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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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Dana Rohrabacher
U.S. Representative R-CA, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Rohrabacher: I think declaring what Mr.. Snowden did, by alerting the American people to over surveillance, on the part of our own government, of our population, to call him a traitor is going too far. In fact he was being loyal to the rest of us by letting the American people know that their government was getting out of hand.
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Dana Rohrabacher
U.S. Representative R-CA, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Rohrabacher continued: And when our government suggests that it has to keep a record of every phone call every citizen makes in order to protect us, it has gone too far. Now the fact that Russia gave him asylum is very -- i think it is very symbolic. Russia, a country we attacked – and by the way, as you know, i was Ronald Reagan's speech writer for seven years. I worked with him on most if not many of his
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Dana Rohrabacher
U.S. Representative R-CA, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
CSPAN 08/09/2013
Rohrabacher continued 2: see happening in our own society. Snowden was just alerting us to our governmental getting out of hand. And Russia accepting him for asylum, I think, was not as hostile an act as it is being portrayed.
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