coming up on our team after a bruising confirmation hearing john brennan is officially sworn in to leave the cia but when it came time to take the oath of office he used a constitution draft that was missing the bill of rights that story straight ahead . in the u.s. loves to use drones overseas but more and more american police departments are turning to them back home now congress is demanding information on the domestic drone program at that issue coming up. plus you have the right to record police officers the new ruling says citizens can video police and use that footage in court we'll tell you what this means for citizen rights.

it's monday march eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . well after a contentious confirmation hearing john brennan is officially taking over as director of the cia he took over on friday brennan was sworn in by vice president joe biden with a few in attendance the media was not invited to attend the event and only a few pictures came out from the white house photographer but the secrecy of the ceremony is not what has critics reeling it's the version of the constitution brennan chose to be sworn in on instead of using a bible brennan placed his hand on in the original copy of the seventeen eighty seven draft constitution that even had george washington's handwriting on it when asked why this version of the constitution in particular was chosen a white house spokesperson said quote brennan had requested a document from the national archives that would symbolize the united states is a nation of laws and before he was sworn in director brennan told the president

that he made the request to the archives because he wanted to reaffirm his commitment to the rule of law as he took the oath of office as the director of the cia but here's the thing this version of the constitution does not include the bill of rights so the first amendment right to free speech the fourth amendment that protects against unreasonable search and seizure and the fourteenth amendment of due process clause is they were not actually under his hand as he said his oath and cia whistle whistle blower john kiriakou now serving a two year sentence in prison says that the symbolism here goes beyond the constitution brennan swore in on. with the likes of john brennan the director of the cia i think the president has made clear that he's very comfortable surrounding himself with people who are comfortable killing people and i think that's what the future holds of course director brennan is legally required to abide by the amend

amendments to the constitution as all other americans must but when both john brennan and the white house make a point of marking the symbolism of the constitution and the rule of law it's hard to ignore the other symbols this act in never only send out in the process. well human rights advocates across the nation are seeing signs of progress today when it comes to domestic drone use the house of representatives voted wednesday to require the defense department to disclose whether or not military drones are being used to spy on citizens on u.s. soil the measure was very deep into the long pro appropriations bill and it asks the newly elected defense secretary chuck hagel to open up about policies and procedures used to determine if the situation requires the use of or you avi joining me now to break all of this down in these latest developments and give us the big picture really editor in chief of reason dot com and reason t.v.

nick gillespie hey there nick so talk about these latest developments in this appropriations bill. well i you know i think the real problems with the room the system and the drone programs and surveillance programs in general americans that we don't have a clear legal framework for when the government is using instances in order to serve a healthy whole or to even go after them and then so that clarification really comes through at the highest levels and then starts getting worked out you know we're going to be we're kind of going to be screwed in all sorts ones so tell me why that drone drone bill if if it wanting to know what between congress why this is going on it turns out domestic why wasn't buried in them preparations fella not brought to fraud front of another bill perhaps. you know that's a good question and i don't really i don't have an answer for that but i mean one of the things is is that you know it's clear that the you know in general when

we're talking about using drones and or in the situations there is not been anything approaching a transparency or an open discussion of what's going on and so we're probably fullish to think that anything similar to that on domestic level is going to happen too and that it really takes you know kind of political theater in a lot of ways in order to work around the issue of the use of drones or more specifically because you know i think we're fixating too much on a particular type of technology because dreams seem kind of like something out of the jetsons future or whatever but in fact what we're talking about is the ability of the government. you know to surveil and to investigate and to check out what american citizens are up to or what people are overseas and sadly but somewhat predictably the obama administration in general as well as republicans in the house and democrats in the senate they're not interested in actually or grounding the

constitutional issues the legal issues and the civil liberties issues that are attending to all of these questions now. like i mentioned it was buried in the middle of an appropriations bill i have to ask you how likely is this bill to pass and how likely are we as american citizens not a part of the congress today to get this information out in the public well i you know i don't know how likely it is to pass i do know for sure though that the only way that this the only way that this information gets out there is by people actually picking up the mantle and trying to crowd source of things and calling the attention to it you know last week and i do think it's a step was certainly memorable and very telegenic but it's also worth remembering or most which was the filibuster led by rahm all about to forestall the brennan nomination confirmation rather and it was an incentive you know he knew that he was going to actually get away with holding up the nomination for a day or so but it calls attention to things and what we're seeing now more than

anything that you know that filibuster is an interesting kind of new media phenomenon took place largely in terms of in terms of there was be tweeted. stand with rand became a hashtag that was one of the most awkward high stakes around world most of the viewers on c.-span two were watching or watching online this is all part of a tectonic shift shift that includes things like wickedly and anonymous and whatnot that are going in digging through information that either is not particularly well acted shores kept from the people and bringing things that used to be areas of the for so that if we want more information about drones that drone policy if we want more understanding about the hardware as well as the lethal software if you are going to this we have to make it happen citizens in distributed manners where they go into bills and they bring things that you know have been tucked away like easter eggs right up to the front and center apocalypse now next that we know whether or

not this is going to apply to only what the government is doing or also what local all along. of course when authorities are doing with a strong signal that some of them are getting their hands on them so is it are we going to find out a wider scope of these drones. again you know i think it's up to us by that i mean there are. you know there are local police departments that are already using drones for various ways for various things and there are private industries you know that are that are built around the idea that drones are useful technology and that they can be used to counter counteract surveillance by the authorities of life and that's why i think it's really that we do look at it's technology of drones but that we actually possibly are pushing back on that because you know a drone is not so different than a kind of high powered surveillance camera or various types of listening devices or even thermal imaging devices that have been used to go after certain types of suspected drug dealers and what not and you know these have all been issues that

are you know end up in front of the supreme court and that you know there is an attempt to kind of simultaneously cloak these by burying them into appropriation bills or other types of legislation that doesn't really see the light of day but then also to focus on the technology as if that is somehow the issue drones are here drones are going to be here all you know throughout the future it's a technology like the telephone you know that's not going away it's more a question of how do we deal with it how do we put the restrictions on government so that their use of them is both limited and also incredibly transparent so that we don't find out five ten fifteen twenty years down the road that we're being surveilled in ways that we did not even know when this on the sly and there are a lot of benefits to technology but there's also a lot of questions as to how to regulate nick gillespie editor in chief of reason dot com and reason television thank you for that report. with the debate about

drone transparency well under way here in the united states it seems that the u.s. . an afghan drone strikes why you may ask well senator rand paul's filibuster last week showed that the public was in favor of clarifying drone strikes drone strikes at home as our last guest just mention but the air force doesn't think that the same standards apply abroad the u.s. . no longer provide information about air strikes carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles in afghanistan and a statement made by the u.s. central command the information was reportedly removed because it disproportionately focused on the use of weapons operated by remotely piloted aircraft so in other words the data they were gathering was paying too much attention on afghan drone strikes being carried out so they stopped reporting on him altogether now back in october air force chief started posting data on drone strikes in order to provide more details on the use of afghan drones in afghanistan

however that seems that the information flowing has finally stopped. now as citizens we trust police officers to work for our best interests but the public interest of the public by protecting our streets and in forcing our rules of law but that's not always the case police officers have their guns their tasers baton is right gears and dogs to protect them but the tools civilians have might be much more powerful than all of those now in the wake of a case where a photojournalist was arrested for taping police the u.s. justice department reaffirmed its ruling that says he was within his first fourth and fourteenth amendment rights to film the incident photo journalist many garcia was arrested in june of two thousand and eleven after filming police officers arresting two men in montgomery county maryland his memory was taken away and he was charged with disorderly conduct those charges were eventually dropped and mr garcia consequently sued the city for his arrest but this case goes beyond one

man's fight for reparation so here to explain the bigger implications of this case and what it means for you and i mr garcia's lawyer robert corner of ear who is a partner with davis right treatment l.l.p. and he joins me now thanks for having me so can you begin by breaking this case down for us what's the what's the controversy with it well the controversy is that you have a journalist filming police activity on a public street and gets arrested for it and as you say we do trust our police officers to protect us from from danger and in the vast majority of cases they do but in certain instances they either don't know or or are confused about the state of the law and this unfortunately is one of them where they get upset that they're being filmed either by a journalist or by a private citizen and then take action to stop that form either by simply stopping the incident from happening happening busting that person which is what happened in

this case and i understand that he was thirty he was thirty feet away from the police officers and then when they shined a spotlight on him he moved back to a. so it's not a question of whether or not he was interfering and this is happening on a public street and i correct with that's right and you know this was an experienced photojournalist someone who's operated in war zones and operates he has been a white house photographer for twenty years so he knows how to deal with situations of authority and not to get in the way and that's exactly what happened in this case he stayed a respectful distance he didn't interfere with the police activity when the spotlight was shined on him we moved even further away and when he was initially challenged by the police he simply identified himself as a member of the press open his hands to show that he had nothing threatening other than a camera and it would at that point he was arrested now one of the important things to note about this case is that mr garcia was fighting it both as a journalist as well as a citizen i want to read a quick quote from from their brief that was filed it says the first amendment

right to record police officers performing public there is extends to both the public and members of the media and the court should not make the distinction between the public's and the media's right to record here that was actually from the justice department so he's not only going to sign anything and he's not only fighting here as a journalist he's saying that as a citizen he should have been allowed to do this right so should there be a distinction really when it comes to reporting police officers between journalists and citizens no not at all i mean the first amendment belongs to all of us it protects private citizens and it protects members of the press from government action that restricts their freedom to speak or to recruit gather information that allows them to talk about possible public misuse of power and that's exactly what was happening here and courts around the country increasingly are dealing with situations like this there was another case up in boston involving a private citizen who filmed a police arrest was ultimately arrested himself for similar circumstances here and

the court went out of its way to say that private citizens are protected every bit as much as journalists and that the first amendment protects these kinds of activities and speaking about the fact that there are so many of these cases popping up we actually do have a clip that highlights a few of them if we could go ahead and play that. that. was. what it looked like to take pictures of the subway system. works. well i actually saw the picture but you may as well be just too large to see the first passes so obviously those are each individual circumstances and there's a lot of parts of that but the u.s. justice department was your case in particular reaffirmed that they a persistence has a right to film police officers so why does this keep coming up time and again i think part of it is as in your last story technology advancing faster than the law

you have now everyone carrying out their own personal recording device people with smart phones can record if they're still pictures or video and audio and as a result you have images like the ones we just saw showing up on you tube now i have to be fair i have to say i've also seen images of police behaving very respectfully and following what i believe are the appropriate constitutional guidelines but unfortunately you also see examples of where police are obviously upset that someone has the temerity to record the incident of public officials performing their duties in a public space and as a result they take some kind of action against that recording well within the day of these cameras can work to prove the police officers in a sense as much as they can work to prove possibly excessive force we only have about a minute left but i have to ask you what tips would you give to somebody to when they want to go and we're filming a police officer to make sure that they're not crossing any boundaries well i think

as mr garcia was acting in this case to make sure that you if you remember the press identify yourself as a member of the press do not interfere with police activity because if you do they're within their rights to prevent you from doing the. but if you're staying a respectful distance if you are exercising your rights and i think as courts and the justice department increasingly make clear those boundaries will be protected as we move forward and hopefully for a case successful that will make that more possible in the future all right robert corner vera partner with davis right trainmen l.l.p. thank you so much for joining us thank you now onto a story of. he is a student that was studying abroad now at northwestern in qatar that program then the software had was tipped off by some suspicious circumstances surrounding a local mall fire he actually went out and film a fire and then decided to go back while investigating the fire in may of two

thousand and twelve med was arrested by the local qatari police and held in custody for ten days after the scuffle he accused northwestern of abandoning him during his during his time of need he told r.t. the issue in my case was of a misunderstanding which took time to clarify since northwestern university in qatar failed to intervene the reactions of the qatari authorities were understandable and i was able to clarify after some struggle my situation so was hung out to dry by a northwestern university or is the story more complicated than that to talk about this i'm joined now by charles railway he's a student at northwestern who's been covering this story for the school newspaper hey there charles thank you so much for joining me first of all can you explain the story a little bit more. sure just to clarify. nothing abroad he's actually just a student at their campus. so i basically started writing that they want to write

about freedom of expression in general last november the government sent them the poets of life in prison and during an interview with a northwestern professor about freedom of expression we were talking about the students they supporting there and he mentioned the student last year had actually gone to jail for ten days and then before crossing the police. after some investigating my co-author and he was in doha on. the student and interviewed him about it now at the same time. having read your article about the situation there was a few suspicious details that were setting off alarm bells in my head i was wondering if you had noticed anything suspicious about that about this story. i mean you know what he said basically the first. week after he was jailed for ten days and when he got out thanked the university administration and basically asked. for help and

when he did that he was told no question university did not help or support one of them even said this was the main campus do have actually taken measures against. the northwestern there on of you basically. what he did was a formal act anywhere going behind it but in my story he said that there was no police theory and there was no clear indication what he was doing was criminal and . government illusion go. over well enough and actually now at the same time at the same time charles just to go over some of the things that i found in the report first that said that he had seen pictures online and so he said in court that he assumed that authorities were not there not only that but he went to police officer told him to stop he disobeyed it he also ran away from police officers and hid for

a time and then beyond that he signed a paper saying that he was guilty and also another point to bring up is that northwestern did respond they actually did send somebody out so it seems like nobody is completely innocent in this case just using your journalistic senses is that what you noticed as well. northwestern. or. zero zero point and he. says. it with no lawyer. or so a lot of them with sure. but it is true that you according to that. was are now beyond that i know that and the dean dean dennis he had also offered to. to testify at this this man's young man's case as

a character witness and that was turned down and also when they did send somebody out to the jail that the father excused the university and said we no longer need your help so just looking at some of these and also one other point that i do want to bring up is that he was in a. let me look for just a second he was in a freedom freedom of speech city now when young student goes to another six country they're expected to to abide by their rules so what experience. could have made this situation and different i mean it is it's called education actually it is what makes it. so in the fact of the matter is that he was outside of that education city when he was reporting on this and i write yeah he was and it wasn't.

so and so at the end of the day he was not doing the research report for the the state university. ok all right great so finally i had just have to ask you how would you have liked to see or how does he described feel like to see northwestern have acted differently. i think it was. more just in this area because it is a girl. and you know it's kind of weird or most new you read a little over. or over you or other places and you basically said. you know if you use their connections are of. better charles roll a student with northwestern university thank you for bringing us that story and keep us updated as it unfolds sure thank you very much well it's

a situation that nobody wants to go through identity theft some fifteen million identities are stolen a chair resulting in fifty billion dollars in losses annually for many and happens when their wallet is stolen once missing you tend to cancel your credit cars and alert the department of motor vehicles but if you think the damage stops there you're wrong it turns out that the data brokers that you trust to protect your identity are actually turning around and selling your information to others companies like experian and equifax are just a few of the guilty parties but it doesn't end there are to correspondent margaret howell investigates. who is searching for your personal information and what exactly are they doing with it and industry and data brokers is gathering your personal information this very minute scooping it up for pure profit they start with names and addresses and go after hot or commodities demographics like your age and your race the consumer data industry is complex most people don't know these

data companies exist or that their information is being traded on the open market so who's selling your information well the major credit bureaus are for one credit reporting bureaus experian for example has an entire marketing division that sells lists and names that information it collects from consumers what are they selling personal information like whether you're expecting a baby or where you like to vacation and companies aren't the only ones major universities will also sell information they've collected from their students. at the very least the sale of this information could lead to harassment from advertisers you don't want at the post a possible identity theft issue and identity theft is no joke to relax here's the day. that it was going to turn into a three year i didn't need a nightmare with this many as eleven point six million victims of identity theft

every three seconds around the globe according to life log the marketplace for your data contributes to the problem there are five major pieces of information identity thieves go after when trying to steal someone's livelihood where you were born your mother's maiden name driver's license number date of birth your social security number the major problem these are routinely asked questions from banks schools hospitals and more. so how can you avoid identity theft the f.t.c. gives fraud alert numbers to three major credit bureaus remember these are the same credit bureaus selling your information other than that all you can do is monitor your channels. well regulators in congress are taking a closer look at the data brokers there are currently no laws that stop the sale of your information. before you give out your information next time ask why if it's so

valuable shouldn't they pay you for it in washington d.c. margaret howell r.t. the drive by shooting in front of the low income housing complex resulted in eleven injuries in washington d.c. that happened around two ten this morning the washington d.c. police department released the surveillance video that you are looking at here today all in the hopes of finding the two cars that drove by a crowd of people and rained gunfire upon them victims were mostly shot in the legs and arms or were grazed by bullets the youngest victim was seventeen years old one person was shot in the back and he is in serious condition right now though he is expected to survive police are still searching for a motive as to why this happened now you can see that the location of the shooting is a mere walk away from the u.s. capitol building this shooting occurred in our nation's capital right near the most iconic building of our government it only appears in the local sections of the

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any. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are relieved a. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down to the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight.