we are now at the one hundred day mark for the guantanamo bay hunger strike critics continue to question the obama administration's lack of action in closing down this detention facility an in-depth look at how the strike is progressing and its possible future today. it's another great thursday for a trip into the digital world in today's tech report we'll talk about apps that can protect your privacy and even help you with boycotting certain products the circuits and bits of the digital age coming your way. the silence is golden but it's another story in federal court gerald koch is an anarchist subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury and he's decided not to cooperate now he's facing the threat of jail time we'll have more on the details of this case from new york in just a moment.

it's thursday may sixteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r t well the hunger strike at guantanamo bay's detention facility is now entering its one hundredth day and still no end in sight here of the numbers as they stand now of the one hundred sixty six people in detention one hundred two of them are reportedly participating in this strike to varying degrees thirty of the detainees are now being force fed through nasal tubes eighty six of the people at guantanamo bay are actually cleared from for release from that facility now those are the numbers to our best estimates says there is still so much secrecy that surrounds this camp and the people that are within it even the lawyer lawyers are having a hard time getting in touch with their clients and all of this has brought guantanamo bay to the front forefront of political debate once again for

a look back at the last one hundred days political commentator sam sachs reports. this is gone tony mowbray settled on a picturesque caribbean island it's the place is teeming with think one is there protected under the endangered species act meaning if you kill one you pay a ten thousand dollars fine unfortunately for the one hundred sixty six prisoners still left at the guantanamo bay detention facility they don't have legal protections like you're going to us and so for the last one hundred days they've committed themselves to a hunger strike it's the largest hunger strike yet it didn't know when it comes more than four years after president obama promised to close down the facility one hundred days in more than one hundred prisoners are involved in this strike nearly a third of them kept alive by force feeding which the american medical association says is unethical and the united nations says is torture former gitmo guard brandon nearly describes the process when they did they took him to medical. units there

and they'll to dallas now his nose and. flew do whatever the congress has made the task of closing gitmo harder using last year's national defense authorization act they passed in the last several bans on where good move prisoners can be transferred but despite congress's restrictions the president can still close get on his own at least fellow democrat senator carl levin says yes he can as the hunger strike hit three months levin sent a letter to the white house reminding the president he had a way to bypass congress on closing gitmo more than a year ago levin writes i successfully fought for a national security waiver that provides a clear route for the transfer of detainees to third countries in appropriate cases this is the president's first option using this national security waiver senator levin included the waiver in that same defense authorization bill allowing for the transfer of any prisoner out of good mo if quote the transfer is in the national

security interests of the united states and the president did specifically say that go. antonymous always against our national security interests and that keeping it open it serves as a recruitment tool for extremists yet in more than a year since this law was passed in this waiver created the president has not once used it to release a single prisoner from guantanamo even while four prisoners have died there since he took office u.s. army captain and give most turn to jason right questions whether these men should be prisoners at all worse the worst who have done nothing wrong so i think in the first instance we need to actually address the root of the problem which which is in fact. that the majority of the detainees are the wrong place wrong time detainees who may have been turned down based on family feuds based on and that is just based on economics so if the president is really committed to closing down guantanamo why hasn't he used any of these waivers to be mcgovern has a theory

a lack of moral courage president knows what's right. he says it all in his speeches and so we go and then he says i've instructed my staff to look into ways that we can get these people released come on mr president you know and if you don't know you should fire your staff you know that you have the authority to release these eighty six at least like this should the president find this moral courage his next step will be lifting the prisoner transfer ban to yemen which his administration imposed on itself in two thousand and ten more than half of all the gitmo prisoners including nearly two thirds of those eighty six cleared for release or transfer are from yemen another option more than two hundred habeas corpus petitions have been filed on behalf of guantanamo prisoners the president could immediately stop challenging these cases in court and then there's going back to capitol hill in fighting with congress but going the congressional route again

means the president will have to wait until later this year when those restrictions inside the national defense authorization act expire in other words another one hundred days at least of force feeding this we just sent forty new medical technicians from the army down to put these stiff tubes down these people in those is down to their esophagus and this coming so we can i mean if the president's only concern is that they don't die i mean the problem they keep him alive you know they can't resist the only part the only option to them to escape these conditions is to die and we won't even let him do that. what kind of america have we become when the president was asked why they use force feeding to continue he said i don't want these individuals to die so with that we'll continue keeping them alive for as long as he can until he decides to go it alone on closing guantanamo and leave it for

the you're going to the room in washington same socks are to now before she ended her time as a secretary of state hillary clinton wrote a letter to the obama administration urging them to do more to close the facility down that's according to the daily beast in the memo she gave practical suggestions to start getting the ball rolling on the process including appointing a high level official to be in charge of overseeing the effort it also include a transfer area some detainees were leasing others and prosecuting some of those men if someone like hillary clinton can't convince the president to do more than who can for a closer look at the guantanamo bay detention facility and the actions of both the president and congress can take i was joined earlier by human rights lawyer david remes well i have compassion for every single man at guantanamo we've been fighting the legal fight for nine years and the courts haven't been responsive that's the forum where the government has succeeded unfortunately the courts have pulled out

but right now we're in a situation where the detainees have exercised the only power that they have after all others. haven't you said been exhausted and that is to engage in a hunger strike at the logic of a hunger strike is death. and some of the hunger strike in the force feeding themselves many call that force feeding torture so let's talk about the steps that congress could take to fix the situation at guantanamo bay and then we'll talk about some of the steps that president obama himself can take to fix the situation let's start with congress nothing would satisfy us more than having congress act here they would lift the onerous certification requirements that they've imposed on obama before he can release detainees of course he has the power to go outside those rules but if he does it might cause it might cause some flak that might be blowback on that. the congress could allow the president to bring men into the

united states for trial in federal courts or. border tension once convicted by military commissions but congress has made this a political football especially the republicans and the democrats simply fall in line with them so we're not placing our hope in congress but in president obama and meanwhile president obama oftentimes has said that his hands are tied when it comes to this as a result of the actions that congress is taking so let's talk about what president obama specifically can do in order to close our start the process to close this starting with the end of the moratorium of shipping many citizens well that's the most important of all because out of eighty six detainees who have been cleared for transfer by the administration fifty eight of them or fifty six now are proof for transfer yet the president for political reasons is refusing to return

yemenis to their home he has to start by lifting that ban and he can't do it in ones and twos he has to start sending groups back he's his own greatest obstacle to closing guantanamo after that. he he should exercise the power that he has under the national security provision of the law to release these men and others again that takes political strength and courage and leadership which he has not demonstrated in the case of guantanamo so far they're going to are we you know quagmire here i mean if these men it could be argued if these men weren't enemies of the united states before they certainly could be now they have a reason to be because they've been locked up for some of them of the knocked up for eleven years indefinitely without any type of trial they've also gone through torture methods that we know of and handsome terror geisha and things like that so

are we in a quagmire look at the situation where it is now in that kind of how it's tumbled out of control to where we find ourselves today i was in yemen a couple of weeks ago and i saw three of my clients who had been released two of them work in a honey shop in. both of them have gotten married another detainees who i represented is an oil company engineer these are not people who engage in terrorism or reengage in terrorism they're trying to rebuild their lives they've had up with third of their lives stolen from them they want they want homes they want to live their lives as individuals they're not a group of anonymous interchangeable men these are individuals they're human and they can't be lumped together well let's talk about the treatment that they are facing right now you were talking just a little bit earlier with here today about this new security policy when it comes

to searching them so that they may be able to talk to their lawyers if you want to mind going into detail about that will be for now the military has tried various forms of. action in order to make the men's lives miserable it put them in solitary confinement it made things very cold for them in their cells those are two examples. they move them to isolation cells i don't know if i mentioned that but the fact is that these efforts have failed so the military is now going to the nuclear option which is religious humiliation the way it's doing that is to say that a prisoner can't leave his own camp unless he undergoes a body search which includes feeling his genitals and his body i think that this would be a junction of bull from

a westerner standpoint outrageous for about a western of standpoint but for devout muslim men i think it is the. one of the worst forms of humiliation there could be and for that reason if they don't want to leave their camp because of the searches they end up not being able to meet their lawyers not being able to have telephones with their telephone calls with their lawyers not being able to have telephone calls with their families clearly this policy will and if they break their hunger strike it's one of the greatest pressures applied so far and is it working yes it is. we have at least a dozen cases in which reporters in which other councils have told us that men are refusing their calls. a man i needed to see when i was in guantanamo a few weeks ago to prepare for a hearing refused to see me because of the searches and another also refused to

meet me because of the searches it's quite an unbelievable story we are within our one hundred days of this hunger strike and there's no sign of it ending anytime soon david remes human rights lawyer thank you so much for your time today thank you well it has been a busy news week and the tech world is no exception for my i phone apps designed to keep your mobile communications private and help you keep tabs on cocoa owned enterprises to. an encrypted tip line that lets people give journalists an inside track without being traced we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get right to it joining me now to help me break it all down is artie weber douceur and blake andrea thank you so much for joining me so let's start with these few unique products that we're going to be talking about today two of them deal with secure it communications and one of them helps consumers boycott certain products that go against their moral standings so let's start with the g.g. app it is a little innovation that is meant to provide a secure network to communicate to users so that they can communicate with their

e-mails their tax their chats and whatnot this is how the creator of one of the creators nikki preston explains it. it's a whole privacy environment basically you can send a text messages e-mails word documents pictures anything you want and you're guaranteed that it's going to be sent safely and securely and the person you're sending it to you can't copy the match they just they can't save the message you have complete control so and you can you talk a little bit more about this product i mean we just learned that the product snap chat which shares picture isn't supposed to be secure isn't really all that secure there's no delay to get off of your cell phone is there ever such thing as something being completely secure or. quantum internet maybe quantum physics which we were going to get to a few days ago but actually having a method of transferring one piece of information from one node to another that

just by definition cannot be interfered with would actually be the only truly secure way and what well there are applications likely key and there's a handful of other ones one's called wicker and we heard about snap chat where so-called ways of having complete secure communication and mistrust in the clip we just watched she said they know this is guaranteed one hundred percent but really nothing is guaranteed one hundred percent when it comes to security because everything is really just a deterrent there's very few things the side of actual quantum physics that can actually prevent something from being completely one hundred percent immune to outsider attack so even if something is being billed as a way of ok you can be able to share e-mails and we'll show photos or videos you know that's great but you know you're only going to be as secure as the weakest link in the chain as they say think that's what they say something like that so anyway you know it's depends on your own operational security how you actually keep track of things if you're going to have

a product like this and you're going to use it properly yeah you might be able to share things with people but if you don't take care of yourself and you don't take care of the product then what use is it all it's certainly. a step forward in terms of being able to move with these privacy kind of secure internet things things that people have been dreaming of but that's just not the case right now so let's move on to the new new yorker on line anonymous tip box it's now in a strong box this some people are actually calling this aaron swartz his last gift to the internet right before he died it's something that people are particularly impressed with go ahead and explain it you know aaron swartz was actually working on this up to a few weeks before he passed away in january of this year but it's pretty much this whole intricate model about provides a way to for a source wanting to stay anonymous and you know according to erin and kevin polson if you had people who worked on the you know it's very secure method of doing so you can go onto a website by using the tor my eyes or browser which is already the going through

that your traffic is routed from place to place to place and kind of covers up your tracks but from there you go to a special website where you have to use this kind of. anonymizing excuse me to to upload files that can then be sent to new york or journalists now from there or upload it to a completely separate computer and it goes through p.g.p. or g p encryption it is just a way of actually providing something like what we had and they haven't for a few years now and this is come out as such an important time given the fact that these this a.p. d.o.j. phone scandal is coming out the last product i want to focus on today is known as by caught here's how the marketing video explains this product. very difficult thing for people to remember all of the products they're not supposed to off so let's make it easy on. it if you ever see one of these devices and carried it in a grocery store what is we had an application. that you could use to scan the

barcode on any product. thanks terry you know how good it was and issues we care about i want to bring in ivan prado he is the founder of the product that you just learned a little bit more about i didn't tell me about this product how did you come up with the idea. well the idea of in my mind for a little bit but what convinced me to make it was the backlash that we saw early last year in two thousand and twelve for sopa there were a number of companies that came out in favor of having the legislation passed in a number who wanted to oppose it and i figured that there ought to be a way for consumers to express their position on the issue via their purchasing decisions and why is that important that the consumer have this type of power well i mean people are more interested now than ever in knowing what goes into. making

the products out there buying and. whether it revolves whether we're talking about the source of raw materials that go into making a product or how that affects the communities that are involved people are interested in knowing more about this and we're trying to help connect them to that information well it is a very exciting day an era here in the internet age the digital age that was our t. web producer and your blake and i've been proud of the founder of buy copt well remember when president obama promised to go hard on the banks after the financial crisis never again he said with the american taxpayer bear the brunt of the financial sector crash as the hands of bankers and making many trading risks as we saw back in two thousand and eight and nine it's a sentiment that was reiterated by attorney general eric holder of this week. let

me be very very very clear banks are not too big to jail if we find a bank or a financial institution that has done something wrong if we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt those cases will be brought but if we look at the sheriff's statistics behind the number of criminal prosecutions for financial institution fraud you'll notice a shocking trend data released by the u.s. justice department shows that over the past twenty years the number of federal prosecutions for financial fraud has gone down significantly there were about seven hundred prosecutions in two thousand and eight there were thirteen hundred and sixty five prosecutions during the height of the financial crisis in two thousand and nine and there were only twelve hundred fifty one in two thousand and eleven to help me sort through these statistics i'm joined now by kevin whelan he is the campaign director for the home defender of the league kevin thank you so much for joining us so can you explain what's going on here i mean does this mean that the

financial institutions have committed fewer financial crimes since eric holder became attorney general. not at all. too big to jail policy isn't that there's no financial crime to prosecute indeed you could argue that the period since the financial collapse the last five years or so has been a record banker crime spree it's you know fairly well known if you only have to read the papers to know that they crashed the world economy and continue to be used regulations big and small i represent a group of folks who are struggling homeowners around the country fighting foreclosure who continue to be affected not only by the policies and financial dealings and predatory lending that brought down the economy and brought on the mortgage crisis but by violations large and small of all kinds of settlements laws and agreements that banks have made to treat their customers more fairly and yet five years into the crisis this crisis not one prominent banker

or financial executive has been prosecuted for crimes that arguably are the largest theft and destruction of wealth in world history so are you do you think that there are these financial crocked are getting better at covering their tracks or are they literally just too big to jail. i think they are big enough to be too politically powerful to have jail. so eric holder in one clip said that he thought these institutions were not too big to jail but this march testifying before the senate. he said that one reason they hadn't brought cases against the big banks and financial institutions was that they were simply too large and too important a part of the economy and that they thought it would hurt the economy if they prosecuted them we think and lots of economists think that's not true that actually running an economy with honest dealings in the role of laws is important to

restoring and rebuilding the economy we don't have too much time left but can you talk about some of the cases where we have seen prosecutions are the punishments harsh enough. we have not seen anybody who's really responsible for the shenanigans that brought on the mortgage crisis and brought down the economy put in jail or seriously punished it's been more sort of settlements where banks can pay out of a small sliver of their profits part of the money that they took but if you are still one hundred dollars from a bank or a store and had to pay back twenty years are punishment it wouldn't really provide a great incentive not to do it again and it is just quite an interesting case when we have people like the people that you represent who are honest home loan are struggling to make their way being prosecuted and others who are committing major financial crimes and not saying a day in court and a day in jail kevin whalen commit a campaign director for the home defenders like thank you so much for joining us

thank you. now on to the story of a young man who could be heading to jail despite the fact that he did not commit a crime jerico could face up to eighteen months in jail for refusing to testify in front of a federal grand jury about an incident that happened all the way back in two thousand and eight the new york grand journey a jury subpoena the twenty four year old to question him about a conversation that he overheard in a bar authorities are trying to uncover who detonated a small bomb outside of a time square army recruitment center the so-called bicycle bombings shattered a window but didn't result in any deaths or injuries now the grand jury believes that the suspect was identified during that conversation at the bar and claimed that jerry himself disputes and this is not the first time that he has actually been called to testify about this very event once again he is refusing to cooperate and is not very talkative with the media either. we have to say to your supporters . they're here. thank you it means

a lot has this not been worth it. yes usually yes joining me now to discuss this is david silva refer silver very excuse me he's a friend and supporter of jerry koch david thank you so much for joining us so i understand that you just got out of the courtroom what is the latest in this case. the situation was temporarily adjourned until tuesday at three forty five they're going to have a civil contempt hearing the point of the civil contempt hearing which is open unlike the grand jury proceedings is for them to decide whether they're going to imprison him in attempts to coerce them into testifying and as i understand it the reason that the curing today was moved again until three pm was because it was the judge giving him a lecture about the importance of talking to the jury can you talk a little bit more about. my understanding because the proceedings are secret so i can't give you an exact play by play but my understanding is they have the initial

hearing and then once it becomes clear that jerry wasn't planning on testifying there's actually adjourned and then when they call him back in the judge essentially gives him a speech about why you should testify then they ask the same questions and then because jerry refused to testify again now they go forward with possibly filing civil contempt charges now obviously jerry won't be heading to jail today but he could be heading to jail the future if he continues this with these that contempt charges that you were just talking about is this something that jerry is willing to do to go to jail to keep his silence absolutely jerry is a principal strong intelligent man and i do not see him backing down just and just because of repression now he is a self-proclaimed an artist does that have something to do with this does that play into it at all. i think that anarchist ideas and radical ideas have been getting a lot of traction worldwide particularly since the financial crisis and because of

that governments are certainly. in more of a position where they feel like that needs to be suppressed as quickly as possible i mean we're seeing wide spread erika's activity all over the world there is a huge movement in greece recently in egypt the black bloc has made an appearance there's a huge erika's presence in russia the russian federation. in europe i mean they're the are ideas gain traction based on the failings of the state and i think it's very difficult at this point for anyone to maybe argument that the state hasn't been failing where jerry is motivations for keeping his silence to you know. i can't really speak for a jury's position i can tell you though it's my understanding is more or less. this is a fairly gross bladet. misuse of the grand jury process in an attempt to

essentially strip gerry of his first fourth fifth and sixth amendment rights among others. so jerry's refusal to cooperate is in some ways actually defense of the bill of rights and finally just from your opinion being one of the friends that has been in that courtroom that has been supporting gerry through all of this how does the notion of locking someone up even though they didn't commit a crime fits into the idea of american democracy. i mean it's sort of lays bare the way that the state operates this is what states do it's sort of kafkaesque you know you can it isn't a time it is a very unique thing that falls under the fifth amendment david silva of our friend and supporter of gerry koch thank you so much for weighing in and thank you and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america check out our website our to dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez.

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