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protests take a bloody turn with police adopting a no tolerance approach and i deal with demonstrators. right now which walk with a full one optional security agency executive in the us who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoing in size day and i say. 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 electronic 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 can 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 travelers or 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 said 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 commandment 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 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 turned 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 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 data 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 blowing 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 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 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 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 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 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 were the lines drawn i want to go back to you becoming a whistleblower you had a well paid job

a top position 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 realizing 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. secret laboratory here mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care watch only on all g dot com. so for assistance for new job the rates of. the rates of leukemia for example

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hello there welcome to the whole subject and all too good to have a company again the star found this all the time. calls us old david hayden not to rival jericho and wants to partake in weight champion vitaly klitschko next. target lorenzo wins the telegram creek district she's made at the top of demoted you've been standing. just sat and match a week after her wimbledon tries to renew williamson storms into the final this time payne california. but first boxing david haye has dead w.b.c. champion vitaly klitschko to fight him before retirement britain speaking out after he's not victory against compared to derek in london thirty one year old floor to

the pound and who is twenty eight in the closing seconds of the round really about hopefully bringing an end to that long running for old enough to threaten to shoot peyton favorite victrix could now pave the way for a possible fight against metallic reach court something is desperate to go for it specially after losing his w.b.c. title to vitalis younger brother drug dealer on points last year the tate says it sent out that scare a massive mitali would be up to the challenge. in other boxing years american danica has beaten britain's m a card to claim the w.b. a super lightweight crown could see it was the underdog in las vegas sent to the. left in the third round although it because she was floored again twice in succession before the referee under the belt which means takes. a title and.

see clown is unbeaten record stretches now to twenty four victories fifteen by. rushing books of a knave has claimed another world heavyweight crown that soft beating germany has done now torah for the w.-k. a title he did it in front of hundreds of fans at the so-called u.s.s.r. championships and moscow which also saw several european title fights on the night his robert fatton. once upon a time in the east in the mood of the muscular region 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 boxing tournaments stirred nine years ago you know it has grown into a big open their showdown with international titles at stake. some domestic affairs first though the twenty twelve event supercard opened with the

russian light welterweight championship five rounds of a tough from both the graph of closing out victory over his competitor it you've seen in some bigger guys were next to do battle with the w five european cruiserweight title at stake. versus how many. the russian duma needed the first two rounds of the belt over the french champion find his torch later on. and was even to toy with his opponent hard decision for the judges before the root in the group whose favor that's how it came to some world titles on the line with russia's such short in ukraine's among my love sit in no probably the most furious clash of the night both gave their all to secure the w five we'll do weight belt but it was the ukrainian thunder to head north to before . 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 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 der who proved to be a tough nut to crack after this diverse stating right. in the second round that brave german managed to recover and stay up till the end of the fight and although he was beaten daughter left the ring with his head held high. for him further proof of his skills i had better timing that's why my punches landed on his body and had it and he's one mile boat. party school region.

now former champ and has tightened his grip on the moto g.p. standing state spanish rider cruising to victory at the telling grand prix to stretch over a lead over to. who started from on the first turn and they never looked back after that to be drawn into a second the result means go into now the dross of by nineteen points the top of the overall standings reigning champion cases to an eighteen point further back. had to settle for a sport on the day to running off the track from here and complete it. let it snow and be upset at the diamond league meeting in london with some tape rates for the upcoming olympics struggling in the cold and wet weather shirt and fraser price is the fastest woman in the world this year in the one hundred meters but she came in last in saturday's final which was won by a blessing of nigeria in eleven point zero one seconds america is coming at the jet

it was while a stroll in world champion so the person was a favorite for the one hundred meter hurdles but she was beaten by american kind of walsh better news for the women's raining four hundred meter olympic champ and christine who are a good. champion and not the more sure of what swung up to win in a time of fifty one point one nine percent from at season's best in the manse two hundred meter is coming how in one thousand point nine one seconds on the jamaicans you same bolt and you and blake have been quicker. if you and your crew are not very fun. for the home page. if you don't for the first three feet didn't. know i must be. true or card. first or the

for your to gambia. just two weeks after winning wimbledon serena williams has reached the tourney's final this time it to the brink of that west classic in california williams' breezing through had semifinal against her manage to run his sister six one six to the match lasting just sixteen minutes it sets up a final with fellow american coco vanderveer who beat. williams is in great form taking into consideration the fact that seven days ago she was from the other side of the world. it's been weird this week it's kind of been a whirlwind i don't really remember much but i just know that i'm still here now and i know it is weird thing with tennis and one of the sports former star jennifer capriati has been included in the international hall of fame the three time grand slam winner was presented by another former great want to establish at the age of

just fourteen capriati appeared on the world scene reaching the semifinals of the french open in one nine hundred ninety drug problems off the in one thousand nine hundred three but she returned three years later and went on to win olympic gold in barcelona two french open title spanned the australian open a love story that makes her quite emotional as a great it has taught me what hard work and commitment means it has taught me what self-love is. is tommy would acceptance and forgiveness can bring. it hasn't always been easy and i'm still learning. the transition and the acceptance is i've had to make have been some of the most some of the most difficult and i've had to work hard on mining girls. but finally stunning basketball skills were aplenty as america's star studded basketball team held an open training session ahead of the fast approaching london olympics. be the

bron james and his teammates went out of their way to please the crowd is more than three thousand military personnel and their families came to watch them practice washington d.c. to me say are due to play three friendlies in europe before peak starting the top of the fence at the olympics think would facing great britain and spain whom they beat in the fun in beijing four years ago coach mike led them to success in china but he will step down after the london games and so will kobe bryant it's a huge honor for me because you always want to play for and then coming to you it was two thousand and eight a kind of an opportunity to do. this will be his last one is only my last one as well you see this. as a great great symbolism too. well that's all the sports news for the moment i'll be back in two hours time with more stay with us.

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