so they are experiencing problems with the internet today well you're certainly not alone the popular hosting site go daddy has been attacked and a member of the hacktivist group anonymous is taking credit our cyber groove rule will bring us a leader. and fighting crime one picture at a time the f.b.i. rolls out a new one billion dollar facial recognition system had a look at the next generation identification and what it means for your privacy. plus president obama promised to come down hard on the banks for housing loans to lead to the two thousand and eight financial crisis but the statute of limitations is almost up and the people responsible have yet to be held accountable ahead of

our tea asks if these men and women are walk away scot free. good evening it is monday september tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. let's begin with a story that has been developing just over the last few hours the largest domain server on the internet go daddy dot com was taken down earlier today shutting down fountains and potentially millions of websites the twitter user anonymous owner wrote quote the attack is not coming from anonymous collective the attack is coming only from me and then went on to say that the action is being carried out to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i cannot talk now well i spoke with our two web producer angie blake earlier about what's going on here. a

couple hours ago go daddy disappeared the web went offline a bunch of the web sites their hosts are go daddy the largest domain registrar on the internet they have something like eight million different user accounts on a bunch of their sites much of their emails just spam disappeared and actually go daddy's come out maybe two or three times in the last few hours just to say hey we're working on it hold tight they haven't actually gone on the record to say what happened the only person who is taking credit is this this one person this anonymous we have to bring you up to date on your leet speak that anonymous owner there is a three that has three. isn't as about as nerds as has a good other and we have this one person who is taking credit for it did they do it we don't know they're saying they are we can believe them it's really really tough when we talk about anonymous because we don't know anything no i.d.'s we don't know identities in pictures we don't know locations i mean i'm sure that this is kind enough attention from all around the world in the last few hours that the feds are

already on the way to ever has this account set up so we don't know if this person actually did do it but it is possible and there could be reasons behind is a very good ones to last year if you remember the stop online piracy after i thought that was a big deal and that almost passed the house in the senate and it almost got signed a law and had so passed the internet as you know the completely different right now so originally go to keep in mind there are millions upon millions upon millions of users and some of these users are just average people who maybe launch their business or you know use it for their business very small business a lot of run out of their home and they're all screwed right now looking into that last year go daddy went out there and they said ok will we support sopa well you know why not it's going to be good and not know that people don't really like that when they said that so if you remember there was a big blackout on reddit and i would begin to. go daddy kind of took them a little bit longer to change their stance but in the meantime they lost several so . i was in the other users. people orchestra there's

a switch over and just said goodbye to go daddy go daddy actually had to come out and say all right guys we changed our mind we agree with some simple but no we're going to say that we're anti so but it was too late and it cost them a lot of accounts so we have this anonymous owner guy who's saying he took credit for it and he's trying to test out the cyber security which kind of brings us up to something that's happening just the last couple of days on friday it was reported that the white house is drafting a decorative order that they might have to put out there if the senate and congress can't come to terms with the new cybersecurity legislation we know there's a thing called cispa that was up for a vote a few months ago in the senate in the house over haven't been able to actually agree on a concise cybersecurity legislation we see similar pieces of legislation being passed or at least taken up in other countries things well in things like cispa when it was first being brought up a few months ago people are saying oh this is just so but back from the dead now we don't know if go daddy support system in fact they really haven't said anything

there's one statement if you dig up online a few months back someone from go today says we don't know where we are or run sure so we do know that the white house however is planning on launching their own kind of cypress tree legislation and what is not supposed to happen will the news broke on friday the white house could do it whenever and if we know anything about president obama's executive orders a policy signed in the middle of the night and no one will know until it's too late so we're connecting some dots here of course the fact that go daddy at one time supported sopa did go back on that decision but it took a while but the point is there's reason to believe that people don't like go daddy for the good excuse ok. let's talk a little bit about anonymous because you know this anonymous owner not only three are right i'm learning you know is apparently a member of anonymous but when we talk and i want to talk more broadly about this because this could happen in the future random you know so-called members of anonymous could start. launching attacks on web sites and their choices that the

rest of the collective doesn't agree with i mean what how does this work in the future with anonymous i don't know i mean it's worked it's worked so far maybe not to the successful degree that you would hope for but anonymous has been out there you know sense at least two thousand and eight and you know carried out a bunch of operations not everyone who participates on the or brillo agrees with their exact motives in their reasons and what they've done but it's heaven for there was actually case a few years ago where someone took credit for the big blockade and attack i'm sorry when the pay pal blocked distributions two weeks when i actually took credit for that lie had nothing to do with it and they were arrested and thrown in jail and eventually the feds realized oh that's not the right person oh yeah so did you think that there's not a democratic system here in which an anonymous takes a vote on what to launch to be clear this isn't we don't know this was a anonymous operation anonymous being a collective group we know that someone claiming to be a member of anonymous is taking credit and hopefully with the next few hours either

this person or go daddy will come out with a legitimate scene and explain what the hell happened because we right now we things could've been a d.d. o. s. attack will injection javascript injection that is refuted denial of service attack media you're learning so quickly wow i'm getting it so that i mean that's what i kind of understood happened here but we don't know if something happened to the d.s. servers and through that he went down how that happened if someone orchestrate a bunch of bot nets to attack them of someone who's just really really really smart or maybe someone joked on line he was so distraught over an internet cable already and i should mention you know just a few hours ago i went over to your desk to find out more about this but you were very very busy working on this we appreciate all the work you're doing on isn't and give us an update when there i mean the big box yes well of course of course r.t. web producer angelica it's always fun to have a lot of things this is and we do actually have a quick update for you on. story the go daddy website is back up and running it was

again taken down for the better part of today and the company does have yet to come out and say whether this was in fact a d.d. o. s. attack but thousands of sites were taken down and more than fifty local myrtle beach hotels that use go daddy services say they were impacted by as much as thirty thousand dollars an hour stay tuned though here on r t for the latest. while the one hundred twelve congress is back in session today after their long summer recess so after a long break they should come back ready to conquer all the biggest problems facing this country right problems like not enough jobs too much spending and quite a bit of disagreement about the role of government in the future but as our g. correspondent liz wahl points out you might not want to put your money on any of that getting accomplished. well congress is back today after over a month long recess lawmakers plan to occupy the capitol for thirteen days before the election and for congress to go back to work it's going to cost taxpayers

a lot of money according to emily's list the price tag to bring them back for two weeks is over sixty two million dollars that's four point eight million dollars a day to keep the house of representatives doors open and you would hope that with that kind of investment they would get things done right well the reality is that they probably won't elected leaders themselves have admitted there is no chance of any legislation passing in the coming days and weeks that's because their time and effort right now is consumed with the election but this isn't anything new their track record for passing a law is a measure of their product to vittie is decimal take a look at this graph according to the library of congress the one hundred twelve congress has passed about a third of the laws of the previous congress and even less compared to the congress before that that's half the number of laws the second least productive congress in history we're talking about the eighty eight congress which president truman called the do nothing congress productivity aside this congress is also extremely

unpopular with barely ten percent of americans approving of the job it's doing perhaps senator michael bennet was able to put it into perspective best my goodness the digital revolution of a forty percent approval rating compared to or nine. percent approval rating at the height of the oil spill. nine percent there's an actor's fifteen percent more people should care do you know it is becoming obvious i don't for the record. i don't love him for that approval. and while a bitterly divided congress has lawmakers twiddling their thumbs it's not like they don't have a lot of work to do a government shutdown looms at the end of this month if they don't pass a budget the bush era tax cuts are set to expire at the end of december that's over one hundred billion dollars and automatic cuts across the board economists say of

congress fails to act this will result and is still called fiscal cliff that will plummet the economy back into a recession so we want to ask as taxpayers foot the over sixty four million dollar bill it's about congress back to work for a couple of weeks if they're not going to do anything what's the point and washington liz wall r.t. . so i have here on r t the big banks and their shady home loans helped bring down the global economy the white house and congress promised to get tough on those responsible while now it appears those bankers are too big to jail story in a moment.

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a guy who cares an awful lot about money you sir are a fool you know what kind of mind their terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want to be wishing to feature isn't the only liberal the christian. can secure the support of the. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage because that breaking news i mean martin and we're going to break this that. well believe it or not we're less than two months away from election day and as we get closer one thing a lot of journalists are doing now is taking a look at the details and the records of both mitt romney and president obama president obama's record is made up of promises made promises broken and promises

forgotten one of those promises was a full criminal investigation into big banks on wall street for their role for the role that many of those banks played in the economic collapse and more specifically in the some private sub prime or mortgage crisis that contributed to millions of foreclosures and an economy that four years later is still on shaky ground now in his state of the union address this year president obama announced the creation of a new task force a mortgage fraud task force that would hold those responsible accountable well then the following month in february there was a settlement between the government and big banks and the president once again mentioned this crime fighting group it's headed up by new york attorney general eric schneiderman and the president talked about what it would be doing this settlement also protects our ability to further investigate the practices that caused this mess and this is important the mortgage fraud task force i announced in my state of the union address retains its full authority to aggressively

investigate the packaging and selling of risky mortgages that led to this crisis so just how much is this actually being aggressively investigated well earlier i was joined by william block associate economics professor for the university of missouri kansas city school of law and i first asked him if it's normal for this investigation to be taking this long. no i mean what was the norm before was during the savings and loan crisis which is one seven the as large in terms of both losses and fraud as this crisis and that crisis we've got over a thousand felony convictions just in cases designated as major by the federal government and that understates the degree of prior to say should because we created the top one hundred list of roughly the worst six hundred frauds and virtually all of them were prosecuted we had a ninety percent conviction rate to do that our agency the regular banking

regulatory agency the office of thrift supervision made over thirty thousand criminal referrals flash forward to this crisis same agency office of thrift supervision makes zero criminal referral less that doesn't respect if you said thirty thousand criminal referrals this particular the mortgage crisis has fifty five people working on it whereas when you when you were working there were a thousand people working on it. we can even look at you know the roger clemens doping scandal there were ninety three investigators that talk a little bit about the timing and the number of these investigators and what it says about the government's priorities here ok first you're correct that in the savings and loan debacle at peak there were a thousand f. the agents there are only about twenty five hundred f.b.i. agents who do white collar crime at all so a huge percentage of the total agents work the savings and loan debacle to get that

a thousand felony convictions in the current crisis as recently as fiscal year two thousand and seven there were only one hundred and twenty f.b.i. agents assigned nationwide they were in little groups of two and three in regional offices and they didn't in. to gate anything major they didn't look at any of the major institutions so you're saying the number of f.b.i. agents even assigned to it to white collar crimes this these days and you know in the current day has dropped has been cut exponentially why is that. well the first thing that happened was the nine eleven attacks and they transferred all kinds of f.b.i. agents to national security they found that the f.b.i. couldn't infiltrate al qaeda but it could follow the money and the experts in following the money are the white collar folks so they took five hundred of the best f.b.i.

agents to do white collar and transfer them to national security the next thing that happened of course. just a month later was enron and so when the famous f.b.i. warning came in september two thousand and four note how early that was two thousand and four warned that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud and warned that it would cause a financial crisis if it were not contained well what happened is the f.b.i. agents that were assigned to white collar and not transferred to national security were overwhelmingly working on the enron cases so there was really no one there by two thousand and six. you talked about this being a sub prime crisis it's overwhelmingly a liar loans crisis liar's loans are when you don't verify the borrowers income for example and the studies show that ninety percent of liar's

loans were fraudulent and the studies show that this was overwhelmingly lenders and their agents who put the fraud in the liar's loans despite the f.b.i. warnings the industry massively increased the number of liar's loans it increased it by over five hundred percent between two thousand and three and two thousand and six by two thousand and six roughly forty percent of all mortgage loans made in the united states were liar's loans wow that means over two million fraudulent loans per. a year being made by the lenders with one hundred and twenty agents to look after it i want to play. something that elizabeth warren said last week at the democratic national convention warren of course the democratic candidate for senate in massachusetts and formerly headed up the consumer financial protection bureau

take a listen i'm here tonight to talk about hardworking people people who get up early stay up late dinner and help out with homework people who can be counted on to help their kids their parents their neighbors and the lady down the street whose car broke down people who work their hearts out but are up against a hard truth the game is rigged against them let's talk about that hard truth i mean here's a lizabeth war in a major face in national politics these days that it's putting this on the table like idea why aren't more people saying this well we have both major parties trying to downplay the role of fraud in finance because finance is the leading source of financing for both of the parties they provide massive campaign contributions and as

a result nothing seriously has gotten done compared to the thousand elites convicted in savings and loan debacle again one seventy of the losses one seventy of the fraud you have zero. absolutely zero of the elite white collar types who drove this financial crisis have been convicted and indeed this new task force that you know the lead in to this discussion is not even assigned to look at mortgage fraud it's a son and nor is it assigned to look at foreclosure fraud where that occurred more than one hundred thousand felonies per year by several of the largest banks in the united states all of that was negotiated away for complete impunity the only thing they were supposedly going to look at this task force of forty to fifty folks

most of them were already assigned to dealing with these cases so it was essentially no new addition was the sale of derivatives in the purchase of these loans in the what we call the secondary market and even there they have not issued a similar a single criminal subpoena for information so around that why i mean we're almost out of time at how do we prevent these future crises i mean settling with large banks for large sums of millions of dollars that's not happening how do we make sure this doesn't happen again. well you have to prosecute these folks that means that you hold or train general holder needs to resign he needs to be replaced by a real prosecutor and it needs to be a national priority the working group doesn't even have membership of the banking regulatory agencies who are absolutely essential if you're going to have any

effective prosecution we made it as an agency our top priority to deal with these frauds currently the regulators give them a complete pass right that is a recipe for disaster and the next disaster will be worse money talks but the threat of jail would speak louder if it happened william black associate economics professor for the university of missouri kansas city school of law well remember that web site pirate bay where users can get access to music and movie files stored on other people's computers it became one of the world's largest free file sharing websites and in two thousand and nine the founders of the website were found guilty of using pirate bay to encourage copyright infringement but instead of serving time in jail they're believed to have fled to sweden. well one of those co-founders twenty seven year old godfrey sore thumb warrigal was just arrested in cambodia and will be deported now after that arrest swedish media reported there's an

international warrant out for worms arrest and to many people's surprise the arrest is apparently not for pirate bay he's now also accused of hacking a swedish i.t. company logica and of leaking thousands of people's tax id numbers these are the accusations but this whole thing is pretty interesting especially since cambodia and sweden don't have an extradition treaty all of the founders of pirate bay have been huge targets of the motion picture association of america and are also believed to have fled to cambodia i should also mention the arrest coincides with a visit by ron kirk one of the highest levels trade negotiators in the u.s. according to wiki leaks now additionally this is very interesting today google censored the pirate bay from appearing and it autocomplete you know when you type in the search bar it's no longer there and we're watching this case for many reasons but it could shed light on the extradition process the way sweden cooperates with certain governments as we wait to see what happens with another

extradition extradition case involving sweden the cakes of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange. speaking of us on she is still living in the ecuadorian embassy in london the seemingly intractable battle between ecuador and britain over a saw and has brought a spotlight on the dangerous path whistleblowers tread in exposing abuses of state power now one of the people behind this no stranger to conflict when it comes to fighting injustice carried out by state powers is the spanish jurist both as are guards on and in an exclusive interview with our r.t.e. garzon explained why he thinks a songes quote worth defending here's there for us with more. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice to julian assange and of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real end in sight at the moment for this. standoff. remains

very very firm that word julian assange to be extradited that would put his human rights a very real risk at the same time the u.k. has said they're not going to grant julian assange free passage and that if he set foot outside the ecuadorian embassy he could be arrested for breaching his bail conditions so just where does that leave well in the interview with r.t. both those are garceau on a song his lawyer said that they're going to continue to fight what he termed a terrible injustice and i'm glad. it's clear that granted julian assange has political asylum because he was facing terrible injustice and he exercised his fundamental rights and we think that this wrong to needs to be defended this point we consider it prevalent and legal solution is possible if both the u.k. and ecuador go to the international court of justice ruling that bound to obey now

remember julian assange says never being charged he's wanted for questioning in sweden over rape and sexual assault allegations one of the biggest criticisms leveled did in a song is that his bid for asylum in ecuador granting him asylum is very much just trying to evade justice now his lawyer tells us that is more than ready to go there he is more than ready to face the questioning as long as he's being given a guarantee that once he was in sweden he'd face the decision to the u.s. and they have never received those guarantees. julian assange has told swedish prosecutors that he's ready to cooperate and ready to be questioned to submit himself to other procedures but only if he's guaranteed that it would not lead to a more complicated case in which is rights to freedom of speech and information would be fine. now as we said julian assange and his legal team have always maintained there's a very real fear here that well he'd be extradited to sweden that he could face a further extradition to the u.s.

where some of the crimes that he could potentially be accused of espionage for his work with wiki leaks that carries the death penalty in the u.s. very serious concerns that his lawyer makes in the interview you know i don't think mr assange is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much more surprised that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security or the safety of american citizens or different reading from a few both sides of course very very eager to find some form of resolution but just when and how this will come remains extremely uncertain indeed as louis told r.t. there is no time in it to resolve this situation like this one could be set to run and run but you can catch the full interview with julian assange his lawyer but also exclusively on r.t.

tomorrow and that was r t correspondent sara firth want to thank you guys so much for watching going to do it for us here for the evening i'm christine. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like.