neal she hand former new york times reporter who released the famous pentagon papers which forever changed the american public's perception of the vietnam war mr she had first of all a lot of people are comparing this story with the pentagon papers story but one major difference between the two is that the source in this case went to a relatively new and modern web site wiki leaks 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 you know you can of course it's an electronic age were doing but the you can't compare this to the pentagon papers it's not the same pulls in orange of 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. 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 and secretary of defense the secretary of state it was not time to go material it was nothing in the very military security value it was full of major historical secrets of 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 it's it's 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. is there anything significant

about that do you think well it will have to see i mean it could be a pattern of it 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 heard previously use 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 size would would 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 we were very were very careful spiegel to take out the names of informants personally in the original documents there are names of informants 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 obtains. when i was in vietnam the names of it for an informant 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 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 a chilean astonished then went to the new york times and the guardian very established kind of a 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 that's 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 on 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 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 call it go contact the government find out what they would object to and if we decide it was really there were really was a military security issue involved we delete them 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 you can 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 note to say which is why the courts upheld us and it seems when it comes to the coverage of this whole wiki leaks story is the. news

channel seem to be obsessed with who is juliana songe and 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 actually an astonished has been placed under well he was bound to get there and he was going to be under the heat the military is going to get. 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 the documentation people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and the science who distribute it. always have an axe to grind. and that's why they're taking that the that action

that's where they're taking the risk so what you have to look at is how valid is this material did 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 had been previously revealed what that material does is it shows how difficult warriors how difficult the environment is to work in you don't know who to trust and you're 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 that we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted to be sent off to war 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 corps because they think they're going to get a college education and they'll survive it will have they will catch a board they won't catch an explosive it won't happen to them so the middle class just as. except financially which they don't see directly because it's comes out of their taxes they're not connected to the war senator how do you get 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 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 and went off in a very rocky got bogged down in. the story stupid crazy war in iraq it shows he wiki leaks material just as the previous material has been published. if you have

if you read about the fall of the war in the time prior to this leak you see how fairy 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 document how do you compare yourself to hand 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. was leaking material in the case of my case i was receiving material that belonged in the public domain and and it was already it was being you know it was already leaked and your opinion show. would he

have released the information he assigned 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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augie. lines. would be soo much brighter if you knew about songs from finest impressions. starts on t.v. dot com. more developing news story coming through tears over the past few minutes it's been reported that fifteen people have died after a russian passenger propeller plane crashed in the siberian region of cross new york according to the urgencies ministry it happened around nine pm local time as the antonov twenty four plane was landing it crashed around seven hundred meters before the runway early reports say that fifteen people wrong board five were crew

ten were passengers and again initial reports saying that everyone on board has died but emergency ministry reports have since said and contradicted that and said there could be survivors it's a story we're following very closely tonight the other news battling blazes a state of emergency has been declared in seven regions across russia where wildfires have claimed up to forty lives present event of calls for the nation to unite in the face of the disaster. to pressure israel agrees to cooperate with an international investigation into the country's deadly storming of a garza bound aid ship in may. and they are my 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 ups. twenty to forty six pm moscow time we've got more of course on our website r.t. dot com more news in full in fifteen minutes including the latest on the plane

crash in cross ask between now and then the case got the sport. 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 zakk. wylde siberian heat dimitry smirnoff nets the last minute went out to help ten men taunt the local rivals libya three two. zero and muscovite battle of chase grass or all three goals they beat city rival spot top two one 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 the best place for the home side.

this it is it straight back to alexei made very deaf in the course of genco but the home side were reduced to ten men in first half stoppage time and 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 in the two smell of heading home to teach history to victory to bear in mind lost in the standings top three spots to seven. meanwhile on sunday taste asking for three goals of a two one win sparta act to keep the pressure up and it is a senate seat but is it still help tattooist capital rivals with an own goal of a seventy second minute that's the army men were able to recruit following that setback said shave it scored from the free kick to level proceedings and fall in love grabbed the winner in injury time to make it two one to the visitors and now up to second place in the league is thirty points as part tacked up to eight so.

he's mature and. the plan was to give a position to bloom conjure. tex and wagner. 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 later warm the individual skills of old players made the difference first a perfect trick it shot from. and then wagner a lot of goal in injury time i think that sport deserved a 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 the game was tight we had possession and c.s.k. were counterattacking both sides had scoring opportunities but unfortunately we lost. and sunday second game or stuff one one a lot like a marty otto like a of scored the winning goal after thirty five minutes. however it

still sits and peter spoke you comfortably top the standings nine points above taste and ten above ruby if you take the time to take the saturdays out for a specific i think someone has a cough to sit next to a to know victory golf is the first on the rebound after a constant in shot and he netted his second after sixty five minutes to master the channel made the cross which was headed to the far post. he must protect moscow are looking to bolster their lineup with fifteen games left to play as celtic an island when get aiden mcgeady will be in the russian capital on tuesday for contract talks with the red lights don't you for your all these being pursued for a possible transfer which could cost the muscovite side nearly fifteen million u.s. dollars however mcgeady is currently sidelined with the calf injury list this week champions league qualifying celtic 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.

for we are now in red bull's mark webber is the new drivers' championship leader as the australian leapfrog lewis hamilton after dominating sunday's one gehring grand prix in budapest where his teammate sebastian vettel maintained an early lead from pole position while 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 along that strategy ultimately paid dividends about on the race when top of the standings alonso is ferocious to shoot from second place with better finishing third russian type of throw off his fifth just behind ferrari's paymaster . back some more your opportunities always are good and irrespective of obviously what happens to royals. 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 a whole lot more provide different challenges for us as

a team and technically 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 the team because not held on to secure victory for his team mates a well timed final leg for martin rooney gave britain the silver had drawn from bawly belgium. and earlier on the last day of the championship to meet three stuff run up to the bronze in the men's marathon while the gold went to swiss runner picked off when he made the decisive move after twenty five kilometers pulling clear french from james terry and then held on to complete the distance in two hours fifteen minutes and thirty one seconds which was two minutes millington's seconds ahead of him favorite jose martinez. so russia finished top of the overall standings and the gold medal table with ten gold 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 finishing and nineteen. ten is now in the ladies' too aware victoria as a regular of belarus gave herself a twenty first birthday present by beating maria sharapova in the final in stanford sure up a vote was clearly looking to continue her winning streak victories in memphis and strasburg whether the delegation dominated from the beginning was in her now and opponent under constant pressure the three time grand slam winner occasionally produced her top four as a ranking held on to rack up the first set six corps in just under an hour. and then broke the russian three times in the second hundred sixty six only to start the last year after back to fifteen in the rankings. i think i was. trying to go aggressive for them to give her a lot of term social room try to come over the point go there was one of the big

issue for me in my employ and i was very sort of in the return you know i heard 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 edge that there's new not in an all russian singles final nineteen year old changeover to a more experienced compadre or two or three setter eventually won it five seven seven five six call so disappointment vesnina 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 favorite 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 the american is right and the twenty eighth in the world is holding on to fourth and the briton took control early on winning the open a seven five but faltered in the second query aggressively gaining for he took the

next two sets final score was five 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 accountant on the final day harrington have to settle for second place after the closing out with a seven under par sixty four and twice 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 in 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. allowed him to move the head of overnighting to jeff overton applebee the trail over took by seven strokes ahead of the final day the stunning eleven under par round of fifty nine enables him to close the gap and

bring by one shot and mixing stuff over to did have a chance to force a play off missed this cut for birdie on eighteen for the appleby's his first win since two thousand and six pieces and display on p.g.a. tour to shoot the film. finally let's move to los angeles for war from the sixteenth edition of the x. games magic ross ryder paris rosen had a chance holding their breath after a terrible accident in sunday's best trick competition here's what however doctors expected to make a full recovery after he suffered a concussion and several fractures following his fall meanwhile donald has told the crowds in the b.m.x. freestyle tommy final that added a third title to those he won in two thousand and seven in two thousand and eight spike inspired the foremost country's main rival things henderson. and ryan sheckler was also victorious on the day edging out the constitution in the state courts treatments final the american high stakes for ninety two possibilities that match of course that will be the winning score the twenty year old added another

gold two thousand and thirty two candidate titles. out how much faster is another participant adding a goal to his x. games tally in the super rally the television host of brian deegan he's going to make decorated participants ever the ten medals they didn't continue to do multiple distributors after games was unable to the last ball instituted added another silver to ten times the supernatural right in the bronze. and that's all the support for this bill isn't by him hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

well the british scientists are. time to. market. to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into the report. battling blazes a state of emergency has been declared in seven regions across russia with up to forty people dead president but bed of coals for the nation to unites in the face of the disaster. for the first time ever israel agrees on principle to an international investigation into the way to handle the gaza back in may.

when he makes place an encrypted file with no case in what appears to be a p.r. stunt to be displayed as calm as no surprise. this is all. around the world a pyramid london three. afternoon in new york city right now thanks for being with us rev you're watching around the world i'm kevin i on with our top stories and we'll start this hour with more on that developing news the breaking news coming through to us that we brought you in the past thirty minutes it's been reported that a russian passenger planes crashed in siberia killing some of the passengers and crew the details have been coming through for the last thirty minutes they have been changing slightly the details still sketchy as you can appreciate it is said there were fifteen on board the latest reports we have is that seven have died

russia's emergencies ministry said that the antonov propeller plane crashed as it was landing the turn of a guard which is north of the arctic circle as you can see on the map there the plane was apparently on its way from the regional capital of screeching and hit the ground seven hundred meters from the wrong way firefighters and rescue is still at the scene so that's the latest we know at the moment the latest reports coming through saying that of the fifteen on board there have been seven deaths that's contrary to the reports we're getting through earlier on since we know more we will bring it to you here on r.t. . first wildfires sweeping through central russia have left 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 artis rare for nationals in small smog stricken central moscow and stacy bevins is a one of the areas with a few.