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a cold closer to home with her riviera hotel in the central hotel mccown. get off the pledges will never leave libya as he faces off against a chess grandmaster in the devastated capital tripoli meanwhile nato steps up its offensive and declares its expanding operations against the libyan government but independent fact finding mission on the ground is questioning the alliances methods the delegation claims to have evidence suggesting depleted uranium could have been used in alliance airstrikes. in japan or he discovers radiation levels far in excess of the legal limit even outside the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken daiichi fukushima daiichi nuclear plant traces of the element strong said to cause bone cancer and leukemia have been found in high concentrations plant. the pentagon says it can find six point six billion dollars of its money made for reconstruction

in iraq even after a lengthy investigation officials in baghdad are threatening legal action to claim the funds which come from the country's seized the assets and oil sales. up next part one of the alone a show stay with us here on our team. welcome to the lower show where you'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey like i live in washington d.c. now today we'll take a look at a new investigation that shows general david petraeus fudging numbers calling innocent civilians members of the taliban also talk about oscar grant's killer

being released from prison and how the community is reacting adult find out what the tequila party is all about but first let's take a little look at what the mainstream media has decided to devote their coverage to while missing the real stories. 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 released every word of disapproval that's uttered every little thing that nobody else in the world really cares about. the big news from coast to coast for years the large scale saying president obama believes new york congressman anthony weiner's actions have been you know appropriate and a distraction there was. some action there so how do you get from gee i feel badly for this guy who i knew pretty well once they did calling for him

to consult out of congress they checked papers around the country today as they always do in washington and new york this is a big story but across the country not you know it's not quite as big so is this is truly will this become a liability to the democrats if congress. when the winner does not step down chair of the d.n.c. would not 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 in d.c. new york make the anthony weiner scandal front page news that means that nobody else cares it means the wiener 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 corporate media bubble that exists solely to feed off itself and to 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 were released and you can easily call it the biggest leak in case of whistle blowing 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 thought that talking about anthony wiener sweeter was a way more important so they just gave the pentagon papers a nice little thirty second blurb. the breach that 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 the 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 gauging in watergate the full report has been declassified all seven thousand pages now released by the national archives. really that's all you've got how about talking about bradley manning in 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 tap 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 in the press no mention the fact that information that daniel ellsberg leaked was classified as top secret that's a higher classification level than everything that we keep leaks put out there you can't possibly tell me that when reporting on daniel ellsberg and the legacy of the pentagon papers you didn't at least think for one second of the parallels between that history between the present the questions that it should raise above the gov 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 something of they don't want to touch it's something that they are content 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 why. 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 but shreya stated that forty one hundred 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 are the scots this are with me is gareth porter investigative journalist and author of this report gary thanks so much for being here tonight what more can you tell us in terms of the numbers here in terms of what we were told or what congress was told in the meeting i was told by general petraeus virus is what you actually found in these official military documents where this story really begins went to true as just having been named commander for u.s. troops and nato troops in afghanistan starts his round of media interviews august of two thousand and ten the first thing he does almost is to declassify the set of data showing that special operations forces are having almost superhuman success in killing and capturing tell about it and so he puts out figures initially for the ninety days from may through july that says that the so if the 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 them in detention center where they have to be brought within fourteen days of their capture you for. and out that there were only two hundred seventy who went into the detention facility during those ninety days that's about twenty percent of the of what he said were tell about and this is information that clearly that the general can see himself when do we know whether he saw these numbers and know these people were being released or did he honestly think hey look at how many people we've slipped up and then never bothered to follow up well i doubt very much if you bothered if it didn't bother to follow up and for one reason i talked to his public affairs officer a few weeks after he made the statement. let out this information and she admitted yes this is for initial detention which means that they knew perfectly well that

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 telling now i guess that 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 the of the statements that he gives his thesis where he is the kind of man thinks that the way to win a war 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 true for the first thing that should have happened was that the media should have done some fact checking. they did 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 the 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 airbase and then to be released it's not like this is a place where there is a lot of justice that's applied where these people get some kind of legal representation and a full investigation is done and we know that there are hundreds of detainees that bob graham the haven't seen any type of due process in that sense so you really

have to have absolutely nothing anywhere near your record in order to get released that easily 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 that 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 detention center were actually released after review of their files means that they just didn't have anything now do we actually have any idea how many hundreds of people are still being detained or we'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 not in here but we know about guantanamo bay that's something that is easy to pinpoint we know that we're detaining people there in that we're not giving them any kind of justice but what about evolving markets. the price of dog ram we know that as of february there were fifteen hundred some detainees it's continued to go up 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 days but the absolute rule is that within fourteen days they have to release them or send them to bagram to the main detention facility now 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 and of course success is fragile yet reversible or at least our momentum is so this is a big deal your investigation here have you heard anything back from petraeus as people from the pentagon why is it all of the media calling you on the phone right now that on the first of all i 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 that sort of drops out. too bad because really we need somebody to be asking tough questions of general petraeus before this major decision comes up next month about how many troops will be withdrawn because he's

going to be putting massive pressure on the white house to minimize this withdrawal and then of course if he comes out of the cia that's right and feel bad because this is now america's the longest war because people are losing lives this actually makes a difference not so much as a scandal that kara thank you so much for coming on our show we're happy to cover this thank you of. now. coming up the group anon is back in going after a major figure in finance here in the u.s. and the 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 moment. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues debt and human voice face to face with the news makers.

well it appears as if the political hacking group anonymous is not only back because lots of may have 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 criticized bernanke gave the failing us economy and they've asked for his resignation in the past but since he didn't comply they are now going to launch another operation. with resignation which for the reserve chairman mr bernanke has complied with the request of u.s. politicians multi connection to the federal reserve which is to feel. a

crisis for the. republican field but one is defending the interests it is time for us to stand up for ourselves it is time for you to stand up for yourself we must now launch operation empire state building. now for operation empire state rebellion anon is calling on americans to protest on june fourteenth at hopes of realizing their original request for bernanke you to resign but you see this operation is about much more than just the protest 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 a longstanding racketeering influenced and corrupt organizations or rico act the law against an organized criminal class now on 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 are based soley on their own actions now they're depending on others so. keep an eye on operation empire state rebellion and i will see if a non can bring out the masses and make a difference. now you know how his mess really the 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 a less than a year in prison for a two here involuntary manslaughter conviction messily 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 conviction. i it. so what's changed in the way that the community highlights this case and is there any chance of the obama justice department might step in join me to discuss this is

the dean hip hop journalist david thanks so much for joining us tonight now you were at the protests 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 that were arrested about seventy eight people 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 we said and from any of the reports that i see now i didn't see any arrests i didn't see any violence and yesterday so what's changed. where people are still committed people are still angry there was a couple or a lot of the rest yesterday but i think what it is is that folks are been really concentrating on different tactics i mean there's been meetings with the justice department there's a recall effort to get rid of 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 movement not only statewide but nationalized because

obviously to grant symbolizes a problem the systemic and that seems to be taking place weekly all over the united states one of the things we found out yesterday that since oscar grant there's been ten in the bay area alone there's been a large number of police shootings at a very questionable in the valley amongst the immigrant community we find is going on in other states or in a lot of these things don't have the 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. and more importantly the determination to 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 police in riot gear and how big was 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 riots that you

saw or last year when the verdict was announced and many were in many people's opinion including mine who was in the middle of it the police really forced to not only did they have large numbers of people in a large number of police from different municipalities but where the marchers 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 east on the east side of the of the area they were blocked when they were when the other direction they were blocked and so they were being boxed in and eventually that caused the type of situation that you later saw or you know with 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 marchers were also prepared with contingency plans as well in case they did get boxed in now obviously there's a lot of anger there because you know

a young man here at last 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 when this police officer spent eleven months in jail at the end of the day michael vick spent more time in jail for abusing dogs well even plaxico burress who shot himself spent more time in jail. i think the press many people were unhappy but surprisingly people weren't disillusioned they knew that judge robert perry was somebody who was favored by the police so. a lesson that judges count the only problem that we had is that this particular judge is in los angeles four hundred miles away from oakland where we don't really have jurisdiction over him but i think the l.a. activists clearly understand we also understand that there's a love relationship with many people with the police no matter what they do they're going to give them the better. sort of the doubt so this education that we have to have that goes on there there needs to be more awareness and i think that took

place in oakland if you look at the make up of the marches a lot of asians a lot of people from the latino and brown communities or lot of white folks a lot of young white students who learned firsthand that the police aren't always in their corner the way that they like to depict 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 folks have risen to 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 coverage people are going to see justice before you know before law 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 activists have not let go in california either and yet where gay has been top news for about the last two

weeks and continue to be so today on the media what do you what does that say to you well the biggest eye opening education that we've got was seeing how there are pundits not yourself included i think we give you major props because you always covered this in that speech to your journalistic integrity but there were many people that have the microphone they get on t.v. they can speak that know about this that 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 look bron james will get a ring and trust me many people took note we knew the civil rights leaders who are talking about it we know the people who are blogging and not blogging about it so there were many people the color lines of the world the racialists of the world they were people that were there the youth radio's of the world those of folks that were on the ground that there were many people. what absolute in people took note of said or what is said that many people were 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 hand of the police and when i look around let me go where these civil rights organizations speaking on our behalf if you turn on the t.v. new talking about le bron james that spoke volumes and 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 oh although it was unfortunate for us to have to learn this lesson the hard way that many of the people who took the game on feel for us when it really counts 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 also i am happy that le bron didn't get a ring but thanks so much and i. need to take it thank you very much ylem. now the f.b.i. has been in the headlines quite

a bit recently reported here that president obama is aiming to extend f.b.i. director robert mueller term for two more years breaking the ten year limit tradition and possibly setting a very dangerous precedent but here's another game changing story you story forthcoming from the bureau there is going to be a modified and updated manual for the domestic investigations an operations guy and while there are several changes made we want to point out at least a five areas that have been revised and frankly leave me quite a bit concerned for starters what an 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 that but with the revisions to the manual an agent is now able to search a database for quote proactive reasons 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 proactive 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 revision of the manual says that any supervision of investigations 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 using that technique under these new revisions 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 in an investigation of someone or an organization now these are a few key points that really stick out but i have to ask here is

a what else out there find these revisions to be a little disturbing and the feds don't already have enough power to enter into your private life often without warrants think 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 they have be eyes general counsel valerie could produce says that it's too cumbersome to require agents to open formal 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 i'm a risk of proteas forgetting the way the justice system is supposed to work in this country you know that old saying innocent until proven guilty while there's already an outcry growing from former f.b.i. agents and activists alike.