the heart is moscow. the search is on for a new head of the f.b.i. of the many candidates one of them has gone to know the cia's john kiriakou and cam dot com as legal targets take a look at the history they share. and detainees at guantanamo bay continue their hunger strike and as a stretches into day fifty six how exactly did they get and for the detainees and what exactly is doing to their health cards he will explore more about this deteriorating situation. plus three d. printers may be considered the future of manufacturing but right now it appears they've gone mainstream more on this tech development coming up. it's tuesday april second eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. begin today taking

a look at what could be the next head of the f.b.i. f.b.i. director robert mueller is on his way out and throughout his twelve year tenure he transformed the organization from a crime fighting agency to a terrorism fighting agency now the obama administration is searching for someone to fill his shoes here are a few of the names that are circulating over the weekend the washington post reported that the next f.b.i. director could be a woman lisa monaco had a senior post at the justice department before becoming president obama's top counterterrorism adviser if nominated monaco could be the first woman to head the f.b.i. . another thing about their merit garland he is the chief judge for the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. d.c. circuit and another name that may be more controversial neal macbride he was the deputy attorney general in the bush administration he is also the man that prosecuted former cia official john kiriakou and internet entrepreneur cam dot com

and these are both cases we've focused on here at r.t. so we want to take a close look at the possible candidates record to discuss i was joined earlier by our t.v. producer adriano cerro and our producer and you're blake we started by looking at least on monaco and her record when it comes to government whistle blowers. really interesting that you bring this up was. primarily because back in two thousand and eleven when she was going through a round of senate confirmation hearings to hold the post that she currently holds now and she is the national security director at the department of justice and essentially what she was talking about there was she was agreeing and agreeing with the aggressive approach is that this administration has had with people that have disseminated information that was deemed confidential so in other words using the example of the obama destruction prosecuting seven people seven under the espionage act as a plus as something that should be noted and should be noteworthy in celebrated it

and moving forward in order to be able to really deal with the dissemination of confidential information right and as we know the obama administration is credited or i don't know president you know what i did exactly i security the most people that and he more people than any other administration absolutely under the espionage that i or that it would it would have been three yeah it's actually more than double the people ever prosecuted in the espionage act since nine hundred seventeen combined double the obama administration has already reached the pinnacle and then some and many people say that this is not fair that this is clearly prosecuted. serial overreach and make bride another candidate there use the espionage act to go after john kiriakou also to go after cam dot com both of them have been on the show on our team and we had a chance to interview them both let's take a listen to what they had to say the state attorney that is in charge of this case has been joe biden's personal counsel while you was

a senator right the government is quite exposed here because they really went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer who said george it was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain. so john kiriakou there one of the seven prosecuted under the espionage act but bryant was the prosecutor in this case and what should we know about mcbride the record and should the public be concerned that he could be the next head of the f.b.i. in my opinion the only bribes record with the department of justice is so significant because in itself this is a fellow i don't know the name of many federal prosecutors i couldn't just start running off district attorney's names to you however when i saw the neil mcbride was being considered as a potential replacement to robert mueller is the head of the f.b.i.

it amusing immediately raised a red flag because i knew this name right off the bat i knew this is a guy who has been in charge of at least three very very significant cases during the obama administration so mcbride was appointed by president obama in late two thousand and nine cents and these three cases in particular i think his actions show just how serious this guy is about going after anyone said he went after john kiriakou a cia agent in charge him under the espionage act john kiriakou is the only cia member to ever be imprisoned for the cia's torture program because he blew the whistle on the torture program mcbride is also gone after kim dotcom a german national living in new zealand who operates a file sharing website. i'm not sure how the u.s. government can go and extradite a foreign citizen over copyright laws in fact they can't so we actually could do there are these records here and charges on top of them additionally mcbride is also in charge of the wiki leaks grand jury is the secretive panel that's going to investigate or has been investigating the whistleblower website since at least two

thousand and ten they've subpoenaed a number a number of activists a number of people associated with wiki leaks even loosely and they are going to try to eventually extradite julian assange to the u.s. years so we're talking about a guy who says he went after a cia whistleblower who went after a foreign publisher anyone after a internet entrepreneur who is really serious it actually seems like a natural progression that this would be the guy that the f.b.i. wants in charge because he's very adamant about enforcing the law by all means necessary would seem right and they're looking for somebody to fill mueller shoes who had the f.b.i. for twelve years and his record also raises eyebrows because he's kind of credited for transforming the f.b.i. from more of a domestic agency crime fighting organization here in the last to a more expansive international organization to fight terrorism but in doing that some say that he's taken it too far that he's expanded surveillance powers that he's violated civil liberties to critics say that andreotta i think i mean in terms

of what he's since he's been in office which is not in office and since he's been in his position was inside two thousand and one we've seen the world change so we've seen. you know nine eleven happened then and terrorism in the war on terror we've seen all these things progress since then and essentially the the things that we would have deemed you know at an insurgency in our private our privacy that sort of thing has now become commonplace so slowly but surely all of these things to seep into the consciousness and it just become part of who we are part of the culture and not a lot of people are really speaking out against that so what we've seen. here with mueller is just one of those the same thing but natural progression that keeps on going is the kind of the oppression that you see in most major government organizations look at the n.s.a. they are now in charge of wiretapping and spying potentially millions of americans look at the cia who is it was an agency originally designed to collect intelligence

that's why it's the central intelligence agency the cia main task now is executing civilians with giant flying robots in pakistan when he does the main thing i would say but what is amazing but it is you know do you know yes that it wouldn't be the main fair enough fair enough but there's one thing that a change will go back to nine eleven and go up the last the last decade plus and you'll see that a lot easier just you have taken on a role that you wouldn't have expected them to do you know whether it's a sixty's seventy's eighty's or ninety's they're all becoming way more aggressive at least because they're critics aggressive and expansive so that's really a trend that we're seeing we see that is continuing growing looks like this is something that happened in front of happened under mueller and these are the changes that they want to keep in place and they want to kind of keep that culture that has been created at the f.b.i. that they want to keep a goal and i guess what we ate away to and there i mean i'm sure there is someone from the f.b.i. would be here to say you know if it ain't broke. appreciate you both coming on the

show very interesting that was our two producer adriano sero and r.c. web producer andrew blake. that one time of day where for fifty six days dozens of detainees have been on a hunger strike lawyers for the prisoners say the health of the strikers is getting worse with each day that passes without eating despite the deteriorating health lawmakers say the inmates are more determined than ever to continue the strike even if that means dying now military military officials say they have resorted to force feeding detainees through feeding tubes earlier i was joined by jason leopold lead investigator for truthout and i asked him what do we know about the prisoners health conditions today. well what we know is is what is coming from their attorneys that the their health is rapidly deteriorating their sugar levels are or very low some of them are trying to or are taking spoonfuls of honey to keep their sugar levels up but the. secrecy surrounding everything

pertaining to guantanamo continues so it's very difficult to get a real accurate picture from certainly from the government about what is happening i mean there is a clear dispute between what the government says is happening and what the prisoners are telling their attorneys that pertains to health it also pertains to the number of prisoners that are actually engaged in the hunger strike now in order to starve yourself for so long you have to be pretty desperate what do we know jason about how we got to this point to this point that the prisoners are willing to starve themselves to death literally. well it's the only form of protest that these prisoners have and it's the one that is most effective back in two thousand and five there was another large protest at guantanamo that actually involved i'm

not mistaken about two hundred prisoners or at least more than one hundred at the time. and the prison was holding more than four hundred fifty and what they were protesting at that time were certainly the conditions of their confinement. as well as the indefinite detention and they wanted to bring the prison into compliance with the geneva conventions and eventually the defense department agreed although they later renamed on that it's since been brought into compliance with the geneva and in two thousand and six and this is what i had reported on monday is there was another hunger strike and that hunger strike was in may of two thousand and six and that resulted. or that was launched after some prisoners were found unconscious during the one guards were walking through cell blocks and the commander at the time had stated that the prisoners who were found unconscious took an overdose or tried to overdose on prescription medications some who weren't

even prescribed prescription medication he ordered a shakedown of the cells and. a search of all of their belongings including their qur'an and so after the again in may two thousand and six their crimes were searched that lead to a riot and then a hunger strike at the time and that's exactly what we're seeing now the catalyst behind this hunger strike is again the search of the qur'an for what kuantan m o officials in the pentagon say is they're looking for contraband but they had not had their. qur'an searched for a least according to the attorneys for about seven years. so it's a very very sensitive issue yeah very sensitive issue but with each day but if i can just add that now it's actually gone beyond just the crohn's now it's a matter of protesting the fact that they're being held indefinitely with no sign

of ever being released now you know we're seeing they're held in syria they're being force fed through tubes we hear at this point and i think we even have some video of that. what happens that jason and one of these detainees detainees dion's as a result of this they can't make the u.s. look very good what will the consequences be if that happens i think we're actually close to that point liz said that the fact that their health is deteriorating you know one of the side effects from for speeding for speeding is pneumonia because of fluid build up in the lungs and the last prisoner who died of guantanamo last september his name was odd non latif who had been cleared for release of frequent hunger strike or he was force fed he developed acute pneumonia. i'm not trying to make any connection there to the fact that that he was force fed but it's

a real possibility at this point in fact one of the attorneys has said that his client a kuwaiti name for use alconbury told him that at least one prisoner he knows of has already come attempted suicide but again the pentagon will not respond to any allegations pertaining to specific prisoners so this is already at the stage where it's an international not only an international story but a public relations disaster for the government. jason leopold lead investigative reporter truth out. still out here on r t of the new wave of manufacturing maybe three d. printing these machines have even entered the mainstream a look at printing the future when we return. the same story doesn't make it news new song no poppy says the new tough question.

well maybe the future of manufacturing three d. printing allows consumers to make anything they want from jewelry to shoes to guns it once seemed like futuristic technology that those on the fringe paid attention to but now it looks like three d. printing has gone mainstream parties marina poor and i has more. from the state of

the union. we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything to a store in soho new york. three d. printing technology has officially gone mainstream the demand is much greater than our supply right now and we're actually ramping up and expanding rapidly to. this three d. printing company maker bot opened its first retail store last year it is selling its newly released replicator to desktop for just under twenty two hundred dollars using a plastic material the machine deposits ultra thin layers to form any object that can be molded in software welcome to the world of independent manufacturing so this stretch bracelet took about sixteen minutes to make but other objects that are like this cupcake box took about fifteen hours of printing now while the time

a very anyone with a three d. printer can essentially make anything that they want at our web site is a repository for. more than forty thousand items. and one of our terms of service. that is deemed a weapon. this is where twenty five year old cody wilson enters the picture a group of friends and i started a project. the texas law student has already printed a thirty round magazine and lower receiver that houses the bolt for an ar fifteen and he's reportedly working on completing a rifle with a three d. printer his blueprints for guns and gun parts are distributed for free on his website showing people. right now. right now the self

described. market advocates has thrown a major wrench into america's gun control debate as a national conversation it was a debate that started in december after twenty children and six adults were shot dead at a connecticut elementary school overwhelming majorities of americans americans who believe in the second amendment have come together around common sense reform by background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun meanwhile just last month wilson became a federally licensed gun manufacturer and dealer there bypassing the debate there rendering the debate irrelevant whatever laws make about of this discussion this sort of ability to manufacture objects and putting a firearms on a localized centralized basis means the law really won't matter the law may say that something is illegal but if you can turn to a device that's on your desktop and manufacture that at will with nobody knowing that you've done so then the law doesn't matter at all with

a reported three hundred million guns in circulation the u.s. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and the second highest rate of deaths by firearms among industrialized nations. and just as lawmakers are finalizing new legislation that would tighten the nation's all too easy access to firearms. experts claim that technology will ultimately outpace but their meager efforts at gun control. r.t.e. new york. the trans-pacific partnership is a multinational trade agreement that has some watchdogs very concerned and that's because negotiations have remained mostly a secret this despite the talks having major implications on everything from freedom of speech to intellectual property laws one concern is that the t.v. p.c. could have some role similar to the controversial sopa legislation if you can recall internet advocates launched a campaign to oppose the bill did it concerns

a violated online privacy artie's margaret howell has more. did you know that your rights could be under fire with new regulation coming out of the trans-pacific partnership agreement for those of us who may not have known the tepee is a free trade agreement that's been in the goshi a chansons around two thousand and five now these eleven countries involved could potentially turn into a single market which means a monopoly on how business is conducted and what rules apply particularly to the internet now one topic the tepee peace negotiation currently intellectual property rights which could affect the digital world across the board this negotiation would create rules that give media companies new power over the internet the t.t.p. could make internet service providers act as a copyright cop policing what information you share but the concern is that the p.p. may ratchet up ip enforcement so much which means digital rights here at home just may change this and for some it would favor special interest copyright lobbies not

the individual it would lock out ninety p.p. countries into a copyright treaty that may vary greatly from the country's own ip rules this means that treaty rules could trump and individuals and individual countries already existing intellectual property laws for example something that may not be criminal under the us current laws may become a criminal act under c.p.p. new regulations t p p would change how i p infringement is defined by defining infringement so strictly you may be locked out of the internet for violating these rules or or her something else one of these rules mean to you look at me to hire criminal and civil penalties for sharing online content online content that is now being shared without violating any regulation this can also mean that the extreme trade agreement could allow media conglomerates the power to fine you for the use of the internet or terminate your access to the internet altogether will the us be

pressured into accepting these newer. the link text exposed by the electronic frontier foundation an organization speaking out against these secret talks says that it does reflect the u.s. policy is in fact opposed to these measures however the u.s. may in fact be goaded into tacitly accepting them these new regulations are potentially dangerous for internet users because i pin force machain just the way that information to share it now there is also the issue that p.p. countries may quote trade their way into the sovereign ability to make stiffer regulations in the future on their terms according to the. by leaving the rest of society out of these negotiations altogether they ups to us sensibly that tell everyone shares information the t.p. is acting on a sovereignty we may be forced to recognize just how these new rules of fact the u.s. citizens here and how we operate in the digital realm may be unclear if the obama

administration accepts the terms of the t p p our rights may change when it comes to the dissemination of information one thing is clear though right seem to favor giant corporations doing business i guess it's up to corporations by the corporations and for the corporations and washington margaret how old are today. one u.s. town is taking the gun control debate to a whole new level the town of nelson georgia is home to nine hundred thirteen people now every one of its residents is required to own a gun and ammunition in their homes the city council of five voted unanimously in favor of the measure yesterday seemed like a bold move in the wake of the recent push to control firearms in the united states turns out most people there already have a gun in their home and a crime there is so low that the georgia town only has one police officer the bill will likely not be enforced as it is more symbolic in nature than anything else

on nelson isn't alone springs city utah passed a resolution in february that recommended its residents keep firearms and last month the official from the town of byron may propose a similar measure that would require guns in homes but it was shot down by all fifty of its voters so it seems that the themes linking these pro-gun towns out there are small practically rate of crime and many residents all of ready carry guns. well it's no great surprise when a public official turns private these days but it's usually gets people's blood boiling when there is a link to the two thousand a financial crisis the residents lori harshness gives us a glimpse out one official making the trip through the revolving door between wall street and washington.

i have a little story about a revolving door so wall street executives almost destroyed the american economy right they created a horrible financial products that were basically designed to make money off of people losing their houses and pension these guys ruthlessly made up ways to funnel everyone of their neighbors money and assets into their own bank accounts and they were really good at it and they almost crashed our entire economy what's worse is that these guys went and prosecuted for it the u.s. department of justice knew that wall street executives did all this they knew that our bankers essentially stole everyone's money and houses and futures they knew

about this hugely immoral corrupt evil activity and they did nothing about it no one got in trouble not even so much as a hands player and the guy who should have prosecuted wall street executives is now representing them his name is lanny breuer and he is the epitome of a slimy lawyer when he was the u.s. department of justice the criminal division chief it was his job to stand up and say hey wall street executives you can just make up ways to take everyone's money and crash the entire country's economy that's wrong and you should have to pay for it that was his job to say that but instead that lenny said the banks were too big to fail and prosecuted no one too big to fail what the hell is up with that phrase i don't. i have ever heard anything of any addict really you know who else was too big to fail hitler hitler was huge if that guy went down it would have had

a huge impact on the world right killer he was definitely too big to fail should of anyway that was a way annie's response and nothing out and now lenny is done working for the government and he's going back to his old job but now he's getting a four million dollars salary a federal job and gas but that shall have it defending white collar criminals as a defense for him of covert and burling the guys he should have prosecuted till now be defending for big bucks he's being rewarded for looking the other way he is a part of the club and he'll be working hard to make sure his club mates continue to get away with bribery money laundering and creating more crappy investment products that suckers continue to buy into he defended white collar criminals then he got a job in our government where he was supposed to step out white collar criminals from being criminals now he's back to defending white collar criminals again the

the door spinning what a pile of crap the worst part is it's such an old pile of crap it's just another example of the revolving door in washington the one that connects the halls of washington to the halls of morally bankrupt businesses the revolving door that keeps all these greedy jerks part of one big club whose members are only interested in their own personal bank account and my question is isn't it time we closed that revolving door legally forever shouldn't you only be able to serve in a public office if you don't have a conflict of interest tonight let's talk about that by filing on twitter at the present. well as everyone wants to look their best something getting that bronze glow was critical to getting the ideal look remember tan mom she gained

a lot of publicity for her leathery look at chibuye concentrates of the tanning salon this is patricia krenzel of new jersey she was arrested last year after her daughter showed up at school with the somber school officials accused her of taking her five year old child to a tanning salon the story gained a lot of media attention. my whole life going to be so long and so forth and you can something. you were never changed. well now to jersey governor chris christie is taking action on monday he signed a bill banning children under the age of seventeen from using tanning beds without having a parent or guardian present because he has been outspoken when it comes to regulating business but he says it's becoming a health issue when it comes to tanning and we are going to leave it there but please.