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the meantime we talked to a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed 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 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 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 that ended it and i say 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 time i am at n.s.a. you did not violate americans privacy without a warrant under that statute in fact if you did they 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 it 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 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 out to the next level you know under under the label or the rubric of you know cyber threats and to provide sort 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. eleven 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 emails in your 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 quality universal wiretap a persistent universal wiretap on every single person or if it's 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 an 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 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 wouldn't be extradited to the united states 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 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 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 baloney 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 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 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 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 and in the united states of america everybody's reporting on this feeling biarritz 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 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 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 stocks and that that's an act of war but apparently it we're 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 cuppa zisha an 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 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 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. download the official ante up location on the phone called touch from the choose ops to. life on the go.

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hello there welcome to this sports update it all to go to the company again this hour coming up in the bulletin. until twenty seventeen roberto mancini extends his contract with a new to ground english premier league champions manchester city. golden boy it was a federal it starts his life as the new world number one equaling the temperature record of seven wimbledon titles. and and the laver world. cup place at next year's beach. but first about to mention it has agreed a new five year deal to stay at the helm of manchester city and dismissed all talk about team taking the reigns at manager russian national football team the call to would see the forty seven year old stay with the blues until the summer of twenty

seventeen the telling coach got it up to f.a. cup glory in his first full season in charge last year and he followed that up with their first league title in forty four years in may when she had been strongly linked with russia job after dick recalls departure following russia's poor performance at the recent european championships in poland and ukraine. also in english football new liverpool manager brendan rodgers says he plans to restore the club's former glory the thirty nine year old took up the reds hot seat moving from swansea last month and his already next season. school to twenty five blue suit. concedes be strong in every single competition. the reality is we want to ensure that we we can improve on this was the reality in the last three seasons the club is finished. and the so we want to improve on them and build

a movement which book. you're a player for liverpool football club the intention is to win. in other football news chelsea and england defender john terry has appeared in court charged with racially abusing fellow player prosecutors claim the chelsea captain admits using offensive language as quote a caustic exclamation and quote while they also say terry was goaded by q.p.r. defender and ferdinand the two came face to face in court as terry denied that racism charge the thirty one year old could become the first english premier league player to be convicted of racial abuse during a game and he could be fined up to four and a half thousand dollars. in the meantime the british olympic football team have got together for their first training session ahead of the games which start in just under three weeks time when seen out of veteran ryan giggs will captain the side

while manager pearce reckons they have at least two teams to fear in the tunnel meant nothing pretty you don't believe it to five years for this competition looking troopers you support you can see the magnitude of the players and how seriously they take the olympics is sixteen teams for him to try and achieve gold. base it will be a fantastic friendly force and it will reduce noisily into the tournament and i think it will showcase to everyone in the tournament the standard of football in. tennis now after winning his seventh when more than title roger federer intends to claim gold at the upcoming olympics phèdre becomes the new world number one today after beating and m.r.e. in four sets in the men's final the swiss paid for the set down to it will be temperatures record of seven pounds that brings a federal grand slam tele up to and this is down to seventy. four more hasn't waned

after a brief family holiday he says. and to the all england club determined to capture a gold something that's so far lived with him during his illustrious career i. i find it hard to believe to really take in what happened today normally when i win wimbledon it's incredible it's magnificent 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 afterwards 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. in a final of a grand slam here at wimbledon it's really quite you gribble. been circling bradley wiggins hosting massive claim for his made into the france title the briton

securing his first stage victory to open up almost a two minute advantage at the top of the overall standings thirty two teams one two in the stage nine time trial the yellow jersey holder beating out crease through by thirty five seconds after the forty one point five kilometer right. was third fastest while defending champ eleven struggled crossing the finish line six and now begins by one minute and fifty three seconds overall rushes in this mitchell is fifth in the journal. in most sports russian up and comers my day has won the second stage of this in southern russia the driver who also made his debut at the dakar rally earlier this year prevailed in the drugs category as he was three minutes and eleven seconds faster than teammate and former winner your life but your life keeps roll lead virus rules the roost in the past standings argentina

going after his third place finish in volgograd. of france and ukraine. came home first and second respectively. over to formula one driver mark webber has described his dramatic british grand prix victor as special ferrari's fernando alonso started on. for most of the race but this bennett was overtaken by weather we just all like to go through and eventually crossing the finish line three seconds to spare the victory it sees the gap on the lawn at the top of drivers' generalship just like team point the pair have to win so far this season after nine races dribbles reigning world champion of us of a. came home while another for our man phillip it must just behind him afterwards said determination had led him to victory. never gave up pushing out

and didn't really work out. the end which you know as you are very close to him so we are there capitalizing very special big three for the team just down the road a local team and guys i got a bill for them. and also if i ran i would get another victory here in the u.k. so. hamilton finished in a lower eighth place that raised but the mclaren driver was still the home here after taking part in that torch relay in the run up to the fast approaching a london olympics the former one champ carried the flame in the town of luton in the east of england on sunday olympic chief said formula one will not be named i'm in big sport hamilton was proud to be involved anyway. first phenomenal. the response and the reception i've had here so early in the morning and to be to be. asked to be to do this is a real honor on a c and i never in

a million years thought i had a chance to do it so i enjoyed every single second of it. but finally moscow has hosted the european qualifier for the twenty thirteen beach suck a wild card there was mixed news for the current title holders russia who managed to book their place in the finals but failed to win the home event with more history but button down. with the euro twenty twelve still a painful memory for russian football fans here is il really the country's biggest soccer nation will team a current world cup holders and concert favorites at any event the european selection for the twenty thirteen world cup was held in the russian capital with only the top four out of twenty four teams privileged to represent the continent in tight in 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 who are quick to turn things upside down two goals by you and putting the hosts ahead by the first intermission to one but it was far from decided in the second leg broke up for back with three goals in a row each one better than the next. you get a chance keep guessed in one more go 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 they are the best team of all. players 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 pagans that obviously want to play against them always. felt some extra pressure playing in front of our fans maybe that's why we fail 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 or the world cup finals at the source 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 qualifiers never succeed at the main events this is a soccer has it. well one russian international audience probably claimed the victory of his life after proposing marriage to his girlfriend and hearing yes it looks like. party most. well that's all from me for today thanks for watching us goodbye.

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