welcome to the lower show i'll get the real headlines with none of the mercy from the live in washington d.c. now and i will speak with jeremy scahill about his new report on the cia's secret sites and somalia well take a look at a number of new polls that show the majority of americans think tax increases need to be in the budget deal and then we're going to ask why there are still so woefully unaware about income inequality overall and after more than a year old wired has finally released what they claim to be the full chat logs

between bradley manning and adrian lamo and these are details that you need to hear we're going to have all that and more for you to night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. of all the corruption of the world all the lies that are told all of the wrong doings which case would you pick to have the media report on something tells me it wouldn't be this one. the judge in this case says that he may have no choice but to clear a mistrial after prosecutors violated his order that if there is a mistrial then we'd have to start all over again this jury would be dismissed there have to be another pool called in there to be more questions to take another week or so to impanel a jury all of this in question whether or not any of this is going to move forward that is because the judge presiding over clemens' perjury trial has now declared

a mistrial in this case we'll be following this now listen i understand that baseball is the great american pastime that roger clemens is one of the most famous pitchers of all time so yes and give an update where to sleep yes the end of over every single little detail but is this really great news can you imagine if the media person pursued wall street would be exact same tenacity the crooks that not only brought down the world's economy but also lied to congress when they were testifying about it why haven't we seen a trial there yet why haven't we seen more anger aside from maybe dylan ratigan and jane there the rest of the worthless mainstream media is perfectly content to close its eyes and results the eyes of america when you see true grit and greed and corruption and this says a lot for our justice system as well for our governments which the mainstream media gives an embarrassingly easy pass to but here is a story that doesn't deserve your attention because it has to do with your privacy and what a corrupt and overbearing government is trying to do with it the senators ron wyden

and mark udall both deserve a round of applause today as well as danger room found out that you are sending a letter today directly to the director of national intelligence james clapper and you see thanks to the smartphones that we all carry around geo locations like knology has made it increasingly easier to spy on us to monitor our every move and senators why than you all want to know if the intelligence agencies in this country think that they have the right to track this whenever they want he widens already introduced legislation that would require. law enforcement get warrants but as of now that's going to the supreme court of course the obama administration is going to be furiously fighting to get them to rule that they can spy on you war and free but that doesn't apply to the intelligence agencies or for the purpose of simplicity let's just call them the spies they've been using the guise amendments act which was passed under bush in two thousand and eight to make all of that warrantless wiretapping illegal to collect more data on americans and their communications abroad so one of the new doll said that they want on classified

answers from clapper as to how far that goes when it comes to geolocation that unclassified answers people even believe that i'm sure just the sound of those words is making clapper cringe after all i'm sure that he's gotten used to operating in peace in secret about anybody really questioning intelligence efforts so i just can't wait to see if he actually gives these two senators a response i'm sure wire to be on it will be on it but for now all that stuff about your privacy and agencies spying on you lots of the mainstream media chooses to miss. reporting for the nation jeremy scahill has released a report on cia operations and secret sites in somalia according to scale in a back corner of mogadishu's international airport as a sprawling walled compound run by the cia they run a counterterrorism training program aimed at building an indigenous strike force to

carry out combat operations against members of al shabaab but that's not all reportedly there is another secret prison buried in the basement of somalia's national security agency headquarters where prisoners are held some of that rendered from kenya and all no although the underground prison is officially run by the somalis u.s. intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogators prisoners it's direct evidence of an expanding u.s. operation in the country and also a continuation of bush. policies carried out by the obama administration just how many resources the us putting back and does this mean that our counterterrorism policies really are wreaking worldwide more since earlier i caught up with jeremy scahill national security reporter for the nation magazine and author of the book of blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army and i first asked him if he had any idea when he went to mogadishu and this is what he would find why i went there as part of an investigation i'm doing into u.s.

targeted killing operations and my original intent in going there was to look at the way that the joint special operations command was engaged in targeted killing operations inside of somalia within a couple of days of arriving in mogadishu i received information that indicated that the cia had just set up a secret counterterrorism training base at the airport and then i met a man who told me that he had been in a basement dungeon prison in a facility where there were also cia operatives and that's how we started our investigation so yes we were looking into the idea of targeted killing and covert ops no we did not know that the cia was using the secret prison there or had set up a new base at the airport in mogadishu well so can you tell me a little bit more about these compounds starting first at the new base at the airport is that something that's really closed off and secretive or is it just out there in plain sight for all to see. well it's probably the most poorly kept secret in mogadishu if it is secret because everyone from the kids chewing khat leaves on

the street to senior government officials certainly knows that the cia has set up a base at the airport in fact you can see it from the tarmac as you're standing there waiting to board planes or as you get off the planes it's a fairly big compound with walls that guarded guard towers in all four corners and the reason it caught my attention was because it looked very much like the u.s. forward operating bases that i've seen in afghanistan and elsewhere and then when i started talking to government officials from the u.s. back somali government and intelligence officials on the ground i did. covered that in fact it was a cia base and that they were training and paying somali counterterrorism agents and they're trying to set up an indigenous strike force capable of doing targeted kill and capture operations against the militant group al-shabaab now you also reported that your son line source for one of them that you spoke you said that these guys are lined up about once a month and pay two hundred dollars in cash how much money is that for somalia. for somali people two hundred dollars a month is

a huge amount of money i mean let's remember this is a country that hasn't printed its own currency since one thousand nine hundred one it's a place where they're the best chance that a young man in particular has of employment is by working as a militia member with a with an a k forty seven so to to have two hundred dollars is a pretty decent salary especially if it's consistent and i haven't paid an american money is the best way that it could be done i mean relative to what you and i would think would be good pay obviously it's not much money at all in somalia that's a tremendous amount of money for an individual to make ok and so then if we look at the back of a bintang these people they've been training them to set up these operations has any of that actually been successful. i mean i think the u.s. so-called counterterrorism approach in somalia has relied on two primary things one is the u.s. is doing unilateral strikes using j. sock or the cia in rural parts of somalia and in some cases civilians have been

killed making the shabab even stronger and angering local populations on the other hand inside of mogadishu the only thing that the u.s. can rely on for the most part as a replacement for intelligence is indiscriminate shelling by the african union forces known as amazon that are funded and armed by the united states they just indiscriminately shell areas where the shabaab are believed to have strongholds and and they force everyone to flee to shabaab and the civilians that are living there and it really is just a replacement for accurate intelligence and it's angering enraging a lot of people and causing a lot of civilian damage and civilians to be killed as part of that this counterterrorism training program the cia has is in theory aimed at doing more surgical operations but the somali intelligence sources that i spoke with said they've only tried one operation in the shabaab controlled area and it was a disaster in the somali agents ended up getting killed they haven't tried one

since and that was way as last year they also told me they don't have a single. credible informant in the areas and remember the u.s. backed government in mogadishu only controls thirty square miles of the capital city much of the rest of the city and in fact the country is in the hands of warlords clans or al-shabaab and i really want to get into this. prison that you were told about what goes on there when we talk about interrogations aren't u.s. officials directly involved in the interrogations i think it's harsh interrogation techniques to get any of those details i just want to be clear that what i reported in my article was what i felt that i had a journalistically have the right to report in other words i had multiple sources i believe that it was true. on the issue of harsh interrogation i don't have any information that i can report that there is torture taking place in the prison or anything that we would know in this country as harsh interrogation techniques having said that the conditions in the prison themselves sound to me like abuse

it's in a dungeon where there are no windows and no sunlight the air was described to me as thick and disgusting in a totally unsanitary conditions bed bug infestation throughout the prison mosquitoes prisoners that seemed to be going crazy rocking against walls banging their heads on the walls i was told there are children young boys that are also inside of the prison many of the people that are there were picked up on suspicion of having links to al shabaab or al qaeda and i was told very directly by multiple somali intelligence officials and government officials that the american and french intelligence agents that work with the somalis directly interrogate prisoners if they ask and that it does happen and that the somali intelligence agents let them do it freely when i spoke to i can't say the name of the entity that i called for comment because they told me that i could only identify them as a u.s. official but let's just say u.s. official familiar with these operations said that the americans only debrief the

brief terror suspects in the presence of somali agents and only jointly with those somali agents that was contradicted by everyone else i talked to for this story and jeremy everything that you've reported here if it is a very big deal not only is it a continuation of bush policies by the obama administration when it comes to having secret prisons when it comes to when it comes to detaining people and such harsh conditions but i'm just curious why that is that we haven't seen you on every single news channel why all of those real news networks out there are dying to get this story from he'll. yes so far it's just been democracy now al-jazeera and russia today r t that have expressed serious interest in this story and i should say the story's one hundred percent true and the u.s. government when i called them for comment confirm that it was true they just tried to play semantics with you they were concerned that i was going to call it a black site they were they were concerned that i was saying that they were

directly interrogating the prisoners they prefer the term deep briefing of prisoners so that was where the issue was i think that there's a couple of factors here one both c.n.n. and a.b.c. news did stories on their websites that in the case of c.n.n. didn't even mention my report and just basically reprinted a press release from the cia saying that you know they were just assisting the somali government a.b.c. news did something far more insidious they mischaracterized what i reported and then had a u.s. official responding and denying something that i didn't even say which is that the u.s. was running a counterterrorism detention facility what i said is exactly what i reported and that is that the u.s. is paying the salaries of somali agents who are operating in an underground prison and that u.s. of officials are interrogating prisoners there that is one hundred percent true and no one from the government will come forward to deny it because they know it's true and so these media outlets are serving as conveyor belts for the propaganda of the central intelligence agency which is very good at spin and lastly i just want to

ask we have there have been some critics out there people that say they need to see national security think i think you could be putting americans at risk what's your response to back. our our counterterrorism policies in many of these countries are putting americans at risk especially when we kill civilians but specifically on the issue of these sites the cia needs to investigate their own operational security because when a kid chewing khat leaves on the street knows where your headquarters is that's not good operational security when you can see it when you fly into the airport that's not good operational security so if anything i think that this should be used as a wake up call for the cia to examine its own operational security procedures everyone knows about this including journalists who just for some reason have decided not to report on it but it's the worst kept open secret in mogadishu i general and i thank you very much for joining us tonight so happy you could make it on the program and very happy that there are people like you out there reporting on these stories. thank you. our it's time for

a break when we come back is the new google plus even worse than facebook when it comes to not protecting your privacy when you get into the new social networking sites selling whole lack of those protections and wireless finally released the full chaffee between bradley manning and adrian lamo for you the details when we come back. into it only a military mechanism if you don't work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government's doing you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know some pleasure see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you live

something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right now. i think the media want to well. we never government says they're going to keep you safe get ready for the their freedom.

are you one of the select social media savvy people that's already on google plus did you get a little excited when that super exclusive invite e-mail arrived in your inbox and i must admit i was a little disappointed that took me a few days to get the invite my friend guess that makes me a loser but now i'm wondering if that coveted invitation is more trouble than it's worth the starting on july thirty first everyone's a google plus profile is going public and during the current testing place you can

keep our profile private but that's all about to change google says the purpose of google profiles is to enable you to manage your online i didn't get any and today nearly all google profiles are public we believe that using it google profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used private profiles don't allow this so we've decided to require all profiles to be public so that you're wondering what happens if you don't make your google plus profile public and reveal your identity to all of everybody on the internet well it delete it so he doesn't love the google or tell us your real name or will cancel your account seems a little harsh when you say now google says that they're only going to make the users full name and gender displayed on the public profile the night of that so should google force everyone to make their profiles go public i don't think so but here's my big question for anybody who signed up for google plus should this policy really shock any of us the company has a long history of trampling on privacy rights and something that we've documented numerous times on this show him or former google c.e.o.

eric schmidt and what he says about online privacy if you have something you don't want anyone to know we shouldn't be doing it in the first place but if you really knew the kind of privacy the reality is that sort of changes including you view retain this information for some time. and it's important for example that you we're also going to search for the patriot act and use possible that the information will be made available to the authorities. oh eric inventor of the creepy line google glass isn't. only google platform it's moving away from privacy protections a major changes have been made to how you tube users can register and operate on the site for years you tube it allows users to upload videos and comment anonymously was a hallmark of the site for better or for worse and even a very proud of this position they claimed in a blog post on the google web site that anonymity was a hugely important feature of you tube which dissidents in the middle east comment and upload content without governments or anyone else being able to track. that

noble position is a barely changed in you tube it will no longer let people register with anonymous names they will now have to use an existing email account to upload or comment on the site and that's a major departure from all the lofty talk of the importance of allowing people to remain anonymous what about their requests for democracy and trying to stay safe so while google talks a big talk about protecting its users identity and their privacy seems like their recent actions simply aren't backing up the rhetoric so it looks like now that google's got a big bad social network to compete with facebook they also turn to the dark side of privacy and anonymity as an they no longer believe that it should exist. after hanging on to them for more than a year yesterday wired finally released what they claim to be the full chat logs between bradley manning and adrian lamo those same laws they had previously only released excerpts of but when you use a large investigative reports by frontline and c.n.n.

logs which adrian lamo quoted in numerous interviews for which up to this date no one had any ability to verify they're out there we can get a deeper look into what manning allegedly and how the u.s. government will try to use it against him in court now these logs show that limo told manning to think of them as a journalist and minister to think of what he told them as a confession and interview never to be published they also documented describing julius on as someone who takes a source protection very seriously and asks to be like to which basically the bank's claims that a songe may have known that manning was his source so could any of this change anything in the public's perception of manning or the government's handling of this case joining me from our studio in new york to discuss this is chase not our civil rights attorney and author of the passion of bradley manning which will be coming out this fall chase thanks so much for joining us tonight now before we get into what's in some of these chat blogs i want to get into what you're writing about do you think the bradley manning should get the presidential medal of freedom i think

you and i probably both know that's never going to happen at least not during this administration but why do you think he deserves that award but we badly need to know what our government is doing after ten years of disastrous foreign policy we need some serious public supervision and thanks to bradley manning and the leaks that he is allegedly supplied us with we can finally make that supervision possible now what are some of the other reasons to you know in your piece you document four major reasons that you think the bradley manning has really changed our world and our knowledge i guess you can say of this world. so bradley manning is part of a long and heroic tradition of american military whistleblowers people like dan ellsberg who have really brought honor to our armed forces by blowing the whistle on wrongdoing and this is not some radical new idea that was just invented last week by julian assigns who was james madison who said that

a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or both but it's james madison the primary architect of our constitution the need for transparency in government and for a minimum of government secrecy is a very good idea it's a very old idea in our american political system and intellectual history and fortunately we have people like bradley manning who come along and remind us of this when we have strayed too far from this with disastrous results i might add over the past ten years how would you compare bradley manning through some of the people that over the past years have received the presidential medal of freedom including donald rumsfeld big cheney now former secretary of defense robert gates. well i'm here to say the current c. of the presidential medal of freedom is somewhat debased given all the people who

have known it donald rumsfeld tony blair always the grinning and eager accomplice to the iraq war george tenet who thought the war in iraq would be a slam dunk i can't say that any of these people reflect well on our country that their record of government service is is a good one so perhaps the presidential medal of freedom really isn't the right word for bradley manning and i want to get into some of these it shall all of that were released by wired yesterday and i just have two passages that i decided to highlight and i'm going to go through with them with you one by one and so the first one in the first one manning says he's trying to keep a low profile for now though just a warning to which a limo responds i'm a journalist and a minister you can take either and treat this as a confession or an interview never to be published and enjoy a modicum of legal protection so obviously it looks like well no allied to manning here i guess some could even say that he manipulated him but what do you think that

says especially considering the fact that limo has been parading himself around the media release the media has been jumping on the mower for at least the past year and nobody ever knew that he said these things until i really thought well it certainly reflects very poorly adrian i frankly feel bad for that guy he seems like kind of a said character was in voluntarily committed to a mental institution of some kind just weeks before he fingered and then he has his own criminal past as often with criminal informants. they tend to have said stories we had he's the one that you could say. that the government is using a lot of the evidence at least to imply that manning is guilty here so is that fair . well these trailers have been authenticated so i don't want to speak to their admissibility is evidence so the bin may well wind up in court and they do clearly

implicate bradley manning if they are legit but many people who think that would grab is good for our country this is not a game changer i want to read you one more passage here to you and this one has to deal specifically with julian assigns because lamar was asking manning what happens if somebody comes for you julia sign she actually use his name if he slipped up and manning said he knows very little about me take source protection or seriously lie to me he says which the original mossad interesting and then manning said he won't work with you if you reveal too much about yourself and i did this passage is also really important because we've seen numerous investigations be it by p.b.s. frontline or c.n.n. or they're all trying to find a way to connect manning it to assign a songes repeatedly claim that he does not know who his sources are do you think of this at least helps give some proof to that do you think of this could damage the

government's argument at all absolutely. absolutely dishonest has been saying. it frustrates the attempt of the government of our government to link should some kind of conspiratorial relationship with manning so that does not seem to come out of all of these new fuller chat logs and why it is getting a lot of flack for the fact that they didn't release these until and having them for more than a year of the before they only release certain excerpts do you think of it deserve all that scrutiny. i think they deserve some flak i think they probably did the right thing in withholding some of the information and some of the dialogues there's a lot of personal information about bradley manning that certainly makes for gripping often heartbreaking reading but really brings nothing to bear i think about any motives for what he allegedly done you know there's

a whole rush on the part of many commentators to assign that strange motives to bradley manning that he allegedly leaked all these documents because of family issues or because he's gay or because he's thinking of gender transition none of this speaks to his real motives which are very plainly stated in the chat logs that he did what he did because he wanted to provoke worldwide discussions debates reforms and that he did what he did because he didn't pay people to make informed decisions without information some people have called this wide of thought childish . but i hate to say it if that's what it is that's the kind of childish anarchy that our constitution is built on and that much of our political tradition depends on that chase very quickly do you think that opinions will change that perhaps manning will one day be as ellsberg is now i consider a national hero by the majority i got to lately i'm very optimistic about that it's

important to remember the dead ellsberg was vilified in his time and people have really come around even the state department sees him as a hero there are a growing number of people on the right left and center who see bradley manning's alleged deeds as heroic and tiredly beneficial to our country i chase thank you so much for joining us and i will see if the presidential medal of freedom ever comes true but for now i will have to start monitoring what comes out of the fact that these have been really thanks so much. thank you. all still to come tonight show and tell and why don't americans know that wealth disparity in this country is at a record high now are politicians taking advantage of that when it comes to budget cuts when you get into it it seems richard. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so cool a complete you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's useable.