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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
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 04/03/2014
Feinstein: This is not what Americans do. The report also points to major problems with the CIA's management of this program and its interactions with the White House, other parts of the executive branch and Congress. This is also deeply troubling and shows why oversight of intelligence agencies in a democratic nation is so important. The release of the summary and conclusions in the near future shows that this nation admits its errors. As painful as they may be and seeks to learn from them. It is now abundantly clear that in an effort to prevent further terrorist attacks after 9/11 and bring those responsible to justice, the CIA did make some serious mistakes and that they haunt us to this day. We are acknowledging those mistakes and we have a continuing responsibility
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 04/03/2014
Feinstein: We are acknowledging those mistakes and we have a continuing responsibility to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. The full 6200 page report has been updated and will be held for declassification at a later time. I want to recognize the tireless and dedicated work of the staff who produce this report over the past five years under very trying circumstances. They have made an enormous contribution. And I also want to thank my colleagues, the Senators who have supported this review from the beginning and have ensured that we reach this point. Thank you.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
KPIX 07/31/2014
Orr: In addition to his apology, Brennan ordered a broader internal review. On Capitol Hill, Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein said in a statement,
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John Brennan
Director of the CIA
MSNBCW 07/31/2014
Landay: The question is whether or not the CIA had hacked into this computer in an effort to thwart the committee's investigation and John Brennan said absolutely not. The definition of the word hack may be what's at play here because at least as far as the CIA is concerned they can't hack into their own computer system. This was a system that the CIA provided to the Senate staff, but I suspect that a lot of people are going to say that's splitting hairs and indeed, the CIA did hack into this system to determine whether or not the CIA had an internal review of the interrogation program, that according to Senator Feinstein and others, actually confirmed the findings of the Senate's own report.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
KNTV 08/01/2014
Mitchell: That Senate report is described by some as dynamite. But tonight Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein is complaining that the White House, which has the final say on who gets -- what gets declassified and released to the public, cut too much out of it and she's not going to release it in its edited form. The fight continues.
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Saxby Chambliss
U.S. Senator R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
KYW 08/03/2014
Chambliss: He called Senator Feinstein and me and came to us and he sat down and said here is what happened. Well, the fact is we now know he didn’t have all the facts. Once he got all the facts he came back and he did apologize. He was wrong. Senator Feinstein was right. O’Donnell: But when you hear that the C.I.A. is spying on Senate computers? Chambliss: These are their computers that were on their premises but they were being dedicated to Senate staff. And I‘m going to tell you, this is very, very serious. If I thought John Brennan knew about this, then it would be, certainly we’d be calling for his resignation. But the OIG made a specific finding that he did not. But I will tell you these five staffers that did this, if they worked for me they would be gone now but the accountability board has been convened and they will be looking into this and they will be dealt with accordingly.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
MSNBCW 08/06/2014
Kornacki: yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who's the chair of the Intelligence Committee, said the CIA has taken this report and over-redacted it. That it has abused its power to redact. That it is trying to keep too much secret. She said the redactions, quote, “obscure key facts that support the report's findings and conclusions.” And now, she's vowing not to release that final report until and unless the CIA and her committee can come up with some compromise. She's also sent a letter to the White House registering her complaints. Democratic Senator Carl Levin called the CIA's redactions totally unacceptable. quote, “the classification process should be used to protect sources and methods where the disclosure of information that could compromise national security, not to avoid disclosure or improper acts or embarrassing information.”
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Feinstein: I do not want to end the program. I'm prepared to make the compromise which is that the metadata will be kept by the telecoms. Senator Chambliss and I wrote a letter to the four big telecoms and we asked them if they would hold the data. The answer came back from two,
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Feinstein: Senator Rubio sits on our committee. I listened to him with interest. I agree with him in what he has said about ISIL and others that will come after us if they can and the only protection we have is essentially to disrupt a plot before it becomes a reality in this country. And the program is not widely used, as the 288 queries in a given year would -- would indicate. Additionally, in this bill -- and this should I think be of satisfaction to a number of people -- the FISA court would have to approve a query before that query takes place rather than after the query. So I'm prepared to support the bill. And I do so for very practical reasons, because without it, I believe we will not have a program.
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Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Senator (D-CA), Chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
CSPAN2 11/18/2014
Feinstein: So this is hard for me because I have a great committee and I've tried to be supportive of those things that come out of our committee. I've talked to Senator Leahy. I've said, the one big problem I have is the foreign intelligence surveillance court is upset with the language. He has said, we will change the language. Senator Blumenthal has an amendment which I assume will pass which does change the language and the major objection of the court I believe is ended by this language. If that's the case and the telecoms agree to hold the data and the data is not held by the government but is held by the telecoms, I believe that solves what is a very practical problem. So in any event, I've agreed to support it and I thank the chair, and I yield the floor.
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