued a ruling that goes to that issue but the legal impediments are not the only issues that you take into account here. Leahy: I understand
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Chuck Grassley
U.S. Senator, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Grassley, Cole, Litt, Inglis: Cole: Nobody is listening to anybody's conversations through this program and through program, nobody could. No information like that is being collected through this program. Grassley: Mr. Litt, section 215 contains a requirement that records collected under the program, and --on be relevant to authorized investigation. As a legal matter, how can you justify the assertion that phone records of millions of Americans who have nothing to do with terrorism are relevant to an authorized investigation under section
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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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Chuck Grassley
U.S. Senator, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Grassley, Cole, Litt continued 4: Cole: (of 215) and the ability to get these records relevant to a criminal, rather– a foreign intelligence investigation, they have gone through the law that Mr.. Litt has described. On I believe 34 different occasions to do this analysis. So that legal precedent is there.
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Mike Lee
U.S. Senator, R-Utah
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Lee continued: It’s not the government’s information. It still doesn’t make it relevant under the law. It still doesn’t meet what many of my constituents believe to be within their reasonable expectation of privacy. For the government to collect that much information, potentially information of 300 million Americans. Cole: i would say two things. First of all we have had 34 separate times
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James Cole
Deputy Attorney General
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Cole continued: where the courts say that does meet the standard of relevance. To have it all and then have the restrictions. But the further thing that is very important, is what we are doing today. It is worth having a debate about, is there a better way to do it. – it’s worth having a debate about where we strike that balance between security for the nation and making people’s privacy and civil liberty rights are being honored. That's a tough balance to find, but it’s a balance worth talking about and It is a process we are welcoming and engaging in right now.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator, D-Rhode Island
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Whitehouse continued 6: because you never took the appropriate steps to put news out about this program that would have avoided, I think, a lot of this. And I’d like you to have a chance to react to that. Cole: I think you make a valid point. These are all topics that we need to debate. They’re not easy topics because they involve again that same balancing. The same balancing that we are trying to do between
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Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator, D-Rhode Island
CSPAN 07/31/2013
Cole continued: national security and civil liberties. And what kinds of programs we put into place to gain intelligence information. it is the same kind of debate we need to have about what’s classified and what’s not classified and what secrets we let out. If it was easy, we would be having this left and right. From what I’ve seen, that the executive branch is doing it, to disadvantage the legislative branch. Whitehouse: it does have that effect. Cole: It may have that effect. And I would concede that. Whitehouse: I think it’s done
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James Cole
Deputy US Attorney General
CSPAN 08/01/2013
I want to make absolutely sure that I understand the scope of 215. First Question. What information does the government collect under this program, and specifically, is anyone's name, address, social security number, or location collected? Cole: Senator Grassley, first, to answer the second part, name, address, location social security number is not collected
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Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D- Vermont), Judiciary Committee Chairman
CSPAN 12/11/2013
Leahy: So to restart the bulk collection of internet data, would you have to go to the court? Litt: I believe we would. Leahy: Mr. Cole? Cole: Yes, Mr. Chairman. Under the FISA statute, i think you would have to get court authority just like you would under 215 to be able to do that. And that would only last for a period of time. it would have to be renewed periodically. there's no active authority for it right now.
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