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a century according to unofficial results from saturday's poll that was marred by gunfire and violence. and now we talk with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. to sacrifice his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoings inside the n.s.a. . my guest today is thomas andrews drake he was a senior executive of america's biggest intelligence agency at the beginning of the two thousands he was an expert on elec tronic eavesdropping someone with a top secret security clearance then mr drake essentially sekret feist his career to blow the whistle on his agency's wrongdoings as he saw them he was charged under the espionage act but only last year the charges were dropped they said drake thank you very much for coming thanks for having me tell me about the program that you challenge to working with the national security agency the surveillance program

what was its potential harm as you saw it there was the very large flagship program called trailblazer that was designed to catapult and say into the twenty first century to deal with the vast amounts of data being generated from the digital age given the massive fraud and abuse and it and i say had created with the trial was a program as well as a super secret surveillance program that had completely violated the constitution and the fourth amendment and in particular in particular the statute called the foreign intelligence surveillance act which was the first command at n.s.a. you did not violate americans privacy without a warrant under that statute in fact if you did there were criminal penalties for doing so and i found this out to my horror and shock shortly after nine eleven. the n.s.a. had entered into a secret agreement with the white house in which n.s.a. would become the executive agent for this sort of secret surveillance program on

the front end was designed to deal with the threat of the terrorist threat and that was for understandable but what it did is that actually essentially turn the united states into just a collection platform so you know vast reams of data were increasingly being collected or through other entities be made available to n.s.a. for analysis there's a lot of debate about this proposed legislation i'm sure you heard about it the system which will in the name of national security would allow web service providers to funnel private information of their users to the authorities to government agencies aren't they already doing that i mean many argue that providers you know google facebook and other companies they they need that legislation to protect themselves from being liable for what they're already doing and that's why those companies who lobby for the bill well that's i believe that's part of it the other part of it is the government just wants even more access to even more data

and so i mean under the patriot act and section two fifteen there is a secret executive interpretation of that which essentially grants the government pretty much unfettered access to subscriber information that's held by those companies. since that would take out and there's other variants of that would take that to the next level you know under under the label or the rubric of of you know cyber threats and to provides of cyber security the government wants even more invasive access almost persistent access to networks that are not normally available to the public i understand the technology is so advanced now that it is probably so very tempting for intelligence agencies to siphon all that they get but what is the goal is it total thirty and i believe if you take what has been happening since in time there are post nine. levin security world what you're seeing is the establishment of a sort of surveillance society years your senior stablish of

a surveillance network and i keeps telling people people realize the extent to which we're already surveilled in many many different ways the extent to which vast amounts of our own transactional data in all forms all i try forms and e-mails and your tweets and bank records everything else are all subject for or sauce suspect ok in terms of terms of surveillance it raises the specter of kind of the rise of soft tyranny it raises the specter of you're automatically suspicious until you prove that you're not it raises the specter of a universal i call it a universal wiretap a persistent universal wiretap on every single person or if it not they can create one because what happens if they don't like you what happens you speak ill will against a government what happens if you say something they consider disloyal i mean that's not the country that i took an oath to defend four times in my government career

and you also have the fear element fear in itself is control and what people will do when they're fearful is they were they will begin to censor themselves so much of what's happening now particular my case it sent it extraordinarily chilling message that anybody and i was a senior executive the government had a very high position to say. it sends that extraordinarily chilling message that if you speak out if you speak up we're going to hammer you and we're going to hammer you hard because look what we did to mr drake nash security has effectively become the state religion you don't question it and if you question it then your loyalty is questioned i want to ask you about julian assange he's we can make cables expose the u.s. complicity in torture and other crimes how angry you think washington is that julian assange which i think they're extremely angry at the fact that there's apparently based on press reporting you know there's a secret grand jury there maybe even a secret indictment they want to get him and they want to put him away i mean there

are those in this country very high levels to call for the death penalty. and sweden is not promise they can't make a guarantee that if they did bring him back to sweep for questioning he would be extradited to the united states and believe me if the united states got its hands on him they're going to do everything they could to put him away as long as they can or worse this is a very long reach and far as is similar to what out i went through i mean they it was a multi-year multi-million dollar criminal and nasty investigation that i got caught up inside of and they spent several years several years in my own particular case trying to figure out how to bring an indictment against me speaking truth to power is very dangerous in today's world power elites. those in charge they don't like dirty linen being aired they don't like the skeletons in the closet being seen. and they not only do they object to it they decide to turn it into

criminal activity remember my will so baloney was criminalized by my own government . i know i had no protection although ostensibly they couldn't reprise against me retaliate they did but i also find striking is that there is there's basically a smear campaign against journalists too for example a report on civilian deaths in u.s. drone strikes i read a number of articles where u.s. administration officials basically accuse them of helping terrorists and that label terrorist helper it seems that it's becoming a convenient tool to brush off investigative journalism isn't it what it is you go after the messenger and because the last you want to do is deal with the message you're talking about all the activities the secret surveillance the warrantless wiretapping torture rendition drone strikes and a whole host of other measures that i would assert are extra constitutional not to do they violate our own law also violate a number of international laws go after the messenger not the message because the

debris to actually discuss the message or to address the message becomes very uncomfortable. so essentially what's happened is that law which and we're a nation of laws the if we start to depart which we already have in a very significant moving away from that from being a nation of laws and simply leave it up to policy to substitute we're going down a very slippery slope in the united states of america everybody's reporting on this fooling virus that the u.s. and its well allegedly developed to spy on iran and then there is the actual cyber weapon the stuxnet which created havoc in iran's nuclear facilities we hear u.s. officials condemn cyber attacks all the time but it turns out that the u.s. government itself is involved in cyber attacks how do you see it well based on what can only be authorized leaks which is an oxymoron coming from within the administration other senior officials they want people to know right i believe

that's the case i think that something is has not been reported they actually wanted people to know i think some people say oh it's just war makes makes the administration look good you know sort of you know sowing their oats and say hey we're we're the man here they want people to know they want to know what the united states is capable of doing it is a it is another form of warfare it is a you know it is a cyber weapon but it's a pandora's box because we're now in kind of uncharted territory as it's virtual war to say it that way it's a virtual conflict i mean the pentagon itself has been on record that if a nation conducts what is allegedly being conducted by this country against other countries using things like stuxnet that's an act of war but apparently if we're doing it's not considered an act of war it's information operations or cyber operations so that goes it goes under a whole host of other labels to make it something different from what it really is . so where where the lines drawn i want to go back to you becoming a whistleblower you had a well paid job

a couple of ishani in america's biggest intelligence agency you turned it all down you went to work to an apple store i wonder how do you decide to go for something like that you can't put a price on freedom and i took an oath i mean my oath was to the constitution that took primacy over everything else so what do you do you're faced realising you're a whore that your own government is an abject violation of the very oath that you took the very constitution that you took an oath to defend support and defend against all enemies foreign domestic safely executing that law and you're finding out in secret that your own government is in violation of it and then you know that was never necessary you knew that the best of american inventiveness and ingenuity could of not only provide superior intelligence like the thin thread program but would have done so in complete compliance with the fourth amendment and vice versa and they tossed it overboard because they didn't want those controls they didn't

want that oversight most people don't stand up to power because power wield a lot of power and power can do you in or make life very difficult. but i wasn't just standing up for myself i was standing up for the generations that follow me thank you thanks for having me. the issues that so much understand that i'm going to have more you don't look forward to the new ideas and the more targeting the u.s. is expanding its covert military and intelligence operations across the continent this is being done we are told one of the.

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and so many people who died after flash floods hit the southern region of cross in the dark it's the worst natural disaster in the area has seen. syria's leader accuses the u.s. of fuel and deadly violence in the country by partnering with rebels as his army holds military exercises on how to repel an attack from the outside. down leaving the liberals leading the country's first national wide election in half a century boarding to an official results from saturday's poll that was marred by gunfire and violence. as for its roger federer is a case of tennis once more after his triumph at wimbledon and anders got the latest

. hello there thanks for watching the sports and these are the headlines. the grass master roger federer beats and he married to equal pete sampras his record of seven wimbledon title. but silverstone red bulls mark webber wins the british grand prix to cut the gap in the championship leader fernando long. and then deliver world champions russia book a place at next year's soccer well. but first roger federer has won a record equalling seventh wimbledon title fourteen andy murray's attempt to become the first brit to win it in seventy six years mary had never won a set in these three previous grand slam finals and put that right on center court taking the first against federer six four with some aggressive tennis. but that was

as much as he would get federal start to define his rhythm among the next seven five to level the match. all right hold the play third set when the pair were tied three games all but when they returned it was federer who found a new gear and did the same winning the next three games to take two sets to one lead and by the end this swiss was in cruise control seeing at the final set six four mary going wide on the match point it's federer is seven one with an title and his seventeenth grand slam title serious and murray said had given it is best shot while federer returns to the top of the world rankings for the first time just over two years. and it was there was so much on the line so i didn't try to think of you know the world number one ranking or the seventh sort of seventeen. so i think that's going to actually for a change it's going to take much longer to sort of you know understand what i was

able to achieve today and. it was crazy how it all happened in on the circumstances play terrific. game points or. you know. pretty good decisions for the most part or. a film comes to all this morning. before the. proof is also missing out was russia's you lena vesnina are she in parmelee and the pay's lost in the mixed doubles final to mark ryan and lisa raymond is the second grand slam final defeat this season and pacing yourself at the last hurdle be a strain. to formula one and a dramatic end to the british grand prix stall mark webber pit fernando alonso for victory

a long day started on pole and had led his ferrari for the majority of the race but the spaniard was overtaken by well behaved just four laps to go and ended up crossing the finish line three seconds. behind the red bull driver the victory means webber cuts the gap on the lawn so when the drivers' championship to just thirteen points goes to have two wins each day far this season after nine races red bull's reigning world champion sebastian vettel came home in third while another ferrari manfully massa was just behind him. never gave up pushing. and didn't really work out. at the end which are very close to him so we are there capitalizing very special be true for the team just down the road a local team and i got a bill for them. and also if i ran i would get another victory here in the u.k. it. was also thrilling racing moto g.p. is reigning champion casey stone and crashed out on the last lap of the german

grand prix clearing the way for his honda teammate danny portrays it to claim his first win of the season. the renzo was the scranton second place and the spaniard moved into the right lead in the overall standings he is fourteen points clear prose or with stoner dropping to six points back and here. from italy complete the podium on the day. i knew. it's going to be for the last lap. i knew i had a good braking so i was confident for the last lap but anyway you know when i was sure i was pushing my best to finally get there were in the. mall in russia. and and cheryl the silk way rally after stage one two time when. he was making his debut in this race is second in the trucks category twenty time winner edward nikolayev of the mass marketing is the amount of the defending champion

great it's just behind him in second monday second stage starts and finishes involved grab the four hundred thirty four kilometers of forest and sand to negotiate. to stay on the wheel french cyclist you know has taken his maiden stage victory as the twenty two year old broke away from the big guns to win the eight stage of the tour de france pre-race favorite bradley wiggins retained the yellow jersey after maintaining his ten second lead over defending champion coderre leavens russia's denis menchov also finished in the pellets and to stay fourth overall behind in chan's in the barley. in other news they did it is shams has been confirmed as the new manager of the france football team he takes over from lauren blong who stepped down after a disappointing euro two thousand and twelve guided marsay to the french league one title last season and won three successive league cups with the club the forty three year old also won the world cup as a player at nine hundred ninety eight as well as the european championships try

think and see thousand first game in charge will be against south american champion sure required on august fifth think. the moscow has hosted the european qualifiers for the twenty thirteen beach soccer world cup there is good news and bad news for the current title holders russia who managed to book their place in the finals but failed to win the vent with more trouble at the daniel with the euro twenty twelve still a painful memory for russian football fans here is. the country's biggest circulation of team current world cup holders. at any event the european selection for the twenty thirteen world cup was held in the russian capital only the top four out of twenty four teams prudish to represent the continent into it in the next year. russia fulfilled their task with confidence and made it to the final to take on spain however it was also important for the home side to win the event in front of

the home crowd with spain feeling no pressure facing the world number one team it was the visitors who opened the scoring four minutes in skipper i mean i'm really needing to make it one nil. over the russians were quick to turn things upside down two goals by you to a and e. alone of putting the hosts ahead by the first intermission to one but it was far from decided in the second leg that also a fourth best with three goals in the real each one better than the next. you get a chance keep guest in one more goal for russia to show the hosts would not give it up that easy although it was spain who proved to be the strongest side on the day claiming victory with a final score of four three i think that they are the best team of all now with players some of them my friends. that i lost i love i love them i like the way that they play the style the press the power the leg off of points of their game and

then. i can do something for us and with evasion play against them obviously we want to remold to play against them always for example if we felt some extra pressure playing in front of our fans maybe that's why we felt to show our best game of anybody we're not trying to find any excuses there it was always packed out on the board many thanks to our supporters who would like to apologize to our fans i welcome them to tahiti or the world cup finals at the source of it was just a selection with no titles a stake and the main thing is i would have qualified for the world cup finals and you know what those are when qualifies never succeed at the main events this is on the soccer has it. boy one russian international. probably claimed the victory of his life after proposing marriage to his girlfriend in here yes iroquois. party most of. the usa basketball team have started their training

camp three lympics which start in just under three weeks' time and they are confident they can repeat their gold medal success in beijing four years ago the americans are preparing in las vegas at the moment their limpid roster was announced at the weekend among them the n.b.a. stars or bron james kobe bryants and come on the anthony they were also part of the team that went to the last in pick so there is plenty of experience although they will have to tweak their style as the lympics will be played and feeble and not a roots. you know ten or twelve years of honesty you have. won gold medals. to us and we. just agree with you we decide to keep them on ourselves try to take the ball of the room on the defensive in or just don't go back to. the changes are much of a difference as a new leader on that golf's p.g.a. tour rocky ted porter jr claiming the greenbrier classic after a playoff porter had been shocking for missing five cuts in

a row prior to this tournament the twenty eight year old finished his final round strongly and eagle here on the seventeenth was followed by a putt on the eighteenth and they strewn level with fellow american troy kelly so they went into a playoff and on the third extra hole porter sunk another birdie with his putter for victory. i myself has won the french open to end his eight year title dragged as the thirty one year old carded a final round of four under sixty seven to finish a single shot ahead of ac purred francesco molinari italian recovered from a double bogey on the first hole to sink nine goodies and finished the final day said. it was too little too late i speak for c.m. also means he qualifies for the british open later this month. to him sport for the moment we've got the weather coming up next.

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