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're 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 the 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 of scandal this material that wiki leaks 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 is 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 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 ambush in iraq and some civilians were killed in that incident and maybe he felt of some. it will help you 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 we're very we're very careful and should be able to take out the names of informants probably in the original documents there are names of informants and 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 vietnam the names have been on and form it would be would be it would be very carefully guarded. not many people would be able to get at that kind of material military seems to have gotten very careless

again because they're trying to gauge or maybe you put this thing all in within their system 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 she 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 he had to give it to somebody if he 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 will perhaps call we got 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 military 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 we're bound to get angry over this and 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 sons 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 could 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 material does is it shows how difficult.

how difficult the environment is through 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 think that home how do you personally feel about the war in afghanistan i do think president obama is handling it well obviously there seems to be. 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 afghanistan as we did initially after nine eleven but really do it seriously instead bush went in there didn't really accomplish much of anything and went off in a very rocky got bogged down in the necessary stupid crazy war in iraq it shows he wiki leaks material just as the previous material that's been published. if you but if you read about the fall of the war in the time prior to this leak 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 astonished when it came to the wiki leaks to

the information from the afghanistan documents how do you compare yourself to have 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 julian assange julian assange 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 being you know it was already leaked and your opinion should have released the information. yeah 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 she had i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us.

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bowing to pressure the israeli prime minister is expected to agree to an international investigation into his country's deadly storming of a gaza bound aid fatah led in may. food for thought farmers and hungry said they are being starved of business by e.u. policies and back the country is being treated as a colony modeled on a partner. and the online whistleblower wiki leaks posts a massive encrypted file in what some say is a p.r. stunt it follows its disclosure of ten more cars. now it's time for sport with who had it stay with us. so. hello welcome to watching the sports news an artsy thanks for joining us this hour

let's begin with a quick look at our top stories says sculls corals three girls and sunday's two one way to sing to rivals spartak moscow and live up to second in the process. russia when their towns gold in the last event of the european a fed ex championships edging france and great into second and third in the medal table. mark webber takes the lead in the formula one driver standings while russia has been. saying korea have placed finish. and israel's on spells will happen latest highlights from the sixteenth edition of the exe games in los angeles. let's kick off for the russian. leaders need to 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 these capital rivals was a no go the seventy second minutes. but this crowd were able to regroup following

that episode so again it's going from a free kick to tie proceedings. and the love in 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 support on dropped to seven. 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 the next koori and we had to change something and later warm the individual skills to follow blues made the difference first trick shot from signal share each and then wagner loves goal 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 would counter attacking both showing such scoring opportunities but unfortunately we lost. say with the premier league and then 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 arthur over the guy with the winning goal thirty five minutes and. however it's neat 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 of how things they need to sue me away and it was the first on the rebound after constantine's it out of shot and then that of his second to sixty five minutes almost makes the cross that's happened in the far post by the russian national strike. formula one now a red bull's mark webber is the new drivers' championship leader the aussie taking

over from us hamilton off to dominating sunday's garry and grand prix in budapest weber's teammates of boston battell maintained and their lead from focus ation ferrari's fernando loans of meanwhile provided a tough challenge for webber the australian ultimately to confront the job the 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 those ferocious pursued second place while the tunnel finished third and russia's vitale pits are off was fifth just behind saris. maximize your opportunities is always good and irrespective of see what happens to royals so you know i'm not getting it ourselves and i've still got some big big events coming up are they all to 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 four hundred meters relay but the medical small held on to hand the victory to his teammates well time finally led from our to the so i had a german to warn me all of belgium. and earlier on the day. for all of two bronze in the man's marathon while the gold went to swiss run the vic that old he made the designs and moved off to twenty five kilometers relink 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 finished top of the overall standings and the gold medal table with them goals six overs and eight braun's frogs came in second with

eighteen overall including eight goals this two more than britain six although the one medal i had. on nineteen. now is the latest tennis to all web site in belarus a day after turning 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 and they did from the very beginning putting him more 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 the one hour and then broke the russian three times in the second sat for an easy six four six one victory despite the loss moves out the thirteenth in the rankings.

and to give her a lot of the. truth commission. it was one of the key for me. in the return from branch of my service through you know to be more growth. and over in this symbol on this bus able to get out of his denying the russians singles final nineteen year old over the chunk of it taking her more experienced compadre to me three setter and eventually winning it all five seven seven five and six four so disappointment for vista 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. stole the irish open title from hill's a very old jake harrington on the final day of the events harrington had to settle for second destroyers behind the way and he closed out with

a 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 the p.g.a. tour appleby secured the green brit classic title at the all white horse and west virginia a remarkable final round allowing him to catch up with the overnight leader jeff overton trailed by seven before the final day bottom of 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 bot 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. and that's had to los angeles finally for more from the

sixteenth addition all the eggs games. paris rose and i have the fans holding their breath after a terrible accident in yesterday's past three competition but doctors are expecting to make a full recovery after he suffered a concussion and several fractures following this whole. meanwhile three of the crowds in the b. of x. freestyle park final there is a the third title to his two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight trophies disquiet and inspired before his main rival. ryan sheckler 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 use two thousand and three and two thousand and eight titles. and not our participant adding a gold in his previous things games. rally the division host hauling off brian

deegan who is one of the most decorated participants with medals ever going to has competed in multiple disciplines of the game spot was unable to match for this time around deacon adding and the other so to his tam with sam even at grabbing brawls. at that. moment coming up right after this is the weather update followed by today's main use. for the full story. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make. it

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in may. we played an encrypted file with no pain it was supposed to be a p.r. stunt to be more displays as calm as no surprise. with news from russia and around the world you're watching our t.v. live from moscow with me. thanks for being with us first this hour thirty four people are now confirmed to have died in the fierce wildfire sweeping parts of the blazes caused by a record breaking heat wave have left many cities blanketed in small including the capital. has more from one of the worst affected areas. firefighters are having some success but this is going to be

a very long battle as weather is to blame these wildfires continue to ravage through central russia as the region is basically in record heat choking on record high toxic fumes back first to the fires. in the district as we were just driving around just to see how people are handling things people running from a well with buckets trying to work together by the time. you get here there was nothing left there was mostly everything was damaged and that's kind of the the scenario here is that. the conditions are just so dry the wind. think everything is ok. here in the way she did over there so there is going to have a long hot summer head of them like stacey was saying the heat wave.