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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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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: Certainly in my time since being in the business as an FBI agent since 2004 on this committee, I have always found the best way to determine a foreign leader's intentions is to somehow, either get close to a foreign leader or actually get communications of a foreign leader. Would that be accurate? Clapper: yes it would.
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James Clapper
Director of National Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: the intelligence committee might try to target foreign leaders intensions to try to determine what the best policy might be for the United States Clapper: It's one of the first things I learned in intel school in 1963. It's the fundamental given in the intelligence business, is leadership intentions no matter what level you are talking about. That could be military leaders as well.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: Do you believe that the allies have conducted at any time any type of espionage activity against the United States of America, our intelligence services, our leaders or otherwise? Clapper: Absolutely.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: Have the allies of the United States ever during the course of that time engaged in anything that you would qualify as an espionage act targeted at the United States of America? Alexander: Yes, they have, Chairman. Rogers: And that would be consistent with most of our allies. Let's just pick a place, the European Union. Alexander: yes it would, Chairman. Rogers: And this is ongoing today. This didn't stop two years ago or last year or last week. To the best of your knowledge? Alexander: To the best of my knowledge, yes.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Alexander continued: Nato allies have collected in defense of our country's and in support of military operations. Rogers: So if I understand you correctly, this information was likely collected external from the country in which it may have been reported in defense of operations ongoing in the world in which Nato participates is that correct? Alexander: That is correct.
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: So you would collect information in those cases and share it with our allies in a way that was appropriate? Alexander: That is correct and it may not be actually collected in Europe because it's a global network. Rogers: But it could be in Europe or it could be someone else. It could be in the Middle East or could be in Asia or in the United States by a FISA warrant collected by the FBI. Is that correct? Alexander: That’s correct. Rogers: So you share information with their European the allies and if I understood you earlier, they share information
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Keith Alexander
General, Director of the National Security Agency, Chief of the Central Security Service and Commander of the United States Cyber Command.
CSPAN2 10/29/2013
Rogers: So the very certain accusation that the National Security Agency was collecting information on these citizens of their respective nation states, i just want to get on the record again, is false. That did not happen. Is that correct? Alexander: That is correct. Those shots that show were, at least lead people to believe that we, NSA or the United States, collected that information is false and it's false that it was collected on European citizens. It was neither.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/12/2013
Warner: The PEN writers group did a survey of 250 professional writers, it just came out this week, and a quarter of these writers said they feel inhibited. They’re censoring themselves in what they discuss in e-mail in the research they do especially if it involves anything overseas. Does that, as someone who’s always believed in individual liberties, does that concern you? Rogers: The attitude certainly does. And you know, that's mortifying to me that they would feel that that would be an issue that the government would be interested in, candidly. Even their engaged into some issue that may be even questionable, if it's a political issue and you are expressing yourself, you need to feel comfortable that you can do that in the United States. We should never lose that.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
KQED 12/12/2013
Warner: some members of Congress at least on the senate side feel that they've been mislead about by the head of the NSA, by the Director of National Intelligence about how much data is being collected on America, metadata, whatever you want to call it. Do you feel that there's been any either misleading, willful or otherwise about the extent of that? Rogers: I know as the chairman of the house intelligence committee, we have had this information. We have been briefed on it. We've had an opportunity to ask questions on it. I supported these programs. We had some differences. We worked them out. Were there problems that we found? Yes. But we work with them in the appropriate channels, classified channels to fix them. Like you would expect us to do as member of the oversight committee. But at the end of the day I supported them when nobody knew about them. And I support them now.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Rogers: Well first of all, I couldn't disagree more. That's like having the janitor at a bank who figured out how to steal some money deciding matters of high finance. This was a thief who we believe had some help who stole information the vast majority had the nothing to do with privacy. Our army, navy, air force, marines have been incredibly harmed by the data that he has taken with him and we believe now is in the hands of nation states. Gregory: What help did he have? Who helped him do you think in is. Rogers: well, there were certain questions that we have to get answered. Where a, first of all if it was a privacy concern he had, he didn't look for information on the privacy side for americans. He was stealing information that had to do with how we operate overseas to collect information to keep Americans safe. That begs a question. Some of the things he did were beyond his technical capabilities. Raises more questions. How he arranged travel before he left.
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