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free risk free steers free. the old slave launcelot in video for your media projects c.d.o. dogs are tetons tom. welcome to the eleven a show where you look at the real headlines with none of them or see we're going live to washington d.c. now and i will talk about a u.n. report on the war in afghanistan that directly contradicts what military officials are telling us lawmakers so who should we believe then we'll show you a blatant example of hypocrisy by the white house and a double standard that they have when it comes to leaking classified information and that feeling that time is running out and republicans that won't budge so can somebody believe tell us what is wrong with these people we have all of that and
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more for you and i including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. this is that the end for the casey anthony trial my friends today a verdict was reached and it was read out loud. a strong. jaw dropping moment they saw the death penalty against this woman and she got convicted of four misdemeanors this is a historic rejection of the prosecution's case the attorney who was once dubbed as somewhat hapless in this process now looks like a genius for basically that's right pick a seat is over benito done so and while the rest of us are going to be letting out size of relief that we no longer have to endure the nonstop coverage the media's in a bit of a frenzy nancy grace is that i'm sure has exploded by now but you see the thing is
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that even before this verdict was read today they spent hours going over every little detail about the jury about their deliberation process things that quite frankly nobody gives a crap about it was all an effort just to make sure that they still breathlessly covered the story all the. well after six hours yesterday the jury is back at work this morning at the casey anthony murder trial put a stopwatch on it it was eight forty for the two of the deliberations so you have twelve jurors seven women fall from there and two of the women are african-american the others are white the jurors will break for lunch we are told swear in her prison blues shoes to get into the courthouse when she goes upstairs attorneys have several pieces of clothing selected for her we've seen this throughout the trial really do you really need to spend the top eight minutes of a news show and i need it was the top of the show talking about how many shirts
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casey anthony gets to choose from when she goes into the courtroom how many of the jurors are women how many of them are black and i wish they would do the same thing when it's a case where racism is actually a problem just like the states in the south texas you'll see it plain and simple in many examples but in the casey anthony trial come on people this is hardly an example of discrimination if anything every single other story out there has been discriminated against by having not been paid attention to because it was a pretty white girl who may or may not have killed her daughter stories like and yes i know that i keep pointing this out it might seem tedious and repetitive but stories like the war in afghanistan last week we showed you how the mainstream media just completely blatantly ignore a general there betray us being on the hill and testify to take over as director of the cia they also lately ignored the tenet general john allen who's taking over petraeus is all job testifying on the hill and listen i know these men don't have the looks of casey anthony but come on people they're only going to be having our
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longest war and our intelligence agency anyway if we take one more look at some of the military statistics that came out you can see exactly what petraeus is leaving behind for starters is the whole hearts and minds counterinsurgency strategy now we're just getting back to bombing people from the sky you see since petraeus rickover. in afghanistan coalition warplanes fired weapons and dropped bombs five thousand eight hundred and thirty one times it was sixty five percent increase in the twelve months prior to that two two even wonder want to know how much those five thousand eight hundred thirty one bombs and weapons cost not to mention of course the lives that may have been lost civilian lives and here's another tidbit the mainstream television media is reporting out about his family lawyer is now suing the cia for its drone strikes in pakistan that have led to civilian deaths don't forget because when you strike something with lethal force there are consequences and although this particular lawyer. has been to the u.s. in many times before the state department has just prevented him from traveling
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here for a conference on human rights is not nice and fair and democratic of it's hypocrisy and the mainstream media just turns a blind eye so that's what they miss. so while the mainstream media is ignoring the ramping up of our air campaign in afghanistan they've also missed another big report the quite frankly makes our military commanders out to be big fat liars the last week the u.n. released a quarterly report of the war in afghanistan in the statistics were not pretty violence is up fifty one percent since this time last year so were civilian casualties compared to the spring of two thousand and ten they are up twenty percent the number of afghans who've been displaced is up four percent and i can remember now more than four hundred and thirty five thousand people so i would take those numbers how many how do we compare that to at which other general john allen who stated to take over the war command as commander well he said last tuesday in
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front of a senate panel he said that violence is five percent lower so far this year in comparison to last year so that's exactly the opposite of what the u.n. report has found so is the u.s. military lying and fudging the numbers and when will congress or the white house finally notice when we discussed that is jack rice former cia officer and criminal defense attorney jack thanks so much always a pleasure to have you on the show. i question so whose word are you going to take care of that we believe the tray is and john allen or do we believe the usa. well let's face it the un is trying to use very very hard numbers and what we're seeing from the white house what we're seeing from the pentagon you something else entirely and they're trying to make an argument right now regarding where they are going because you know what you can take a look back and see what it is they were arguing in the past the whole concept of dealing with a counterinsurgency it was more people on the ground so they could try to address the problems of the people when they decided they don't want to do that anymore in
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fact as you just described correctly what you're seeing now is just from the sky just like we did before except for the numbers are increasing dramatically but what the biggest problem that comes out of that is civilian casualties more deaths of innocents and which will do one thing it will drive the public was away from the united states which is one of our biggest problems in the first place well you know one of the interesting things about this if you look at this u.n. report specifically is that each other and this is the part of course that the u.s. military likes to beef up and they like to publicize is that the amount of civilian casualties that have been caused directly at least as far as they know by the u.s. or by coalition forces is down compare the amount of civilian deaths that we've seen from insurgents but doesn't that kind of division i don't know that make the entire point moot because aren't we there to protect civilians supposedly from insurgents. of course we are that's that's our problem is it simply is inconsistent
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it's the equivalent you know even if you think a locally you know of anywhere in the united states we saw you do is we're going to cut taxes but we're going to raise fees it's all a mean game it's all this shell game where you continue to move things around quickly enough and say where is the p is it under this one or is it under that one in this case it doesn't really matter if at the end of the day we are losing if at the end of the day what we're finding is that there are more civilians who are dying and more people in the streets of kabul and kandahar and herat mills where who decided that the americans are the bad guys let's face it at the end of the day we are losing and fundamentally that is our biggest problem regardless of the numbers of people we have on the ground we're guardians of the number of people regardless of the number of sorties or the number of predator drones or anything else and you think i mean is this also just specific to this u.s. occupation of afghanistan if you go back to the soviet times we didn't see so many suicide attacks we didn't see so many bombs so why now. well i think there is
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a bit of a difference and i think part of the problem then if you can call it that is what the soviets were dealing with in many ways and what the americans are dealing with now that's that is true but what makes it different is that there's a perception in the streets that i mean these are people i've spoken with in iraq and in afghanistan and in cairo and in jordan and in the palestinian territories there is this perception if the americans are trying to blanket the entire region so one thing that happens in certain areas of the middle east will then work its way into other parts hence we never saw it like the east or were suicide attacks in afghanistan previously i mean this is a new phenomenon but it's one that has been essentially acquired from what we've seen in places like iraq because it works you know what it really does is it drives the populous away from the americans because the perception that the americans are failing is highlighted by every successful attack and i guess you know at the end of the day of course for our civilians in afghanistan it doesn't matter who is
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doing the killing as long as people are losing their lives they're still living through the middle of this conflict i'm just curious the so we have the u.n. does a comprehensive report here the military i don't know if we call it comprehensive but they put on their own statistics do you think that there need to be other organizations that really are a report card for the war that really measures some of these numbers or is the u.n. a good tool well i think the u.n. is actually useful but i think what's happened is frequently become sort of if the yotta of those on the right if i don't want to make this a look the right question but i think a more independent numbers you can find it better frequently what we're seeing from the d.o.t. is that we did use trying to give you a specific number they're trying to spin this story too and so what you're looking for is a more objective truth it is a very very hard thing to fight anywhere in the world and when you're dealing with one of multiple wars going on to find truly objective facts can be very complicated . very very rare indeed so let's talk about you know you and i have of course
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spoken about the president and the plan for withdrawing the surge at least by summer of two thousand and twelve i guess if we look at these numbers that show the violence has only increased while the surge has been there does that mean that they have failed of course to fail i mean let's be honest what we're doing now is we're doing exactly what we were doing before what we're doing is we're increasing the numbers of attacks as we have previously and in fact we're going to draw that it only compared to where we were before and if you look at the numbers of attacks again and you said this as well or better than anybody else it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter who's your friend or your parents if you're burying you're going to look around or wherever the the call came in a few americans or so no no no we're here to help who do you think you're going to weigh yes we or. do you think that placing more special operations teams and this is tell me if i'm wrong here but i'm assuming that it's a surge leaves and we're going to have more special ops teams that start to at
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least go in while they might get rid of some of the other troops is that going to be a better strategy at all. well regarding the special ops units there's no question about that in fact one of the things you're going to see when it comes to thought in the numbers from the deal d. is this is what they're going to be doing is they're taking out all the support troops that they can and what they do they're going to do is keep all of the combat troops and special ops she gets on the ground as possible so you can keep more people in streets more people in the field but it would also does is it actually makes those who are there even more vulnerable a problem again goes back to the numbers of deaths that we're seeing it in a sense and what will happen is that doesn't fix our problem you could put special ops she did on the ground if you still kill a civilian what you now have is a blood feud where the entire extended family will turn around and say let me get this right and american killed my cousin well guess what you know if i wasn't in the war i am and that's why you continue to lose so how come we don't hear from the white house or from congress about the fact of the pentagon decides to fight its
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numbers and even today we see three us than there is that have an op ed in the new york times saying the troops to get out all of them should get out in two thousand and twelve but they never mention any of the number of times they never point any fingers are they scared of pentagon of course they are everybody's afraid to be seen especially the left a leftist petrified to be seen as weak on terrorism weak on international security and certainly never want to be seen as anything anti deal do your even questioning they want to be on the same side but you know i guess the other way of looking at this is there are far too busy thought even about the project right now or maybe they're all just sitting around watching what happens to casey anthony and i can have the bad better myself and we will get into the ridiculousness of this budget fight later on in this thread but for now thank you so much jack my pleasure. now speaking of the military as you know the u.s. has a top secret military base in the u.k. it's called menwith hill and since the one nine hundred fifty s.
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has been a crucial element in surveillance and intelligence gathering however like many u.s. military projects this base is quite expensive it cost ten billion dollars to be exact and its presence doesn't sit well with the locals lore and it has more. here it's a little piece of america in the heart of the u.k. so you actually tales where it's britons who are demanding independence from america this place symbolizes what's wrong with the special relationship between britain and you know states here we have a base that's on u.s. control which the british government and british people have no control menwith hill is the largest intel gathering and surveillance space outside the us there are thirty two satellite dishes housed inside the huge golf ball structures which can eavesdrop on telephone calls faxes and e-mails from around the world it's been
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operational since the one nine hundred sixty s. but now it's set to become part of the controversial missile defense shield to alert the u.s. to any launch a ballistic missiles as in poland and the czech republic where the u.s. also planned to site bases locals who worry that having a facility here would put the area in danger heightening the risk of an attack by anyone who wants to disable the shield but unlike in eastern europe the government here has put up no fight at all in fact it doesn't even know what goes on here there isn't a single british official in parliament or in the intelligence services who could give you a full picture of what is happening in this space it's the culmination of former u.s. president ronald reagan's tree as his statue was unveiled in london on monday menwith hill in bodies what really can envisage to the early warning missile detection system the star wars program it's secretive based far away from u.s. soil and some say it's a step towards the u.s.
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domination and militarization of space people demonstrate here campaigning for the closure of this space and the others like it around the country they want to reclaim this land and bring it back under the control of the british government and its people it's not working though. as menwith hill becomes possible missile defense shield it's building an elbow goes both satellite structure bringing the total to thirty three despite some local and international opposition growing not reducing the u.s. influence in europe you are at it so it's a man with hail. just ahead of wiki leaks goes after two credit card companies in court not only in return and then the double standard from the white house they've aggressively target leakers unless that leak comes from inside six hundred pennsylvania avenue or that's just a. little we're. going to work to bring justice for accountability. i have
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a carefully right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i paid taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't. chart the big picture. let's not forget that we are in a parked car. i
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think. even on the well. we have the government says we're going to keep him safe get ready for the your freedom.
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well looks like wiki leaks has finally gathered a legal crew to take on credit card companies visa master card just last week we showed you how joyous songs poked fun at master card by spoofing one of its very own commercials but people servers knew you could do this and. donations launched you to banking but the fifteen million. that it cost you to house arrest five hundred thousand dollars. watching the world. so. priceless. there's all the jokes are now over and now wiki leaks is getting serious because you probably remember when the whistle blowing organization first released its massive stash of diplomatic cables from the u.s. these are mastercard suspended all methods of payment to wake leaks through very companies so the group set out a press release through its twitter page so you those credit card companies have
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been engaging in a us to backed financial blockade and then they explain that they're suing visa master card the press release states the company is a coordinated action on december seventh last year to block all credit card transactions to wiki leaks constituted a series. violation of the competition rules of the e.u. furthermore the actions of these companies have violated danish merchant laws when they terminated the payment services and refused to reinstate them and we should know of the danish law firm representing weekly leaks has attempted to explain their case to the companies themselves but according to several reports these and mastercard have comply and in a recent interview was seen as mastercard stood by their original reasoning stating that company rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that's illegal meanwhile we can league says continue to move forward of their suit a request for prosecution has already been filed with the e.u. commission now i for one want to give wiki leaks major kudos and all this he
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remembered a very crucial elements in this saga the wiki leaks is an international organization and while they might have exposed some of america's most private information they still serve as a resource for the rest of the world and in that case there was a growing organization has gone to the e.u. to make sure that they can remain protected under international laws because that could be enough to stop these and that's regards protested wiki leaks mission well i guess only time will tell. now we've often spoken about the double standard that's applied to leaking classified information and today we have one more glaring example pointed out by salon dot com playing greenwald and it was big news in the new york times they reported that pakistan's intelligence agency the i.s.i. and ordered the killing of pakistani journalist silly interest his body was found weeks ago but how the new york times actually know this oh just because several senior administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity of course told them so in that same piece the new york times and knowledge of the disclosure
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of the information in itself could further aggravate the badly fractured relationship between pakistan and the u.s. it as far as we know it's no investigation has been launched no grand jury has been convened in virginia no one is sitting in solitary confinement for passing on this classified information so how do we apply this to the obama administration's war on whistleblowers do they only go after you if it's the secrets that make them look bad or discuss this with me is christopher chambers lecture at georgetown university and author of the blog turner's revenge chris thanks so much for joining us tonight but he's saying other blatant example of the double standard that if somebody within the administration who is somebody that level you don't get in trouble for leaking anything i mean this is classic i mean the rule here and it's been the rule probably for the last fifty sixty seventy years is the only person in the world police. and consume decides who we're. true who
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it is a tool of policy it is their work and anybody else is not allowed to use it. but so these are senior administration officials we have course to really know who that applies to you but if it's a number of them if there are several of them does not mean that somebody had to condone it that somebody within the white house said it's ok to put this information that's that's how that works i mean because of that so will soon controls you information whereas if it's but investigative journalist or. we can explore somewhere like bradley manning feeding wiki leaks that's loose cannon stuff that's you know let justice be done though the heavens move fall stuff we don't want that we want to have control so there's stuff coming from the top the top could mean the state department. a combination of of all of those and how many times have we seen this write to you and united and spoken about an entire book it was are you not held harmless a war as it was a hole of all these secret closed door meetings and yet that gets to be sold on the shelves and in the cases of wiki leaks or people like thomas drake there's
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a passenger in a car isn't it happens all the time as you know even with the glaring examples of vietnam were officials certain things against certain. officials who they thought were corrupt or were only vietcong or north side and yet went after daniel ellsberg and people like that and the irony there is ellsberg and people like that were you know exposing the type of information that these guys or women you know that they are now were using as their kind of crafted weapon and so i mean you know that's the difference between journalism and journalists doing it and it being a weapon of war a tool of policy let's just say well that's right why do you think it is that the obama administration would want to continually release more and more bad information when it comes to pakistan specifically the relationship is completely soured since the obama or excuse me since the osama bin laden raid and you know it even started before that so why galad this be an opportune moment to even say it involved a kilometer of the world killing journalists in pakistan is like
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a spectator sport over there it's like football or the n.b.a. i mean the pakistan. georgetown with your perl project and we looked at this inside and out it is a crazy situation over there is a very complex country and the relationship between our two countries has been acute to you know codependent cold violent spouses you know i love you i hate you i love you i hate you sometimes in the same breath i mean literally power. on each other and the military is part of that the military runs the i.s.i. the i.s.i. could not be trusted in the eyes of the administration to deal with osama bin laden you know and i we didn't know he was there you have a population that hates the united states as well china has a much bigger you know public relations profile over there than we do and we give them billions of dollars so it's a very complex thing you know public enemy number one it was in their country it's a it's a history of this stuff going back to the daniel pearl thing where of you know the
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government basically put somebody you had nothing to do with killing him on trial and harming the guy you know so it's complex and i can see why it is ministry to want to do this but you have to do it and not be creative about it and there is actually a guy as one of them is that you know and this is their attempt at being transparent you know do you guys that as you well that will be you know a long and complicated relationship with pakistan who knows how that's going to be used against them at some point when it comes to continuing a war of their shadow war and it comes to continuing trounce rights but overall the pink of a new york times place in this right because they're in their own writing are saying the release of this information could really damage the already degraded you know the media part and parcel of this this weird leak as tool policy i think is that the media is really just shrunk away and so we had wiki leaks really kicked everything this is part of their hedging to basically say look mr president we're
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a team player we want to you know we'll pay lip service to mr schultz who had been killed or you know a fellow journalist been murdered but we also want to show that we're in your court you know that there were good you know we're good players you know we're not going to leak too much we saw what happened to bradley manning we saw what happened to julian assange and so you know they're trying to basically spur growth and he's going to look a little hypocritical right because at first they are the kind of growth. with julie. well then they turned against him and now they they like to leak the information and this is me and so because they want to they want to be a true within the tool basically of helping the administration helping you know use leaks as a policy tool versus you know having them break news which is what they should be doing and they aren't oh yeah what do you think about the part of of course and i've spoken out many times the fact that newspapers in this country are dying out let's face it they can't have the same gigantic bureaus anymore they can have the same investigative right. that's the easy way out of our friends in high places who
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needs your investigative owners or the stories that actually get you the headlines that people read and by basically i mean because they're probably looking i mean this is there are some parallels so here to the pearl case they're looking at how the wall street journal really had a hard time navigating that whole murder investigation dealing with the pakistanis the former military regime extra who was president and the united states government time to deal with this now they just see it on the ground they can use whatever resources are there with the pakistanis they can basically take what the administration's giving them and they look like good guys because we're helping to solve some of bin ladin think these people knew he was there certain people the i.s.i. have to be punished and we're going to help the administration do it because you know we want to we want to stay on their good side so that it's one of those things where of course they want to stay on the good side but also maybe they're forced to these days now of course they start out supporters say here think that that's the only way to keep themselves. in the game exactly while now the case of war
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and war on leakers certainly is morally correct and white house chris thanks i sure running us tonight. well still ahead tonight we have our tuesday edition of show and tell and compassed back in session how can i agree on a deal to raise the debt ceiling or is the u.s. on a collision course for another economic collapse i got stuck. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so whole lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture.

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