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maintaining influence. are now we talk with a former national security agency executive in the us who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoings inside the n.s.a. you're watching. 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 secor 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 is great 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 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 and it n.s.a. had created with the trial as 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 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 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 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 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 time there are post nine. eleven security world what you're seeing is the establishment of a server surveillance society years your senior stablish of the surveillance network and i keeps telling 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's 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 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 of very high levels to call for the death penalty. and

sweden does not promise they 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 i went through i mean they it was a multi-year multimillion 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 the 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 blowing was criminalized by my own government

. well you 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 accused them of helping terrorists and that label terrorist help where it seemed it is 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 you already have in a very significant moving away from that from being a nation of laws and simply leave it up the 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 somebody is has not been reported 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 it were doing it's not considered an act it's information operations or cyber operations so it goes it goes under a whole host of other labels to make it something different from what it really is . so where were the lines drawn i want to go back to you becoming a whistleblower you had a well paid job a couple zisha 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 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 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 wields

a lot of power and power can do you win 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. misspoken visit and give money to on the couches lol oh goldman the fish out of the suppresses the prize their rights are the proof of those new clothes and. those who don't get their share of the traits. good by downloading god's. place in the real

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markets. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on. the headlines on r t russia mourns the victims of a devastating flash flood in the crescent our region which is killed over one hundred seventy and affected almost thirty five thousand it's quickly become the area's worst natural disaster. special envoy kofi annan sells peace to the syrian leadership while damascus points fingers at what it calls america's devastating role in the civil conflict. moscow adds criticism to the western approach to the arab spring saying promotion all strike democracy is aimed at only maintaining influence. those are the headlines here in the sports with dmitri.

follow the sports in our teeth thanks for joining us this hour first let's take a quick look at our top stories. on the trial of chelsea and england defender john terry appears in court charged with great fellow player. golden boy roger federer starts live as the new world number one. record of seven wimbledon title. and deliver world jump place at next year's. world cup. but first chelsea and england defender john terry has appeared in court charged with racially abusing fellow player westminster magistrates' had allegedly used a racist obscenity against q.p.r. defender during

a match last season with the prosecution also saying terry was goaded by a third in an over his reported off field indiscretions terry himself denies that racism charged but if found guilty he could be fined up to four and a half thousand dollars the trial is expected to last five days. so the british olympic football team have got together for their first training session ahead of the games which starts in just under three weeks time match the united veteran ryan giggs will captain the side while managed to piss reckons there have at least two teams to fear in the tournament. and spine of the two five years for this competition. can prove produce called you can see the magnitude of the players and how seriously they take the olympics is there's a sixteen tinge for him to try and achieve gold. base it will be a fantastic friendly force and it will reduce noisily into the tournament not think it will showcase to everyone in the tournament the standard of football in. tennis

now after winning his seventh wimbledon title roger federer intends to claim gold at the upcoming olympics ephedra becomes the new world number one today after beating and tamara in four sets in the manse final this week's pay from a set down to equal the temperatures record of seven wimbledon crowns it brings federalists grand slam. president to seventeen but for more hasn't waned after a brief family holiday he says he'll return to the all england club determined to capture gold something that's so far to him during case the last race career. i find it hard to believe to really take in what happened today normally when i win wimbledon it's incredible it's magnificently it's emotional but this time i've got the feeling that it's even bigger than that so many little pieces have come together this one i have to take

a little time to understand i'm happy now that i'm going on holiday with my family so i could be with mark and the children and afterward i'll come back to practice for the olympic games with a lot of desire confidence and of course the desire to play again it's truly magic every time i play in a final of a grand slam here at wimbledon it's really quite incredible. when mari had to fight back the tears he is still in the hunt for his thirst major title after losing all four of the grand slam finals he's appeared in but take chances he's still improving and was happy with his performance. in points or. you know. pretty good decisions for the most part or. comfortable. before the. proof. meanwhile rushes you know nervous. also wondering

when her first grand slam title will arrive she lost in the mix doubles wimbledon mark one and one deciding set against her partner lend a pace that pat had also fallen at the last hurdle at the open generate. over to formula one now where red bull driver mark webber has described his dramatic british grand prix victory as special ferrari's fernando alonso had started and let for most of the race but that spaniard was overtaken by weather with just four let's to go there eventually crossing the finish line with seconds to spare the victory can't they get along at the top of the drivers' championship to just fourteen points the pair had two wins so far this season after nine races. reigning champion sebastian vettel came home while another for a and then phillip

was just behind him what by the said his determination had let him to treat. you never gave up pushing. and didn't really work at. the end which were very close to him so we were there capitalizing very special be true for the team just down the road a local team and all the guys. over there. and also if i ran i would get another victory here in the u.k. so. there was also a thrilling race in moto g.p. as reigning world champion casey stoner crash out on the last leg of the german grand prix clearing the way for his honda team mate done it to plane first victory of the season. was fast granted second place and moves into the right lead in the overall standings he's fourteen points to draw with dropping to third six point back hundred of his or from italy completed the podium on the day.

it's going to be for the last lap in. knew i had the braking so i was confident for the last lap but then the way you know when i was sure i was pushing my best in finally get there we need. in a rush get us in and lead the zone. sage one in second place has doubled when. making his debut in this race in that trust category trying to turn with a life of the come us must attain he's the man to beat defending champion out of the press is just behind him and second monday second safe starts and finishes in belgrade with four hundred f.l. to focus on the forest and sand to negotiate. meanwhile moscow has hosted the european qualifier for the twenty thirteen bache soccer world cup there was mixed news for their current title holders russia who managed to book their place in the

finals but failed to win the how meant with more his robot fight enough with the huge twenty twelve still a painful memory for russian football fans here is the really the country's biggest soccer nation will team a current world cup holders. favorites 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 to represent the continent in tight 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 from side to win didn't in front of the crowd with spain 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 putting the shows ahead by the first intermission to one but it was far from decided in the second leg of course bet with three goals in the room each one better than the next. you got to choose keep guest in one go for russia to show that both would not give it up that easy although it was spain who proved to be this. strongest side of the day claiming victory with a final score of five three i think that they are the best team of all now with. some of them are my friends. i love i love them i like the way they play style the press the power. points of the game and then. i can do something for us and we give a shit play against them obviously we want to play against them always. we felt some extra pressure playing in front of our fans maybe that's why we failed 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 supporters who would like to apologize to our fund and welcome them to tahiti the world cup finals. it was just a selection with no titles at stake and the main thing is i wish qualifying 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 well one russian international. probably claimed the victory of his life after proposing marriage to his girlfriend in here yes in reply. r.t. most of them. and finally. have started their training camp for the olympics and they're confident they can repay their gold medal success in beijing four years ago the americans are preparing in las vegas at the moment that was financed at the weekend and based on the bron james kobe bryant and come out on it they are also part of the team that eclipsed everyone else to their last

a lympics so there's plenty of experience although there will have to tweak their style as the games will be played. and not n.b.a. rules. you know ten of twelve on this team have. won gold medals either in the world championships or in the picture two thousand may so we. just agree with you we do separately remind ourselves. try to take the ball off the rim on the events and enter just you know don't go back and i'm not that's a man you're really other than that it changes on much of a difference. ok that's all the news for the moment that can toss time with more for your hand whether it's next so this.

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