we. are doing. well he spent three decades on death row but it seems nothing can break has resolved party talks with one of america's most infamous inmates and now we're going to let me go to jim all tell a story in his own words on the little bit of discipline making sure that those folks go for touch. and the fire protection he met using the espionage act to actively seek and prosecute large list whistleblowers than any other president in american history and president obama is right on track and will show you how long

the whistle could cost you more than your career. plus now flex is best known for its movie deals but where is all that money going lobbying congress of course our web team has been covering the story and we'll bring you next netflix's response to r.t. in just a bit. it's tuesday april tenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our team. well the case has become a known throughout the world and we will mean of legion mall spent three decades on death row he's now spending life behind bars without parole and he was accused of shooting a philadelphia police officer back in one thousand eighty one but questions still remain over how evidence was handled in the case and so this day he meant he maintains his innocence his supporters believe he was mistakenly convicted because

he was black and he recently lost lay the latest appeal to the temple vegas supreme court and art he got an exclusive interview with him it's his first interview with a television station since being taken off the throw our party is on the top a caricature that's a story book once and for folks like from the. subject of monitoring and recruiting this call and more than half of his life monitored and controlled watched by the f.b.i. since the age of fourteen revolutionary activist and journalist mutable jamal spent three decades of his life on death row i like to tell myself i've actually spent a lot of the time. on the bars in another country you know. it across the world because it's really you know little can only take so far. the

truth of the matter is that most of my living here. my life. in january media has a sentence reduced to life without parole you called in to speak exclusively with archie from prison the feeling of losing a good education still hard for him to shoot any way he would do it my all mine. back. in one nine hundred eighty one the former black panther was accused of killing a police officer in philadelphia has always maintained his innocence his analysis is a revolutionary announce that this ystem is rotten to its core that it's race is class is sexist evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist. domination of the world it is this money and his supporters say that led to his arrest this was a police frame up against a revolutionary journalist and activist very well known organizer in

philadelphia outspoken against police abuse while the you must coins to not hold political prisoners has become one of the most well known in the world an honorary one of holding citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france. to me is books have been translated into nine languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies his case is one of the most to beat it in modern legal history fifteen of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in money as trial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction fifteen of the thirty three. were supporters a symbol of a flawed justice system mia says u.s. prisons are built for the broken and the homeless while mass incarceration in america has reached unthinkable levels of california alone.

for public outreach problem you know so it. would be a says the adoption of laws like the petri of act and the n.d.a. age have given big brother tactics illegitimacy unimaginable when he was still a free man everything that went. back to good might mean sixty percent like fifty three point three seventy's. legalized they realized they realized very things that f.b.i. agents and ministry was critical back then so where is america headed selection season in the united states right now a lot of people trust who would you vote for. privately because most of the people that are out there will be to gauge your political parties when they talk it all i hear is a kind of. reasonable. the wish to return to bigots of your nineteen fifties or they talk about the perpetuation of the american

empire imperialist like me which is difficult for as their fifteen minute monitor phone calls from jail rap song have a sentence with me it has a message for those who believe in him organize organize organize and i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me let's fight together to create the future can a party. now to talk more about her interview r t correspondent on a selfie of her going to joins us now live from new york and. you're the first journalist that was able to interview moni dense you've been cut off since she was taken off death row talk a little bit more about your conversation with em. well liz you know this is a great opportunity to really get a little personal feel of what moonie is like and what he thought his thoughts are all about we know that countless of his supporters the people who watch the listen to his weekly commentary on the radio definitely know his take on social injustice

wealth inequality politics the economy he definitely talks about all of those issues in his weekly commentary in his books this is really a chance to ask him some of the more personal questions such as you know what is it like to be on death row for three decades and you know most of us can't even begin to imagine what that's like and so he gave us a bit of an insight into that as you heard in that report another thing i got a chance to ask him was whether he has dreams if he can pick one thing he could change about the world what would that be and he said listen it's impossible to pick one thing because so many things are interconnected in society that if i pick a better education system for my grandkids something else has to work out better too in order for society to develop in a positive way we also got a chance to ask him if he could participate in any events of the last thirty years that he's missed out on by being in jail he said the and the movement in south

africa he said any movement that fights for freedom he'd love to have been part of now i'm he recently launched his latest appeal. how did he seem in response to that that he still seemed like he had hoped for a positive outcome in the future. well as you know media is definitely continuing his legal battle we know that for sure and even or so it's obviously been a struggle so he is serving a life sentence without parole he has a strong legal team he has countless supporters all over the world so he's really are hopeful still that he will be able to walk out of jail a free man because you know at some point in his life and that's certainly something that he's hoping for we did get a chance to talk about the u.s. justice system and he did see that his feet in it is certainly does window in considering you know his life story so that's that's certainly it but he's standing strong mentally like he said he is learning self educating he's reading books he's

reading he tries to you know he gets letters from his supporters not just from the united states from but from internationally so he's certainly keeping going how his life is going to unravel from now on we don't know we're going to have to wait and see where it takes him and now we know that he has endorsed the occupy wall street movement was his take on the. well as we know it's certainly somebody who's been calling for change and gives an important role to social movements in the united states he says it's important for citizens to develop by organizing like we heard and so when it comes to occupy wall street he says that it's a great beginning to quote him it's a damn good beginning and he says what are you proud of wall street needs is to be bigger louder and angrier like he said but he certainly thinks it's the beginning of something of some new developments in the united states all right on a saucy i thank you very much for keeping us updated on this story that was our

correspondent on a southie a carrick and i and to see be entire interview with him all just go to our live site r.t. dot com slash usa it's in the top stories on the front page just look for the exclusive bug and it will take you to the full interview. well a war on whistleblowers in america another government official has a little allegedly blown the whistle and facing the consequences for doing so a former cia officer by the name of john kerry career cow was indicted on thursday on charges of leaking secrets to journalists but it's not the first time he's been in hot water for blowing the whistle he is the man that exposed the cia's use of waterboarding on terrorist suspects well it's another example of the obama administration going after whistleblowers so is there an effort to silence whistleblowers today well earlier i spoke with someone who knows a lot about this subject just one radek just one is the director of national

security and human rights for the government accountability project he's also the author of this book traitor the whistleblower and the american taliban as a former whistleblower she shared her story with us take a listen. basically in the justice department ethics supervisor in the case of the so-called american taliban john walker lindh he was a first person captured in afghanistan after nine eleven and he was an american so he was seen as the worst of the bad when in fact he really hadn't done that much he ended up pleading guilty to relatively minor charges but i advise not to interrogate him without a lawyer and parent that equate not to torture him and when i realized that that advice was not only because for guarded but disappeared from the file in the office that was not turned over to the court i blew the whistle on that

and for that i experienced a lot of our tally ation including being put under a criminal investigation and referred to the state arson which had licensed as an attorney and put on the no fly list so that's kind of how i got into this line of bork i decided after that experience to dedicate my life to representing whistleblowers and what was the outcome of that investigation the criminal case closed with no charges ever being brought the maryland bar dismissed at their charges in two thousand and five but the d.c. birth charges are still pending in two thousand and twelve just to show you how politicized this whole thing was and then i am able to fly again so that's good news so but ever since then i know that you have dedicated your life and your work to protecting the rights of whistleblowers i want to talk about this latest case the former cia officer charged with violating the espionage act and i know that you

say that this is an outdated law dating back all the way to the world war one era but now this law you say is being used to target whistleblowers absolutely this law was at nine hundred seventeen go are meant. go after spa is not whistleblowers however our government around nine hundred seventy used it to go after the pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg a very famous man and a very famous case and it's only only had been used two times since then to go after people who allegedly had mishandled classified information and in one of those cases the person got a pardon and in the other case was aborted during the middle of the case but the obama administration unfortunately has brought six prosecutions or file charges against six different people under this act and these people are not robert

hanssen or aldrich ames they are not spies bear in fact people who blow the whistle on fraud waste abuse and sometimes l.a. galaxy and work rhymes and it's interesting you brought up president obama because years ago he was he seemed to be in support of whistle blowing and i believe we have a sound bite of him speaking on this subject. i wrote the brief for the federal. for the federal or the federal this is below the results make sure that it applied in more situations it went all the way of the supreme court and we won so i know a little bit about. making sure that those folks there put such. now harry is back in two thousand and eight stocking about protecting whistleblowers but in reality the way it's played out is that he's actually actually been quite aggressive and

going after whistleblowers much more so than the bush administration why is that that's a great question and people like myself who campaigned for obama and contributed to him and voted for him are asking the same thing and i think initially it was to appease the intelligence establishment which saw him as weak coming into office but it since all of these cases involve so-called leaking or making disclosures to journalists i think it's really a backdoor way to create bad precedent for going after people in the media and i also think it's sort of this way to create an official secrets act which we don't have in this country and haven't had for more than two hundred years so i know you also say that this war on whistleblowers is also a war i'm journalists absolutely absolutely and i think that's become more and more

apparent i think in the one of the initial indictments the one against thomas drake they tried very hard not to bring the reporter in it was sean gorman then with the baltimore sun and now with the wall street journal but if you look at the case of jeffrey sterling they have subpoena jim rise and bush subpoenaed him new york times columnist jim rise and twice and obama subpoenaed him once the judge. brink of my rule that he did have a reporter's privilege not to disclose his source. who people widely believed to be jeffrey sterling and now that's up on appeal and then in kiriakou skase there are journalists all over that weighs the charges have journalists aid generalist be journalists see and in the indictment journalist a journalist be journalist could be. again a high profile new york times journalist not jim rise and but scott shane

incurious so we're seeing a lot of examples here here at r t we cover this whole issue of whistle blowing a lot particularly with bradley manning the you know the army private accused of blowing the whistle and sending hundreds of thousands of documents to wiki leaks and which has made these public document public made his documents public excuse me which one do you think is the most shocking. of the of the cases that were of what of the cases wow i think i mean i'm most familiar with thomas drake and with john kiriakou and i find both of them to have been brought in bad faith and overzealous use and very flimsy cases. in which multiple i mean upwards of between five and ten plea bargain offers

you know were made early on in the case. which showed how weak the case turned out to be. it creaks was especially just because it turned out that nothing that the government claimed to have been classified was indeed classic but in fact it ticked off the floor or classifications are under george w. bush so much that he sued his former agency to make them and force. then this classification over the punishment for misclassifying stuff because of b. regis that information had been classified in the clinton street case and lastly just and we don't have too much time left but you know we're seeing all these all these cases against whistleblowers so where do you think this is heading in the future of whistle blowing in america. i think people are going to keep doing it i hope because they have a conscience but in america you know i think to the extent that the obama

administration is ticked off about weekly leaks i mean the answer is to enact meaningful and effective whistleblower protection reform and not to be prosecuted whistleblowers so i hope that people will keep coming forward and standing for all right very interesting gentlemen thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your personal experience with us that was just one radek author of the book traitor but was a blower and the americans howl about and the national security director at the government accountability of projects the readers of time magazine have cast their ballots for the year's most influential figures across all fields from politics to attack and pop culture and the winner is anonymous the group of hacktivists urged to take the top spot just before the voting ended easily beating out eric martin the general manager of the online sharing community reddit but should it be anybody be surprised that anonymous is so popular this is how they describe themselves or

to the most powerful people water earth archer spaceless seventeen to thirty five year olds it's like that you're really scary one board or are you all for three or four we don't store very well we don't have our inner. there's more and there's a core of. all the group shot to pay over the last year or so and that time they have taken on greed corruption around the world and they seem to have a soft spot for the occupy wall street movement hello. you have not heard of our brothers and sisters on wall street or currently there are going to be first where. this is not. the other city so the people are stocking peacefully. their people are with. us. in our industry there every. year there another the public space.

now some online observers are not buying the results an unnamed source told the social media site mashable that anonymous had most likely hacked a vote on twitter anonymous called the claimed quote complete rubbish and tweeted. that handle mashable ever stop to think maybe you weren't leaving because i don't know people like us and actually voted for anonymous. sounds like mashable got smacked down for talking trash now while the readers have spoken and time magazine's top one hundred influential people poll the magazine will have the final say when the results are released on april seventeenth so it will be interesting to see if time will follow the will of the people. still had an artsy at the company netflix is not just burning today its hottest blockbuster is at a t.v. set near you it's also bringing money lots of it and the politics so what exactly is the company lobbying for well answer some questions and bring you back netflix

as response to our coverage in just a minute. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of economy who can you trust no one who is you view who with the oval machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism school sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our t.v. question more. r g is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like an old. question today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

well the streaming giant netflix could be playing a role in your future online freedoms the company has reportedly created its own super pac and while the agenda of this pac is still a little hazy many claim that the company is pumping money toward supporting anti-piracy legislation similar to the stop online piracy act already protect ip act better known as sopa and pipa this has many online advocates worried that internet freedoms are under attack so far and the piracy bills have been extremely controversial in fact the backlash against legislation like sopa and pipa holt of the bills from going anywhere in congress and it's a story our lead team has been following for quite some time as well as the claims that this super pac could be used to support and see piracy measures in washington and so like laws they were in several articles on our website on the issue and

articles have generated quite a response from readers and even netflix itself the company has even gone so far as to reach out to artsy regarding the way in which we are they were covered in a response which our web team let's quick to put up on line so now congress has a new bills in the works that critics say aims to control internet freedoms even monitor what you're doing online so would a company like like netflix possibly pushing for anti-piracy bills to pass but could it mean for your own mind freedoms to talk more about this i was joined earlier by media got a shelley chief of digital operations for t. america take a listen. well listen for has a fancy name for leaks and it's allowed to pay up to five thousand dollars per election to federal candidates but this is not the first time when engaged in lobbying if you could if you take a look at congressional nodes in two thousand and nine they paid about twenty

thousand dollars to lobbyists and by two thousand and eleven the some increased twenty five fold to five hundred thousand dollars and as you remember two thousand and eleven was the year one congress was discussing feels like salt and people are you with that war eventually defeated by the internet and the interesting thing not flicks initially was supportive. but after these enormous internet users they had to backtrack and just go daddy dot com we've draw their support to the arts. and declare that they're neutral on this issue so that like those have a history of supporting controversial bills like sopa and pipa and with that in

mind you know netflix it's a huge company it's become somewhat of a household name here so obviously. a lot of influence but just how much influence they have over lawmakers and it's time to legislature well the numbers speaks will speak for themselves like us in two thousand and eleven they spend five hundred thousand dollars and with creation of these super pacs they potentially can spend even more because they are clearly interested in keeping their business growing and what's the. best way to keep your business going good to eat or competitors and let's be honest those people who illegally stream online movies. and. sports programs. are not the excom packets and cracking down on them i'd be one way to get free or competition and you wrote about this story on the web what kind of response have you gotten from this story well we're very

thankful because we. will response from the plates director of corporate communications mr george and i think we have a huge response when we do let's bring it up here the response from netflix here is this is their statement political action committees are commonplace for companies that lead a big growing market and netflix is no exception our act as a way for our employees to support candidates that understand our business and technology that was set up for the purpose of supporting it was not excuse me not set out for the purpose of supporting so far and sad that works as engaged on other issues including network neutrality but caps usage based gelling and performing the video privacy protection act so a pretty standard response from them but still raises a lot of questions your reaction to their response does indeed first of all like i

said were fair and full to mr ebbers who stormed and i personally think that every single word in the statement is true and that evers he's a very good professional army inclined to believe the statement at least because soap and people are dead by they were killed by congress and they became so notorious that there is no way that they could be reinstated in congress these names and in these for what bothers me though he's. the company's. industry associations. for other bills like we have seen for example in congress right now it's being discussed the bills there could be sometimes even worse. and do we know whether or not that folks will support those bills you know because

unfortunately mr evers declined our invitation to come to our network and have an opportunity to pool all the questions that we still have. and that's exactly it says here in the same that it was not set up for the purpose of supporting so far but it's still not clear exactly what purpose it was set up for well they say that they will continue a lot being for things that are good for the business obviously and like i said before wards for business there and get rid of competition and my concern is that eventually this is what might happen and like i said would laughter who have evers on our network and give him an opportunity to answer all these questions and if he states. cracking down on internet freedoms is not what netflix has in mind with creation of this super pac.