that islam is a threat to our national security but so problematic with what the f.b.i. did is that it came in and destroyed the community cohesion it destroyed the functionality of a community that would be f.b.i.'s best ally in protecting this nation's security and we want to do that because we this is our home we have no other yet mission also raises concerns about the government's attitudes towards muslims stokely if you look at the situation in the states faith based groups religious groups ethnic groups are always targeted because of their their faith their ethnicity like the japanese during world war two but i stand by what i said all day long muslims killed us on nine eleven and there is a huge muslim problem in the world if you are an eighteen to twenty year old. you should be scripture for must look out for islamic terrorists in our country look out for the very few muslims before to cooperate with police as many politicians and pundits continue to portray muslim communities as american including grounds

for terrorists yet has a lot of work to convert these american sense of alienation to one of trust in los angeles and i'm telling the party. although side even more legal troubles now brewing for the f.b.i. today care the council on american islamic relations and a.c.l.u. announced a lawsuit against the f.b.i. for violating the constitutional rights of us their faith the p.p. is a twenty year old u.s. born citizen who last year this coverage g.p.s. tracking device on this car but it turns out was planted there by the f.b.i. this device was discovered by a mechanic and if he took his car in for an oil change a friend then posted the picture online asking if anybody knew what it was and a couple of days later as agents showed up at his door and demanded that he return the device to the euro now according to a ruling last year by the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals it's now legal for law enforcement to secretly place

a tracking device on a suspect car without getting a warrant even if that car is parked in a private driveway but the big question here is why was a fifi being investigated he feels that his muslim faith might be the only answer earlier i caught up with yasser faith the an american muslim citizen and college student and zahra billoo executive director of the san francisco chapter for the council on islamic american islamic relations i first asked why it is that he's suing the f.b.i. after all this probably isn't going to be an easy fight. well i'm suing them because the you know the purchase price and my car they're probably my rights and it's affected me it's can affect me in the long run so i want to go out and the owner googles my name you know he's going to think twice before hiring means already happened and no way to get over that quickly so you've already been denied a job or had to bring it up for an interview or actually yes burble you brought up

an interview and declined to write me a statement saying the same thing do you have any idea why you would have been under investigation why g.p.s. tracking device would have been on your car is the f.b.i. giving you an explanation yet they haven't given the clear extent. nation i myself have done nothing to provoke them in any sense but i'm i'm guessing i'm feeling some type of profile for them. you know i'm twenty years old and he was an american muslim living here alone in the u.s. i travel overseas a lot i'm on the phone overseas sometimes i even transfer money overseas to my brother's home which we're living in egypt right now so you think it directly has something to do with the fact perhaps like you said that you are muslim that you travel a lot that you have to have an overseas as i think you feel someone who is an american who was born in this makes me feel like they're treating me like a terrorist or criminal and they're not giving me my my rights as an american citizen i was born and raised here so i feel different and it's not a nice feeling and tell me about the details of the day when the f.b.i.

actually showed up at your house and decided to get that tracker back off your car well they did in common knock on the door and they were sweeter or they came by with two s.u.v.s and the f.b.i. saying next to my car and they were really intimidating they were threatening me with arrest if i don't give them a device back. you know finally i gave them devices to ask me a couple questions and they were great they were out they left me alone and since then i haven't heard from them but just the fact that they had it the device on my car the following me is sometimes i can feel paranoid and i have the right to feel that way you know. you know even sometimes i'm driving i could i could see the same car driving behind me throughout the day so that's that's a little bit scary sometimes can get somebody you know it's feel really nervous so you have a little problem now perhaps trusting your authours of local authorities or even perhaps the federal government definitely since they violated my freedom rights and

my privacy you know i feel like i don't have any privacy if i'm talking over the phone or from e-mailing somebody how do i know somebody is not listening or monitoring my conversations why are they doing that i get to know. and. i want to switch to you very quickly you know we just showed the audience a picture of another lawsuit going on between a pair and the f.b.i. and a lot of people there were saying that they feel like this is somehow hurt the unity within the muslim community that now there is a lack of trust involved there and you know have you have you seen any signs of that i mean the l.a. lawsuit is slightly different because the fact that there was an informant involved there really did undermine sort of the trust in the community and you know one man alleges is a strategy exactly for that reason i mean the concern around trust with yasser use cases specifically trust between the community and law enforcement this idea that to really fight crime law enforcement needs to partner with the community and instead what we're seeing here is that they're treating community members like suspects really without any cause or even any substantial allegations so do you

think i actually have a chance of winning this battle against the f.b.i. you know we wouldn't file if we didn't think the law was on our side we really need to we are asserting we really do believe that his fourth and fifth amendment rights were violated a warrant should have been obtained before tracking him in this way and the fact that it was not was a violation of his constitutional rights all of this california law you know has a lot of people upset a lot of people up in arms the fact that a g.p.s. tracking device can a secretly put on your car without a court order even to find your private personal driveway so also is this case you know a good opportunity to start challenging that ruling absolutely so it is and that's why we're filing the that's why we filed the complaint right to exactly highlight certain discrepancies in the law is that in the in the d.c. circuit you're not required or you are required to have a warrant in the ninth circuit which includes california you're not required to have a warrant and so there's a difference in the laws and you know it really is our assertion that the constitution here would require

a search warrant and also an important case the important point that you bring up is that the california case is actually an older case right and involves another community it was an american muslim and so it's really important for us to highlight that the civil rights concessions. issues that are at stake here don't just impact american muslims right that if the law is bad it impacts everyone in need of the civil rights that we have certainly we've talked to our you know our client is american muslim but really the impact is much larger but how are you looking at perhaps some of the greater moves not even you know rulings like this one in california but the fact that there has been a lot of protest over simply building mosques in america the fact that now we have muslim radicalization hearings coming to your congress absolutely and the concern is that a lot of those a lot of that sentiment comes from fear of the unknown comes from not understand islam and muslims but is also stemmed or sort of flamed by individuals like congressman peter king and also by policies like this on the f.b.i.

of targeting innocent american muslims and so really what the those is that stokes fear in the community and leads to no place on the table sometimes and our want to thank you both for joining us sorry. good luck with your case and we'll see where it comes up i definitely wouldn't want any kind of a tracking device placed on my car and i'm from california so i don't like the ruling either thanks guys thanks for what is right. still to come tonight free speech or hate speech the supreme court reached the decision over the westboro baptist church protesting the throws of soldiers here in the u.s. now that the cozy relationship between d.c. and hollywood former senator is now going to head the motion picture association so why do politicians get to sell out for big lobbying money when their prayers are over looked into that in a moment. a charmer over here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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everybody agrees when i say that pretty much nobody out there is a fan of the westboro baptist church case they're out of the loop the church out of topeka kansas was founded by the phelps family and they spread a very hateful message out of the most inappropriate places they can find take a listen whereas the age that they claim comes from god. me to warn neighbors this is taking place but neighbor me the purpose of this is not very anybody is to condemn the world like no it is. now the group has slogans like thank god for dead soldiers they say that their deaths are a punishment for america's acceptance of homosexuality and they don't hide these thoughts they took their protest to a funeral service for matthew snyder who died in iraq in two thousand and six the family many others up a theater of felt that this protest was so inappropriate they took the case to

court and now after passing through federal courts the case of snyder versus phelps finally reached the hands of the supreme court and their decision in an eight to one ruling the justices decided in favor of the bout this side of their protests are protected under the first amendment documents from the decision explain well these messages may fall short of refined social or political commentary the issues they highlight the political and moral conduct of the united states and its citizens the fate of our nation homosexuality in the military and scandals involving the catholic clergy are matters of public import ok so these are green court justices ruled in favor of protecting the first amendment which i think is a great thing but come like this just this once i got to say i really wish that these westboro baptist could have been stopped while yes they have the right to spread their message and still in theory see that they had no problem attending

delicate very personal events like soldiers' funerals free speech is a blessing but sometimes you gotta admit there are just a few people out there who you wish didn't get to take advantage of it and hate me think i'm crazy but i'm just being honest. now it's public sector union employees and those joining them protesting across the country well a lot of people out there are wondering where their support in washington is why the big democratic names aren't getting behind them that's probably because they have much wealthier and more exciting people to lobby for and another example of the revolving door between washington and special interests yesterday former democratic senator chris dodd it was renamed or was named excuse me the new chairman of the motion picture association of america so basically he's now hollywood's guy in washington all this despite insisting a number of times that he would not work as a lobbyist after leaving office so what are the perks that come with selling out

well joining me to discuss it is chris braised reporter for politico chris thanks so much for joining us you know i've heard some rumors that this perhaps is the most prestigious job on k. street being hollywood's guy would you say that's true it's a very good job some of the person you're with is the last president of n.p.a. made one point three million dollars a year he had his own private screening room where he can bring in celebs to show first run movies before they're out in theaters officials love to come into those kinds of events watch a movie rub elbows with tinseltown celebrities and then get a lobbying pitch from the n.p.a. so this is a very fine job you get academy award tickets to fly around the world talking about the importance of copyright protection and promoting what is one of america's biggest exports which are movies. i think there that that kind of sounds like fun

getting you know the academy awards having your own private screening room but the thing is guys said rip heatedly at a number of interviews that no i am not going to become a lobbyist after i leave the senate so i mean i have should we be shocked or should we just say this is the way the washington works no surprises well you know he was saying that as he was coming under a lot of fire as he was putting the buy mitchell regulation bill together a lot of folks are saying he was in wall street's pocket and they wouldn't be surprised if he took a job as a lobbyist for the st he said. oh without any hesitation lobby clearly he's reversed his position there and he's gone to hollywood instead of wall street and that's upset a lot of liberals they have said like this guy made this a pledge he's now broken we're not surprised but we're not happy about it now the one thing folks should know at home is that he can't technically lobby anybody in congress for the next two years it would be against the law what he can do is he

could be the public face of the motion picture industry he came to or around he can go on television he can even plot strategy for some of his lobbyists in his office today and carry out for him but he can't do it directly until twenty thirteen but that sounds a bit like a technicality right i mean this guy already is a washington insider he already knows everybody already has the connections so he could just be having a friendly get together or union lunch or reunion dinner and well probably a lobbying isn't that right well absolutely and a lot of watchdogs in washington believe that this is a problem systemically not just with christie but the other example that comes up a lot is tom daschle former senate majority leader very close to president obama and a guy who is not registered to lobby even though he works for one of the biggest lobbying law firms in town and people look at that and they call it the dash will exemption and crist is certainly falls into that category of big time big name

rainmaker who gets the job because he has the connections and he has the relationships but he's not doing the down and dirty in the trenches lobbying a lot of people say well that is just a technicality and maybe we should address it now of course right now with the unrest in the middle east a lot of attention is being thrown on those people who it turns out have been perhaps lobbying for some dictator is that like you said there's a lot of anger at those who may have lobbied against wall street after the financial crash in two. thousand and eight so is hollywood a step up is that kind of the better person to lobby for rather than a foreign dictator or a wall street well certainly if you're lobbying for hollywood you have a lot going for you but a lot of consumer rights groups are not very pleased with the n.p.a. pushes the kinds of policies they push on the hill these are movie studios remember they want to keep control of the content of their movies for as long as possible

and a lot of consumer groups say you know you should be able to for instance download a movie i do you should be able to watch it on your i pad on your i pod on your tivo you should be able to watch it anywhere you like and the film studios often try to control where you can use that content so it's not always glamming glitz there are some kind of down and dirty business issues that he will have to deal with that will put him against some of the consumer rights groups that he worked closely with in congress and i guess you could probably say against a lot of young people to well this definitely is going to be a change for a dot you know somebody who used to be a senator now is going to have some bosses to answer to but i think that he also has the american people to answer to here and there are a lot of us are quite upset with this thanks so much for joining us on this and my pleasure. i was for we go tonight it's time for our tweet of the day fox news suspended brick santorum and newt gingrich today saying those two men are moving

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a good boy or so that's that's for sure no regrets from a one thousand dollars desert i want their paycheck so wall street elites block the pleasures of new york main street taste of bitter by reality. it's wednesday march second seven pm in washington d.c. and christine for sound you're watching our t.v. well major violence this hour across the north african country of libya according to reports the libyan air force has bombed an oil refinery there and battles between those who are loyal loyal to moammar gadhafi and those who want him to step down continue in several towns across the country meanwhile the u.s. is flexing its military muscles as u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton stated that quote nothing is off the table and

while the u.s. may find a partner in the u.k. that may be where it ends or at reports. we do not in any way the use of military assets we must not tolerate this regime using military force against its own people is this history repeating itself the british government getting the guns on standby as a country crumbles bowing to impose a no fly zone in this case libya in two thousand and three it was iraq it's looking very dangerous it's looking quite possible that they will launch such an attack with or without un approval and so we're looking at almost a repeat of what happened in iraq and in the results suspect relaunch of the same but not every country is getting that treatment and libya is not the only african nation in turmoil somalia's drawn out conflict has been called a slow genocide but there's little sign of us or european military inputs and it's

a similar story on the other side of the continent there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of it it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya but also for the political implications of the middle east as a whole as we all know the west including my own country has got its hands very dirty with the libyan leadership over recent years dirty with black coal libya has the largest proven oil reserves in africa more than three percent of the total and there could be a lot more undiscovered the only reason. your oil here anybody screaming and yelling about all those people where sleeper were killed in iraq well. i guess cocoa was that bad you know much of a national priority but in somalia there was precious little help while the body count rose over the years except for one brief disastrous intervention involving

u.s. soldiers immortalized in the movie. black hawk down american forces failed at great cost to stabilize the country they left quickly and haven't returned and the lessons were learned when it came to iraq which remains of a staple even now with only feeble she says that much vaunted democracy allied troops are equally bogged down in afghanistan with no convincing timeline for withdrawal and an ever rising death toll. the mess that's been made in afghanistan the parable disaster that was caused in iraq who really shouldn't want any more countries in the middle east it's a model today's troubles african nations won't want to impose on their government which is still ruling true american military occupation of iraq really not because of help. throughout the middle east. and american and european government shouldn't

look for backing at home either to a million marched in london even the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and times have changed this is now austerity britain where starting another war wasn't factored into the budget british troops are already fighting an unpopular war in afghanistan it's highly unlikely the public has the appetite for again getting involved in someone else's struggle battling as they are at home in the face of deep cuts and frightening unemployment and it's unlikely to be popular inside this building the ministry of defense has to slash spending by more than seven and a half billion dollars in the next four years it's an intervention britain which fights hard to afford on many levels your head it's hard to see. and the earlier times are to contributor an investigative journalist when manson about the situation in libya it's only why it's ironic the u.s. feels the need to reach out to libya and there so much other violence in africa

seems to be getting ignored. well the amazing thing is is that the united states has very little oil from libya most libyan oil goes to europe but we also know that president obama had a very close relationship with the pay they gave him a lot of money for his campaign and we had the fact that b.p. gave khadafi twenty billion dollars to get access to the libyan oil fields when libya began opening up when i was in libya in october of zero nine construction everywhere the europeans the south koreans the chinese were moving in the americans not so much with the construction but clearly. the money centers of europe and the united states and asia were looking at libya under control so there's a lot of entrenched interests that were backing coffee and now khadafy he's the odd person out and he's as i say the problem with the united states and britain talking

about going in there with no fly zones and putting troops on the ground is that just like with ahmadinejad in iran when they see a foreign invasion. they will rally some people anyway will rally again around a dictator and i'm afraid that after the u.s. started making this war talk or at least wasn't consistent and its message we saw khadafi start to launch offensive and i think this is a problem the united states needs to speak with a single voice you've got bob gates the secretary of defense saying one thing it would take more than planes and we could put on one aircraft carrier to go in to. put in a no fly zone and we have hillary clinton kind of waffling on the issue and david cameron of course now looking like a fool because he said something about a no fly zone and now we have the arab league saying name me it's a wonder the arab league doesn't have a military structure where are they going to get the planes from certainly the.