or you look at the real headlines with none of the mercy i can live in washington d.c. now today will take a look at a new investigation that shows general david petraeus fudging numbers calling innocent civilians members of the taliban while also talk about oscar grant's killer being released from prison and how the community is reacting adult find out what he will parties all about but first let's take a little look at what the mainstream media has decided to devote their coverage to now missing the real story.

now you'd think that after two weeks of nonstop coverage the media would start getting sick of weiner gate but otoh they are marching on actually they're hanging on to every single new picture that's really it's every word of disapproval that every little thing that nobody else in the world really cares about. the big news from coast to coast for years the white house saying president obama believes new york congressman anthony weiner's actions i think you know appropriate every distraction your words. how do you get. i feel badly for this guy who pretty well once. calling for him to come sort out of congress they checked the papers around the country today as they always do in washington in new york this is a big story but across the country it's not you know it's not quite as big so is this truly will this become

a liability to the democrats if congressman weiner does not step down of the d.n.c. would that be doing this without the white house saying it was ok so at this point when the head of the democratic party is saying he's got to resign that's a proxy gosh what do you think that means when only the newspapers. new york make the anthony weiner scandal front page news that means that nobody else cares and even the weed or gate doesn't affect them the way the unemployment rising food prices and endless wars do so here we go again with that d.c. new york. that exists solely to feed off itself and of police only itself. how about we talk about something that is real news that's worth analyzing that should make us all take a little minutes and look inward it's now been forty years since the pentagon papers are released and you can easily call it the biggest leak in case of whistleblowing in u.s. history and it's all the more important because of the wiki leaks scandal that we see in this country today but the mainstream media talking about anthony wiener.

was way more important so they just gave the pentagon papers a nice little thirty second pillar. of grief says sparked a firestorm in the nixon administration and now forty years later to the day the u.s. government is releasing all seven thousand pages of the pentagon papers meanwhile forty years after a leak of a top secret pentagon papers led to a landmark supreme court case and triggered the nixon white house plumbers group that ended up in gaging in watergate the full report has been declassified all seven thousand pages are released i did not feel our heart. really that's all you got out there talking about bradley manning and his confinement did you know the government's case against daniel ellsberg where they tried to charge him with espionage conspiracy but all that fell apart because of government misconduct because they tapped his phone illegally and they broke into his psychiatry's office to steal his records and yes all of that was wrong but all that pales in comparison to keeping

a man locked up in solitary confinement for ten months and then forcing him to strip naked and not allowing him to sleep no mention of that of the press no mention of the fact that the information that daniel ellsberg leaked was classified as top secret as a higher classification level than everything that we can leaks put out there you can't possibly tell me that when reporting on daniel ellsberg and the legacy of the pentagon papers you can at least think for one second of the parallels between that history and between the present the questions that it should raise above the go about the government's conduct so maybe the mainstream media is just putting that one off for a slow news day but you're right that's something that they don't want to touch it some. thing of their contents to completely miss. now here is another story of the media isn't covering today according to the u.n. may of two thousand and eleven was the deadliest month for afghan civilians since

the war there began and summer when fighting and the resulting casualties take up is just beginning it's not the message the pentagon wants to be sending as they try to sell success before withdrawal process begins in july but is it one thing for our military commanders to simply not mention any bad news and another for them to feed the media lies a new investigation looks at claims by general david petraeus made last year as they claim a success of special ops rates and capturing members of the taliban and the summer of two thousand and ten petraeus stated that forty one hundred of rank and file taliban have been captured and two thousand have been killed in six months what he did say is that eighty percent of those had been released within days of being captured because they were found to have been innocent civilians and that's all according to official u.s. military data which surprised surprise had not been publicized by the general so here the scots this group with me is gareth porter investigative journalist and author of this report kara thanks so much for being here tonight what more can you tell us in terms of the numbers in terms of what we were told or what congress was

told in a meeting i was told by general petraeus virus is what you actually found in these official military documents where this story really begins when petrou was just having the new commander for u.s. troops and nato troops in afghanistan starts his round of media interviews oldest of two thousand term the first thing he goes almost is to the class of foreigners the sort of data showing that special operations forces are having almost superhuman success in killing and capturing telegram and so he puts out figures initially for the ninety day rule may through july but says. the s.o.f. night raids have captured one thousand three hundred fifty five taliban well i mean that's turns out to be a lie because when you find that the task force in charge of detainee affairs and if they're honest and put out a month by month. accounting for how many of the detainees were brought to the main

detention center where they have to be brought within fourteen days of their capture you find out that the room the two hundred seventy who went into the detention facility during those ninety days that's about twenty percent of what he said were telegram and this is information that clearly that the general can see himself mean do we know whether he saw these numbers and you know these people were being released or did he honestly think hey look how many people we've slipped up and then never bothered to follow up well i doubt very much if you bothered if he didn't bother to follow up and for one reason i talked to his public affairs officer a few weeks after he may be the statement. let out this information and she admitted yes this is for initial detention which means that they knew perfectly well but there was a big disparity between the people who they picked up they swept up in these raids and how many people were actually considered to be taught now i guess none of this should really shock us right especially if we look at general petraeus as

a man himself we've reported many times on this show he is his outlook or the statements that he gives his thesis or he is the kind of man thinks that the way to win a war or the way to sell of war is just by convincing the lawmakers of one thing no matter what's going on in the ground it's about selling it to them and making them think that it's going all right but how available then was this information to congress not to do their job could they have looked at these documents to follow up and see if what he says in testimony or in the media is actually the first thing that should have happened was the media should have done some fact checking they did it i mean it's very difficult if not. impossible to fact check the number of taliban who were actually killed in these raids but what you can check is how many were actually detained for any length of time as opposed to being let go in the first few days because they didn't have any evidence and indeed that didn't happen but then in november the head of this military task force admiral harwood actually

made a statement in a in a pentagon press briefing in which he said in the last ten months of this year there were five thousand five hundred people who were initially detained but only one thousand one hundred actually showed up in the detention center well that was a big clue the media didn't pick up on it all so there was no fact finding for the entire year and congress had no way of getting any clues about what was going on now let's talk about what it means to actually be brought to let's say i am airbase and then to be it really it's not like this is a place where there is a lot of justice that some people get some kind of legal representation and a full investigation is done and we know that there are hundreds of detainees that the haven't seen any type of process not sense so you really have to have absolutely nothing anywhere near in your record in order to get released that is really absolutely right i mean there is no real due process there is no process which allows the defense advocate to make the case on behalf of the detainee

nothing like that so you're absolutely right that the notion that somebody is let free because of something you know in consequential just doesn't doesn't make any sense in fact the criteria for holding them are so broad but it's very easy to keep these people in detention for a long time so the fact that twenty percent of those detainees who were cycled through the main detention center were actually released after review of their files means that they just didn't have any now do we actually have any idea how many. hundreds of people are still being detained around or they've also reported on the show about the other secret prisons across afghanistan even though the cia black sites have been shut down there still are now secret other black sites that just don't happen to be operated by the cia they might be operated by by special ops or something like that you know because americans often hear now to hear that we know about one time that's something that is easy to pinpoint we know that we're

detaining people there and they are not giving them any kind of justice but what about it. graham we know that as of february there were fifteen hundred some detainees it's continued to go up a month by month little by little in addition to that we know that in a number of forward operating bases obviously special operations forces detains these people for a number of days for fourteen years but the absolute rule is that within fourteen days they have to release them or send them to groom to be mean detention facility you know maybe somebody is violating the rules very possible but that is an ironclad rule for u.s. forces now of course if we look at the timing right now we're about to we're waiting for the president to make an announcement as to how many troops are going to start leaving afghanistan we keep trying to be sold or at least people like defense secretary robert gates keep trying to tell us that we can't leave but yet we do see momentum of course success is fragile yet reversible or at least our

momentum is so this is a big deal there investigation here have you heard anything back from petraeus people from the pentagon why is it all of the media calling you on the phone right now that on thursday well i wrote an e-mail to the public affairs officer who i spoke with or talked by e-mail with last year she didn't respond for two days to my queries so i don't know exactly what that means but apparently they weren't interested in saying anything about this story no response from the news media as far as i know of so for this is a story like many others this sort of drops out. too bad because really we need to . but you'd be asking tough questions of general betray us before this major decision comes up next month about how many troops will be withdrawing because he's going to be putting massive pressure on the white house to minimize this withdrawal and then of course it becomes sort of the that's right because this is now america's longest war because people are losing why is this actually makes

a difference not so much as a scandal but care thank you so much for coming on our show we're happy to cover this thank you and. now coming up the group anon is back in going after a major figure in finance here in the u.s. and a police officer of central prison for shooting and killing oscar grant in california is now a free man but tonight was give justice was really served when this officer only spent eleven months in jail for killing an unarmed man back in just a month. you know sometimes you see a story at the scene so you think you understand it and then you know here's some other part of it and realize that everything is sort. of charged as if it. were your really. and you know.

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we have got the says they're going to keep him safe get ready because freedom. well it appears as if the political hacking group anonymous is not only back because lots of bad we haven't seen too much of them in a while but they've also set their eyes on quite a lofty target federal chairman federal reserve chairman ben bernanke now not as a long criticize bernanke gave a failing us economy and i've asked for his resignation in the past but since he didn't comply they are now going to launch another operation. in the quest to ben bernanke resignation instead of the reserve chairman mr bernanke complied with

the request of the west politicians the military trying to break up the federal reserve team but you can feel. which field. the field. which is time for us to look for our show which is time for you to look for yourself. and fire street. now for operation empire state rebellion anonymous calling on americans to protest on june fourteenth i hopes of realizing their original request for bernanke you to resign but you see this operation is about much more than just even protests which is happening on flag day also has the following demands to end the campaign finance and lobbying racket to break up the fed's relationship with those too big to fail banks and to enforce the longstanding racketeering influenced

and corrupt organizations or rico act the law against an organized criminal class and all their website they've also included a map pinpointing the cities where you can join the rebellion so the plans have been laid the real question here is will anybody show up and on is definitely not the only group and not the first group to call for a change in our financial system to call for some accountability and whereas before their operations were based soley on their own actions now they're depending on others so keep an eye on operation empire state rebellion i will see if anon can bring out the masses and make a difference. now you know how honest messer lead officer who was convicted of shooting and killing an unarmed young black man named oscar grant on a bart subway platform is now a free man it's a case that few can forget as the entire incident was caught on camera.

after serving less than a year in prison for a two year involuntary manslaughter conviction but he was released just after midnight on monday from l.a. county jail but the anger in the feelings of injustice in both oakland and los angeles haven't subsided yet yesterday hundreds of demonstrators marched in oakland today dozens massed in front of the los angeles criminal court building. now that specific video was from oakland and what made that protest different is that it was peaceful it's not the same scene we saw last year when more than one hundred people were arrested after hearing the judge's convictions.

so what's changed in the way the community highlights this case and is there any chance of the obama justice department might step in and join with us because this is favor hop journalist david thanks so much for joining us tonight now you were at a protest in oakland yesterday from what i understand and there were hundreds of people marching like i just mentioned last year right after we saw when mr lee was convicted there were people who were arrested about seventy eight paid for then in november when the sentencing was put out there we saw more than one hundred fifty people arrested in oakland and we saw violence we saw people looting like i said and from any other parts that i see now i didn't see any arrests i didn't see any violence yesterday so what's changed. oh well people are still committed people are still angry there was a couple of the rest yesterday but i think what it is is that folks are in really concentrating on different tactics i mean there's been meetings with the justice department all of this a recall effort to get rid of the judge perry even though he's in los angeles and i

think people or really trying to connect dots in a different way to make this move not only statewide with nationalized because obviously. symbolizes a problem the systemic seems to be taking place weekly all over the united states one of the things we started out yesterday that since there's been ten area alone has been a large number of police shootings at a very questionable in a fairly amongst the immigrant community we find it's going on in other states in a lot of these things don't have to type of coverage because it wasn't caught on film it cetera et cetera so i think people are really about movement building in a different sort of way or the end. anger and frustration and more importantly the determination of see this to see justice prevail is still there i'm just curious to how was the city preparing for this because last year we of course we saw swat teams we saw our police out in riot gear and have because the police presence

yesterday the police presence was pretty big but there's a couple of things that i think need to be put into context of the riot situ soar last year when the verdict was announced and many were in many people's opinion including mine who is in a little of it the police really forced to there not only did they have large numbers of people a large number of police from different religious apologies but we're the more shoes in the demonstrators had taken place they were walled in on all four sides and for those of us who were there when people were asked to disperse and people walked up to the east on the east side of the area they were blocked when they were when the other direction were blocked and so they were being boxed in and eventually because the situation that she later saw or you know with windows being broken etc etc so it's not it wasn't the same type of situation yesterday the police were there but i think also more issues what also were clear were

contingency plans as well in case they did get. now obviously there's a lot of anger there because you know a young man here lost his life he was killed and that's something that can never be brought back but i was curious to know what do you think that says about our justice system where this police officer spent eleven months in jail at the end of the day michael vick spent more time in jail for abusing drugs well even plaxico burress who shot himself spent more time in jail. i think for many people who are unhappy but surprisingly people aren't disillusioned they knew their judge robert perry was somebody who was favored by the police so. a lesson there judges count. the only problem that we had is that this particular judge is in los angeles four hundred miles away from oakland we are we don't really have jurisdiction over him but i think the l.a. activists clearly understand we also understand that there is a love relationship with many people with the police no matter what they do they're

going to give them the benefit of the doubt so this education that we have it goes on near there needs to be more awareness and i think better place in oakland if you look at the makeup of the marches a lot of asians a lot of people from the lead tina and brown communities well i don't know it's a lot of young white students who learn first here but the police aren't always in their corner the way that they like to pick and so many people understand this and i think they're going to respond politically i think they'll respond by taking it to the streets in ways in which to bring about awareness and more importantly for the have a result of that i think makes us very proud to be from the city of oakland to be from the bay area they will not give up this is not over no matter what gets said no matter how much it doesn't or does get over it people are going to see justice for you know a lot well that's the thing where you bring up how much the story does or doesn't get covered this is a big story like you said is a systemic problem this is something we've seen span across

a number of states in this country and it's something of the activists have not let girl in california either and yet where gay has been top news for about the last few weeks and continue to be so today on the media what do you want to say well the biggest eye opening education that we got was seeing how there are hundreds not yourself included i think we give you major props because you always covered a lead speech to your journalistic integrity but there were many people that have the microphone they get on t.v. they can speak know about istead last year they were talking about le bron james and what team he's going to play on this year they were talking about whether the look around james will get a ring. interest me many people took note we knew of the civil rights leaders who are talking about it we knew the people who are going in now blogging about it so there were many people the color lines of the world the racial looseness of the world they were people that was there the youth radio's at the world those are folks that were on the ground that there were many people that were absent in

people took note said what is said to many people hustling for social justice maybe for speaking gig maybe to get their name up in lights but this is very serious business people lost lives there were many parents many families some spoke yesterday who lost their lives at the end of the hand of the police and when you look around the legal wheels use civil rights organizations speaking on our behalf if you turn on the t.v. you know talking about le bron james that's it so what he said to us is that we will have to be our own leaders and we cultivated leadership here and i think it's good leadership that will last you know that will stand the test of time and that's a good thing although it was unfortunate for us to have to learn his lesson the hard way that many of the people who took the game on fear for us when it really counts are dave i want to thank you very much for joining us and it is a more important story all the more reason to cover it but i also am happy that i

didn't get every thanks so much and i. need to take it thank you very much learn. how the f.b.i. has been in the headlines quite a bit recently reporting that president obama is aiming to send f.b.i. director robert mueller turn for two more years breaking the ten year limitation and possibly setting a very dangerous precedent and here's another game changing story you story for coming from the bureau there is going to be a modified and updated manual for the mystic investigations and operations guy so while there are several changes made we want to point out at least the five areas that have been revised and frankly we quite a bit concerned for starters what f.b.i. agent wants to launch an investigation into a person or an organization they have to create an assessment to follow protocol now once this. low level access is granted to the agent they can gain access to certain pieces of information about them but with the revisions to the manual an agent is now able to search a database for quote pro active presence so that means they can go through a database without having any probable cause and they can do it just to make sure

nothing unusual is found and they don't need to make a record of these types of searches now the topic of assessments the new rules say that an agent can tail an individual more than once during a assessment so that means they can follow a person without probable cause then keep tabs on them until they actually do something to warrant some type of investigation from the f.b.i. another version of the manual says that any supervision of investigation is conducted on quote low profile blogs meaning not media related will be stopped so in other words if the average joe decides to write something on his blog the feds find suspicious there won't be any protection to ensure that the feds are conducting their investigation or assessment accurately now there are also changes when it comes to administering lie detector tests currently agents need to open a preliminary investigation before of using that technique under these new provisions the test can be used when the feds are just evaluating a target as a potential informant and apparently the feds don't have to as to be able to search through a person's trash so they can use whatever dirt they find on that person to get them

to help an investigation of someone or an organization now these are a few key points that really stick out i have to ask here because they would also out there find these revisions to be a little disturbing as the feds go already have enough power to enter into your private life often without warrants the g.p.s. tracking now you want to give them more abilities to do it without consent or supervision from their higher ups and i bring you specific instances almost on a weekly basis organizations and activists are being targeted by the government and now the updated manual seems to only give the feds more leeway to conduct those pro active investigations however they see fit and in fact when asked about all of these changes that be eyes general counsel of valerie he says that it's too cumbersome to require agents to. informal inquiries before running checks oh really is it too cumbersome for you to have to respect people's privacy and the law i'm sorry you're right let's just make your work easier you know maybe mr prodi is forgetting the way the justice system is supposed to work in this country you know that old saying innocence until proven guilty well there's already an outcry

growing from former f.b.i. agents and activists alike seems that the bureau is moving full speed ahead with these changes unless somebody like the president decides to put his foot down which we know he won't considering his take on warrantless almost everything so it looks like welcoming a whole new level to our already growing police state now still ahead on tonight's show you said it i read it i responded to your comments that you've left online about the show and we already have the tea party in the coffee party so now let's make way for the thick heel of party i'll speak with a woman who is spearheading the group about their political message in just a moment. into the room we would. do that we're going to bring justice in return ability. i have every right to go what my government want to know why i care. well i would be right.