again so 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 and scandals 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 to a bank well it will have to see i mean you 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 science because assad 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 that our side would would help him more. it looks what's like what's. incredible about this is that the military who are who are now

saying. it's putting informants 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 personally in the original documents there are names of it forms the military are incredibly curious to put this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently all of this could have come from one soldier who obtained. when i was in vietnam the names have been 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 they're trying to gauge i mean 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 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 where 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 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'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 have held 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 the leak on this scale would occur particularly a leak that apparently could take a. 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 could get some a bunch of kids make this up in a cellar or is this really military information good it 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 it's it shows how difficult the warrior's. 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 as the american public got to remember has very little contact with the reality of the war the that we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted to be 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 home how do you personally 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 we are going 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 the unnecessary stupid crazy war in iraq it shows wiki leaks. just as the previous material has been published. if you but if you read about the fall of the war in the time prior to the sleep you see how very difficult it is and will be it's going to be the united states will be darn damned 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 ham

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 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 be you know it was already leaked and your opinion should he 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 well mr c. and i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us i. vote

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please. battling blazes a state of emergency has been declared in seven regions across russia with almost forty people dead president medvedev calls for the nation to unite in the face of the disaster. 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 for tiller in may. 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 afghan war cover up. twenty four seventh's from us now we're talking sports like a. bit of a football transfer news headline from you tonight then yes another player might be coming from britain to russia in the very near future. so where that's next. hello welcome to the sports news here from r.t. in moscow these are our top stories. crossing to russia celtic and ireland will get aiden mcgeady will be in moscow on tuesday to discuss a possible move to spot attack. while siberian heat dimitry smirnoff nets the last

minute winner to help ten men taunt the local rivals to be a three to. muscovite battle of chase grass or all three goals they beat city rivals spot top two want to go second in the russian premier league. and let's kick off with russian premier league football where ten man tom grabs the injury time winner to beat sabir three two at home in the first top flight siberian dob a high scoring opening twenty four minutes or so but still brace for the home side . this it is it straight back to alex they need their league or subject but the home side were reduced to ten men in first half stoppage time alexander had a torn off was sent off then in stoppage time at the end of a very defensive second half time on tom drop the winner from a corner kick the meters men are heading home to contestants to victory to barry maine lost in the standings top three spots to seven. meanwhile on sunday taste cast with over three goals of

a two one win start to act to keep the pressure up and isn't it the same but is it still help tattooist capital rivals with their own goal of a seventy second minute that's the army men were able to regroup following that setback said shavit scored from a free kick to level proceedings and fall in love grabbed the winner in injury time to make it two one to the visitors scott now up to second place in the league thirty points as part tacked up to it so. he's mature and. the plan was to give blood. into bloom counterattacks and wagner laugh and should have used the free zones for taking however i wouldn't say that the blend was a one hundred percent success because spar xcor and then we had to change something and lay dormant the individual skills of our players made the difference cursed a perfect trick it shot from which and then we're going to live as a goal in injury time i think that sport that deserved a draw and we were just lucky to win today. it's hard to give comment about the

match when you lose it in the ninety third minute the game was tight we had possession and c.s.k. were counterattacking both sides had scoring opportunities but unfortunately we lost. and his sunday second game rust off one one nil at local marty otto like a have scored the winning goal after thirty five minutes. however it still sits and peter spoke of comfortably top the standings nine points above taste and ten above rubin thank you to my pick for saturday's a race just because someone has a cough civics to it to know victory golf was the first on the rebound after a conference indiana shot and he netted his second after sixty five minutes to mask the chant made the cross which was headed for our coast. we must protect moscow are looking to bolster their lineup with fifteen games left to play as celtic an island winger aiden mcgeady will be in the russian capital on tuesday for contract talks

with the red and whites don't you for your all these being the suit for a possible transfer which could cost the muscovite side nearly fifteen million u.s. dollars however mcgeady is currently sidelined with a calf injury missed this week champions league qualifying side as progress hoops manager neil lennon believes mcgeady has played his last game for the glasgow side but it's now up despite attack who are currently eighth in the russian top flight to sign the irish star. formula now in red bulls mark webber is the new drivers' championship leader as the australian leapfrog lewis hamilton after dominating sunday's on gary grand prix in budapest where his teammates sebastian vettel maintained an early lead from pole position for ferrari's fernando alonso was also providing a tough challenge for webber your strategy and ultimately took advantage of bettles drive through penalty held up the pit stop as he built up a lead over a long time that strategy ultimately paid dividends webb out on the race when top of the standings alonzo's ferocious the huge into second place with better

finishing third russian vitaly petrov his fifth just behind ferrari sleep a massive. bucks or more your opportunities always are good and irrespective of obviously what happens to your idols. so you know i'm not getting it ourselves more so but some are big big events coming up are they all to show this i remember points but tar balls will provide different challenges for us as a team and certainly for the cards meanwhile russia's astley its finish top of the medal table at the european championships in barcelona the last gold coming in the closing event on sunday night russia brought their event leading tally of gold medals to ten in the men's four by four hundred meters relay with the vehicles not held on to secure victory for his team mates a well timed final leg to martin rooney gave britain the silver had gone from paulie belgium. and earlier on the last day of the championship to meet three star from up to bronze in the men's marathon while the gold went to swiss run at the top

when he made the decisive move after twenty five kilometers pulling clear french from james terry and held on to complete the distance in two hours fifteen minutes and thirty one seconds which was two minutes and nineteen seconds ahead of him favorite jose martinez. so russia finished top of the overall standings and the gold medal table is ten golds six overs and eight rounds france came in second with eighteen overall including eight goals to more than britain six but they had one more medal in total and nineteen. ten is now in the ladies to aware victoria as a regular of belarus gave herself a twenty first birthday present by beating maria sharapova in the final in standard cheer up of her was clearly looking to continue her winning streak victories in memphis and strasbourg was murdered by the regime dominated from the beginning but in her now independent under constant pressure the three time grand slam winner occasionally produced her top form as

a ranking held on to wrap up the first set six core in just under an hour. and then broke the russian three times in the second hundred sixty six. despite the loss there are about to see a team in the rankings. i think you know really trying to go aggressive for and to give her a lot of the term social room troth kimono the point go there was one of the big good for me in my employ and i was very sort of in the return you know i had some brochure most are still so strong you know trying to be more aggressive than most are. and in istanbul and our staff here public cenk about edged out to l.a. now there's a new not in an all russian singles final nineteen year old changeover to have more experience compared to two or three setter eventually won it five seven seven five six call so disappointment for versioning are celebrated her twenty fourth birthday on sunday off a proper chunk of her to the second title of the season she was also

a winner in monterrey back in march. and it was also a major upset on the courts in los angeles as local favorites sam querrey came back to beat top seed andy murray to win the farmers classic this was a matchup of the first and second seeds in the final of the american is right and the twenty eighth in the world is holding forth in the britain took control early on winning the seven five but faltered in the second with clary aggressively gaining for he took the next two sets final score a spy seven seven six six three americans yet to win aside all the sheer. golf now on the european tour englishman ross vicious snatch the irish open title from home favorite part of harrington on the final day harrington had to settle for second place after the closing out with a seven under par sixty four a try sharing the lead but fisher responded each time and finished with a final round of sixty five to win by two strokes himself five hundred thousand euros it was his fourth european tour victory and the twenty nine year old was from

thirteenth to six in the ryder cup race. and on the p.g.a. tour stuart appleby stormed up the leaderboard to take the greenbrier classic title at the old white course in west virginia following a remarkable final round. which allowed him to move the head of overnighting to jeff overton applebee had trailed over to buy seven strokes ahead of the final day the stunning eleven under par round of fifty nine enables him to close the gap and win by one shot and mixing stuff over to did have a chance to force a playoff and missed this spot for birdie on eighteen for the app to be his first win since two thousand and six as he said and display on the p.g.a. tour to shoot the film. finally let's move to los angeles from war from the sixteenth edition of the x. games magic ross ride to paris rosen had a chance holding their breath after a terrible accident in sunday's best trick competition here's what however doctors expect to make before we tell very after he suffered a concussion and several fractures following his fall meanwhile donald has told the

crowds in the b.m.x. restavec final with added a third title to those he won in two thousand and seven and two thousand the late start inspired the foremost country's main rival in the tennis and. now ryan sheckler was also victorious on the day edging out the competition in the state called st men's final the american high stakes for the ninety two possibilities that match and of course that will be the winning score the twenty year old added another gold two thousand and three two thousand and eight titles. and how much faster is another participant adding a goal to his x. games tally in the super rally the television host how the brian deegan he's going to make decorated participants ever the ten medals they give him continue to do not to destroy his past the games was unable to the past all instituted added another silver to his ten it's on the supernatural right in the bronze. and that's all the sport for this bill isn't bison.

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international investigation into the way to handle the gaza for back in may. with me an encrypted file we know it was supposed to be a p.r. stunt to be more displaced and come as no surprise. this is our two it's nine pm here in moscow six pm in london one in the afternoon new york city right now river around the world you're watching us welcome i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and fierce wildfires sweeping through central russia many cities blanketed in small including the capital up to forty people are confirmed dead from the blazes which have been fueled by a record breaking heat wave a state of emergency has been declared in seven of the fourteen regions affected by the fires our correspondent stacie bourbons has the latest from one of the worst

affected areas near moscow and. reports from central moscow. this hotspot is one of seven thousand they're going on in russia right now as wildfires so we've through the nation and this situation has been deadly and extremely critical for thousands more who are left without a home or anywhere to go now present maybe that has organized a special program targeting the region that have been hit the most. the emergency ministry together with the defense ministry and others. curity forces is doing everything possible to localize the fire and most importantly save people the heat still here and the forecast a bleak therefore the threat of new fires persists i've signed a decree today announcing the emergency situation in a number of regions of our country which are hardest hit by the fires but much will depend on our actions it's difficult to stay in the city at stuffy and very hot.