oh welcome to our tease the weekly here's a quick recap of your headlines you want to service confirmed violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels and the village trying to say but the findings put opposition claims of a civilian massacre in question. and other stories that shaped this week russia's the south is headed by its deadliest ever blogs a town of the people from across the country joint efforts to help those who've lost everything. and days of an tile sturdy protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries made warnings of the e.u. strategy of bailing out banks people's response will only fuel problem anger.

now we talk with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoing 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 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 mr 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 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 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 they were criminal penalties for doing so and i found this out to my horror and 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 and national 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 exposed 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 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 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 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 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 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 are the lines drawn i want to go back to you becoming a whistleblower you had a well paid job a cuppa 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 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. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact.

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u.n. observers confirm violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village are trying to say but the findings put on position claims of the civilian massacre in question. and other stories that shaped this week russia's south is ahead by its deadliest ever floods and thousands of people from across the country join efforts to help those who have lost everything. and days of anti austerity protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries amid warnings that the e.u. strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense while i only fuel public. time now for the weekend sport.

hello there thanks for watching and here's what he's coming up over the next. the ring danny garcia stops may come in the fall frankly playing ball seems w.p.a. super lightweight. was rushing came out of that i mean we may have grabbed another world heavyweight title in front of home fans. through being the first friday of the russian football season in beijing i mean the champions any in the super cup final. but first will start with a kickboxing russian than him a mini of has claimed another kickboxing world heavyweight crime beating germany's daniel daughter for the w.-k. a title and he did it in front of hundreds of fans at the so-called u.s.s.r. championships named moscow which also saw several european title fights on the undercard here but the daniel once upon a time in the east in the mood of the mosque original the best hand to hand fighters from the former soviet republics came face to face to find out who was the

toughest there is how these keep books and tournaments stirred nine years ago you know it has grown into a big open there showdown with international titles at stake. some domestic affairs first though the twenty twelve ever been supercar opened with the russian light welterweight championship five rounds of a tough from both saw me three graph of cluing out victory over his compatriot you've seen in some bigger guys were next to do battle with the w five european cruiserweight title at stake. says halim gianni. the russian doing lead in the first two rounds of the belt however the french champion fired his torch later on. and was even to toy with his opponent her decision for the judges before root in favor that's how it came to some world

titles on the line with russia. and ukraine serum on my sidenote probably the most furious question of the night both gave their all to secure the w five we'll to wait built but it was the ukrainian thunder who had more to offer. i took my time in the early rounds to take a closer look at my opponent's moves i realized he was faster than me so i had to rely on my cardio and just try to break him down i kept moving on always putting him under pressure you know i just did more in the ring that's what gave me the edge and this was top of the bill one of russia's biggest heavyweight prospects. oh i own the w k eight title and so did germany's danielle door who proved to be a tough nut to crack after this devastating right to buy meaning in the second round of the brave german to recover and stay up till the end of the fight and

although he was bitten daughter left the ring with his head held high. over him further proof of his skills i had better timing that's why my punches landed on his body and i had it and he spun mile both. r.t. moscow region. and boxing merican danny garcia has beaten britain's american. lightweight crang garcia was the underdog in las vegas but he sank down to the canvas with a left hook in the third rant and although calm think the kind he was forward again twice in succession before the referee and it's a fact that means garcia takes khan's w.b.i. title and hold on hold on to his w.b.c. crank is unbeaten record stretches to twenty four wins fifteen by not kept. rubbing his and have time the first. the russian football season the russian cup win a standing writing premier league champions and eight in samarra first off strikes from salvatore but chassis. do not in the stuffing active into deficit which this

impede is the side never really looked like breaching the final score the game was preceded by a minute's silence for the hundred seventy one people who died in floods in southern russia last weekend. let's go to athletics and there have been upsets the diamond league meeting in london with some favorites for the upcoming olympics struggling in the foul weather shelley and fraser price is the fastest woman in the world this year over one hundred metres but she came last in saturday's final which was won by blessing of god body of nigeria an eleven point zero one seconds america is common at each other with struggling world champion sally pearson was the favorite for the hundred meter hurdles but she was beaten by american kelly wells. however better news for the women's reigning four hundred meter olympic champion christina group who she powered past world champion to show of course want to head to win in a time of fifty one point one nine seconds while frenchman christophe lemaitre

clocked the season's best in the men's two hundred meters coming home in nineteen point nine one only jamaicans you same boat and you blake have gone quicker. than your crew who are not very first. olympics. for the first season it's an. enormous. truer card. for stores or for your to gambia. in other news danny betrays it will start in pole position for moto g.p. as italian grand prix whizzing around mugello circuit to set a new flat rock all during qualifying but with only one thousandth of a second faster than championship leader you're going to remain so he will start second on the grid this race does mark the halfway point of the season and it is

turning into a real tussle between these two spanish riders there who rides for yamaha is just fourteen points ahead approach in the standings getting things running very strong here seems like very comfortable so i hope to do a good race also in and get some. mental confidence for tomorrow and just you know star in the great. classic dramatics and more take a three shot lead into the final round in illinois the american carded a five under par sixty six to keep ahead of three time defending champion steve stricker the pair will tee off together on sunday stricker also hit a sixty six in his on fifteen under par overall this is from him on the seventeenth . it is a big close at the scottish open in the inverness italian francesco molinari has a one shot lead there after three rounds hitting a bogey free round of sixty seven on saturday to edgy head of denmark's and is

anthony here and also had a steady day and was finding the greens well despite the weather phil mickelson is three shots off the lead by world number one luke donald is the third shot back. in my score to visit a few of those wind blowing in the morning or. you know are played well especially over from a lot of british chances. but i had some good parts that didn't going to score so you know i just try to do the same two more and often it will be enough in the. and ten ish tops a jacket it's out of each will play one monaco in the final of the misstatements cup in germany later today got the better of brazilian thomas baluchi in the semifinal they needed three sets in a match that lasted just over two hours tips out of a. final on the a.t.p. tour. waiting for him the argentine one monaco although he had some problems in his

win over spain's garcia lopez monaco i took the first step but then dropped the second and squandered a five one lead in the before coming back to win that seven five for the match. and second seed not until it is through to the open final who beat defending champion alexander go below crying seventy five six to stay on course to become the first crack to win the tournament since one thousand nine hundred ninety and next up is spain's march. we saw today that he is really smart tennis player and he knows how to play the game and you would can compare him with brad dusk over the shots. is much stronger there but he showed that he can play really well tactically and he's a dangerous player who played already four or five times so we know each other. thing is going to be similar to those today to try to play really well practically invented exude the short so i need to well as had

a tough match against the top safe and at asco in his semifinal after taking the first set but asco won the next in the tie break to level the match before granollers swept through the decider six one. so that's the sport for the moment the weather is next. or in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of under the microscope. we've done the future covered.

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