the latest news on the week's top stories britain's security social integration and foreign policy are under scrutiny following the killing of a soldier by alleged muslim extremists in. the peace and quiet of stockholm is disrupted by seven am president of riots sparked by the death of an immigrant. anger a biotech john you know it's two million protesters across the world with people accusing the corporation i mean danger in health and monopolizing the food market our top stories this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is r.t. live in moscow the u.k. security services are under fire for failing to prevent the brutal daylight murder of a soldier in london on wednesday nine suspects have been arrested so far and at least two of them have been tracked by m i five for years one was allegedly even offered a job by the agency the killing of muslims by british forces overseas was used as justification for the attack but despite fresh fears of homegrown terror u.k. officials are defending the country's foreign policy is now reports. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this priest the max seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of

in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces to remain anonymous anger of the moment and. not scared maybe scared. you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the precise attack details the men chanting is the best slogans as the body of soldier drama leave it be a second battalion the royal regiment do you say they only pleading they ask people to be the if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london but speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures by trying to distance this latest act of violence in the case of recent data seize exploits this is not

a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question or blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what british troops are do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy to cite tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster has been just announced not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit say close to home you feel less secure i think that's what.

he think if we went out there then perhaps a bit more space scope for al qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be operate more within the u.k. because when we're out there we're constricted space and not allowing that freedom and they've are out there and that means their base of operations and i think he was we can both say the arguments because we're out there were inspiring them all motivates in them our presence out there is sort of motivating the cells that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues a deep sense of self and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at that briefing led tag and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. london in the wake of the killing carried out by alleged islamists a series of attacks on muslims on mosques has taken the place across britain ultra

nationalists rallied and clashed with police in several cities and a number of people have been arrested for racially motivated assault them one hundred fifty such incidents have been reported in the u.k. since wednesday's killing well of this week i discussed the reasons behind the latest violence with in done t.'s editor of politics dot com you can also call a script he's from the right wing british national party. what the immigration be responsible immigration custody eight do is get to us you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you to integrate. all right and they don't want a lawyer to find that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this efficiencies that. you know that on so of course the major. major problem with what he's saying is that there's acts of

terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p. is a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're a fascist party and the acts of violence that they betrayed against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors for political means well i've got to learn from and i have something to do with with my how to help like all the people around so that i share is done by right wing fanatics and i have to get us all to the personal to. the other person who spoke in the signori completely fucked but i personally have an open dialogue with most in communities that recently i had a debate with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for important. foreigners will

tell you about the. issue of these racist you should learn about what are you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from east. from we pull from from they. let me really judge their members all inside lies only they know when we have. and some other lunatics who also agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is their what is their mission actually was he is the us all right you had if you just go just where is that it don't you know i just ask you shorted the british people died there are appalled by what's happened they want to stroll response from government they don't want a reaction that could be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by

intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible i don't know that you take to prevent violence. we have a social problem combined with out these us first foreign policy. these with for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are leaving in isolation cut more links with the outside world than with it. and when british governments go on their rampage off course they are on green. bay your owing to the nation will form an m i five agent annie meshullam says there's growing frustration among muslims over a deadly western interventions a round the world. individualistic lone wolf style attacks which don't require

great planning don't require some sort of specialist equipment or anything will become perhaps one of the main ways that people can make protests and it's a horrific attack there is no doubt about it and my heart goes out to the family of the victim but what we're looking at is also an angry voice yelling out from north africa hand in the middle east from central asia from all the people have been because lies by the interventionist policies of the us of the u.k. of nato or france i mean not just iraq and afghanistan but libya in mali in some in yemen and of course what we're looking at is a whole country that's been decimated now by the cia killing which are a presidential you proved in the u.s. every week and also drone strikes which are not targeted they take out a whole villages communities and wedding parties even so of course there's going to be anger. meanwhile french police are investigating an apparent copycat attack in

paris on saturday where a soldier was stabbed the nearly killed the suspect reportedly a bearded man of north african origin is on the run with a manhunt underway but the french president to stop short of linking the attack to the london murder activist in general can chandan told me earlier that the violence will be used to demonize muslims and draw attention away from failed government policies. these type of attacks plays into the strategy of the state to promote a false sense of islam so that is what people of the masses around the world conceive wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then they use these groups in asia to conduct the stabilisation of the french who go in pretending to be the neutral arbitrators bringing peace and stability this is a big game or theater smoke and mirrors that really has to be distinctive from a position that is opposing western hegemony as part of the state strategy is to make sure that everyone is pointing fingers at everyone but the actual arbitrators

of the economic crisis of police corruption or unjust an immoral foreign policy i.e. those in power in france. seven consecutive days of street violence have shattered stock homes images and delayed scandinavian city despite additional units being sent from sweden's other regions police have not been able to curb the youth riots they first ignited in a great neighborhood last sunday but spread on the capital this week all these people of investigates the core of the unrest there. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. on the outskirts of stockholm the epicenter of sweden's issue with a race and that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw

stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become a political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being. for the past week stone throwing in burning become the norm in this part of town known for its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a run leash of emotions it's the state what it creates type of gets. so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below average with almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying

a lack of control by government has led to the situation the police can put the ride down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that its government policy must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden. you're watching the weekly here in r.t. still to come the press jurists journalists in the u.s. raise the alarm over the future of their industry after the government seizes the records of associated press and news reporters. without borders rockets fall on parts of lebanon's capital controlled by hezbollah militants the syrian government rebels all the details for you shortly on. the first group global food giant monsanto swept across six continents on saturday

as two million people marched in protest at the corporations practices demonstrations took place in dozens of countries with activists accusing the biotech tycoon of aggressively putting small farmers out of business and hazardous genetically modified crops many are angry at the legal protection the firm receives in the number of nations where it can sometimes make up nearly one hundred percent of the food market incentives still maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources. chicken it was one of the protests in new york. throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the united states weekend of action against monsanto takes place where in the heart of the protests in the big apple were hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its action the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial its existence for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture

and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces i and also immense lobbying power is that it has in washington d.c. for one piece of sleeping in the same bed really with politicians blocking any kind of legislation that would make my for money months and to morrow. difficult and tough promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own advantage for monetary gain there's a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better than that there may be no way to fully tackle the machine and even vote which monsanto monsanto and the government are one we have a supreme court justice who is a lawyer for the month sent a corporation how much independence do we have really in our government all of

these people that have come out onto the streets according to our estimates throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend in local marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a labeling obviate most and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to understand what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators who say see churkin r.t. new york. well i had to a website all tito called for extensive report on of the day of action against the take john on revelled across the world and later here on naughty a chilling feature on how even the most traditional foods are being genetically

modified. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. this is a total struction of the culture of mexico i tell them i mean this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here throughout the whole world now we're eating out in the in the open in all boarding and so forth. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. that report coming your way a little later here on t.v. well the news continues here when we return in just a minute this is the weekly. wealthy

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mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thursday president obama ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of associated press and fox news the government says it seized journalist records have concerns about the leaking of classified security information it comes amid what is seen as washington's intensified persecution of whistleblowers. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed and obtained the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice i think about the harm done to the a.p.

here you know object of interest to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on national security issues government officials secretly obtained reporters' phone logs and personal e-mails trying to find out who leaked classified information to the press even if you side with this president over those of us in the media who challenge him and his administration it is important to remember the precedent these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house the guy currently residing in the white house has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all other administrations combined and now experts say

u.s. news outlets are being persecuted just like wiki leaks has been the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been kimmitt dating the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs but leakers will pay the price i believe we must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field. to do so we must enforce consequences for those who break the law and breach their commitment to protect classified information however some think the lines are becoming increasingly blurred this is the first time. you know a national security act has been used to get reporters i mean that really is frightening to try to name because it's usually used to get leakers so if the

bombing ministration or loses justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across and all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects

press freedom but all one has to do is look at recent events to know that doesn't always happen reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. well later this hour we talk extensively about press freedom in the u.s. with vice chairman of the new york times james good though in this our interview that's coming up shortly. first fears of the syrian conflict spilling over borders have been ignited by an attack on the capital of neighboring lebanon several people were injured when two rockets landed in a hezbollah control district to beirut a lebanese militant groups being strongly supporting the embattled syrian government but the rebel syrian army has denied involvement and middle east affairs expert told me earlier that he believes a splinter group could be to blame some members of the free syrian army deny that however there was one official who said that hezbollah are you know its activity

will lead to repercussions that would target by the northern city of tripoli and beirut's international airport and that perhaps as an indicator of that some of these armed opposition groups some of these syrian armed opposition groups are indeed involved in what happened today you have to remember that the free syrian army years and to the one block so if one spokesman denies that it might very well be that are not the opposition armed opposition group which also use of title the free syrian army could have been involved in one of the rockets even landed in near a church and it lies on the border between the southern beirut and the christian district so obviously this is not an attack on a husband lobbyists or institution it's a clearly an act of terrorism against innocent civilians on it and habited area and so i think it just goes to show you the nature of these groups who we are dealing with. well you can come to find out how moscow's decided to play it safe when it

comes to defense sales to syria by stopping a deal to. up to a billion dollars to damascus the fear that they could fall into the wrong hands. what it takes to win a scholarship and bridges school just to pretend to be the prime minister and justify the shooting and killing twenty five protesters or not story and plenty of all those that altie. more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. a secret court in the u.k.

has put some people behind bars just for trying to take care of their own relatives one woman whose father was pronounced mentally ill was locked away but since the hearings are behind closed doors it's hard to know why. investigates when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and one day intended to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers and their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it the eighty year old lack the mental capacity to make his own decisions and needed to live in a special care he didn't want to be in a home basically told he didn't want. he wants to go to the final home that he went. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it has power to take control of assets and separate family

members all in secret wonder and i even want to loud to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him but he kept on asking me want to go home but i didn't tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because of the court protection the council do whatever they want with the finances in its house what are going to be locked up in these rooms we can't write. i don't feel free. in order to mount a legal challenge to the secret court ruling wonder took her father to see a solicitor one day tried to draw attention to the case but was sentenced to prison for contempt of the secret court so instead of caring for her father like she wanted to she had to spend two months in here in the company of criminals i cried the first two days i was in the prison i cried because nobody you treated like an

ardent criminals in michigan and there you really cannot challenge the question as to whether somebody has mental capacity or not without talking to them and she was in prison firstly for taking her father to see a solicitor in birmingham which makes it sound quite peculiar well in a sense it's worse than dr drew conan because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the jail i was frightened because the lesson into the phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because of the conditions he put on his and also you know in case he got in more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when we moved into that fire alone that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still moved him anything i said you got to know this she divorce. she's put herself in prison port. observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows if the law is being followed the evidence is heard in private

defendants often lack legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case where nelson's it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people complaining about what's been done to them is never right the government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interests of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what they're doing that taken away from islamic and the world and what's going on to us when we get older you know we've got to be really careful. not say like. stoke on trent. this is the weekly here not he still to come this a lot of promises. he claims that he is going to further limit is

murder by drone program making us president obama talks to national security leaving exposed to wonder whether his new promises will be. the story of a community in israel which has chosen to take up arms in defense of the embattled syrian government back with those stories and all this after this break. a u.s. senate committee has passed a bill that if signed by obama will allow the u.s. to put a lot of weapons into the hands of syrian rebels the seems rather odd because many of the factions that are revolting seem like bad people to be arming in fact one rebel faction al nasra which according to the guardian is an islamist organization

with links to al qaeda is quickly becoming the most powerful rebel faction of all of them the b.b.c. even declared that al nasra has been designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. government itself has it started something like a bad idea to ship weapons into syria on american taxpayers' dollars yet let's just pretend that somehow all these weapons will magically not fall into the hands of al nasra well the free syrian army is that much better they seem perfectly happy to use rape and beheadings and genocide against christian alawite minorities with great glee to get what they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the taliban and those mujahedeen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion.

if you just joined us a very warm welcome this is the weekly hit on. this past week president obama unveiled a new face to the war on terror well speaking about america's national defense policies you call for more transparency in drone strikes stressing their value in combating insurgents now for the first time the bummer of not is the four american citizens had been killed in counterterrorism drone strikes since two thousand and nine author and activist david swanson believes they only serve to recruit even more terrorists he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other than afghanistan and yet he's not provided publicly any

documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if if he would rather have captured ardmore or locky why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here to four is it not as criminal an abusive as it appears. and for the second time in five years barack obama promised a shot one time a bank and pledged to nifty zone free zone transferring detainees to yemen over one hundred of the one hundred sixty six prisoners in the tourist camp and been starving themselves for almost four months in protest against indefinite detention without challenge one former guard at the prison says his guantanamo experience has left him psychologically scarred some of the some of the tactics that i saw

practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar carter and a number of other detainees they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program to centrally move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big idea was that every two hours they would be removed and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more . probable to give up information during interrogation the only reason the detainees are being force fed is the u.s. military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the us look bad in the global perspective as it stands right now they we have so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in one hundred

but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close up where the. a brief look now at some other stories from around the world in our world update this hour sixty one people have been arrested following violent clashes at a techno music protest in the swiss capital but police used water cannons and tear gas on anticapitalist hardliners known as the black bloc clashes broke out when the protesters attempted to ted complete barricades blocking parliament. hundred fifty thousand people turned out for an anti-gay marriage rally in the french capital almost one hundred being arrested as traitors in paris or wrangling the country's new same sex marriage and adoption act came into force a week ago just to say present all times an issue over the economy. country in europe to legalize gay marriage previous anti gay marches of ended in clashes between the far right and police. as fighting rages across syria

the chances of the conflict crossing borders appeared ever more real this week israeli and syrian government forces exchanged artillery fire across the disputed golan heights and resulted paullus near explains there's at least one community in israel ready to defend syria. we're ready to die defending our people strong words from a chef preparing young men to go and fight in syria except his recruits are not rebel fighters or soldiers in damascus their israeli troops a minority islamic offshoot we need to go help defend the community in syria and president assad we have relatives there are people are there and they were attacking them in the name of islam the tipping point came after rebels targeted to this village of kind of near the israeli syrian border and killed seven people by the hundreds israeli jews volunteers started signing up short of i would be honored to be the first man who crosses the border to defend the druze community simon why

the works in an israeli factory it feels it's only a matter of time before he'll be asked to cross the border into syria in schol and i hope that they won't need us but you can't know what will happen now the situation in the druze villages is stable but if this changes we will go for it we are waiting for the orders from our shakes and we are totally ready for the. israeli jews who live in communities in the gulf and the golan heights after the forty eight and sixty seven war they found themselves cut off from their families in syria after israel occupied the heights those who live here on the israeli syrian border are wizard and save his role but see themselves as syrian then loyal to the alawite regime who they see as a minority like in selves they live in fear for their families in syria after the level of salt on the village we are under attack and they're under foreign attack they're using foreign soldiers to fight inside syria and some syrians are helping

them. some have other ways to fight back this man goes door to door selling his book about a respected can share all the proceeds go across the border. the druze community in israel collected one million dollars and center to the syrian druze and from my ability. can we collected one million shekels people paid what they could in order to help their relatives and syria the core to fight has not yet been made but as the conflict in syria starts to spread beyond its borders more and more communities are being torn in salmaniya region says here run deep and when a relative is killed the test for tests. is likely to last for years but in life it will we are just waiting for an opportunity to help and we are ready to give our lives. on the israel syria border will be back again with morphine about twenty minutes from now meantime as promised we talk press freedom in the us with

the funds chairman of the new york times james good. this is the weekly her naughty . they are not talking about language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i'll leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. secure yes because i'm not talking you know god i. think you know more weasel words. when you made a direct question are you prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and a little bit of the freedom to. wealthy british style. expert on tirelessly.

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programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviewers an intriguing story for you here. in trying. to find out more visit our big teeth dog called. my car guest knows firsthand what it's like to go up against the u.s. government in defense of the first amendment james goodell was general counsel and vice chair of the new york times when the pentagon papers were published and he joins our team now for an exclusive sit down interview mr goodell thank you for taking time to speak with me there and try welcome glad to be. in your new book fighting for the press inside the story of the pentagon papers and other battles you indicate that president nixon it was out to destroy the new york times but you

also argue that if president obama succeeds at prosecuting julian assange he will be worse than nixon for press freedom why so well let me just say one thing about nixon he was out to destroy the new york times he was out to destroy brookings institution lot of institutions and in the united states president obama is not out to destroy the times what we're talking about is a narrow it's not so narrow but a discrete area which is the relationship of the press to national security pentagon papers case a case about national security now in that area nixon was terrible ok he happened to also be error terrible in the whole first amendment area obama by contrast ok in the first amendment area but not ok in national security why are you because obama

as first of all pursued six leakers that's the for respect thing is done a second bad thing he's done is he pursued a guy who got a leak whose name is james rise and now what am i worried about he's also per suing julian assize i say if he pursues julian assize and says julian assizes a coconspirator. then he'll be and succeeds he'll be worse than nixon because if them try to pursue the new york times and its reporters saying they were coconspirators nixon failed so while most succeeds where nixon failed you'll be worse than nixon so in this context you if you julian a songe as the publisher similar to the new york times similar to the guardian and all the other news outlets that then published what julian a songe disclose through wiki leaks right there saying that it's the same thing if

everyone's on the same point it's like if you have a website yourself and you publish this interview you're a publisher u.s. officials maintain that julian assange compromised national security by publishing classified documents now as you know in america you know sometimes first amendment is trumped by national security issues when information is disclosed that could threaten the lives of soldiers on the battlefield or threaten the lives of americans here at home do you believe honestly that killing or saw a sign should face no consequences whatsoever yes that's right and so why you know the same claims were made about the new york times when the pubs print them papers it was this throwing national security it was drawing. so forth and so the first amendment in that case trumped of a claim of the nixon administration now here you've got to ask yourself well what

is the first amendment blame. the claim is that a son can be punished if in fact there is no clear and present danger to the country and if you look at the stuff that has songs published. i would argue there's no clear and present danger to the country i mean it's been three years where's the danger i mean you're still here and i'm still here all claims sound terrible when it comes to nasa security but when you look backwards at them which is what i do in my book is the pentagon papers i look back through the facts of what happened in the pentagon papers and nobody home nothing there no damage now security you have to look at these claims with a jaundiced eye because after a period of time you take a look at him and there's no danger as you mention the obama administration has prosecuted more of.