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have us here in our next hour g interviews author and journalist now we wolf was says a crackdown on whistleblowers could expose corrupt u.s. officials to. naomi wolf author journalist activist thank you for sitting down with r.t. today it's always a pleasure marie and i first question for you recently u.s. defense secretary leon panetta announced and ordered pentagon officials to begin monitoring major news stations in the u.s. to see if any media outlets are disclosing classified information as a journalist and as an american what is your take on this i mean you know my immediate take is a profound feeling of nausea and its sense that somehow the united states has collapsed into you know the soviet union circa sort of mid thirty's. this is horribly foreseeable but i can't believe it's come to this. the bush administration

begins trajectory. seven or eight years ago by saying ok we're going to start to react to the espionage act and they threatened to go after the new york times you may remember when they broke the swift banking story about how at that time it seemed so quaint how the government was monitoring people's private financial transactions. but what's so dangerous could have been warning people about for years is that journalist's job is to publish classified information journalists like first of all this is a white house now to wait houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what was so blowers want to release specially you know torture that they've engaged in methods of torture fraud corruption they're classifying it you know i've had conversations with representatives legal representatives of people in guantanamo who tell me that they can't tell me how their clients have been tortured because

it's classified and they would get in trouble because of the way the government is over classified it's not national security information it's the government. using classification as a way of protecting its own corruption and fraud but what's so scary about this is that anyone who's a journalist who tells the truth and there's nothing wrong with. their jobs will say and i said this when julian assange was arrested that up and down the eastern seaboard in dinner parties and cocktail parties the elite media stream all we do all day long is talk about classified information and trade classified information share classified information and kind of show up when we have information because it means we are being effective at our jobs that's not the same as leaking it i do agree that someone who actually leaks classified information knows that they're breaking the law you know i'm not saying there's no reason not to have classification in

a working democracy but the job of journalists is to publish classified information that is brought to them that's in the public interest and so now if you've got the government saying they're like literally it's like mafia tactics can't believe it's come to this the government is same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to intimidate you and we're going to threaten you and we're we're threatening you with with serious legal penalties like prison time if you do your job and i mean it's like that's what they do in china you know i mean i just can't even believe it's come to this obviously journalists publish classified information because that's how we know we're living in a democracy you brought up joining us on trying to avoid leaks what do you think will happen to him if he ends up in the u.s. i mean in an ideal world obviously i believe in the rule of law in an ideal world you know he would go safely to sweden and you know the women who have accused him

would have their day in court he would have his day in court and justice would be impartial i don't think that's what's happening in his case i think that it's a global. kind of. manhunt to. punish and silence a whistleblower publisher again not a leaker publish a publisher i just want to stress this bradley manning leaked the material allegedly you know and so he has to deal with whatever he's going to use you joining us on the party is the publisher like the new york times exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much. and so i think that. there is no way that he can. have an impartial trial in sweden but quite apart from that i think i'm very concerned that there's sort of national pressure on britain and on sweden by the

u.s. there's some evidence of this interim creek that really good investigative citizen journalist has document a lot of the seventh that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sauna to us and then have him be the highest profile you know journalist in guantanamo and. you know where where you go from there people have been there for ten years without charge or trial and i think that that's not just to silence him again i think it's also to send a message to anyone else who might leak you know compromising or embarrassing or problematic material about the united states government earlier this year you threw your support behind a class action lawsuit filed against us president barack obama and his defense secretary over the national defense authorization act when you were reporting about that bill you said in quote included powers that could bring the authorities of guantanamo to america's courthouses streets and backyards in may a judge suspended section ten twenty one of the n.d.a.

you were actually in the courthouse it's it's quite amazing in this this judge more than anyone so ok the national defense authorization act is absolutely terrifying piece of legislation so section ten twenty one was the section that explicitly said this gives the president the power to round up anyone without charge or trial and hold them forever. chris hedges a very brave journalist brought this forward as well as many activists including an occupy activist from london and. the president's lawyers were in the court and i was there. listening to this and to my shame there was like there were like one and a half reporters and in the room you know none of them for major u.s. news outlets well the most important thing ever to have happened to that point was happening and the government's lawyers basically confirmed that chris hedges could be detained forever for reporting on the taliban or reporting on people who could

be classified as enemy combatants they confirmed that that was indeed the case or if someone wrote a book about you know enemy combatants that in any way was sympathetic to the point of view that you know the u.s. had too much power in this part of the world or you know crazy examples of sweeping powers to detain american citizens and to criminalize descent criminalize journalism and so this very brave. the judge listened to the evidence which was hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by these lawyers that that's what this would do and she suspended that part of it and so saved you know the constitution where the due process clause is which guarantees everyone in america the right to a trial i still can't understand why this story specifically the n.d.a. has not been a bigger story in mainstream media in the us this was

a huge huge issue and this bill was signed into law when people are celebrating new year's eve new year's eve and then somebody heard about it i mean as you media why do you think that at least you know i want to i want to ask you that what when you talk to journalist guy friends who are journalists you know i senior people who are running major news sites opinion sites i would say did you know that the due process clause was suspended on new year's eve and they're like what no surely not and they don't believe it because they didn't see you know a wave of coverage any coverage would be buried obfuscated and no one's giving these people orders to not cover it i was listening to these historic arguments of the american presidents lawyers saying yes we have the right to round up journalists that journalists have the right to hold him forever and there was no a.b.c. no n.b.c. no n.p.r. no c.n.n. no fox news nobody was there you know and the best explanation i have is

like denial you know let me be it's such a huge story that no one can really believe this is really happening so we can't cover it but i do think that what we're seeing right now and i predicted this would happen in november of last year is that like why the violent crackdown against occupy why the violent criminalization of dissent why the bullying of journalists now. i think it's linked to what we're seeing in the news right now of this huge fraud being uncovered in the banking sector h.s.b.c. you know billions of dollars in fraud bank of america wells fargo barclays bank of england fraud for fraud not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic and i just wrote a piece about this for the guardian you know clearly systemic tim geithner finds out about in two thousand and eight you know right sneaky mail doesn't leak the news doesn't call a press conference and then you know becomes treasury secretary so it's clear that you know there is

a small group of guys and girls who are in on massive massive massive fraud and. so the occupy movement journalists you know threaten to uncover a lot of crimes if the books are ever opened in an e-mail world in an electronic world these crimes are forever last forever so that now is my working theory about why we're seeing such sudden violent crackdown on reporting on dissent on whistleblowers that otherwise a lot of people would go to jail for the crimes that they've been committing occupy wall street is a movement that really raised awareness and pointed attention to the fact of money flowing from wall street to washington influencing policies the economic problems have not gone away since the fall of two thousand and eleven they've only gotten worse occupy wall street though has sort of died down a bit why do you think that is well in the fall of two thousand and eleven you know american citizens gathered together and spoke up and protested in occupy public

spaces and they were shot with rubber bullets they were given you know lengthy jail sentences they were arrested for staying on the sidewalk as i was and my partner was you know lawfully obeying the law were arrested oh yeah. yeah i was arrested for standing on a sidewalk telling occupy protesters what their first amendment rights were to protest. you know and that we were facing fifteen days in rikers island which is a violent prison yeah it makes you think twice about going out to use your first amendment rights i mean occupy protesters were you know mayes they were power hosed they were they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for didn't use the bathroom they were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist you know assumes that their e-mails are monitored their phone calls are monitored i mean it's just a complete sense of big brother is a hair's breadth away i think i am frightened seeing countries like britain

sleepwalking into okaying legislation to institute. this kind of surveillance but really in europe people still feel they have some privacy they can go to the march and they can go home. i'm sorry to say that when you get this matrix of surveillance plus police brutality plus laws that suspend due process it's very effective at breaking down protest now let me flip it around and say having studied closing societies and societies that we opened democracies mass protest is the key to reopening democracies namely well thank you very much and thank you mining. well see british scientists are. not on.

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asylum to know were accurate or grants join us on political refuge while blasting britain for using blackmail and threats in its desperation to seize the whistleblower. hong protests are supposed to run again they're finding support as a verdict looms in the trial over the controversial mock prayer in russia's major cathedral the grab global attention. plus the un security council withdraws the international monitoring mission in syria rebels they are pledged to step up their fight brendan joined forces with al qaida. this may have lines on the back of the top of the hour meantime let's see what's happening in sports with dmitri.

sports an r.t. hello there good to have a company again this hour coming up. short defeat olympic champion and tomorrow he's out of the tournament in cincinnati after losing to jeremy chardy in straight sets. and shaky is set for hour while some go to sunderland with two days to go before the new english premier league season. and now escape to victory the amazing story of a convicted russian drug smuggler chose football over freedom. so i sat with him our exult all the cincinnati masses i told him and heading into this open which starts in ten days the newly crowned olympic champ and surprisingly lost two frenchmen jeremy chardy and bates and easily his opponent previous times they have played this time chardy needed only two sets to claim

a six four six four victory and a place in the quarterfinals i. broke three times in the second which was a good enough for. you know. a lot of close games on this and the first one so. enough chances. it's awful charlie martin del potro is the argentine soul ficta troitsky in three sets seven six two six six one improved to six wins and no defeats in the spirit against joy to get. to federal had no problems in the last sixteen i said beat nineteen year old. six to six for world number one swiss will take an american model fifth their. local favorites and runner up the tournament defeated by

nicole soon straight sets six three six three it was his first victory. by. well seed martin march's shock ratio also qualified for the last eight sets after beating of spain to start seven six six to finish next two plays world number two no joke. in the women's game in this williams booked a place in the quarter finals of the western and southern open america needed to set against. me to drop only three games to claim a six three six victory. over to were in transfer news side for sunderland on a one year deal thirty four year old former france striker left talk numbers at the end of last season and could make his debut at asco on saturday while around the

final eight close to signing top number field sharks are increasing their foot to forty seven million dollars the twenty six year old is expected to howl talks with officials undergo a medical and degree within the next forty eight hours person manager and job loss bosch says the club will try to replace the winger before the transfer window closes in a fortnight focusing on this tricky opener at c.u. castle. who is no good music. because you thought i'm drawn to the difficult game as well. leading. to the fun we had to go with. so. you know i think it's two teams that want the champions league qualification you could say that fighting for the same objectives we want to make sure that this year we can push through it further than that and we will have to see if we are able to do that progressively.

alex ferguson says he's happy about his strikeforce for the. season not a manager after signing. from the netherlands forward sets enjoying one ruini i've been on the stand a while back and change it up front and move on to focus and to compare this forward line with his trouble winning score of nineteen ninety nine percent red devils prepare for their season opener at everton on monday. if you go back to the season when. do i need to know. in all we do know the full pledge to make is in europe so. good to have. to leave to. go well you know.

his qualities come into those causes of the moment. now to the story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose to spend an extra year in prison so he could play football in two thousand and ten macsyma look at a was sent to jail in chile for three days and a day after being caught six kilos of cocaine inside children's books he intended to take to europe speed it right through to use to play for russian second division team score and soon word of football skills in the prison yard reached chilean national coach claude a former professional turned prison volunteer franklin lobos who ranged for the now twenty four year old to train with local professional teams into the morning. trains there every day companied by god before being back behind bars over this month he could have returned to russia thanks to an amnesty but wouldn't have been allowed back to chile for

a decade so instead he chose to finish his sentence and stay with his team. it has been almost two years now playing football in jail we just played baby football and not every day so i need to work and work hard make sure i'm fine physically technically and we do everything so i can come back. you can make mistakes but if you live gives you another chance you have to take it and keep it through food book which is what he loves then it's even better which i. now seven time. has defended his return to yamaha next year as they turn right it prepares for this weekend's indianapolis grand prix in america with his current team to carty the thirty three year old side two year deal with the japanese manufacturer following his less than perfect two year stint with the italian outfit it means it will once again team up with bitter rival and currently. pay mind five

for mark potter while the case is still in a draw see to the trouble to explain his decision. made choices because i play to understand what is the best the best the bike the more competitive bike for. the next two years that may be the end of my career or maybe not but anyway the last part and. this is the choice. is a great beat the very said those who because they find a lot of good people we had we had great times together we. but unfortunately we're not able to achieve that result. and file and russia's youth team are aiming to defend their title as the club what comes gets underway in the city of all of us but. it will be more the challenge this time around for the red army. the standoff between russia and kind of the certainly wall for the ages

but the thing there go all the world cup which will be held in russia for the second time this is another great ice bucket for the shins vying for the genesee. a year ago it was russia's red over me the early days they in the world trophy following a confident win against the czech side energy the international ice hockey federation was so impressed with introductory tournaments that it decided to award the junior club world cup a permanent place on its calendar over fishel events the unprecedented decision by the i.i.h.f. to sanction it tournaments in only the second year of its existence generated huge interest from the world's top junior leagues with ten teams from europe and north america gee it's a story the battle for the world's top club trophy in siberia next week but for now they are in moscow embrace in their first international experience as my first time playing in

a tournament like this you know so far away from home and you know it is very exciting we don't really know what to expect so far that's about why we're here watching this game but but yeah we're excited and we know it's going to be a tough tough competition and a tough tournaments but we're looking forward to last year's events featured eight teams that were in large part no match for the russians but the competition will be much tougher this time around the waterloo blackhawks have already proved just bats in moscow with americans claiming a fight to win against the red or meet in a pretty tournaments exhibit again many of these guys want to have the opportunity at some point later to play for us tame or to play professional hockey whether interact with us or with international players pardon me and so from that standpoint this is going to be an invaluable experience and it's one that only a few of the players on the blackhawks have ever had prior to right now they knew where all of the junior club world cup will be determined according to the folding format ten seasons have been divided and. two pools for

a single round robin contest group winners will then proceed to that vital match which will be staged in front of over ten thousand fans and the home arena of the gauge held team. mom cost her of r t moscow. well that's all the sports news for the moment i'll be back with more in three hours to say weather is next stay with us. 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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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