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welcome below to show where we get the real headlines with none of the mersey we're coming live out of washington d.c. now president obama swept into office two years ago today promising an end to state secrecy but since being there he's invoked the state secrets privilege several times in cases of torture and rendition all while the assistant general counsel for the cia is arguing that rendition is perfectly legal so if that's the case then what's with all the secrecy we're going to speak to ben wiser from the a.c.l.u. and what would u.s. monetary policy look like was ron paul in charge after the midterms paul will now be assuming the new role of head of the house subcommittee for demming domestic monetary policy which makes us one step closer to that reality i'm going to sit down with reason magazines and the rand hours ago to see if the u.s. will be ending the fed anytime soon then are america's best and brightest addicted

to adderall what a shocking number of college students admitting to taking adderall to help them write papers or even clean their dorm rooms we have to ask can young adults in america do anything without a pill to help them anymore next newsweek read of the top fifty most influential people in the media according to the amount of money that they rake in per year with four right wing pundits topping off that list that has money necessarily mean power and influence and will the liberals ever catch up to the all powerful right wing media machine and finally you tube has started banning videos by the american born cleric anwar lucky for inciting hate speech and when the video will be just as accessible on hundreds of other sites across the world is this really just a symbolic move at the end of tonight show but now it's move on to its top story. do you member when obama was campaigning to be president when he criticized the bush administration for their extensive use of state secrets privilege is and they

promised a more open and open and transparent administration and that of course he disappointed us all when his administration started using state secrets as well but now comes another interesting development daniel pines an assistant general counsel at the cia has asserted in a lodger of the abduction of terrorism suspects abroad is illegal under u.s. law even when the suspect is turned over to countries that are notorious for torture now pine's claims that he's expressing his own views not those of the government but considering his role as a senior legal official it's hard to think that his logic is applied to theirs but what i think we have to wonder most is if rendition even in cases where we know the rendered will be tortured is completely legal then what's the need to cover up the record invoking state secrets of court or earlier i caught up with ben wiser attorney an a.c.l.u. is national security project i first asked him whether pine's basic assertion was true that there are no legal restrictions to rendition even when suspects might be

tortured. it's not true it's an extraordinary argument and i'd like to say there's a surprising argument but coming from someone who is affiliated with the cia i can't say that i'm surprised by any of their arguments now mr hines is right about one thing it's true that every single victim of the cia's rendition program and everyone who was kidnapped off the street who was flown off to another country either to a u.s. run black site or to foreign intelligence prison dad was tortured every one of those victims who was trying to go into court and hold the cia accountable for that has had a case thrown out. but those cases were not thrown out because the challenge practices are legal the cases were thrown out because the cia itself insisted that courts could not answer that question because the subject of these cases was a state secret because any litigation in co. words of what the entire world already knew about the cia's practices would somehow disclose secrets and harm u.s. national security so i find it somewhat ironic that someone who is affiliated with

the one hand say these practices are perfectly legal but at the same time every time the times try to go into court to test that proposition the cia insisted that courts should have no role in policing the cia's misconduct yeah i mean i find it very odd as well i was going to have that exact question myself as you know if it's not illegal then what's the point of making it so secretive what's the point of hiding it now yourself also have been involved in a number of these cases you know and courts of suspects that who are you know a victim's rendition and yet they do i dismiss them under the state secrets privilege so if that's the case and we do you feel like you're ever going to win as long as they can always us use that blanket term and just you know you say it's a secret and it all gets thrown out by say this you know in some ways i think the cases have been valuable even though they've been dismissed they have brought even more to the attention of u.s. public and the world the practices that were challenging we've been able to put

victims of these practices who were indisputably innocent people like german citizen khalid all masri canadian citizen firearm people who were victims of mistaken identity people who never should have been picked up in the first place let alone and held in secret sanction and tortured and i think in that way we were able to change the public discussion and the narrative about what was going on away from what the bush administration wants talk about what rights are terrorists have to what we want to talk about what happens when you abandon the rule of law and i think the fact that president obama on his second day in office quickly prohibited torture and signed an executive order shutting down the cia's black state prisons and getting the cia out of the business of doing this is in some ways a victory on the other hand. the fact that no court has yet answered this question definitively no court has ruled that what the. bush administration did violated the law unfortunately leaves the door open for some future administration to return to

these practices because you know our system needs that adjudication of this it's not just that the victims need a remedy which they do undoubtedly but our system has been deprived of having courts involved in answering the question that mr pyne says remains open and until we have that kind of resolution i don't think we have any guarantee that these abuses won't be repeated now is it disappointing for for you to hear that the the obama administration barack obama someone who campaigned and criticized the bush administration for using state secrets then went ahead and started doing the exact same thing i mean even if we talk about the case of the a.c.l.u. you know against the fact that they have now placed on where a lock on an assassination last without any due process and what do you say to the fact that obama seems to just be continuing the exact same policies but i think that we are disappointed again that we're not in the business of enforcing anybody's campaign promises were in the business of enforcing the constitution international law it certainly is disappointing that president obama although he

ordered the end of torture and rendition has stood in the way of remedies for victims and accountability for her to traitors and that's something i think that history will not look kindly on as you said. in the case this seems to be the first time that the obama administration is invoking state secrets not to protect bush administration crimes but to project protect obama administration progressives and it is quite a remarkable argument that if our allegations are true if as every newspaper in the world seems to believe mr ooc has been placed on a kill list that secrecy privilege would prevent a cord from deciding whether the president of united states can order the death of one of his own citizens the constitution certainly gives the president wide authority. military matters but it doesn't give him a blank check google citizens now just very quickly mr pyne's here he says that you

know these are just his opinions that he's expressing in this article they are not the opinions of the cia or of the government itself but i considering the fact that he is the assistant to the general counsel for the cia you have to assume that this man has some influence here i mean he's he's the counsel he is who they go to for advice on what is legal and what is not. well to his credit he at least address the . cia in our cases has never answered those questions it says in fact it can't answer those questions it refuses to confirm or deny that it's been involved in any rendition operations and it simply says that the cases have to be dismissed out of secrecy grounds so i welcome in some sense that mr pyne's has essentially come out and and put his arguments out there for public scrutiny or as the case may be ridicule i do think that you know the notion that for example the convention against torture under which countries are prohibited from shipping people off to other countries where they might face torture mr crimes argues that

it applies only if someone is being sent from the united states to another country not from country b. to country c. and that would be quite an odd rule if the universal prohibition against torture could be circumvented simply by cooperating with foreign countries in that way so so i do think that there is a public value to having someone who does his position to put these arguments out there so that we can look at them and say my goodness is this what people in the government really believe is this the kind of brief they would have filed if courts had required them to defend the legality of their conduct rather than granting them essentially blanket immunity you have as you mentioned one yourself in an article earlier he also conveniently leaves out the fact that the cia ran its ellen black sites or perhaps the fact that you know twenty one cia agents were convicted in absentia in italy for kidnapping people but well it's definitely an interesting observation here ben thank you so much for joining us my pleasure alina thanks for having me on the show. we're taking a break it's still to come on tonight's show what the midterm elections come new

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video. omissions feature now in the palm of your. machine. the federal reserve must be shaking in their boots right now after the midterm elections there are not only a lot of new faces that are coming to washington but there's also some shuffling going on within committees especially with committee leadership and guess why it's congressman ron paul is about to become the ranking member of the monetary policy subcommittee i might be wondering what the hell that is and officially it's known as the house subcommittee for domestic monetary policy and technology and it is a subdivision of the house financial services committee that's mostly occupied itself with issuing commemorative coins or deciding whether or not the penny should be eliminated but now the ron paul is coming to town we might see some watch of

a revolution keep in mind this is the man who wants to end the fed wants to return to the gold standard so what would america be like everonn paul really did rule our monetary world well join me to discuss that as anthony rand as a director of economic research for the reason found. anthony thanks so much for being here first of all i mean have you ever really concern yourself with what the monetary policy subcommittee does before before we start talking about ron paul leaving it unfortunately yes just because i study monetary policy is a part of my job and sort of their whatever their what do they figure out you know what we sort of we walk around in but it's a committee hasn't done a lot under it's one of the democrats over the past four years just i mean is it true all they care about is not all this all at the necessarily have authority over but that's all they've really looked at over the past four years in the financial services committee that's over them has done substantially more but that particular committee hasn't looked at a lot recently ok so perhaps it's not the biggest phillipe in terms of power but

still i mean this is going to give ron paul quite the megaphone right at least ten years and i think his views a louder than we've heard them before how much do you think you might actually be able to sort of be clear the chairman of the subcommittee on domestic monetary policy does not rule monetary policy in the united states i know that i know that either very well you know little or what it is but what he does have a lot of floridian that he has the power of subpoena and if he wants he can bring people from the federal reserve up on capitol hill every week and force in the answer questions about what they're doing and that may be the approach that he's going to take given that hughes big critique of the federal reserve over the his entire time in congress has ninety seven has been that there's no transparency in the fed we don't know what they're doing specifically look at everything they've done the past three years they've been bailing out and situations right and left and we have no idea where they've been sending money and that's and that's a problem simply because the fed has been able to basically operate as

a secret arm trying to do what it wants with the economy with no real oversight whatsoever whereas any time the treasury department does something with fiscal policy whether we like it or not we know what they're doing but i mean you know ron paul is definitely kind of a unique bird here i mean he himself not only has been calling to end the fed but at least to. out of the fact he's been calling for that for years and years but finally looks like it's gaining a little bit of traction you know like he's good he's got some momentum now he's the chair of this committee so do you think that we might actually see an audit well there was this small audit of the fed that went into the dodd frank bill that was passed in september so there is a certain asked there's some of this going to be done on this particular part of the activities not certainly all of them what ron paul doesn't have the power to do is convince the senate to pass anything that comes out of the house so anything that comes out of his subcommittee then has to pass the financial services committee which has to pass the house of representatives which then has to go through the senate and be signed by the president of the states so there is limited power and what can become law what he can do is use

a megaphone of committee hearings to bring attention to anything that he thinks is a problem such as all of the problems that the federal reserve has caused over the past ten years they screwed up with interest rates coming out of the last recession that kept them too long too low for too long then they didn't raise them they didn't lower them fast enough when the housing bubble hit they mis interpreted all the signs of the financial crisis they thought it was a liquidity crisis instead of a confidence crisis then they bailed out bear stearns and then they have been a huge part of the unemployment problem because they have this weak dollar policy and we've got low interest rates right now they're too low for too long it's a lot of mistakes that the federal reserve has made and i did that and like i did a lot there ron paul when he says i am going to have a lot of talk of a let's just you know hypothetically here let's invision a world in which ron paul really did rule monetary policy in a world where the federal reserve was abolished where we returned to the gold standard what would america be like i mean i or least you know even if we didn't

return to the gold standard completely at least allow people to deal and coins in gold and fill a very well that a lot of focus a return to a gold standard doesn't mean we get rid of dollar bills we've had that ok but ok in your hypothetical world which is politically impossible to get to you. if we go back to a gold standard i said jerry and i mean i know there are a lot of rounds on what orders as they're going and what it means is we have a more stable economic system that doesn't grow as fast as people would probably want to one of the big values of having a currency that is not hooked up to any single entity like gold or any anything is that we can just print whatever we want which is what the federal reserve decided to do yesterday have you know of a member makes hundred billion dollars is going to print this cash and so it's and the idea there they think that's going to help the economy grow i don't think that it can but you know at least in principle the argument is that if we're not anchored to currency we can grow really really rapidly if we tweak it just were no

injuries were on a great start to the federal reserve's announcement yesterday i mean the markets now have hit their second highest or the highest peak in the past two years i mean so they're getting a good response but obviously there are a lot of skeptics out there and a lot of people are saying this could set us up for long term inflation in the future you are not in the in the short term and there are also very well you're going to get a whole bunch of really really cheap money to go out there and buy stuff why one should be excited also there's a lot of talk i mean c.e.o.'s are really excited that the republicans won the house yesterday because they think that that's going to be a lot more favorable to them in terms of regulatory policy and tax policy so that those two things are mixed in there and why i think stocks went up today but long term there are some really big problems with what with quantitative easing to what the federal primark committee decided to do yesterday that do sort of make you think that maybe dr paul is not as crazy as a lot of people think and that's pushing ourselves back towards

a much more sound monetary system would be a better way to go because as it is right now it's just up to you know a dozen people on a committee to see what they're going to do in sort of tweaking what the trillion dollars here a trillion dollars there and what they think might help the economy but they have no real academic basis for proving that it will now why do you. they agree with you i was discussing it with laurie i said why do you think they decided until the day after elections to to make this announcement that they wanted to get into the ring or there's there's actually no conspiracy about that those meetings are set for years so they're on the calendar and it just so happened that november second and third two thousand and ten is when their meeting had been set and the announcement always comes out at the end of the meeting really was convenient that it came out there a lot a lot of iran's new is a good thing on everything else but lastly do you think their own paul is also going to gain some support now that we have some tea partiers coming into washington and absolutely you know you have a lot more people coming into the house that are skeptical of the federal reserve than before but there were dr paul had over two hundred cosigners on his audit the

fed bill before they were not all republicans so there's a lot of support there there's going to be a lot more support for pushing the federal reserve to explain itself a lot more in the dodd frank bill there's a little bit tighter clamps put on exactly how the federal reserve can go out there in terms of bailing out institutions there's a lot of people who are skeptical of the fed and i think that dr paul is going to get a lot of support for that using this megaphone being the chairman of the subcommittee house and maybe we will get the gold standard return to have at least hopefully a little bit of transparency right and thank you so much for being here. all right it's an epidemic that is sweeping the country but when we really don't hear much about young students who are addicted to prescription drugs and not because they need them or because they're even necessarily prescribe them simply because it helps them focus or stay up late it was american culture creating a society full of pill poppers. takes a look at adderall and how it's making a big splash on college campuses across america. just

a few miles outside of the capital of the united states is a community that is such a nice place a typical upper middle class american neighborhood everybody is lucky to live in arlington a wealthy suburb where the power players of the nation's capital have some great expectations for. there are kids expectations for students. you know children teenagers whatever it may be that come from arlington are a lot higher people do what it takes to reach those goals that are set for them jack laverty is a twenty one year old art student i'm an artist i use it when i paint for when i need to get things done definitely helps me and to meet those high demands jack and his friends use a prescription pill called adderall and one of my friends gave me another all and well it turned me from you know. x. days a chord just on on speed basically pharmaceutical math i was all over the place adderall

is a psychostimulant prescription drug designed for people with attention deficit disorder but these days it's become all the rage on college campuses across the country it's like drinking six black coffee you know and just being completely wired so what's the point of this powerful little pill where you get tests and thirty five page papers that need to be done. want to get it done some studies show that up to fifteen percent of college students are taking adderall some with prescriptions but many without are going to from friends usually don't have to pay for you know if i do it two or three books so it's not and while it might not be a problem to get their hands on the pills it is illegal without a prescription. but they say that the purpose for popping the pill makes it ok it motivates me it gets me on task gets me to set my priorities and one by one fulfilled many students on college campuses across america i don't think it's a big deal to pop

a few pills to get their work done but some are starting to wonder if their generation has become too on motivated to be productive without the help of prescription drugs. or like our it's time to stop playing around. you know. have to take drugs to do my laundry and critics of the phenomenon say that americans should be worried about kids getting hooked when they feel like they can't survive without it particularly when it wasn't prescribed for you if you don't have a medical need for it and then you find that you can't organize your life and can't get along without it that's a very dangerous warning sign but for now these guys say adderall helps them get things done a lot of kids these days are just. everything's comes too easy to point and they don't have any and the incentive or motivation even just to get over more the lawn you know let alone do homework or. different. a little dose of motivation to live up to high demands. arlington virginia. well priya is joining me

in the studio right now to give us more on this story you know priya i know a lot of people that i went to college with definitely also took adderall to study and write and that's the whole stigma around it is well it's not really bad it's not really a drug because i do it for a good cause like even like your guest said because they're doing it to get good grades but at the end of the day this is still something that's that's illegal so what happens if somebody doesn't have a prescription and they get caught with an oral well it's like any other drug alone i think about oxycontin or something like that people try to get oxycontin all the time when they don't have prescriptions and you can get arrested for that and potentially face jail time or have to pay huge fines and it has the same types of facts as far as you know not necessarily getting addicted to it scientifically there has been no research that you can actually get addicted to adderall but you can certainly get hooked basically realize that hey you know i can rate ten ten page papers in one night why not take this every day and be that productive all the

time but then it slowly starts kind of transforming into the weekends oh you know i have all these errands i have to run i have to mow the lawn i have to do my laundry i should just take some adderall so it kind of becomes this little pill that people become dependent on and they think that they can just. be so much more productive and get so much more done if they take this pill so i think that's the scary thing and i have had a lot of friends in college who had a prescription for adderall and thought hey i'm just going to do it in college but then they'll go on to a really intense career as a paralegal and some top manhattan law firm and realize hey i have just as much work if not more than i had in college so i'm going to keep taking adderall now does it transcend the i need to get stuff done boundary over to partying i mean do people take it because they think that hey then they can stay up all night and drink longer with their friends to absolutely it's real. interesting because a lot of the people i talk to who take adderall also take sleeping pills because basically it makes you really hyper and really focused and you're really wired and

then when you have to actually finally wind down you take a sleeping pill and so it's interesting because you actually almost start getting called on other pills as well but you know a lot of people realize how much energy they can get from it so it starts out you know you take a little pill but you can also crush it up and snort it which is what a lot of people do when they're partying because it makes them be able to stay up all night and drink a lot and do whatever else they want to do and like you were saying i mean it's definitely very easy to get your hands on it because there's a lot of people out there that are prescribed it for. you could say that's part of you know the problem our society these days is that everyone is over medicated they were over classifying everything and calling it some kind of a syndrome i know that you spoke with dr drew actually about this what did he say yeah well actually i want to point out something first of all between one thousand nine hundred three and two thousand and three the number of children's doctors' visits that resulted in a stimulant prescription jumped from two point seven million to six point six

million so it's totally insane and now one over ten percent of ten year old boys in america are on adderall or ritalin or something that's kind of like it so it's really interesting because when you watch t.v. you see all these commercials and there's like a pill for every problem in america and i got a chance to talk to dr drew about it so let's take a listen to what he had to say. i was raised by a family practitioner my dad was a family practitioner and i did not take an antibiotic my entire life he always said please only take medicine when the risk warrants taking the one that when the situation risks warrant taking that risk medicines all hurt you there only when you have severe medical problems that it's worth the risk right i never took medication now we live in a world where the pills solve every problem take away every ill going to make us live longer whatever i mean to happier if pill is going to solve everything and it just we have to move away from that. so that's basically part of the culture these days that people.