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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
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Rogers: I believe there’s a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms of an FSB agent in Moscow. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Gregory: You think the Russians helped Ed Snowden? Rogers: I believe there's questions to be answer there. I don't think it was a gee whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow under the handling of the FSB. Gregory: That's a significant development. Rogers: I said we have questions we have to answer. But as somebody who used to do investigations, some of the things we're finding we would call clues that certainly would indicate to me that he had some help and he stole things that had nothing to do with privacy.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Gregory: Do you agree with Chairman Rogers that he may have had help from the Russians? Feinstein: He may well have. We don't know at this stage. But I think to glorify this act is really to set sort of a new -- a new level of dishonor. And this goes to where these data, this metadata goes because the NSA are professionals. They are limited in number to 22 who have access to the data. Two of them are supervisors. They are vetted. They are carefully supervised. The data goes anywhere else. How do you provide that level of supervision? Gregory: So is it critical then to get to the bottom and reinvestigate who might have been involved and whether there was any link to the Russians? Feinstein: Absolutely, absolutely. Rogers: Absolutely and that investigation is ongoing.
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Edward Snowden
Whistleblower
ALJAZAM 02/03/2014
Gizbert: Snowden used an interview with the New Yorker Magazine to accuse the U.S. mainstream media of abdicating their ability to hold power to account. He was talking about interviews done January 19th by Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein. Rogers: I believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms of an FSB agent in Moscow. Gizbert: The two had congressional intelligence committees both muse allowed on the possibility that Snowden, exiled in Moscow has been working for the Russians all along. Snowden denies that and says “it is not the smears that mystify me. It’s that outlets report statements that speakers themselves admit are sheer speculation.” He added “It’s just amazing that these massive media institutions don't have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean these are pretty serious allegations.”
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James Comey
Director of the FBI
CSPAN2 02/04/2014
Rogers: There have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. Mr. Comey, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, is that a crime? Comey: Yes, it is. Rogers: And would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the United States government, would that be a crime? Comey: It would be. It's an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering news promulgation function, but in general fencing or selling stolen property is a crime. Rogers: So if I am a news report for fill in the blank and I sell stolen material is that legal because I am a newspaper reporter? Comey: Right, if you’re a newspaper reporter and you’re hawking stolen jewelry it’s as a crime.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 02/04/2014
Rogers: If I am hawking stolen classified material that I’m not legally in possession of for personal gain and profit, is that not a crime? Comey: I think that's a harder question because it involves a news gathering function. Could have first amendment implications. It’s something probably be better answered by the Dept. of Justice. Rogers: So entering into a commercial enterprise to sell stolen material is acceptable to a legitimate news organization? Comey: I’m not sure I’m able to answer that question in the abstract. Rogers: It’s something we should think about, is it not? Comey: Certainly. Rogers: And so If there are accomplices in purveying stolen information shouldn't we be concerned about that? Comey: We should be concerned about all of the facts surrounding the theft of classified information and it’s promulgation.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 02/04/2014
Rogers: And interesting, over the, again, the Munich conference where we had individuals tell us that in fact there are individuals who are saying to be in possession of this information who are eager to sell this information to other news organizations. Would that be a legitimate exercise on behalf of a reporter? Comey: That’s a question now you’re getting from the general to the particular. I don’t want to talk about the case in particular cause it’s an active investigation of ours. Rogers: It’s an active investigation for accomplices brokering in stolen information? Comey: We are looking at the totality of the circumstances around the theft and promulgation. Rogers: That’s very interesting.
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Mike Rogers
U.S. Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 03/25/2014
Rogers: I passionately believe that this program saved American lives. Believe it was legal. it was overseen. It was passed by congress. Now, the review committees that got to section 215, no one found any illegal activities or misuse. So we know that the program served its purpose, was legal and had the proper level of oversight. Now, it did create discomfort with Americans. And we knew one thing when we walked into this negotiation, that if we were going to continue the ability to protect Americans against foreign terrorists making efforts to call into the United States, we a program that accomplished that.
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Mike Rogers
U.S. Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 03/25/2014
Rogers: What we will ban under section 215 is the use of FISA to collect bulk electronic communication records, email, metadata and internet metadata, the use of FISA to collect bulk sensitive personal records, library records, firearm sales records, tax return records, etc. And we can go into more detail in the questions period. But that is a primary concern of both the average Americans who were concerned about the government holding large quantities of phone metadata. Again, no content, no names, but just the metadata. We think again we've found a way to do that.
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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.
MSNBCW 07/08/2014
Wagner: NSA officials who have asserted for over a year that this type of internet data collected under section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act was limited to foreign nationals outside the U.S. Rogers: Is the NSA have the ability to listen to Americans' phone calls or read their e-mails under these two programs? Alexander: No, we do not have that authority. Rogers: Does the technology exist at the NSA to flip a switch by some analysts to listen to Americans' phone calls or read e-mails? Alexander: No. Rogers: So the technology does not exist for any individual or group of individuals at the NSA to flip a switch to listen to Americans' phone calls or read their e-mails? Alexander: That is correct. Wagner: Administration officials had repeatedly ridiculed Snowden's claims that he had access to such content. As recently as May, the former NSA chief assured the “New Yorker” that he didn't get that database, he didn’t have access to.
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Mike Rogers
Representative (R-Mich.), Chair, House Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 08/03/2014
Rogers: I think it was wrong. Somebody needs to be held accountable. Crowley: Who is somebody? Should Brennan go? Rogers: We're going through the review. Somebody made a decision to do it but remember these weren't Senate computers. These were CIA computers at the CIA, so I think you have to take that into consideration when you're walking through. Crowley: We're kind of dancing on the head of a pin. Rogers: Well, no, in the sense it's a bit complicated but the story when briefed by the IG, it makes you stop and pause and say somebody needs to be held accountable, this is very serious but I don't think this is some conspiracy notion that they wanted to spy on either of our committees. That would of course be intolerable, I think it would be a crime. This somebody overstepped their bounds by trying to figure out what the coding was on who had access to CIA computers and CIA spaces, that's a little bit different than spying on congress, in my mind. still serious breach. it is a very serious breach of trust,
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