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gunfire and violence. and now we talk with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoings and side 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 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 this 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 and there was the very large flagship program called trailblazer that was designed to catapult n.s.a. 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 that and it n.s.a. had created with the trial was a program as well as a super secret surveillance program they 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 survive or 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 are 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 on federal access to subscriber information that's held by those companies. so that we 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 provide so 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 kind of our post nine. eleven security world what you're seeing is the establishment of a server 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 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 quality 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 and i 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 and 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 weak in the 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 does not promise a 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 his 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 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 thing i 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 see

the bridge 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 you 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 and in the united states of america everybody's reporting on this feeling by race 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 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 selling 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 charted territories 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 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 your horror 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 faithfully 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 you know the generations that follow me thank you thanks for having me. there are those who desperately need it to survive. to spoil kong is the time to give money to on the lookout cheerful on gold when the fish are under suppresses the prize the rights of the food for. new clothes and those who don't get their share of the traits. good by downloading god's good god awful article in today's

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hello there welcome to the sport and these are the headlines the grass master roger federer beat sandy mary to equal pete sampras is record of seven wimbledon titles. joining us silverstone red bull's mark webber wins the british grand prix to cut the gap on championship leader fernando along. in the sand and deliver world champions russia book a place at next year's prix sucka well. now after winning his seventh wimbledon title roger federer has set his sights on claiming gold at the olympics in three weeks' time federer becomes the new world number one today after beating andy murray in four sets in the men's final the swiss came from a set down to equal pete sampras his record of seven wimbledon crowns and it brings

federer's grand slam tally to seventeen but his appetite for more hasn't waned and after a brief family holiday he says he will return to s w nineteen full of confidence and desire to win a limpid gold something that has so far eluded him during his illustrious career. meanwhile russia is doing the best in our last in the mixed doubles final at wimbledon might brian and lisa raymond beat her and partly and the pay's after deciding to this is the second grand slam final defeat for the pair who also fell at the last hurdle at the strata united play. elsewhere a red bull driver mark webber has described his dramatic british grand prix victory as special ferrari's fernando alonso had started on pole and lead for most of the race but the spaniard was overtaken by webber with just four laps to go and eventually crossing the finish line with three seconds to spare the victory sees whereby cut the gap now on a long day with the top of the drivers' championship just thirteen points the pair have two wins each so far this season after nine re. red bull's reigning world

champion sebastian vettel came home third yesterday while another ferrari man was just behind him afterwards webber said his determination had seen him through. never gave up pushing. and it didn't really work out. at the end which were very close to him so we had a couple of. very special big three for the team just down the road a local team and. credible for them. and also if i ran i would get another victory here in the u.k. so while there is also a thrilling race in moto g.p. is raining g.p. champion casey stoner crashed out on the last lap of the german grand prix clearing the way for it on the teammate dani pedrosa to claim the win of the season yamaha as you'll get enzo was this granted second place the spaniard moves into the at right lead in the overall standings he's fourteen points clear of progress with stoner dropping to six points for the back. from this late complete the podium on

the day. he knew the end is going to be for the last lap when. i knew i had the braking so i was confident for the last lap but the way you know when i was sure i was pushing my best in finally get there when these. and in russia boris got his in and and share more lead the way in the silk way rally after stage one second these two time winner sean we should leicester he was making his debut in this race and in the trucks category twenty ten when edward nikolayev of the master tape is the man to be here defending champion alice la praise just behind him in second monday second stage starts and finishes involved a grad with four hundred thirty four kilometers of forest and sand to negotiate. with british cyclist bradley wiggins will look to increase his overall lead in the tour de france today stage nine it's a forty one kilometer individual time trial against the clock which is his special

. ality we didn't have the energy is the after yesterday's stage finishing in the palace and to maintain a ten second lead over rival del evans in the general classification the stage itself was won by french people you know he pulled away on the final climb in the cold to the quad for his first win on a major tour say this is great is shaping up still less than a minute separating the top four ideas day with russia's denis menchov only fifty four seconds back after the first week still a long way to go with a fortnight of racing ahead before the riders reach the finish in paris. and. now the news today to sean's has been confirmed as the new manager of the france football team he takes over from long brown who stepped down after a disappointing twenty twelve guided marsay to the frankly 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 in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight as well as

a european championship trophy in two thousand the first game in charge will be against the south american champions europe wide on august the fifteenth. while moscow has hosted the european qualifiers for the twenty thirty beach soccer world cup there was good news and bad news for the current title holders russia who managed to book their place in the finals but failed to win their home or vent with more is robert daniels with the euro twenty twelve still a painful memory for russian football here is. the country's biggest circulation of team a current world cup holders. deliberate 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 to represent the continent into either next year. russia fulfilled their task with confidence to the point zero to take on spain or ever 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 and elul of putting the hosts ahead by the first intermission to one but it was far from decided in the second leg broke up for a bet 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 five three i think that they are the best people who are now with . some of them my friends. that i lost i love i love them i like the way that they

play 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 that obviously we want to we will play against them always but 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 the reason it was always packed out on the board many thanks to our supporters who would like to apologize to our fans and welcome them to tahiti at the world cup finals at the source it was just a selection with no titles a stake and the main thing is that we have qualified for the world cup finals and you know what those are when qualifiers never succeed at the main events this is already soccer has it boil one russian international audience probably claim the victory of his life after proposing marriage to his girlfriend and hearing yes in reply. party most of you

who got a result lead. the usa basketball team have started their training camp for the lympics which starts in just under three weeks time and they are confident they can repeat their gold medal success they got in beijing four years ago the americans are preparing in las vegas at the moment their limping roster was announced at the weekend and among them are on that rather was the n.b.a. stars with bron james kobe bryant and camilla anthony they were also part of the team that went to the last olympics so there is plenty of experience although they will have to tweak their style as the olympics will be played under favor and not n.b.a. rules. you know ten to twelve on this to you have. one gold medals. two thousand we. just you know with certainty remind ourselves to try to take the ball of the room on the events of honor just. changes our minds of the difference there's a new winner on golf's p.g.a. tour puerto junior claiming the greenbrier classic after

a playoff porter had been in shocking for missing five cuts in a row prior to this tournament but the twenty eight year old finished his final round strongly an eagle here on the seventy course followed by a birdie putt on the eighty s. tantrum level with fellow american troy kelly and so they went into a playoff and on the third extra hole potter sunk another with his putter for victory. i germany's marcel c.m. won the french open to end his eight year title dragged as the thirty one year old carded a final round of four hundred sixty seven to finish a single shot ahead of a superb francesco molinari the italian recovered from a double bogey on the first hole to sink nine birdies and finished the final day on seven under sixty four but it was too difficult to like his victory for c.m. also means he qualifies for the british open later this month.

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