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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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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
KGO 08/04/2013
Greenwald continued: Morgan Griffith a Republican from Virginia, the other Alan Grayson the democrat from Florida showed us, and we're publishing this morning, very detailed letters trying to get this information and they're being blocked from getting it and they've said and other members have said that they are forced to learn about what the NSA is doing from what they're reading in our reporting. Raddatz: And when you say they're being blocked, how are they being blocked? People are refusing to give it to them in Congress? Greewald: Correct
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
KGO 08/04/2013
Greenwald continued 2: Correct. I think the most amazing thing, one of the most amazing things in this whole episode, Martha, is that there is a 2011 opinion, 86 pages long from the FISA court that ruled, that much of what the NSA is doing with spying on American citizens is both unconstitutional, in violation of the Fourth Amendment and illegal, a violation of the statute. This opinion remains a complete secret. The FISA court has said they have no objection to having it released, but the Obama administration insists it has to be secret. Both members of Congress and others have been requesting simply to read that court opinion and
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
KGO 08/04/2013
Greenwald continued 3: the Intelligence Committee that is led in the House by Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger who represents the NSA district receives all kinds of cash from the defense and the intelligence agencies industries have refused to allow them access. That's extraordinary to have a court opinion ruling that our government violated the Constitution and the law and not only can't we read it, but neither can our representatives in Congress.
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Rachel Maddow
Host of The Rachel Maddow Show
MSNBCW 08/19/2013
Maddow: It has been Glenn and Laura’s series of exposes that have detailed much that we did not know before about the reach of America's intelligence agencies into the lives of ordinary non-terrorist, non-suspicious people living in this country. The way U.S. intelligence can and does track our phone calls, our e-mails, virtually all of it all the time. Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald have done this reporting of course based on classified documents, given to them by a former contract worker for the NSA and he of course has temporary asylum in Russia. But it is Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald who know what their source has to tell. it's they who have been telling his story, making news out of the documents that he has given them week after week now since June.
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Rachel Maddow
Host of The Rachel Maddow Show
MSNBCW 08/19/2013
Maddow: yeah, their source may be in Russia now, but they're not. Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil with his partner who's Brazilian. Laura Poitras has been living in Germany, because she says she needs a place to work on her documentary about U.S. surveillance without worrying the U.S. government will try to seize her material.
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Cooper: glen, you got a call from some British official, he wouldn't give you his name just an identification number. What did that person say was happening with David? Greenwald: the very first thing he said to me is he was detained under the terrorism act of 2000 which is an obviously terrifying thing to hear about the person you love most in the world and
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Greenwald continued: sharing your life with. And I then asked how long he had been detained. He said he had been detained by that point, already three hours, which made me know it was more than a routine secondary screening in immigration. I asked whether I could i speak with him or have a lawyer from the guardian sent in and they said you cannot speak with him and he does not have the right to a lawyer present with him. I asked them what their intentions were as far as how long he would be held and they said they had no idea and that is all they would tell me.
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David Miranda
Glenn Greenwald's partner
CNNW 08/20/2013
Cooper: So David had visited this film maker you're reporting partner on the NSA stories, Laura Poitas, in Berlin. Miranda: yes. Cooper i read the guardian paid for David's flights. Glen, was he carrying classified material with him? Greenwald: well, I'm not going to talk about what he was carrying because that's our work product as journalist, remember both Laura and i are working with "the guardian" as journalists. What I would say is every single newsroom in the United
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Greenwald continued: States, every single major news organization in the world has classified information reporting on what governments do in the secret, is what journalism is about. So if you want to support the idea that states can just go and confiscate from journalist, classified information, you should be demanding that your government go physically into newsrooms and seize whatever classified information is there. All of the best reporting over the last 40 years involved journalists having classified information, the pentagon papers, the bush torture sites, CIA black sites, the illegal warrantless ease dropping program that’s what investigative journalism is and if you want to
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian Reporter
CNNW 08/20/2013
Greenwald continued: criminalize that, it means that you’re asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to allow people in power to conceal what they’re doing behind a wall of secrecy and to have no accountability or transparency. Journalism is not a crime and it is not terrorism.
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