private who revealed the ugly side of us were there was a new legal team chelsea manning's team will push for an appealing even if it means going to the supreme court will speak with the number of deals in the hat the actress abigail law school to call out the obama administration's prosecution of whistleblowers lawyer more on that show that democracy that. the results are in the dc primary election scandal plagued hair bows from office of the nation's top of bikes for sale. she later the show a

fan. when the us the kids and i can hear what you see on monday after watching her and a letter to her supporters last week took an outing fondly known as wrapping than the amounts from prison that she has a new team of lawyers for her appeals process. she sure readers she's doing well she's met the new team and is very excited to work with and pointing out that they're willing to take her case as far is necessary even to the supreme court. manning appeal to an earlier by nancy holland are one of the attorneys for chelsea. i started by asking her how manning was doing in prison when she last saw her. she was doing very well we met with early military in leavenworth. i with angie natig the nineteen nineties to get on with the next race in this

case. let's talk about the next phase of this case what made you decide to actually taken on a ten day job for anyone but why was it that made you. i'm eager to get involved. worst of all because she asked. i received a letter from chelsea asking if we would be interested in representing. i didn't arrange for telephone call and i thought it would be a good case for us. my partner vincent ward is a former navy jack up the steps of the scandal military cases which i have not been revoked and a lot of national security cases the question you about the case. and i know we are told chelsea the real economy with her because i thought she should meet us personally before she made her final station and machinery for her. so we met with her we all agreed that that does worry dear and me taken in. i hope he is going through the process of

seeking clemency. that's got to end before the appeals process can officially begin how long can this go on before you are and the business actually stockpot the atheists really know and eight. i don't think that the convening authority has a deadline. i suspect it will be several months but he gives us a chance to get started to start thinking about the case and are working on some of the issues that we know about now. even though it hasn't officially started. and she says i'm speaking of those experts have pointed out in many media reports that the is ready. experts have pointed out numerous reasons that so many nice eyes the case could be on top for appeal pre trial treatment of prosecution on all three the charge sheet when it did the thirty five year sentence. what are some of the things that stand out immediately to you that you might look for at this point

when you look. many of the things that david kahn says mention of course we have a look at the record trial yet and we don't really know what you read the east there are major issues in he bin our jac. th a maj the speedyrial. that be it's really too earlywill it's too early to know our obligation is to make sure that at chelsea received a fair trial and due process and that's that's what we're going to do with him and look at every every possible issue that we have for her. a lot of paperwork to attack right there. now what is the timeline for this ide appeals process. it was ian's want one thing dd and i believe the greeks are day they're offeringsixty extensions of time for that and then goes to the first court of appeal to men

the second court of appeals and many cou go to the supreme court perhaps. so it can be a long process. all right nancy holland or the attorney for chelsea manning thank you very much for joining. you're welcome thank you. and you confirmation fro the us director of national intelligence at the national security agency has performed warrantless searches of americans' communications documents leaked edward study published in the guardian in august showed that the foreign surveillance court secretly change surveillance law in two thousand eleven to allow the nsa to pull americans' e mails and phone calls this vast databases without warrants. senator ron wyden has long been trying to get the nra chief james copper to go on record about the nsa is use of what he considers this backdoor search loophole in federal law. kerry is at the hearing in january. i tried with written questions correct or clap or a year ago to get the answers and we

were still all the madness committee can do oversight if we can get direct answer so when we'll get the american people the unclassified to answer to that question that relates directly to their privacy. as soon as we can though. of the center. santa arrives in a letter to white and david fox twenty eight african firms for the first time the nsa program that was meant to target foreigners also searched americans' communications. he said. i have macquarie's using u s person identifier of communications lawfully acquired to obtain foreign intelligence targeting non u s persons reasonably believed to be located outside the united states. he went on to say that they use minimization procedures to protect personal information and that the searches were consistent with the fourth amendment. senator wyden though is not so sure he and his colleague on the senate intelligence committee senator mark udall issued a statement saying this is

unacceptable that raises serious constitutional questions and poses a real threat to the privacy rights of law abiding americans it's been nearly a year to house a diverse audience weeks documents began to unravel the secret whether surveillance on the part of the us government by whistleblower syrup fifth jail terms and remain on the run. ralph nader and snowed and attorney weigh in on how the us government as botched handling of these people and their information srt sense of future reports according to mayor the real criminals are still large the glitch the revelations came a storm of indignation from the american said the feel of mass surveillance by the us government. mind blowing this ahmed is mitigated collection program that since may of two thousand and six and recorded the phone numbers the time to read and application of every single phone call made by an american domestic and

international all of this and more time in complete secrecy for the seek of national security officials say the nsa people believe they're doing god's work and everyone would be in favor because they're making people say. but that was the sort that on the guardian sneer at the ordinary person to be a law school political activist ralph nader and high profile legal experts turned attention back to what they called the illegality of the surveillance state the us one whistleblowers and the lack of justice or accountability for actions of the government. you are. an idiot who blew the whistle on have been destroyed in terms of their careers. or are in jail. the messengers like chelsea manning and edwards snowmen are punished and accused of being traitors many questions about the spying i get to be answered with additional weeks continuing to expose the extent of the surveillance program they are. in a hurry all of

the mall. i know the irony we're mesquite beans. he is legal experts eagles and power in the west seem to have forgotten that liberty and security are not opposing the oceans they can coexist rudd government power and while corporate power aren't destroying the rule of law and constitutional government and our country. well baby steps might have been seeking to steal back the program since it became critics of the steps cosmetic and the distrust of the people likely permanent. with the revelation of the world all with your broken starting a major debate on privacy of the people and secrecy of the government action that is still ripe today raising many questions and underscoring and with one of the system are yet to be addressed by those in power rt the law

school haven connecticut what's twenty fourteen marks the first one in seven years american troop casualties in battle. the u s troops have withdrawn from iraq civilian deaths are still mounting eleven u s troop pullout says the ap that the eleven u s troop pullout. thousands have died in the continuing violence. the first three months of this year alone there have been offered three thousand civilian casualties there are however still on the ground in afghanistan even though no flag draped coffins have been thrown out of our base there in the past month. the civilian cost is still high. she's made in the past reports. the first time in seven years the pentagon announced this week that march was the first month too and we found us on that true casualties in afghanistan. the only two other month in america's longest running war and abandoned without a service member's death. those being july two thousand to january two thousand seven. according to the website to buy casualty incident on or

really the reporters note that two coalition soldiers were killed in march. however the military classifying those deaths as a non combat casualty is the name died in either a helicopter crash they had a medical emergency or otherwise. so the pentagon did not include those numbers in its traditional casualty reports. with fourteen has started off as one of the movie is dead grass and years in the war in terms of the western debts up to this point of fourteen soldiers have died as compared to nineteen this time last year and fifty four in two thousand twelve. so let's talk about the bigger picture here. since operation enduring freedom began in afghanistan around during two thousand three hundred and twelve u s servicemen and women have died and nearly twenty thousand others have been physically wounded these numbers are about half of the law says that the military sustained in a while. with nearly forty five hundred deaths. gilbert thirty two thousand injury now with all this being said

just because there weren't any of the west. and that's that does not mean that march was like he means that he's more afghan troops tapping in to take the wall of departing the western force as mayor death tolls of sparkling not that much funnier. honey karzai's administration recently the movies the total number of afghan security force deaths during this war. they are a quantum will put the number of coalition forces depths with thirteen thousand seven hundred twenty nine troops have died. mather sixteen thousand of fine hundred being reported as injured many of them were killed by taliban fighters including twenty one during a single raid in february which was the fool and deadliest attack in recent memory. number of accidental killings by coalition forces as well enlarge a nato air strike resulted in the depth of five afghan soldiers in the eastern slope our province when ponting and military checkpoints. eight others were also injured in

an intense dose of the sea keep in mind is that the coalition and afghan forces are not alone in this war. there are also a number of military contractors that are working in the entry entitled to account for military contractors is much more difficult to come by twenty two lead at least two people were killed in afghanistan in the month of february and that the number of contractors killed in afghanistan and iraq as well has gone up in recent years finally let's take a look in the number of civilians killed in this war. we like texans still happen on a new weekly basis. it was the first bombing on a luxury hotel in kabul killed nine civilians and just this week it ten more civilians were kidnapped and killed and one of the country's elections these attacks are only expected to increase the closer that the country moves to the selection is endorsing deter people from actually voting for the upcoming election will

have a major impact on the country moving forward with honey. karzai has not yet find a bilateral security agreement with the new glass for a residual force to remain the country beyond twenty fourteen to help train afghan forces. right now there are around thirty three thousand troops in afghanistan. headed down to two thousand the line. i guess meanwhile the lead up to elections in afghanistan in march while it's just this morning six police officers were killed by a suicide bomber who attacked interior ministry compound heart of kabul. another antagonist has taken hold in the country the trade. many are looking to cash in on the pocket profits with more than half of all provinces in afghanistan now cultivating plants. the us is reluctant to pressure farmers to stop sharing deal pushed on towards the taliban. as i did

was drop reports of taking a heavy toll the afghans themselves. i hear him in order to mark the end of the ever seen in each of the story of a devastating at the end of the people here addiction according to the united nations more than a million. i'm addicted to opium and four when the population of thirty million people. world's top exporter of the drought worse still. western efforts to curb production is a combination of economic and political instability the farmers planted more for more than one million acres in twenty thirteen which according to the thirty eight percent increase. we get here. the thinking of the one hundred dollars worth of the crop. opium economy and a white wine bar. farmers

also plenty of drug traffickers. one problem i've spent far behind. reporters the foreign instability. he told dr chen. we haven't worked. what had happened billion dollars to counter narcotics in two thousand till three billion dollars it was supposed to help grow worse. united nations that nineteen of the country's thirty four provinces are now growing again. an increase in tears. the presidential election. porter on the withdrawal of most foreign troops. the three of them. with global implications. western the government don't want that type of adoption. here's here. but the drug trade into the country into a fragmented

criminal york state. oh what she did not know. you may have come to my first incumbent mayor vincent gray has been plagued by scandal during his first term when primary votes were counted last night. he locks political commentators halifax takes a look at the race and the battle for statehood here in the district. danny our campaign begins anew. now we're getting ready for and then the general election that muriel bouncer from the air campaign will continue to operate. she received fewer than forty thousand votes. but it was enough for d c councilman marital bells are to win the democratic nomination for mayor of washington dc on tuesday nights. an election with historically low turnout dc voters brushed aside the current mayor vincent gray who was dogged by corruption allegations to read his first term and is facing a possible indictment by federal prosecutors. he blamed the weather we had snow day on sunday. with a

very typical. i think the focus as soon as that insanity is when seated. gray moves on to lame duck status for the next nine months and are an enormous upset in november browser will be the new mayor of the nation's capital she is promising immediate changes to the streets beleaguered ems services which are to shore up support from labor groups in the left leaning district of tissues went to d c council members to veto a measure requiring walmart to pay higher wages to district residents. still the washington d c remains under the thumb of the united states congress which has the power to veto any laws passed in the district and rinse the mayor from having total budget and legislative autonomy. that's where this man comes in. paul strauss who also won an election on tuesday. voters did in the democratic nomination for shadow center of washington dc. ill try to secure his fourth term as senator in november. it's a largely powerless position. it's also

been paid by the shadow senators strauss carries the flag for the dc statehood movement. the push to make washington d c the nation's fifty first state with full representation in the united states congress. my goal and the reason the position was created by voters was to advance the cause of dc statehood. casey residents pay for federal taxes for the military meet all the obligations of citizenship but are denied their basic fundamental rights. my job is to change that with a population of nearly six hundred fifty thousand people. washington dc is larger than many congressional districts in the country and is bigger than restaurant in wyoming which both have full representation in congress well d c only gets one non voting delegate. what would happen is the strictly federal portion of the government would stand a federal district but the part of dc for example like this tree was standing on that has nothing to do with the federal government to tell the residents and businesses would become part of the fifty first date

tentatively called new columbia bed. we're open to suggestions. the two thousand ten compromise effort that would give in to see one seed in the house of representatives was torpedoed after republicans added on an amendment to the bill to lucy gun restrictions in the district. but strauss is confident that dc statehood will ultimately succeed. dc statehood is part of the tradition of progressive change towards equal justice and equality for all americans. then again it's not an easy struggle but in the end i think we'll be successful. really committees in congress are again taking up the issue in a new bill to make dishes state has collected fourteen co sponsors including senate majority leader harry reid said tuesday's election is in the box and now merrill browser begins her general campaign for mayor. promising changes to washington dc. but its shadow sen pollster else's fight for dc statehood they could bring the most change the nation's capital

in washington d c sen socks are too. and speaking of outing it appears the americans over the two party system here in the us the libertarian party says they've seen a growth in registration up eleven cents to twelve. the state of the largest percentage increase in libertarian registration idaho wyoming nebraska and louisiana libertarians believe the increase shows that americans have a growing interest in their message out more freedom less confident on march fourteen p l a times printed a retraction of eight december two thousand thirteen story it featured a sexual assault at occidental college. in this story investigative journalist jason felt details how the college failed to report more than two dozen sexual assault cases in twenty twelve which would violate the prairie act which requires universities and colleges to publicly disclose statistics about on campus crime. people close to the college say occidental has gone to great lengths to quite a cult is reporting by

pressuring his employer forcing him out of a job me from breaking into the office of employees who helped him on the story. the county's rate hike has been a hot topic lately have been a culture that is across the united states. in fact just last week former dartmouth student parker gilbert was clear to all seven charges of and the level that again is headed by a fellow student causing outrage and concern about the call to pray on our university campuses. earlier i was joined by caroline helped many professor at occidental college and co founder of any great on campus. i asked her how bad the situation is there sickness. well the occidental college is unusual and that all campuses is pretty much are doing what they can to lower their numbers and they do this to a variety of means one is which they limit the recording area away from common sense into the end of the bare minimum legal requirement in terms of reporting on the day. also on some campuses discourage

survivors from coming forward to reporting on an act of sheer numbers low so it's been a struggle since the cleary actually just the reporting requirement was put on the books in nineteen ninety it's really been a struggle to actually get colleges and universities to report their numbers. i was fourteen. the l a times return to the three month old story by investigative journalist jason helps. i keep gaining his story he had had time to be tell how occidental college had allegedly botched federal requirements to report sexual assault campus. i knew had been quoted as saying that there have been as many as five break ins on campus related to his sources the line on that for me. so jason childs used eleven sources at least at occidental college eleven sources that i know of. i know where to source has numerous stories that he doesn't often co authored with jason song. and i yes

indeed. five of break ins have occurred with sources on all members of the anti sexual assault coalition. all federal complaints. i guess it is. are we looking at an effort by the university to break into the top of this and feel information from people who are his sources and in effect forcing the story and especially of a job. well i have my personal opinions about the matter and we do know what the facts that we do now. i read that the college hiring a pr firm specifically because of its connection to the los angeles times and more importantly because of its connection personal connection to jason felt on what we do know that there was a break and i need to jason felt had what he is calling an inappropriate relationship with the source we know the march first there was a breaking into that sources office and that's on the fritz from her journal pages from her journal specifying a relationship or put splayed out on her desk. we know that

two days later that the pr firm hired by the college then contacted the l a times has said that they uncovered on some ethical concerns about jason cultures reporting cannot put into motion a series of events that ended in his firing on doing think you should've been fired. absolutely knocked on from what i understand from my journalist friends. um that this was a very unusual firing also the fact that they tied it to i aced a specific story can read about a potential for twenty seven on the reports i can stay on for a fact that i know that this seven that the college of the seven of us all to read to the college reported in twenty twelve is an under report the admitted to under reporting and twenty ten and i we have the head of campus safety on record saying that we weren't entering anonymous complaints into the annual reports. i have proof i have the evidence of that the anonymous reports on were not injured in twenty twelve so i guess it's a nice

treated me as to why it is time that the los angeles times issued this retraction on twenty eight when we have clear evidence on that there was vast and reporting in twenty twelve. the wider picture here rate across campuses around the country on one of each one of the situation. last week at dartmouth case i the direct you to parker gilbert scored all seven charges of levelled against him by a fellow student. what does it say about the culture of our campuses. well we know that i can about two thirds of the outset most of the time survivors just don't come forward to ninety five percent of the time survivors are staying quiet the five percent were brave enough to come forward and put themselves through what's typically of the rings process on all need only about two thirds of them end up on getting a favorable outcome and then from there we know that the sanctions vary from ten to twenty five percent exposing rates for me to sew. we have a campus

crisis where you are more likely to be raped if you go to campus on go to college and if you don't go to college i met and this has to do with the fact that these institutions are simply permissive of this what is a helpful money as crime on campus. all right with caroline how can a professor at occidental college and co founder of entry on campus thinking very much what does the timing difference. let's see about that. the great depression. vancouver's signed by american act into law. it required that the us government give preference to american made products. henry hoover to feed the corporate greed was driving the big dogs and he caught me right out of the country into the toilet. trying to preserve american industry to the people. any amendments to the act apply those rules to

the us military if they think they hate us and supported by american tale the awkward our soldiers were wearing shoot me back to that of the country's deep and eight is it exactly happened to you about the depth and logistics agency. by the department of defense try to speak or manufacture has to try to find anyone that likes to be called made in america. they were attending out of the area meant another way. i wonder if she'll manufacturer could meet the requirement to be windy the company had been working me over to me. eric for company now offers eager to be one hundred percent in the air. companies that will meet with the panoramic rock if you're interested in buying any american product i can configure it to the military. i get to

the cheers and if we could go into making military time to act. what the department that bad. now again. i was late but better than the men and dating you have to go to the big cod that. my shoes for my tenth amendment doesn't apply. they found that despite the fact that the military got my athletic she choose to try and post exchanges and if i like to be issued a request for athletic shoes and the like. she'll take her and i are really angry. the bnp is a lot to me secondary. we're talking about our military. the man of the car to the alternate patriotic machine i cannot priority. no they don't believe that it was. how the do they expect the american people to do tonight. talk about that. but at the rest i

was and knew when. eye welcome to use line is that their stay in corporate and capital and she and her camp officials with the japan me to logically agencies say tsunami waves have reached and the japanese scholars the beam on reaching the shores since an earthquake of magnitude eight point two struck on tuesday on chile the issue to tsunami advisory for areas south and down japan's pacific islands agency officials there tsunami of forty seven meters was seen in the north eastern t