protests turned violent when police for poor forces took matters into their own hands and then tried to cover up their tracks are reportedly offering to buy the incriminating cell phone video from witnesses coming up an update on the protests in anaheim. and silence is golden and that may just be about the only thing journalists have these days the war and whistleblowers now targets reporters will explore the implications of them muzzled media. and then later if you're planning on catching a flight in the near future don't forget to remove your shoes and your belt and your secret bank account information on your smartphone why because the t.s.a. may go through your most private information when you travel we'll tell you how.

it's tuesday july twenty fourth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . all topping this hour a community in california outraged and calling for an investigation into the f.b.i. by the f.b.i. into the police this after an unarmed man was shot dead by police later neighbors started to protest the police violence and authorities fired back we showed you this disturbing video yesterday but we're playing it again because the powerful pictures speak for themselves. we.

hear you. and see they're shooting rubber bullets and a least a dog which ran directly at a woman holding her baby among other bystanders when this is seen to be afraid for their lives now the community is demanding answers and calling for an officer and calling for the officers responsible to be held accountable for an update ours and correspondent ramon glinda joins us now live from anaheim ramon what more do we know. the city about down to the happiest place on earth but today activists are calling this city a powder keg which is ready to explode following those two deadly officer involved shootings over the weekend now civil rights groups as you mentioned than even the mayor have called for a federal investigation into the police violence over the weekend and we're here in front of city hall where there will be another mass protests today the fourth

straight day of protests following the shootings now this all started on saturday when. an unmarked and an armed latino man was shot and killed by police officers as you mentioned in your intro there was a spontaneous protest of this police shooting and police responded by shooting pepper balls indiscriminately into that crowd which included women and children we've also seen some cellphone video surfaced of the moments after one of us was shot was showing him bleeding and hank on the ground now these videos have been very dramatic an instrumental really stirring up emotions here in southern california then on sunday another officer involved shooting which proved to be deadly another latino manhole a severe though now two shootings march eighth officer involved shooting in twelve months here in the city of anaheim like i said it is the home of disneyland but many in this community say that this just points to

a larger pattern of excessive force by the police and these videos that are surfacing are really. eighteen to mobilize the community to speak out their frustrations with their relationship with the police and now there were reports that police were knocking on doors trying to untangle an incriminating video any word on that. well definitely we have been hearing anecdotally stories here in there that police were asking residents for a video and that. sort of shows that the police are recognizing that the more and more that these video surfaces the more and more that the residents around so they in california are getting angry and getting frustrated now this shooting as definitely style has definitely given the community a sense of unity and it's given people the curious to speak out and say this has happened to me in the past and like i said they believe that this is part of a larger pattern and they're hoping that the pressure that the putting on by these

protests by these mass marches will ultimately help. transparent investigation and make sure that justice is served and police have been saying that they were being provoked by protesters and their violent response was and response to them being provoked i guess they said protesters were throwing things out than i mean the pictures seem to to show the contrary any word on that i mean at the village idiot to that claim well that's right in many instances where police used force the have made the claim that it was the protesters which started throwing projectiles at them but clearly as we have seen in the videos these crowds of protesters have been filled with families have been killed with young children with women and the police and the video which has been shown even on mainstream media outlets clearly shows that police were shooting indiscriminately with those

pepper balls now we are also getting reports that there will be increased patrols not just here in city hall but in those neighborhoods where there shootings have been so a lot of people in this community believe that the increased police presence is only going to heighten tensions between police officers and the community now what's controversial about this are monaro that a lot of controversy about one of the elements of this is the fact that it did take place and a neighborhood that predominantly has minority and how is that playing into the equation now. no definitely lives here members of the community definitely believe that it is a pattern where minority communities are being targeted and what we've been hearing from a lot of people is that they don't want to speak up on camera because they are scared of retribution so in many instances these are communities where the residents don't speak spanish or may have questionable immigration was that is so they have that

fear of that meeting where you could stay there plenty of year that they will be harassed by police the mother of one of the victims say that she's been harassed by police since the shooting happened so there's definitely an intimation factor that you smitty's our feeling however now that these instances of violence are being caught on camera different communities are banding together and. victims are beginning to get that courage to speak out about what they've seen and what do we know ramon about the police officers that are accused of pulling the trigger as fresh and relation to to that man that died as a result what do we know about the police officers that are kind of coming under fire right now well that's right liz the two officers who were involved in the two officers which were involved in the shooting on saturday have been placed on leave now that the police department has not released too many details on that shooting and that is part of what is angry members of here in the community now besides

asking for justice and accountability they also want to answer parents even the mayor himself said that if. he just just started to ease trust and its community which it is supposed to protect so right now there's very little transparency but we do know that's a police officers have been placed on leave ira they are still being paid by the police department now i know that some members of the community are calling for the f.b.i. to conduct an investigation into the police department any word if that is going to happen. right civil rights groups and the mayor have for several systems in trying to figure out what was going on and so find out of this is truly part of the systemic problem here and no we have seen similar probes in in other telephone your cities in kenya l.a. county we've seen it in cities such as yeah i know where the force. and civil rights abuses are being visited it is five federal investigators so so far they

have not announced an official list of geisha yet but there's definitely a lot of pressure being put on for a month thank you so much for keeping us updated over there in anaheim that was our t.v. producer. well it's like the case is moving forward for a former cia official turned whistleblower a judge has ruled in the process prosecutions favor and the case against john kerry aku he is the man that made the practice of waterboarding in secret prisons public he's now accused of leaking the names of covert operatives to journalists but the defense says the charges serve as punishment for kerry aku for publicly embarrassing the agency meanwhile congress is on a mission to silence a journalist from ever publishing classified information they want to make doing so a crime under the ass be a notch act so what does this all mean about freedom of the press in the us and our

first amendment rights to discuss this earlier i was joined by jasmine radek national director for six national security and human rights and the government accountability project she's also the author of the buck you see there the whistleblower and the american taliban i first asked her about john kerry aku and if this is an attempt by the government to embarrass head take a look. yes i think the defense is right because he was the first cia agent to reveal that that torture was occurring and the cia was conducting it and that it was an actual program not near and proposition and that waterboarding is torture so i think that's what's really behind this and he didn't lose three motions basically on the bill of particulars to get more information about the indictment they told him it was without prejudice and he could come back if he didn't get

enough information and discovery and the motion for selective and indictive prosecution was denied but i think it serves the purpose of the judge said she found it provocative and informative and the motion to dismiss about the constitutionality of the statute which she didn't rule on yet in fact she said she could have telegraphed that she would be denying it but said she wanted to write an opinion which is really significant because the seminal already on the espionage act comes from the eastern district of virginia where kiriakou is being tried. really is just one of many whistleblowers that are kind have been kind coming under fire recently and i guess members of congress are kind of taking notice because recently they have decided that or at least some of some lawmakers are on this mission to prosecute journalists that publish classified information and this is the wake of a leak an article in the new york times where they published that kill list

a lot of information getting out about u.s. attacks against iran and so now they're saying all this it's becoming public and they are not liking it they want to silence these journalists that make these things public i mean what do you make about this i mean aren't journalists protected under the first amendment to publish doesn't. really i mean there is freedom of the press. fundamental part of their first amendment and i've been saying for years that the war on whistleblowers which most of these people charged with espionage under the espionage act with mishandling classified information are whistleblowers that this is really a war on journalists and no one seemed to believe that until the last couple of days congress about a month ago kind of caught on to the fact that there's

a huge hypocrisy between the government leaking tippy top level high level classified information including sources and methods with abandon while cracking down on people like thomas drake and john kiriakou who were trying to expose fraud waste it be used for illegality now some in congress are taking that next step on the slippery slope that i keep morning about of saying we should go after the journalists to under the espionage act and they've suggested that for everyone from julian assange to the new york times and yes the first amendment supposedly protects freedom of the press that would be the defense to raise but using the espionage act has been a very heavy handed. tool in the government's arsenal against whistleblowers and. to wrap the press up and that is it's just taking it even

further crazy step but now we should mention that congress has said that they want to prosecute journalists that release information that would compromise national security and on the surface there i mean that seems like something that makes sense because you know why would people want to put information out there that would you know compromise national security or what people would put people's lives. and danger but i mean could this i mean you had mentioned a slippery slope earlier on i mean how how is that even defined and could ultimately be used as an excuse to go after journalists yeah i think i think. part of the problem is that everything these days is defined as national security and they made that accusation against drake that his disclosures had harmed soldiers in the field when it turned out that he had disclosed nothing classified at all. so that's the danger and then another thing i mean really journalists if anything give

a lot of deference to the government including veto power over a number of their article of if they really think that there is some national security interest in danger and only this week as far as i know mcclatchy i believe . they're only a couple of papers came out and said they're not going to give pre-approval or veto authority to the government anymore. but they've given a lot of deference i mean they sat on the warrantless wiretapping story for a year and a half which was one of the biggest scandals the bush administration. so i find this all to be a lot of a lot of hype and photo worry and false worries and fear mongering and again such a broad you could argue anything is going to be detrimental to national security but if it contributes to the public debate and public discourse in our country in the public's right to know in conversations we have about drones or where we have

about. actions we're taking in other countries and most people would be completely appalled about. we should be having that conversation and we should also mention that we tried to obtain a statement from carry on but unfortunately we were told that he is not allowed to speak because he is under this gag orders. so that's there's no gag order so much as the fact that when you're a criminal defendant anything you say could inadvertently create impeachable information were being used against you basically and most criminal defendants are well advised not to talk while they're proceeding is underway all right i do want to turn now to another blow or an update to what julian us aand he is still held in lockdown over there at the ecuadorian embassy in london trying to hear back from the authorities over there in ecuador as to whether

or not he has asylum will be granted but we did get an exclusive response from a spokesperson. julian a songe today wanted to read that response states quote in the meantime evidence of an imminent extradition demand from the united states are mounting it is known that the f.b.i. has gathered more than forty two thousand documents and in attempt to prosecute julian and others associate of the wiki leaks and subpoenas issued by the secret grand jury there are references to the espionage act of nine hundred seventeen which carries the death penalty there are more indications that the obama administration has the intention to continue to persecute persecution of wiki leaks for its journalistic activities it is all in line with the overall attempt by the administration to silence and punish severely all whistleblowers so i mean this

kind of goes along with saunders fears the entire time i mean he doesn't want to be extra extradited to sweden he's facing questions not even charges but at this point there's questions about. sexual allegations about his ultimate fear is that is being sent here to the u.s. . and it seems like that seems to be the case i think that's a well founded fear. or that he has he has a well under asylum criteria he has a well founded fear of political persecution number one for political opinions he has number two and that third party governments are unwilling or unable to stop that and in fact he has said he would be glad to go to sweden in questions if he could get assurances that he would not be extradited to be u.s. and neither sweden nor the u.s. has been willing to provide those insurances assurances and as you mention there

have been persistent rumors that not only are there a grand jury's out on some of songe but maybe a secret indictment as well. and that that's a person that would happen so i think it's good that the ecuadorian embassy is taking this seriously and the fact that they didn't rule immediately and say oh we're not going to hear it we're not going to tame the. can only be a good sign for a songe that they are taking it seriously right you know and the thing with assad she's always been kind of demonized for what he's done for making all these cables and documents public our air publishing base it publishing these documents basically but i mean how is that different from the new york times who had published this kill list and these other leaks that we've come out i mean they're also playing the role as a journalist doing their job trying to expose the truth i mean what is the

difference in both situations they are publishing classified information that came from from leaks from whistleblowers there's not a significant difference the difference is of degree not kind we keep leaks released more information and they're going to say that the new york times and other newspapers have carefully cold cold. through what they published but if we get leaks goes down or prosecuted under the espionage act the new york times is next the l.a. times is next that's why you had the l.a. times do an op ed total editorial flip flop yesterday where is before they were they were against the crackdown on alleges leakers and now they're like oh let that proceed but don't go after journal was because they're finally realizing that if x. is vulnerable under the espionage act they're next then. everyone who is

responding to anything that would be leaks released would be equally as vulnerable yes and doesn't lastly i just want to ask you you know big leaks are big big league small leaks that this has been a recurring thing throughout previous administrations why are we seeing this attempt to to silence them or to crack down. leaks now well i think after nine eleven there was this secret secrecy regime that was put in place by president bush and normally everyone thinks the pendulum will swing back. after a national security crisis like nine eleven but instead obama despite pledges of transparency has expanded the secrecy regime and that includes a huge clampdown on information and i think this is part of it i think it's a backdoor way to create an official secrets act ultimately which we've lived

without in this country for more than two hundred years a very interesting jazz lead thank you so much for coming on the show that was one of radix is the director for national security and human rights and director of the government accountability project let's say has come under fire lately for hands on searches that some say just go too far and beyond of body searches homeland secure . he now says they have a right to search your smartphones this is all coming to light after a man by the name of john corbett filed a lawsuit against the t.s.a. he says they detained him for refusing to be gropes and then rummage through his belongings and read through his personal items so where should the t.s.a. draw the line and can they now roam through your phones i asked arthur web producer andrew blake take a listen. yes and no it really depends on which way you want to look at it and which way you want to look every which way the government wants to look at it

because we all know in the end if the t.s.a. says something that means department homeland security thing something and that needs to be really hard to fight it a lot of people like mr chorley just mentioned are trying to fight it but the way for extent it's like this if you are crossing through a t.s.a. checkpoint for a domestic flight t.s.a. cannot explicitly take your phone and check through your phone what they can do though what they are supposed to do is just to check you for any sort of like terrorism related memorabilia likely you can go through their paraphernalia right arms or they can go through and try to find some very devices or explosives noting that they can do in the reason that they're trying to dismiss mr corbett's lawsuit is they say that they can look for things that prove that you're trying to be someone else different ways of presenting yourself false identification false driver's license passports the stuff like that so if they can do that yes they can use the argument that they will go ahead and they will check your phone to see oh is this really you who are these e-mails you're sending to or these addresses from

yourself is this your e-mail address linked in there are these your contacts he could give you that is that's what's being brought up right now the legality or for that now however if you're flying in or out of the united states and you go through a checkpoint at a port of entry not just the t.s.a. but the department of homeland security they can and they will take anything that you have any sort of electronic device they can take it with without asking for your consent before fourth amendment does not apply here they can take it they can search it they can scan it they can keep it to they can transfer all the files they can give it to someone else and they can do that for as long as they deem necessary and also they won't even let you if they feel like it's a threat to national security you don't even get to watch them do this but they they can do a hell of a lot of stuff right now and this is particularly even gave the test i mean with smartphones i mean you have like your whole life on there your e-mail your apps you know where you. everything and this wealth of information sell in this modern day of our gadgets i mean this has wider implications we're just hearing today that

arguments like earlier today governor romney was saying that the these terrible leaks coming out all these whistleblowers they're all leaks that are coming out of the white house and he's blaming the obama administration what's stopping someone from the executive branch of flying out having their phones scanned and then the t.s.a. is leaking out that that information i'm not saying that's the case it seems even farfetched for me however that it's entirely possible like they can go through there and they can take all of your stuff there is actually a. really serious part of this is that they don't need to have necessarily a suspicion that you're doing anything wrong there was a case they started passing this two thousand and nine they said that they don't need a suspicion do this two thousand and ten mr david house of the bradley manning support network he was flying back from mexico and he was stopped by the t.s.a. they let him go crossed in spoke with v.h.s. on the part of homeland security said hold on

a second we would ask you some questions they didn't ask him anything about terrorism or blowing up bombs in buildings and stuff like that they wanted to know about the bradley manning support network and they want to know about wiki leaks nothing to do with you know what you would expect would endanger an entire airplane full of people they took him and they took his phone they took his u.s.b. drives they went through his computer they did all that and they did not need to have any suspicion if you're going into a port of entry from an international crossing they can do that all right and i mean especially in the wake of all these incidents with the g.s.a. i mean that guy that basically stripped down live you know to show its freedom of speech and fight against which was what it is what it or not the terrorism law has i guess there is a glimmer of hope there apparently if that's legal well then you know he's kind of paving the way for for a change at least that real that bill clinton really got. yes chang to do but i mean for those that don't really want to go that route i mean where does it end i

mean if you don't want to you know strip down naked and in response in opposition i mean do you just comply and let these things stand back and happen or where does it end ali it was just going to take the bus that so i do most of my traveling that's more relaxed and just. doesn't really help if you want to travel across no no no one thing that you should do the love you if you actually nervous about not nervous but if you're concerned about someone that you don't want going through your personal information you can encrypt it you can go and you can put a password in every major operating system let you encrypt the information you have on a computer or a phone encrypted you are forced to give them a password does that mean you're not going to get your stuff back maybe but it's a safe way of going about it but i mean really the big thing here is i mean i don't want to be banned from traveling i love traveling area especially on the bus but it's it's always best to just just play it safe if they're already already putting their hands god knows where you know you don't really want to take your computer to

. that was ours he left producer andrew blake. and that's going to do it for the news for this hour but stay tuned for the alone a show that's coming up in just a half an hour let's check in with alone and to see what is on today's agenda what are you working on over there what got some great guests tonight first we're going to test mitt romney's foreign policy chops you know he usually tries to divert attention away from the fact that he's lacking a foreign policy completely but today he did actually give a speech attacked obama as he usually does for being weak for saying that he doesn't want america to be number one but if you ask me his foreign policy seems like it's really stuck a couple of decades behind so we're going to try to figure out maybe his most influential advisers are michael hastings is going to join us for that one and i will talk with david sirota about a lot of the hypocrisy the double standard when it comes to leaks and the irony of dan feinstein being the senator that's really leading the charge against the white house since most journalists in d.c.

say that she's one of the worst leakers in congress sounds like you have a lot going on there and that's coming up in just half an hour thanks for that update alone up that's going to do it for the news from on the story the stories we covered you can check out our you tube channel that's you tube dot com slash our team america you can also check out our web site that's our t.v. dot com slash usa our web producers are busy on working on a bunch of stories we don't always have time to get to on the air and you can also follow me on twitter at liv's wall will be right back here at seven c. of that. r g is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.