just over a week after aaron swartz took his own life the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks reveals it had ties to the computer prodigy was this part of the reason for swartz his harsh prosecution will discuss we will close the guantanamo bay detention camp to determine how to deal with those who've been held there it was one of the strongest pledges candidate obama made before his first term four years to the day after making that promise again as president the guantanamo bay detention facility remains open will ask why with the former get no official. party exclusive web producer andrew blake travels all the way to new zealand to catch up with megaupload founder kim dotcom his newest internet ventures and the latest on his

extradition case coming up. it's tuesday january twenty second to five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out and you are watching our team. well beginning this hour of news out of texas just hours ago shots rang out on the campus of lone star college near houston early reports indicate the shooting occurred between two students in the school's academic building now three people have been injured and a fourth is reported to have suffered a heart attack according to the federal law enforcement one of them is now listed in critical condition a lone star college has released a statement online lone star college confirms that the shooting was the result of an argument between two individuals the statement also confirms that three were wounded the school wrote quote the danger has been mitigated and the situation

there is now under control so long as our college campus along with nearby public schools were placed on lockdown mode police have one suspect a person of interest in custody but there are reports that a second gunman is on the loose although not believed to be on school grounds we're going to keep you posted on this story and bring you the latest as it continues to develop. well there are questions now being raised following the death of internet activist and read at reddit co-founder aaron swartz the twenty six year old young man was found dead from an apparent suicide in his new york apartment just over a week ago swartz was the target of an investigation by the u.s. attorney's office in massachusetts accused of breaking and entering into an mit storage closet and illegally downloading millions of academic articles and then making them public those are from j. store well it turns out among his many endeavors he may have also been a source to wiki leaks i'll just show you some tweets put out by wiki leaks they

say due to the investigation into the secret service involvement with the air and with aaron swartz we have decided to disclose disclose the following facts number one aaron swartz assisted wiki leaks and were to aaron swartz was in communication with co-founder julian a son during two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven and number three we have a strong reason to believe but cannot prove that aaron swartz was a wiki leaks source. hashtags aaron swartz now so far where he lives is not saying more than that other than to confirm that those tweets were indeed authentic this is a strange development in this case especially since wiki leaks almost never reveals anything about sources or potential sources the information is prompting questions about the extremely aggressive pursuit of sorts of by the u.s. attorney's office the u.s. secret service and was involved in the investigation and we do imagine a much more will be revealed about aaron's role and relationship with wiki leaks in the coming days so i want to stay on this topic of aaron swartz for a little longer and talk more one more broadly about the cause it near and dear to

his heart internet freedom to discuss i had our two web producer andrew blakers earlier in the studio now andrew just returned from new zealand where he was meeting with internet entrepreneur and creator of mega upload that's kim dot com they had a one on one sit down conversation and andrew was able to find more out about his perspective about internet freedom in the us as well as privacy and so much more now he started off first just by reminding us of the back story of kim dotcom. conduct of actually goes back quite a ways he's been involved in computers in the tech industry for around a decade now but exactly one year ago kim's website megaupload dot com was shut down by the f.b.i. and it was a web site with millions of users one point it was in the top five most visited websites in the entire country and web site where people can take a large files upload them and send them to friends because you can't really do that over e-mail plus you would pay money to have a very very strong account so. upload

a few years ago and then last year the f.b.i. coordinator with new zealand authorities his home in new zealand and up arrested him put him behind bars for his its assets and shut down his son. career on hold for his whole life on hold he's looking now if he's x. rated the u.s. and he's convicted here he could spend decades in prison so it's been one year since that whole fiasco one under way and i sat down with him and talked about what's happening to your son so he is in new zealand now and i know that you sort of had a visit just and you just got back and you had the opportunity to talk to him to sit down with him one on one and it turns out he had heard of aaron swartz and knew what had happened talk a little bit about this exchange and how this came up. as you know was it was a frequent guest on our team was on at least a dozen times over the last year and he was on one year ago when maybe upload was shut down but yet he was on to talk about it and you know came recalled and was very grateful that he had you know such a such

a genuine caring person who was so motivated by you know having an open internet that he was advocating for the release of megaupload is you know talking about injustices there were a place here so you know kim in and aaron of course are both in the same industry but you know kim is more of an ounce entrepreneur and now he's advocating for online freedoms but you know at one point he made his whole fortune off of being a businessman he was you know comparing himself with there and a little bit at least talking about what they were both striving for in terms of creating an open internet for yeah let's hear what he had to say. but let me be clear i'm a businessman ok i started mega upload as a business to make money and i wanted to list the company and printer alright i'm not an schwab's and schwartz is my hero he was selfless he is completely the opposite of me but i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business

world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that. it's a really good dot com just kind of laying it out there being very honest about the difference you know he was in it to make money and he really sees aaron swartz as somebody who was you know did this because it's what he believed in and of course another thing that we had aaron to talk about a lot was some of the cyber security legislation so by the stop by a lot of online piracy act people on the protect ip act and it's going to be really interesting to talk to watch what happens with these pieces of legislation which didn't pass the first time around but what's going to come up the next time around with this new congress we're able to talk to him about that as well yeah i mean we talked for half an hour about a lot of different if you talk about so that we talked about and we talked about mega upload we talked about the new project mego which was just launched over the weekend and you know kim was kind of all over the place and he talked about you know he did start off as a business man but what happened was after this raid last year he found out that

his e-mails his correspondence phone calls were all being being wiretapped by different intelligence organizations and although you know he's always been involved in the internet industry only in the past year he really started concentrating about privacy and not piracy as the u.s. government says that that's his his big business so his new project mega is a way for people to share files on line you know once again upload files into someone else but everything is incredibly very very strongly encrypted so that you know the watching eyes of big brother you know whatever government whatever i.s.p. you're send your data through can't necessarily see what. it is you want to share with other people and so jim was talking about you know once i just wanted to make some things that people be able to share files i wanted to be an innovator i wanted to find a way that would be able to get one thing from one place to another easily but over the last year over everything that's happened he's realized that it's not as easy as just doing that you need to actually find a way to do that securely and to protect yourself because you never know who's

watching what you're doing and i think we have another part of that interview that we can play. the white house was supporting sopa and only when the masses came together and aaron schwartz i mean he stopped sopa with his efforts he stopped soap and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. cost behind going off to young like that in the fashion they did it's political and are almost out of time i want to switch gears really quick kim dotcom and anonymous a totally different topic here in new anonymous the hacktivist group supported kim dotcom for a while they're kind of mounted in these days what's going on a few years ago before megaupload was ever shut down there was a whole other case about something called ninja video is another site where people were able to share files which may or may not have been illegal copyright infringement and that the f.b.i.

shut down into video and as we found out of the last couple of months they had was into videos operating through mega upload and so a lot of a lot of hackers have to decide if you want to call people who are loosely with anonymous have called into question conduct comes affiliation with the f.b.i. so here's a guy who now is you know adamantly opposed to this whole witch hunt over internet activists that's being launched by the obama administration but just a few years ago he was cooperating with the f.b.i. so anonymous is now calling for a boycott not this conference boycott of mega but you know tim was saying that he didn't do anything wrong he was operating his business and when the federal government came to him and asked him to comply with with the search warrant he always assisted the government he was always a good corporate citizen and it just came to bite him in the ass eventually i think the word a snitch is now being is a lot of questions raise a lot of really important things to keep our eyes on here are two web producer answers like thanks so much. it was four years ago today that president obama made this promise to the nation we will close the guantanamo bay detention of jam and

determine how to deal with those who've been killed there. well since that time president obama not only only has not closed guantanamo bay he has twice to sign legislation he first promised to veto that makes it more difficult now for him to close gitmo anytime in the future the national defense authorization act is the pentagon's spending bill but it also includes a section that restricts the executive branch's ability to transfer detainees out as outlined in section ten twenty eight basically the president signed a bill that limits his own authority to carry out a promise he made to the american people there are also sections ten twenty one and ten twenty two from the twenty twelve version of m.d.a. which allow for indefinite detention of prisoners including those who have never even been charged now as far as one hanum of itself there are some detainees who are believed to be al qaeda fighters about eight percent of them the other ninety two percent are not according to the u.s. government eighty six people there have been cleared for release and yet they

remain behind bars at guantanamo bay these statistics are part of the reason several hundred people showed up to protest earlier this month on the eleventh anniversary of kuantan i'm ok i was there and i spoke to several people and they said this is an issue that really does affect every single american. it's international law it's us saw that we don't torture but actually many of us are it makes us less safe when we mistreat people and torture them some military people have said this is a great recruiting tool for al qaeda look what they're doing to our muslim brothers in guantanamo and really hear it suits his supposed to be about human rights and justice and freedom and this is not in line with those values so let's talk about this anniversary four years to the day of a promise made that so far has been unfulfilled and joining me now to discuss has been our mill betsey johnson a regional director for the muslim legal fund of america hey there in our thanks so much for being on the show why do you think of course why do you think four years

later get mo is still open and really we haven't heard anything about it from the president lately nothing in his inaugural address or in the campaign you know leading up to the twenty twelve vote why. you know i don't have a definite answer to that question personally i believe it is a way for the u.s. military the u.s. government to seek information and you know some of the sticks says the six you talked about earlier i'm kind of show that several of the detainees who are held the government knowingly knows that they are completely innocent so they haven't been charged of a crime they haven't been you know put on trial we just have them detained to seek information one of the detainees you know is like an elegy cameraman who we detained for you know several years just merely get information on arab news networks so i think partly kind of get more information we've already sold to the

american public about it is you know for our national security and you know that we have terrorists you know so it's at this point it's really difficult to kind of decipher. you know what it is we're doing there but i definitely think getting information is probably one of the top priorities right now certainly it's a message an illustration in our that has stuck the vast majority of american people if you ask them who is that guantanamo bay they think these are the worst offenders the most dangerous al qaeda terrorist i know you read an article about this i that i read on policy mike and you talked about some of these statistics ninety two percent of prisoners are actually not al qaeda fire fighters and eighty six for them have been have been cleared for release talk about these statistics and you know how they play a role in the public discourse surrounding went on a mobile bay. you know it's really sad because united states our judicial system is supposed to be you know one of the best in the world we should be the example for

all other countries and then we have this facility that completely undermines the very foundations of this country some of those statistics that you just read you know is a major example of violations of not only human rights geneva convention laws so you know i feel like they needed to you know the u.s. government we needed to kind of express something to the public so that they are you know not only support it but approve of these types of you know cases but at the same time. i feel like the more people in the you know the more the american public hears about it the more it's publicized they'll start to realize like wait no you know how come some people have been detained for ten years or more without even one charge being held against them without a trial violations of you know us stacia tory law so this isn't something we can go around and say you know well it may be you know this doesn't apply maybe these are laws that you know should apply and i definitely think it's something important why

should a guantanamo bay be closed. well for me i think the major reason it should be close is because i feel like. our national security. you know several u.s. officials military seniors have come out and said that we just got the wrong wrong people we just detain the wrong people so you're talking about you know trying to capture al qaeda fighters to try to you know expand u.s. security to secure you know to just make sure that the american public is safe but then when you're detaining individuals who haven't committed a crime farmers and taxi drivers and really poor individual some who have been sold by warlords to the government for you know thousands of dollars you have to think about how angry that makes you know people from you know the countries these

detainees are coming from and if anything it only kind of increases the threat towards the united states because people are angry at you know the torture and the things that's going on in the detention facility so i think a matter of security is one of the most important reasons why we should close it and be on the fact that ultimately the majority of the detained there haven't been accused of a crime so they shouldn't even be there to begin with you know we talked about this on our earlier program a similar discussion we sort of had more of a debate about and i do want to play something for you that one of my guests said and then get you to respond this is neil mccabe a senior writer with human events the alternative really to guantanamo bay is sort of this drone war because the president doesn't want to put anyone else in get mo rather than taking you off the battlefield he'll just attack you with a drone as you're having dinner with your family so i think if the choice is between drones and get mo maybe maybe get most prefer able. when i what do you say

to that well why does there have to be a choice you know these drones that he's talking about are responsible for killing a lot of innocent individuals children who are just out playing and you know so i definitely don't think it needs to be a comparison in which one is better we need to achieve kind of a level of security for this nation one that is justified so i don't kind of see why you have to compare one or the other should we have this should we have that we shouldn't have either you know if you're asking me that's my opinion. ultimately the people who are. are you know according to the constitutional center for rights that they are not you know al qaeda fighters they are not terrorists they are not threatening our nation so that on the one hand one talking about should be closed and then these drones are haven't you know really been you know accurate and kind of achieving eliminating terrorists and

whatnot so real quick i don't think we're almost out of time i just want to ask you because i know it was sort of the focus of your your article that you wrote was connecting the dots between one ton of obey and the national defense authorization act and da especially in its most recent form really quick i mean are just talk a little bit about that connection and why you think is going to make it more difficult for guantanamo to be closed well the president promised president obama promised that he would close guantanamo bay but then he turns around and signs an act that prohibits his authority from transferring detainees from guantanamo bay to different countries so essentially he makes it impossible for him to close guantanamo bay because he cannot transfer the detainees so the fact that he signed this having promised to close that kind of undermines his promise because he knows as a section in the end

a prohibits the transfer. of. detainees to a foreign country so it kind of undermines the promise he made and it's almost kind of shows that it was an authentic promise i guess you can say so that's kind of where i draw the connection ultimately the signing of this bill makes it impossible to close guantanamo bay all right men are male but if you john the l a regional director for the muslim legal fund of america thanks for joining us this afternoon thank you for having me. and we told you about clothing that obscures you from drone surveillance technology now to top it off there are eyeglasses that thwart facial recognition technology that's why these glasses make it difficult for the many cameras that employ facial recognition technology to ever recognize you those lights you see on the glasses are generally only visible to cameras and confuse facial recognition systems just to refresh your memory of facial recognition technology can identify a person using an image or video and is employed by many security systems and even

facebook to determine who you are so could these glasses distract from the other eye where in the development that's sure to make a splash well google's augmented reality glasses are essentially a full blown computer that you wear over your eyes with a screen on the lenses that much information right in your face could create privacy concerns but the product is still being developed so will it be a duel between the glasses they give you the power to surveil and those that undermine manpower we're going to keep you posted. still ahead here on r t books aren't the only thing library go and go words are likely to find in newark new jersey the public is also displaying some risque art that deals with sex and slavery ahead we'll tell you about this hold a reception the drawing is getting. let

me let me we're going to let me ask you a question. working its way around in the bank we have our knives out for. the previous this time to spend staying there again hearing the story we're being racist talk about surveillance me. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that the americans call. a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just

a guy who cares an awful lot of my country music star. you know what kind of terrorist cells but i don't want to listen to feature isn't he on the liberal democrats. to secure the border if. it's going to support you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that's those of sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm not me martin and we're going to break that. now to a library in newark new jersey more people are looking more at the walls lately and they aren't books artist kara walker has often stirred the pot with her frank depictions of race violence and desire throughout history walker calls this work

the moral arc of history ideally bends toward justice but just as soon as not curves back around towards barbarism sadism and unrestrained chaos she says the twenty's and painting conjures up the horrors of the reconstruction and jim crow historical periods you can see there the klu klux klan in the background but it's what's in the foreground that's creating the controversy if you look closely you can see a white man forcing a black woman to perform oral sex on him it is this aspect of the r. word that generated controversy when the work was hung up at the newark public library back in november but the engine was on loan from a private collection less than a week later some of the employees from the library requested that the image be covered is provocative images hidden by a cloth walker an african-american herself has faced outrage in the past from the black community for her quote demeaning representation of african-americans in history this time it seems was no different walker responded to the newark

library's staff's concerns she said i'm sorry that the staff is so put off by the work that they feel the need to prevent others from seeing it and making their own call to look or look away i don't advocate any kind of censorship a promise of any artwork is that it can hold us viewer and maker in a conflicted or contestable space without real world injury or loss that was kara walker now months later the cloth is gone and the artwork is back on display at the new work public library so will it cause library goers to think more about the themes walker depicts interracial violence gender and an american legacy often obscured by patriotism or will they look away in discomfort either way walker's work has fulfilled a primary function. art and people talking. well if you turn on the television you'll hear about all the t.v. shows and movies that have been nominated for awards hollywood is after all smack in the middle of awards season but the hottest red carpet may not be in southern

california pornography fans from around the world have had their eyes on las vegas for the a.v.n. or adult video network awards. shows us now by they call it the oscars of porn. designer gowns flashy jewelry and exotic body art this is not your me through award show arrival we can pretty much just do whatever we want to take what pants off who knows. i'm on the red carpet at the thirtieth annual a.b.n. awards here in las vegas nevada this event is considered to be the oscars of the porn industry the most popular names in or are here to strut their stuff and to celebrate another year of hard work who's jesse jane and a secure celebrated some career highlights tonight i'm accepted and in the hall of fame and when i started that was my goal i am not only hosting the awards this year i'm nominated for eighteen different categories avi and was hoping to get mitt

romney to show up i'd like to extend a personal invitation to whoever loses the election to come co-host the a.v.n. awards perhaps the most coveted job in the entire universe in the end the presidential runner up was a no show still politics were on the mind of some porn stars performers took advantage of their time in the limelight tatic it against new called requirements in los angeles it's about removing our liberties and that is about our constitution and you know we overturn the long we're going to stop it from being executed politics aside the weekend of flesh and sin is becoming a counterculture phenomenon i'm just a southern christian do what i like to do not having sex and i think i do that a good job based on the world what press coverage and consistent fan base this porn party has a long life ahead in las vegas ramon the window r.t. . well breaking the set is coming up in thirty minutes here on r t let's check in

with abby martin to see what is on the agenda today hey there abbi how are you what's going on i'm great still coming off my inauguration a hangover a really intense day yesterday so we actually got a chance to sit down with reverend jesse jackson a close friend of dr king to talk about the significance of how you know the fiftieth anniversary of martin luther king's famous i have a dream speech on washington one hundred fiftieth anniversary since the emancipation proclamation we're talking about all that and more if obama really is living up to the legacy that dr king set forward in that speech we're also going to be talking to david seaman a former congressional candidate about why it was so tough to run how the system blocks out third party voices really campaign finance reform also interesting yesterday was the third anniversary of citizens united and we saw a massive corporate backing of the inauguration and the ball going to talk about all that how it ties into the campaigns how it ties into just shutting out the little guy from the discussion from the democracy also we highlight in the fiasco

for the whole headline that he made for kind of spitting and to obama rant on stage when he was headlining one of the events the inauguration ball and also call out one of my favorite conservative talk pundits and coulter for whan dish comments and surprising just the latest in a long slew of comments will will all stay tuned for all that and more all right abbi that is i was shocking and polls are not going to shocking wow tell you what guys i say right next to abby and she is constantly working her butt off always to put a good show on for you guys to stay to be on. before we go i want to bring you another quick update to the events in houston texas authorities have now released information regarding the incident according to the police the incident was not one involving a single shooter but an altercation between two individuals on campus caught in the crossfire and wounded in the shooting was a maintenance man employed by the university authorities also confirm.