as opposed to in your situation the source came to you working for an established newspaper the new york times what do you think that says about the state of the media today is there any sort of significance we can draw from that especially when it comes to maybe investigative reporting well yes you can of course it's an electronic age we were entering but the you can't compare this to the pentagon papers it's not the same thing it's apples and oranges the pentagon papers was a major it was a it was not just a leak leak it was a flood obviously like this but after that beyond that there's no comparison the pentagon papers was a record of the decision making on the war in vietnam at the highest level. it was the secrets of the president secretary of defense the secretary of state it was not tactical material it was nothing in it of any military security value it was full of major historical secrets and scandals this material that wiki leaks has

has leaked to the press is on the ground military stuff it's the nitty gritty of the war it's its values it's tangibility about the war itself but it's not high level decision making it's on the ground stuff but when you look beyond the information the source or the informant or whatever you want to call it felt more comfortable perhaps giving the information to julian assange the founder of wiki leaks as opposed to giving it directly to a newspaper like the new york times or the guardian or is there anything significant about that do you think well it will have to see i mean it could be a pattern of it if he could just as well just as easily have given it to a newspaper and it would depend on the person he probably was attracted to because i had had previously used that material about an american helicopter gunships shooting firing in an am. bush in iraq and some civilians were killed in that

incident and maybe he felt that our size would will help him more. it looks like what's what's incredible about this is that the military who are who are now saying . is putting informants in danger which he may have done the times and the guardian and and were very were very careful spiegel to take out the names of informants personally in the original documents there are names of it forms the military are incredibly curious to have put this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently the all of this could have come from one soldier who obtains. when i was in the vietnam the names of and so on and form it would be would be it would be very carefully guarded you not many people would be able to get at that kind of

material military seems to have gotten very careless again because of the electronic age or maybe you put this thing all in within their system and anybody can look it up and anybody can download it it's incredible and you know we're talking about the electronic age and how kind of releasing information is so different today than it was you know thirty forty years ago but at the same time julian assange and then went to the new york times and the guardian very established kind of mainstream news organizations to release the information that he had received why was it important for him to kind of pair up with these traditional mainstream news organizations when it came to releasing the information as opposed to maybe doing it himself because this material if he just dumped this material out there on the internet let's say it's in comprehensible ninety thousand or ninety two thousand pages of documentation to the average person it's absolutely income perhaps what. you had to give it to somebody if you was going to be

effective with it at the same time there have been rumors that one of the new york times reporters who had access to this information that was in the documents perhaps notified someone within the obama administration do you think that could have possibly happened and what do you think is the relationship between these mainstream news organizations and the obama administration compared to maybe in your time between these mainstream news organizations and the administration the normal procedure in the old days something like this. with with the pentagon papers we kept it absolutely secret because we decided ourselves there was nothing in there of any military security value if we had gotten documents where we and other cases where we thought there was a military security problem we would perhaps call it go contact the government find out what they would object to and and if we decide it was really there were really

was a military security issue involved we delete that in this case they deleted the names of the informants maybe they did that after talking to somebody in government i don't know but that's the responsible thing to do but you don't let government control what you're going to publish or you make that very clear you're going to publish the documents is there anything that legitimately argue that it's going to hurt somebody ok take that out in the case of the pentagon papers we didn't have anything of any motives which is why the courts upheld us and it seems when it comes to the coverage of this whole wiki leaks stories the news channels seem to be obsessed with who is joining us on general what was his motivation as opposed to perhaps the information that was actually in the documents what do you make of that kind of coverage and the scrutiny of the actual innocence has been placed under well he was bound to get there and he was going to be under the heat the military and institutions are going to get. to get angry over this this is

a major embarrassment to these people that. a leak on this scale would occur particularly a leak that apparently contains sensitive you know names of informants that could get people killed. so they were bound to go after him but that doesn't negate the validity of the information of the documentation people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and the sides who distribute it. always have an axe to grind. and that's why they're they're taking that they're that action that's where they're taking the risk so what you have to look at is how valid is this material to get some a bunch of kids make this up in a cellar or is this really military information. that gives you that maybe gritty the tank that makes the war more tangible nothing in there is far as i could see

hadn't been previously revealed what that meant to the guys that see chose how difficult the warriors. how difficult the environment is working you don't know who to trust in your dealing with a corrupt with with a corrupt government is the american public got to remember has very little contact with the reality of the war there we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted to being sent off to war as occurred in vietnam the soldiers in afghanistan are young men and women who joined because they they either want to be a soldier or marine or because they think they're going to get a college education and they'll survive it won't happen they won't catch a bullet they won't catch an explosive it won't happen to them so the middle class just as this except financially which they don't see directly because it's if it comes out of their taxes they're not connected to the war senator how do you get home how do you. personally i feel about the war in afghanistan do you think

president obama's handling it well obviously there seems to be a growing public disapproval what do you think is the right thing to do at this point the sad thing is that we just war would have been to go into stone as we did initially after nine eleven but really do it seriously instead bush went in there didn't really accomplish much of anything went off in a very rocky got bogged down in a necessary stupid crazy war in iraq it shows he wiki leaks material just as the previous material has been published. if you prefer if you read about the fall of the war in the time prior to this week you see how very difficult it is you know because it's going to be will be the united states will be darn lucky to pull off a success in afghanistan when you look at a wiki leaks and you look at the pentagon papers maybe it's not a fair comparison but in both situations the information was released to you in the

case of the pentagon papers and to mr assigned when it came to the wiki leaks to the information from the afghanistan documents how do you compare yourself to him you know a lot of people are questioning his motivation for releasing the information do you have any thoughts on how he stacks up to you or i was in a different position than doing it. was leaking material in the case of my case i was receiving material that belonged in the public domain and it was already it was be you know it was already leaked and your opinion should he have released the information sanchia i would have if i had been in his position i would have been very careful to go through that material and cut out the names of informants and that sort of thing he released documents with the names of informants and that's pretty damned irresponsible because you can get people killed while mr c. and i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us.

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over sing to rivals spartak moscow and move up to second in the process. russia when their town's gold in the last event of the european a fed ex championships edging francaise and break into second and third in the medal table. mark webber takes the lead in the formula one driver standings while. say korea i have placed finish. and trails on spells that have the latest highlights from the sixteenth edition of the exe games in los angeles. let's kick off for the russian prime. leader's grinding out a two one win in a heated against spartak here in moscow the on the mound scoring all three goals and that by citizens to helping out his capital rivals within their own goals this seventy second minutes. but says crowd were able to regroup following that episode of exploring from

a free kick to tie proceedings. and vowed to love them that it's another one to make it to one in injury time so this guy are now up to second place in the league with thirty points while sport on dropped to seventh. the plan was to give a position into bloom counterattacks and who. should have used the reasons for taking however i wouldn't say that the plan was a one hundred percent success because barack scored and we had to change something and lay dormant the individual skills to follow blues made the difference first trick shot from cigna share each and then wagner loves go. in injury time i think that's part of the draw and we were just lucky to win today. it's hard to give comments about the match when you lose it in the ninety third minute because we had possession and she will counter attacking both showing top scoring opportunities but unfortunately we lost. a say with the premier league and in sunday's

second game moved into fifth place after a narrow win over the can might see of one meal how it ended in moscow are the really guy with a winning goal thirty five minutes and. however it's need st petersburg who comfortably of the standings nine points of all says above are being defeated because saturday's action a brace from psycho eyed example helpings a need to soon away and get off was the first on the rebound after constantine's it out of shot and then that of his second to sixty five minutes. makes the process having him at the far post by the russian international strike. formula one though a red bull's mark webber is the new drivers' championship leader the aussie taking over from nearest hamilton off to dominating sunday's garry and grand prix in budapest webber's team mates to boston but tell maintained in their lead from focus

ation ferrari's fernando loans of meanwhile provided a challenge for webber the australian alternately to get on the job for tells drive through penalty and hold and held out for a pit stop as he built a lead over alone that strategy also but they pay dividends with the thirty three year old now in the driver's seat at the top of all of those there are shots pursued earned him second place while the tamil finished third and russia's vitale bits are off was fifth just behind saris. maximize your opportunities is always good and irrespective of obviously what happens to royals so you know not getting it ourselves i've still got some big big events coming up are they all share the same amount of points but all of them will provide different challenges for us as a team and technically for the cars. now russian athletes have won most medals at the european championships in barcelona their last gold coming in the closing event

on sunday night. bringing a very advanced leading tally of gold medals to examine the man's full by a full hundred meters a really small held on to hand a victory to his teammates well timed final lead from our to the so had a joint on board the all of belgium. and earlier on the day. for all of the bronze in the man's marathon while the gold went to swiss run the vic that all he made the designs of move off to twenty five kilometers building they are all frenchmen james t. and then held on to complete the distance in two hours fifteen minutes and thirty one seconds that's two minutes and nineteen seconds ahead of her favorite. montanus . so that means russia finish top of the overall standings and the gold medal table with them goes six so far as and eight braun's frogs came in second with eighteen overall including eight goals this two more than britain six although

the medal i had. on nineteen. now is the latest tennis to all web site in belarus a day after attending twenty one gave a self a birthday present beating the top of a in the final in stanford california set up of all was clearly looking to continue her winning streak following victories in mathis and strasburg however the belorussian dominee did from the very beginning putting him more in now and opponents to constant pressure three time grand slam champion occasionally performed well but held on to wrap up the first set six four in just one hour and then broke the russian three times in the second set for an easy six four six victory despite the last couple of moves out there in the rankings. trying to. attribute her lot of the. truth commission point it was

one of the key for me. but it was in the return you know i had some branch of my service through you know trying to be more growth. and over and they stumble on as they say it over to champ to get out of his denying the russians singles final nineteen year old over the chunk about taking her more experienced compadre to the three setter and eventually winning it all five seven seven five and six four so disappointment for business in the office celebrated her twenty fourth birthday on sunday while. it's the second title of the season she was also aware that in monterrey back in march. all the european golf. the irish open title from hill's a very well jake harrington all the final day of the events had to settle for second destroyers behind the way he closed out with the seven on the par sixty four and twice shared the lead but fisher responded each time to earn five hundred

thousand euros by two strokes with a final round of sixty five and with his fourth european to a victory the x. y. and z. ninety year old moves thanks to six in the ryder cup race. now at. applebee's secured the green brit classic title at the all white horse in west virginia a remarkable final round allowing him to catch up with an overnight lead the jets over ten trailed by seven before the final day bought with a round of eleven on the par fifty nine was able to close the gap and win by juan shot overtime had a chance to force a play of botha missed a point for birdie on the eight c. is giving appleby his fast win since two thousand and six and he's also the fifth player on the p.g.a. tour to shoot a fifty nine avar. as had to los angeles finally for the sixteenth addition all the eggs games. that paris rose and i have the fans holding their breath after

a terrible accident in yesterday's bastardy competition but doctors expect him to make a full recovery after he suffered a concussion and several fractures following this whole. meanwhile three of the crowds in the b. it makes freestyle park final there is a title to his two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight trophies disquiet and inspired the most from his main rival dennis universe and. was also victorious on the day of the competition in this skateboard street man's final american posting a score of ninety two off to being the third mad out on the course and that proved to be the winning score as the twenty year old added another gold to these two thousand and three and two thousand and eight titles. and to not our participant adding a gold in his previous things game is. really a division host holding off brian deegan who is one of the most decorated

participants with medals avar deegan has competed in multiple disciplines of the game spot was unable to match moves for this time around deacon adding and now the silver to his tam with samuel even at grabbing brawls. at best sports for the moment coming up right after this is the weather update followed by today's main use.

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just a few moments. hundreds of toxic barrels previously washed into chinese river rumi and moves towards russia only three or so weeks of bodies in the far east are on high alert. all say their sound would be online whistle blow away killings liaison pics massive disclosure of american downtown cover ups by posting. file allegedly as insurance for the website's safety. and. a very warm welcome to this is. with me. for people on now to have died in the fierce fires which were ravaging parts of russia over two thousand on now and less. as a few hundred of the capital in the but on the edge

a region where entire villages have been destroyed in the past few days there are still many areas in russia that are on fire. over the past couple of days we've really seen a huge amount of devastation caused by this by as you can probably see behind me the forests the trees will black where they've been but the thick smoke is still hanging in the we know of course it isn't just for it it must go it's also facing the thick smoke today caused by these fires and not the images revealed around four hundred air is that it's still burning and emergency services of firefighters really struggling to get the situation under control with the russian army has been drafted in to help trying to gain control of the situation this is because of course by the extreme weather that we've seen recently i was russia's no news to hot weather in summer this is the worst drought that it's seen a decade and it's left the land exist.