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time sth. lou we will will will will . the we met one or two sections battle of moscow and washington street banks and so with my new background the latest is the day. why give the still have no access to a result of the us senate investigation into the cis use of torture. more on that coming up. and the governor's race in ohio is liking the libertarian candidate. i just recently kicked the candidate off the ballot what's behind this ruling will talk to the candidate himself later in the show
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then watch when you registered on in washington dc to watch and working there when one of our anchors sitting in this chair quit on him. the us media jumped on the story but this could mean more to it than just an increased resignation political commentator sensex has more origin has been in the spotlight recently cincinnati to resign two weeks ago. here the network and a new article published in truth did this week by reporters running college and max blumenthal reveal a group of neo conserve the organizations that took a particular interest in that former anchors on air announcement after the foreign policy initiative a think tank founded in two thousand. as the organization notes in its mission statement. united states and its democratic allies face many foreign policy challenges that come from rising or certain powers including china and russia are here's the question why
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was the foreign policy initiatives official twitter account. predicting that a former rta to was about to resign on air minutes before she actually did. there's that we did right there. you can read for yourself. no one at the mission pres care to answer that question. someone who might know is that this guy. jean kerr check. just so happens to work at the foreign policy initiative and just like the initiative is obsessed with russia particularly this network rta he also secured the first interview with the former rta or just an hour after she resigned. check out his bio over at daily beast word he writes notice he's done. no reporting on anything else other than rt recently. even stop by the rt offices here in washington dc last week to say hello to everyone. so the lotion. kerr j crew's criticize art is a state funded media outlet previously worked at state funded media outlets like radio free europe radio liberty which receives its funding from the us congress
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and beams pro american messages to eastern europe places like ukraine. her chicks colleague at the daily beast eli lake has also devoted a lot of ink to fear mongering about russia in criticizing this network. so too has boasted reporter roots egret. both have taken particular interest in the on air resignation of the former art teacher as well as reading several stories about it. and both have been connected to this guy is michael cole park who founded the ultra conservative washington predicted newspaper that was formerly a pure lobbyist for the nation of georgia during its war with russia as the truth that article wedges. gold are fed georgian prt knew i was now a national security correspondent the daily beast and receive great busted reporter who produced the reason it was then on rte now looking at all of this media critic danish actor things this battle being waged against art is a proxy battle for neocons who are
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pushing a certain foreign policy agenda. this was actually planned and promoted and publicize the units are teeny tiny in an argument that these people are having with the obama administration namely they want the obama administration to be more aggressive in a wanna be able to bash obama for not doing any one of a number of things which could include bombing roadshow whatever the journalists are always told to dig deeper into things aren't always as they see. maybe that's why it's so important in this case the question more washington d c said socks are too. note to new developments around quite new to leading rusher present obama has signed an executive order that gives the us the authority to impose sanctions not just on russian individuals he said but also on different sectors of the russian economy present obama also said the sanctions it imposed would be disruptive. not only torture but also to the global
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economy. washington as earlier targeted eleven russian officials barring them from entering the us and freezing their here which many of them said they didn't moscow responded with a similar move our case justice the church has to be killed i just really continuing to tense up here in washington dc with her from us president barack obama say that washington is imposing new sanctions on further russian individuals and the bank part of that new list of individuals includes not a stage of the state duma speaker that's the lower house of russia's parliament as well as the head of the presidential administration in russia is of course comes out as a rush to take spring yet to be part of its own territory. this is just yet another step from the united states. in terms of not taking action on to respond to what it considers to be in a legal process this is what the us president set aside a new executive order today that gives us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals but on key sectors of the russian
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economy. this is not our preferred outcome the sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy would also be disruptive to the global economy a new us president obama signed an executive order that means that we provide the west with the option to impose sanctions on high key sectors of russian economy and we do know that the sectors in question are energy financial services metal and mining engineering and defends off into the air but of course and this was quite expected russia has come up with its own list of individuals that is going to be sanctioning for now with a band of entry into a brush of these people include the speaker house of representatives by sen r us senator john mccain as well as aids to us president barack obama and congress meant god and others that each soul so it's unfortunate that obama has said for now that's not the military option is to continue to not be something that he was considering that the diplomatic option remains
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well certainly the sanctions it's no secret to being imposed on topshop are going to create difficulty between the two countries because there's certainly plenty of the issues that you as a means of russia's cooperation on on the international arena as tensions continue to be high between russia the west and west. it's important at this and couldn't hire crisis has been surrounded really buy a huge flow of misinformation for more and that's us now go to my report the shooting ukrainian creates a stir in the international community the spokesperson for the us state department and saki post a tweet saying stop shooting at them for a full clear that russia fired the first shot. we went to a press briefing in to ask sucky but this very serious allegation was based on it and actually you're saying that it's clear that it actually fired a shot first and that's a pretty serious allegation. so gorgeous curio don't see many to say we don't see how it is possibly true that the russian claim that i gave were up there and they were not that that someone else
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was the aggressor that the ukrainians for the aggressor can possibly be true given they entered the ukrainian bates they're not saying that they're saying it's a provocation wires are saying that it's very clear i have said that obama but i think we're ready to move on. and to give another topic. an accusation against russia has been made but there's no room for an explanation post tweets are not based on any credible evidence. she's just talking she is creating headlines and of course most importantly she's feeding the us media the corporate owned media the echo chamber no line so that they can keep up the drumbeat of demonization against russia. such misinformation is not only coming from an official government body responsible for u s foreign policy but also through twitter page is directed at russian readers to whom the psyche tweed was also dressed like this russian language twitter page called concrete progress set up by the state department which has been tweeting on it repeated allegations like this one is using light and the person of allowing one ukrainian service meant to be shot dead. this is continuous
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state department spokesperson who contemplates the victorian newland who the protests including the far right elements. she is not functioning right now as a diplomat and she is not functioning right now as some sort of objective spokesperson. this is a propaganda machine in the media war against russia u s officials seem to be inventing the rules as they go along. from what i don't own principles depending on the current geopolitical focus defeating and the stream of misinformation while ignoring the need to explain not only highly questionable but also dangerous the us is the featured in a r t washington dc. the senate select committee on intelligence to spend five years investigating the us government's use of torture and interrogation of suspected terrorists after the nine eleven attacks. they analyzed thousands of pages of ci is internal report and came up with their own last year but both reports are
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classified. outside that mean the intelligence community the community nobody knows what's in them. but what we do know it now thanks to senator dianne feinstein is that the ci has possibly checked into the computers of senate staffers and remove key documents and thus interfered with the investigation. earlier i was joined by layering seems author of the porsche report is also behind the online in tracking website the courtroom put dot org that has built a documentary record of the bush administration torture program. i first asked him what is it in the senate investigation that the government doesn't want people to help well senator feinstein has been pretty clear and safe knowing what's in the report when the weather report was completed and in two thousand and twelve. there is a press release that one out with a quote from her saying you know essentially the study that they had done should put to rest them. once and for all the debate about whether or not the bad state should be involved in either kinds of detention and interrogation practices that were carried out into the end
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of the cis. rendition detention and interrogation program she said you know the report basically showed up first of all that did the techniques that had been described to the and to the senate committee and in secret briefings i were not applied as they were described and not only that but also that they were not effective and i think that was one of the eye to it that the crucial. the crucial finding of the report which is which is so problematic for the c i a but it would also ascertained that the us broke into national law right well yes absolutely and i think that's you know that's that's pretty much clear from documented have been declassified it mean we know enough about that. about the enhanced interrogation techniques as they were even articulated and nine. and that the dlc memos and and and those sorts of things that our definition. or are good description of those techniques that god was a distortion of the law and they would almost certainly be illegal under
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international law but i think the thing is that the bid the documents that that the select committee was was looking at are ones that are in so much more immediate that describe how these techniques were actually applied. and also in a beat the egg and that meant that the kind of information that supposedly was generated by the application of these techniques. and i think what's you know what that what the committee found him and was in tow was quite calm wait wait in traffic in and describing in its report was that again that these techniques went far beyond the descriptions and also that they did generated really very little if any effective intelligence at all sir torture arguably happened years ago they're not going anymore. hopefully a but why does the government feel that they have to be absolutely have to shield that this court report from everybody while i think it's i don't think it's a question of the government as a whole i don't think it's i think what we're seeing as it is a very human drama about who gets to control the story and
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i think you know when there are errors and mistakes and and and non wrongdoing and even criminal conduct. i think it's human nature to try to conceal and cover up that behavior and you know that what was happening now is it is a struggle for who gets to who gets to tell the story who gets to who gets to hear the story. and it did i think that that there's many people within the c i who are telling a much different story and that's the law lot of what's happening with this controversy about between diane feinstein and the select committee raised concerns that the fact that that the senate staffers when they were looking at the shared drive that the c i a setup in order to upload a bunch of documents that this meant that committee was asked review came across a cross and documents for what we're calling that matter maybe that is leon panetta when he was director of the c i asked does that have passed the c i a to look at the same documents that they were uploading to this drive. and in their analysis apparently in the review they came to
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essentially the same conclusions as to that the senate committee dead in a six thousand page report which is still classified now that the bad sign. it was cooking. and now that that report it is still classified that the c i asked for the right to do a rebuttal document the document is also classified but they say that essentially the committee got wrong in these use the techniques did work and here's why. but then admitted that the senate staffers and came across this matter review and an internal document which says essentially the same day the things that were used in ways that they were described and they don't work so it's not a matter of the fact that you know there's been a massive effort within the c i a to disguise the fact that this happens a lot of people within the c i who have the know who have been going on record from the very beginning of the rendition detention interrogation program to challenge these practices to say they don't work. in fact they're the reason that we have a lot
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of these documents i think that one of the interesting really riveting aspects of the strong right now. is it is you're studying that seeing this moment in which we know the real question is accountability and our people within the c i a good man asking for accountability for quite some time. and on and am now all of their voices are being heard on the outside the intelligence community's main defense has been secrecy and congress usually it doesn't give them hard time about anything really take drugs for example but sometimes even congress gets irritated by the flip flops of the c i and i wanna read a quote from sen wyden he was speaking about the allegations of the ci is interfering with the torch investigation and he said the ci is all spokesman has said the c i conducted this research to find out if the intelligence committee had made the critical files in question but in a interview last weekend the c i a director said and i quote as far as the allegations of the c i a hacking into senate computers. nothing can be further from the truth. we
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wouldn't do that this is beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we would do that. tell me about how easy it is for the cib to get away with wrongdoing. oh well that's a really good question and where words were dying and i think we've been watching a ten year process that center is exactly on the rendition detention and interrogation program. it does seem to answer the question to see what that this eia will quote unquote get away with. in may of two thousand and four the cis inspector general i completed an internal investigation in which he sort of audited what was going on in the cia black sites. an investigation which was started because c i a agents were coming home from the black sites and take and you can believe what we're doing out there and market certainly violates the law to put this agency in jeopardy of other people in jeopardy it's kind of fact america's image abroad. so the outlook doesn't like to say this isn't bad at ten year struggle that's been going on
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to essentially tell the story to really allow the to enter into discussion and to include scrutiny about what one on what it accomplished what it did not accomplish and i meant to move on so you know we have. we have sort of systematic we publicly put off an accountability process and because we've done that the cia is in a red oak been allowed in a way to continue to try to cover its tracks and i think it's that time is calm the should be asking for the release of the six thousand three hundred page report that the son of man the senate intelligence committee has completed that's our report. these are our elected officials who were charged with the number of oversight on our behalf we should be asking to see that report we should read that report they should be asking the ci publicly to become another port. a comment on its official rebuttal of the report and on the panel to review the report. and then we should make the decision there seems author of
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the torture report it's been months since a series of accidents chartered the only toxic waste repository for nuclear bomb building facilities in the us but the operator of the troubled tom says he found a waste that temporary home in rural west texas. the waste isolation pilot plant near coles bay new mexico dispose of waste from los alamos national laboratory has been shuttered for over a month following two separate accidents. an underground car fire and a radiation leak the letter happen the figure of fourteen can affect a seventeen of its workers. now the new clio waste partnership says it is proposing to shut the nuclear waste over the border to a site in andrews county texas until the new mexico plant reopens. the texas facility has agreed until the investigations into the accidents are completed federal officials released their report on the first accident last week it says the underground fire was
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preventable and points to perform maintenance and emergency planning at the facility called and residents in the meantime continue to wait for the results of an investigation into the second accident. the radiation leak there were reports of elevated radiation readings in the area just last week local officials say the radiation was not related to the savior in the hand is not a health threat the final report on the leak is expected in the next few weeks. now in ohio a libertarian candidate for the governor's race in twenty fourteen charlie girl is desperately trying to get on the ballot. but it's become very difficult for him after the judge of the district court in ohio. the role that truly world was ineligible due to invalid collection of petition signatures. the same judge also wrote this about the person who brought up the case against the libertarian candidate his testimony. demonstrates that he likes even a basic understanding of the nature
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of the protest the agreed to sign to state the obvious fill such a testimony as well as other evidence in the record. support an inference that operatives are supporters of the ohio republican party orchestrated the protests that falsely to sign it. but i still had no bearing on the legal issue at hand. earlier today i spoke with charlie for a libertarian candidate for governor in ohio i first asked him why he thinks the gop was behind him getting kicked off the ballot the court decision was issued yesterday. the opinion of the judge watson. which basically out so that we would be allowed on the ballot due to some technical issues. one of which we added efficiency and our petition are awake. i can say is that our independent contractor good gathers signatures fours didn't indicate who is employed or waters. he justified it the secretary of state eric
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even if it is again on trial for more than ten years and had to do it before. and that's that she was a self employed independent contractor didn't think was necessary to do that. we also found that a federal hearing that. bad element never been before said a state law while at least the landscape here so we were little puzzled by that but the of law strictly says that that portion must be filled out so i guess they decided at this time if i were in force the issue. and oh so but but we have filed an appeal with the sixth circuit court of appeals and i was up dr did this morning at ten o'clock. this early in his opinion judge walton also noted that called the ohio democratic party or its operatives or supporters provided assistance to the libertarian party of ohio in their efforts to gather petition signatures to the democrats were helping you out. well it did not
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directly in the sense that there is a firm called strategy network that does allow to work for democrats and democratic oriented issues. they also represent the freedom to marry organization that you as a lot of affiliation with libertarians and it was the strategy that worked that out but some of their people to work collecting signatures for us. these are not affiliated. collectors are speculators they were democrats that now registered democrats in fact it is secretary of state erie. all of their steak dishes were valid. there was no issue there the only issue is with the paid in the pentagon for her. but when the democrats be interested in you being on the ballot because the kind of makes you a spoiler for the republicans. well perhaps but at that sort of a man surrounding libertarians historically we draw from both parties in it. actually we draw from. from a polaroid
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is affiliated disillusioned with both parks. roughly fifty percent of the voters i don't belong in either party. now the navy leading rider believe laugh or whatever. but an analysis for example a project probably the most recent example of a web activism now losses of up only after the election exit poll weight and fat abit more democrat leading people voted for starters. that republican leading people. i would note that the data the icu indicated in red states to interrupt you for republicans over democrats in a police station for a few more democrats just because of the sheer numbers of other sites which offer pose size of the spectrum. i did just that with the republic because we preach constitutional is a bit of individual liberty and as part of their playbook the video though implemented the acs is a threat or right i think we're a threat to both parties. charles for a
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libertarian candidate for governor in ohio. and before we go. don't forget to tune in for politicking with larry king tonight that zone features baby trolley tour the florida republican who just became a continuous member of the house of representatives here's a snippet of what's to come when was the descent. this is very unusual usually has elected republicans to congress when it gave its vote to obama in the last two elections on the size of pinellas county and environs the show and that's why this race was so wide that made this way if i was not a candidate still be fascinated by this race it's a fifty fifty district of roughly a third or thirty third. a typical district is the anchor the eye for core doing critical for that. so it has everything you want it's the superbowl of politics in a special election like this. what can't be overlooked though this is a one county district and is a community district control of
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the interest of the national parties you know i always knew that we would come out on the right side of this race because i knew this community it's my community it's my home. tip o'neill was right of politics is local. a lot of local issues in this race. obamacare was one that affected us locally. but at the same time it was more than that in this race this is a one county district it said. it's a great district it will be just as close in november i wish it wasn't m job over the summer as i promised at the top of the voters i would do. having november all take care of itself. so today at nine pm tonight during our tea american. that's it for now for more on the stories we covered go to the youtube dot com slash short in their care and check out our website or t dot com slash usa can also follow me on twitter at kindy underscore our team. can i. and. many
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because of the street the impending heart. they let none of the one inside me the summary then they were all no comments no comments the rev time for those who are dying there. i actually asked a lot of editing to add between the many other bank is jumping from buildings to their death. the thing though and i said yes. that would be fifteen years ago and now it's a clear leader in twenty fourteen when i had bangor is to make do with that. i actually jumping from buildings just like i predicted. that was just
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dumping his death in manhattan. in investment banking analyst to work the jpmorgan among other companies whose sole purpose is to figure out how to make money from other people's money. a former senior executive of deutsche bank was found dead of an apparent suicide in his home. i'm generate one affected another jpmorgan employee threw himself off the roof of their european headquarters and generate twenty thousand add to your netflix and that your grades in washington in january the first add another jpmorgan executive still can't help thinking that every parent. i have insurance company american title services with no data on every floor. after shul felt what i mean the guy another major junction of the jpmorgan headquarters building at times haha. every ninety. trader admirable group in manhattan through his out in front of the long island rail road train market lead. mountain of london and
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eight. and there's also been a handful of other financial professionals whose deaths this year have been very mysterious and haven't technically the world is suicide. yet all the hallmarks of conspiracy theories are trying to tie them all together or blowing up by money. i do think there's anything this year is going on. i thought coming fifty years ago. it's not that i'm some especially depression forced to tell air just a teeny annie at the current cast of these vendors green. i think gambling and the knowledge that they were squabbling with their neighbors would also really be too hard on me when i need to make. so now it's time for another prediction of the obvious the financial system still continues to build a smoke and mirrors and really need to clearly identify them well i'm the kind that were heading right for another crash. i might be not to bring the whole fifth on the road for good. you heard
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will . i do all that what it means my next friday much twenty five staff holiday here in a terror campaign casting coup by hashing it means interim government as a stepping up measures against iran chad to protest its an extension of the economist republic of crimea and ukraine's national security and defense council secretary on the part of the said his country will quit the commonwealth of independent states. an organization comprised of former soviet republics the foreign ministry t

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