corrupt officials. naomi wolf author journalist activists 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. sort of seven or eight years ago by saying ok we're going to start to react to be 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 two white houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to

what whistleblowers 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 you. 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 of 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 do 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 founder of wiki leaks what do you think will happen to him if he ends up in the u.s. yeah 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 leak or a 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 you see joining us on the problem is the publisher like the new york times and some other to that exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is to julian assange 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 us there's some evidence of this interim creek and so really good investigative citizen journalist has document a lot of the seventh that it demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sourness to us and then have him be the highest profile you know journalist in guantanamo and you know where where do 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 a 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 criminalized journalism and so this very brave judge listened to the evidence which wasn't hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by these lawyers that that's what this would do. 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 mean it 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 and pins i don't 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 in 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 fraud 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 writes need 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 email world in an electronic world these crimes are forever they 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 then 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 who are you know mayes they were power hosed they were they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know forbidding to

use the bathroom they were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist i knew assumes that the 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 the way 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 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 get suspended process it's very effective at breaking down protest and 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 thank you mining.

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their fight and threatening to join forces with al qaida. all right time for the action in the world of sports with dimitri. and other sports on artsy in this political. shock defeat olympic champion and. the tournament in cincinnati after losing to jeremy chardy in straight sets. movers and shakers and posts at machine are to moderate is set for our. land with one day to go before the new english premier league season. and no escape to victory the amazing story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose food bowl over freedom. so let's start with senator and tamara exult of the cincinnati. heading into the ace open which starts in ten days to new day crowned

a limbic champ and surprisingly lost two frenchmen jeremy chardy mark bates and easily his opponent the previous times they had played but this time chardy needed only two sets to claim a six four six four victory and a place in the quarterfinals. i still. broke three times in the second was a good enough. you know broken a couple times was going to have a lot of close games on this first and second. enough chances of. next up for charlie's father martin del potro saul victor troitsky in three sets the world number nine improved six wins and no defeats in his career against this. thanks to the mean time roger federer had no problems in the last sixteen and said

the nineteen year old australian benetton which six through six for the world number one suisse will take all american mother fish there is the local favorite and a super time runner up at the tournament the fifth relicts to panic also in straight sets six three six three it was his first victory over the czech in five career matches. thanks also for a second seed novak djokovic this handed a passage into the last eight of a drinker retired after losing the first set six times continue for the russian who's been without a title for more than fifteen months with joke of each hunting for his second straight fourth of the season. standing in his way is twelfth seed mar in chile shtick wrote advancing after beating public off spain straight sets. thank. women's side olympic champion cyril williams dispatched powell and it

was a back and forth match for serena still needed just over an hour to book a berth in the quarter finals the american looking for her fourth consecutive title since left to go for the trophy last month. thanks there was also joy for serious elder sister venus as the doubles are in big jump and dropped only three games on her way to beating italy and sorry ronnie six three six. over to football now where in transfer news has signed for sunderland won a one year deal thirty four iraq for my france striker left. if they and of last season and could make its debut at arsenal on saturday while running madrid are finally close to signing tottenham midfielder. after increasing that offer to forty seven million dollars the twenty six year old is expected to hold talks with

officials and undergo a medical and agree terms within the next forty eight hours manager and says the club will try to replace the winger before the transfer window closes in a fortnight while focusing on saturday's tricky opener at newcastle. because the way. it was you thought i'm drawn to the difficult game as well. leading. up to the final we had to go. so. i think it's two teams that want. you could see that fighting for the same objectives we want to make sure that this year we can do it for that and we will have to see if we are able to do that. in england alex ferguson says he's happy about his strikeforce for the fast approaching season.

after signing robin van persie from arsenal the dutch striker has just agreed personal terms past and medical to complete a transfer that is believed to have cost united thirty eight million dollars on personnel joyce wayne rooney have a hand on this then a while back and changing up front as the red devils prepare for their season opener at everton on monday. to go back to the season. all we do know that was in europe so. it's really to. quote his commanders causes a moment. now to the story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose

to spend an extra year in prison who could play football and trying to turn what similar care if was sent to jail in chile for three and a day after being caught carrying six kilos of cocaine in sight children's books he intended to take to europe the speed the right food to use to play for russian second division to score soon word of football skills in prison yet reached to the national coach club for more professional turned prison volunteer franklin lobos arranged for the now twenty four year old to train with local professional team since our good morning market of now trains there every day accompanied by a guard before being back behind bars every evening this month they couldn't returned to russia face an amnesty but wouldn't have been allowed back into chile for a decade or so instead he chose to finish his sentence and stay with his team. was

because he wanted. it has been almost two years now playing football in jail we just play baby football and not every day need to work and work hard to make sure i'm fine physically technically and we do everything so i can come back. if you're not awake you're going to make mistakes but if your wife gives you another chance you have to take it and he flew through food book which is what he wants then it's even better. now seven time champion violence in iraq. has defended his return to yamaha next year as a tele writer prepares for this weekend's indianapolis grand prix in america with his current team to carty the thirty three year old signed a two year deal with the japanese manufacturer following his less than perfect tear stained with the italian outfit it means more so will once again team up with a bitter rival and current leader. to switch came on to five full forward to carter while the case is still there and took the trouble to explain his decision. made

choices because i don't understand what is the best the best the bike the more competitive bike for. the next two years the maybe the end of my career or maybe not but anyway the last part in the end this is the choice and is a great p.t. i'm very sad also because they find a lot of good people we had we had great times together we. moved but unfortunately we're not able to to achieve that result. so it's a change of team for us to see but it was a change of sport for some of his fellow riders likes. and but spears enjoyed a very american day out head of the race baseball lesson to take their minds off their mo to p.d. it is called edwards and under disorder where among those practicing their swing on

their game of golf you're going away from the tarmac. and finally i saw korea and russia is youth team are aiming to defend their title as the junior club what's kept gets under way in part as from one course or if reports it will be more of a challenge this time around for the red army. standoff between russia and kind of the certainly one for the ages but this thing here kolob world cup which will be held in russia for the second time this is another great ice bucket for the sion vying for the genesee. a year ago it was russia's red army that raised the inaugural trophy following a confident when 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 official 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 seems from europe and north america jets a story the battle for the world's top go up trophy in siberia next week but for now they are in moscow embrace in their first international experience is my first time playing in a tournament like this you know so far away from home and you know what it's very exciting we don't really know what to expect us all fired up about why we're here watching this game but but yeah we're all really excited and we know it was going to be a tough tough opposition 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 army in a pretty tournaments exhibit again many of these guys want to have the opportunity

at some point later to play for a u.s. team 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 the new where all of the junior club world cup will be determined according to the folding formats ten seasons have been divided into two. bulls for a single round robin contest group winners will then proceed to the title match which will be as they age in front of over ten thousand fans at the home arena of the gauge l.t. omes r.t. moscow that's all from me for today good bye. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from

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