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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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Dianne Feinstein quoted
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 10/29/2013
Shactman: We want to start this morning with the NSA. This morning it’s not just America’s allies who are upset over the agencies wiretapping. One of the staunchest backers, Diane Feinstein now calling for a full review of the mass data collection at home and abroad. the California democrat who chairs the senate intelligence committee says she's totally opposed to spying on U.S. allies. According to her, congress has not been adequately kept in the loop. Feinstein also said the administration assured her surveillance would not continue, a point that some officials later challenged.
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Dianne Feinstein quoted
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 10/29/2013
Hall: The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein who has been a lawyer defender of the NSA has broken ranks with the agency and is now calling for a full review of all of their surveillance programs. Senator Feinstein says she quote, “totally opposed to spying on U.S. allies and adds that Congress has not been kept in the loop. Feinstein's republican counterpart, on the Intelligence Committee, republican Susan Collins, agrees in a statement she says, she notes “there's no justification for collecting intel on leaders of our closest allies and said she will meet with the German Ambassador tonight to say she is opposed to the phone tapping.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CNNW 11/04/2013
Blitzer: Eric Schmidt, the Google executive chairman, telling the "Wall Street Journal" this. The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk. It's just bad public policy and perhaps illegal. You agree with him? Feinstein: No. and I'll tell you this much. You take down that phone records program and you will increase the risk of an attack in this country. I very much believe that. these phone record programs were part of at least 12 potential arrests in the country in the past and I think because we have been saved from a major attack, I think there's a belief around well, terrorism is down.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Feinstein: I think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don’t understand that we still occupy the role of the great satan. New bombs are being devised. New terrorists are emerging. New groups. Actually, a new level of viciousness. And I think we need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that respects people's privacy rights.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Feinstein: When you look at what companies collect, the government does not seem to be a major offender at all. Gregory: But isn't the difference, of course, Chairman, that it's only the government that can deprive you of your liberty. You know, Google or Amazon, you still have to click to acquiesce and not even know they have a lot of that personal information. The government seems to want total awareness. And that's where even in the name of security a lot of critics say sorry, that is an invasion of privacy (and that is going overboard.)
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Gregory: Senator Feinstein, is there any chance that some of your colleagues who disagree with you will be successful in shutting down the program, the bulk collection of this metadata? Feinstein I don't believe so. The President has very clearly said that he wants to keep the capability. He wants to look for, other than the government, holding the material. So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant majority, everybody virtually, except two or three on the senate intelligence committee, would agree with that. He wants to make some changes in the FISA court that you have to have the approval of the court before you query. That the amicus concept involving a panel would come into being. But the important thing to me is the President very clearly said, we need this capability to keep people safe.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 01/19/2014
Feinstein: Now let me say something about Mr. Snowden. I heard him on television say that he went there with the intent to scrape our systems. That he obtained a scrape tool and he began to scrape, over I believe a two-month period, as much as he could get ahold of. This isn't somebody who comes upon something and says, this isn't the right thing for the government to do. I want to go out and talk to people about it. He came there with the intent to take as much material down as he possibly could. Gregory: And 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.
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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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Dianne Feinstein (quoted)
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN 01/29/2014
And this from Josh Gerstein of Politico, he writes that senate intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein says that she is not aware of any evidence that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was acting on behalf of Russian intelligence. Adding that she has in her words, “no information to that effect and has never seen anything to that effect.”
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 03/11/2014
Feinstein: on December 6, 2007, a
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