coming up on our t.v. while the guantanamo bay hunger strike could ten use attempts to close the detention facility appear to be going nowhere house republicans have suggested legislation that would keep the facility open and block transferring suspects in the u.s. or to other country more on this battle over get the most straight ahead. it's been three days since the bradley manning trial but manny's defense explains that sharing information with wiki leaks was for the public good while supporters of bradley manning still gather outside the courtroom updates on this case just ahead . protesters are still on the streets rallying against turkey's prime minister there's growing criticism of the turkish police with excessive force including the use of that u.s. made tear gas for the clashes later in the show.

it's wednesday june fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret how well you're watching r t. and the house armed services committee began consideration this morning of the national defense authorization act for twenty fourteen this bill will appropriate funding to the military in the coming fiscal year some highlights of the current draft bill involve detention facility at guantanamo bay the language of the current access that congress maintains the bipartisan prohibition against the transfer of detainee is from guantanamo bay to the united states or to countries with confirmed cases of transfer detainees returning to the fight this sums up the sentiment from earlier in the week that congress wants to keep the detention facility open and funded a sensibly barring the administration from transferring its terrorist suspects to

prisons within the united states or to foreign countries without the use of the national security waiver earlier i was joined by our chief political commentator sam sax and i asked him how the new ending a proposal what effect the status of one tom oh it's a new version for two thousand and fourteen of the national defense authorization act but it contains the same provisions from last year's n.d.a. when it comes to pantani about and that is you know as you mentioned explicitly ban on any of the fines are authorized in the national defense of authorization act to be used to transfer any prisoners from guantanamo to the united states or to any other country that has seen release prisoners or reengage in terrorist activity one of the ranking members on the house armed services committee democrat jim smith immediately took issue with with this language i think we have a clip of it right here. continued presence and want to animal bay prison i think is a stain upon this country it's becoming unsustainable it was built as

a temporary facility ten years ago and there is two hundred fifty million dollars in military construction requests just to keep it temporary given its location and given the difficulties of maintaining it that's always going to be a challenge to members think long and hard about what we're going to do about the hundred sixty six people who are down to kuantan i'm obey and the fact that that is simply not a sustainable situation we need a reasonable alternative really congressman smith went on to say that he doesn't have the votes though i mean this is a committee that's dominated by republicans and is so if president obama wanted to reengage with congress on this issue of guantanamo he's not off to the best start because republicans don't seem to want to do anything but they did still leave this national security waiver in the n.d.a. which gives the president obama the authority to start transferring prisoners out of guantanamo bay if he says it's in the national security interest the nation he

can do it right now he just chooses not to make them has some authority there that he may not want us to know about ok so the broader war on terror i want to take you to that now in afghanistan what does the n.b.a. mean for future conflicts if you can talk about your so the n.b.a. authorizes funding for our wars our war in afghanistan now it does put some strings attached in this year funding for afghanistan that basically says that any funding to train afghan security forces is contingent on the fact that we come up with a bilateral agreement with afghanistan to make sure that we keep troops there beyond twenty four thousand some sort of safety agreement there which could mean anywhere from twelve thousand to you know even more troops that remain in afghanistan moving forward as far as this broader war on terrorism. i guess the war against associated forces of al qaida as the obama and mr. as to find it in the a u m f this particular m.d.a.

does have some language that's going to require the administration to require the department of defense to it to identify who these associated forces of al qaeda are that we are at war with we learned from the wiki leaks release a few years back that there are over sixty organizations that the department of defense has labeled as associated forces about credit they include things like the iranian intelligence pakistani intelligence his blog hamas so congress wants the department of defense to come to them and. i mean why we are at war with these associated forces a lot to get to in this bill sam i want to take you now to the drone killing program does the n.b.a. mention this and has congress put any additional oversight in place regarding it kind of when the president gave a speech a few weeks ago he said that he has consulted congress on on drone strikes and on missions that go beyond our traditional war theater of afghanistan and that's partly true but there is

a provision in this by max thorn congressman mack thornberry he's a republican he's the chair of the armed services subcommittee on emerging threats and it basically codified this requirement for the administration to come to congress and tell them of any any targeted killing strikes and capture missions that happen around the world not in countries that were directly at war with like afghanistan so this is something of the administration is kind of already been doing but this codified to make sure that future administrations do it do it as well so this is slight oversight of the drone program but it's after the fact it really doesn't give congress any leeway to determine you know how these strikes are carried out it just allows congress some insight into you know what the administration is doing as far as it comes to this targeted killing program a hodgepodge of issues under this bill moving out of a hearing for the war machine and then i met a pretty vast topic i ok so moving quickly now to syria i understand that congress

has mentioned syria in this upcoming bill is that correct sure there's this is of course we're talking about the house version of this bill here and there's language in the bill to require the department of defense to come to congress and lay out all the options that are on the table when it comes to syria. there is nothing in this bill about funding the syrian opposition interesting way a few weeks ago the senate foreign affairs committee passed. passed a provision legislation that would fund. syrian opposition so and next week the senate will take up their own national defense authorization act they'll begin debate on that and they might throw something in there abouts about arming the opposition we don't know yet in which case the house and the senate will have to kind of work that out but so far nothing in the house bill about funding the syrian opposition just a requirement for the department of defense to lay out all the options that are on the table for congress this seems to be so much going on in the n.b.a. coming up i want to talk you know about the sequester it seems to impact everything

except for the n.b.a. and its provisions certainly haven't seemed to affect it get my way any you know has the money flash across the board affected any of these programs well that's going to i think that a lot of the legislators in the house armed services committee still have this strange belief that this question is not going to take hold that somehow congress is going to come to come to a deal republicans will agree to tax hikes that's not going to happen the sequester is going to kick in and. a lot of these funding levels are going to be cut by about eight percent. in each each defense program so there will be an impact here it seems like lawmakers are trying to boost spending on spending levels in certain programs before that sequester takes takes effect there was a lot of concern about certain money that's being being spent there was huge opposition to any base closings even though we know that sequester is coming down there's still a lot of money that they want to spend on missile defense programs on the on the west coast in east asia and still a lot of money going to israel's iron dome missile defense system still despite all

the concept so much to talk about with this you know we are out of time unfortunately thank you for that so that was our tea political commentator sam sachs. day three of the court martial of private first class bradley manning continues today and manning twenty five is accused of handing over hundreds of thousands of classified state department cables along with sensitive government documents to the web site wiki leaks the disclosure that amounts to the largest breach of classified information in u.s. history back in february manning pled guilty to ten lesser charges of misusing classified material it's get it still accused of aiding and abetting the enemy a charge that carries a life sentence if convicted in his opening statement on monday manning's attorney david coombs stated manning's motivation for leaking the information saying quote he believed that the information showed how we value human life in iraq he was troubled by that and he believed that if the american public saw it they too would

be troubled and maybe things would change the prosecution disagrees with him saying many game final information that compromised u.s. national security interests for the latest i was joined earlier by our two producer on a stop. there. and she was at fort meade covering the trial i started off by asking her just what she learned today well there's just a lot today we saw more testimony from the witness list of the prosecution including. a showman who was manning's immediate supervisor in iraq also. going to other senior intelligence officer that worked to with manning in iraq as well in his same unit and also another target officer in the intelligence unit in iraq with him now moving you know going back a little bit this isn't the first time the drily a showman was actually at ford means she actually testified before hand in one of the first pretrial hearings back in october of two thousand and eleven there she

actually talked about a physical articulation that she. karen manning where there ended up in physical assault and manning was actually subsequently demoted he ended up punching her in the face that's what court documents say she didn't go into that specifically today however she did go on record saying that she believed the man and should have never ever been deployed in iraq due to his mental instability and his actual emotional state i see i know you've been following this really closely i want to talk about the prosecution i'm sure that you're noticing a pattern with them a strategy if you talk to me about that absolutely now that it's day three of the trial things are sort of coming into focus and there are two very big things that the prosecution is trying to really hammer home which is a that private manning knowingly leaked classified information and he knew the representatives that that would bring to him and being you know being an intelligence officer being trained in that and that he also intended to harm by

those that release and b. that he actually aided the enemy by giving that information to wiki leaks as the prosecution said in their opening statements they are trying to prove that the documents that he released that were posted on on wiki leaks were actually found in the compound of osama bin laden hands read by al qaeda so they're trying to make that trying to make those dots trying to connect those dots rather in order to show that he aided the enemy and that you know he actually helped terrorism move forward those are the most important things that they're trying to they're trying to hammer home they're basically they're saying that manning aided some of the loddon it sounds like terrorists in general that by giving that information to wiki leaks he was able to actually a the enemy because everyone had access to that but also we are reminded that not only did terrorists read that that same information was published in the new york times in the guardian so everyone had access to that information so that brings up

a whole other host of of. problems than actually we can go on and on and on and on and to talk about ok so we understand the prosecution side talking about the defense i know that they are melting a defense for private and i'm absolutely well they're trying to take another approach to that as we all know manning already pled to ten lesser charges however he still faces life in prison for aiding the enemy what he did coombs is trying to do and trying to protect is another and complete different picture of many that he had no intent to harm when releasing that information that he knowingly did release information but he was trying to as you put it earlier changed the world trying to create more debate and that he saw wrongdoing and he wanted to to change that that was one of the big issues yesterday and adrian lamo is testimony where you could see coombs trying to sort of. trying to paint sort of you know make allusions

towards between him and private manning as if to say that they were both they were both just very naive the young men that were caught up in something that was too big for them and that they really had no idea that this is what would end up being andrea we're running out of time but i want to get to this really quickly what's the support for him like what are people outside supporting him and what's next for him absolutely they're you know they're very dedicated people that not only go every day to witness the court proceedings of the court martial but have been going since day one of the court of i'm sorry of the pretrial hearings back in two thousand and eleven so there are people there that are that feel very strongly about this case but now after today it seems that the trial will be on recess until next monday it seems the prosecution is ahead of schedule so we shall see a speedy trial indeed right we have to leave it there thank you so much that was

our cue producer utterly sero. staff sergeant robert bales the soldier accused of the deadliest war crime by an american soldier in this post nine eleven error pled guilty today to murdering sixteen afghan civilians most of which were women and children to avoid the death penalty bales entered his plea in a military courtroom south of seattle this morning to sixteen counts of murder six counts of attempted murder and seven accounts of assault the charges allege that just before dawn on march eleventh of last year bale snuck out of his remote outpost and called her afghanistan and went on a killing spree in two nearby villages leaving sixteen dead including nine children during the hearing military judge colonel jeffrey nance question bales about what had happened allowing the sergeant to give his account of the massacre for the first time before deciding whether to accept his guilty plea will bales plea was accepted this afternoon in the thirty nine year old father of two from lake taps

washington will face a sentencing hearing later this summer it is the jury that will decide whether he will be sentenced to life in prison with or without the possibility of parole. well still ahead here on our t.v. cities throughout turkey have been the scene of clashes between police and protesters but besides the claims of police brutality it's also revealed that so much of the tear gas being used was actually made in the u.s. we'll tell you more about that after the break. the same story doesn't make it news no softball interviews no puff pieces so many tough questions .

more information is emerging about the. antigovernment protests underway in turkey protests stem from a sit in the square an instant poll over the government's plans to develop a shopping mall in the current park and they turned violent last friday after a police crackdown the relative spread throughout the country and what's being called the largest protest and recent turkish history and they're not just about demolishing a park protestors are calling out turkish prime minister russia. for what they're saying is increasing authoritarianism turkish police arrested twenty five social media users who posted updates about the protest on twitter alleging that the tweeters are inciting hatred now police have raided at least thirty eight homes cracking down on activist after finding them through their ip addresses twitter is played an enterable part in organizing these demonstrations well the turkish deputy prime minister will that are and has apologized on behalf of the police for their

violence towards demonstrators but it's a little else to curb the violence and arrest happening at the hands of police artist marie important was on hand in new york for a protest rally in support of turkish demonstrators she brings us more on the story . for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and activists of all ages have been targeted indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played a major role in aiding the police brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he's reporting to reports turkey has bought twenty one million dollars worth of tear gas and pepper spray in the past twelve years and the united states is listed as a main provider so the u.s. is one of the world's largest manufacturers and exporters of tear gas and whether

sold or given tear gas shipments from the united states to anywhere in the world must be approved by the u.s. government the three big american tear gas manufacturers non-lethal technologies defense technology and combine systems inc have reportedly exported tear gas to dozens of nations rocked by widespread protests including egypt bahrain tunisia and yemen and now as the uprisings in turkey grow more dangerous by the day dozens of activists have taken to the streets in new york city rallying our cross from the turkish consulate to condemn what they call the government's brutal and deplorable use of tear gas against its own citizens they are not so use for protesting are our prosection are humans there are no youth who are destroying our human just asking for their freedoms freedom of speech the problem is that they're using that expired

since two thousand for their pictures of it there's evidence of that is a problem every day they're using gerson worse worse and worse chemicals american activists also know what it feels like to be targeted with so-called crowd control technology tear gas. canisters were widely used against protesters participating in the occupy wall street movement and experts say that the corporations manufacturing those technologies are profiting at home and abroad by assisting governments around the world that aim to repress freedom of speech and democratic movements reporting from new york or in a fortnight or to. today marks the eightieth anniversary of the gold standard ending in the united states which comes at a time when states are individually pushing to return to the gold standard tied american currency value to gold holdings and a fixed ratio that increased over time as the dollar was periodic we devalued in

the wake of a major recession though and a massive deficit and a drop in the current see value in april gallup poll show that americans have less trust in the federal reserve to handle the us economy than either the president or congress now whatever turn to the gold standard help or just lead to chaos will artie's those wall looks into it. stubborn unemployment rates of devaluing dollar and waning trust in government policies is leading to a golden trend more than a dozen states have introduced laws to recognize gold as legal currency in two thousand and eleven utah was the first to make it legal to do business using gold and maybe arizona legislature voted to recognize gold and silver as legal tender and would become the second state to do so if the governor signs the bill the point is that we are stimulating our economy we're paying our bills by printing more money he is referring to the federal reserve and ben bernanke his decision to

implement round after round of quantitative easing bernanke is quantitative easing policies means the treasury printing more money but critics worry that this printing frenzy will lead to the dollar continuing to lose its value of d.r. took the u.s. off the gold standard in nineteen thirty three the federal reserve took over the money matters their first role was supposed to be the stability of the dollar but we haven't seen that we've seen a steady devaluation to a fraction of a cent of what the nine hundred thirteen dollars worth of the time and facts critics like peterson blame the federal reserve for the most recent economic recession but when you look at what happened in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight the monetary policies of the federal reserve wiped out enormous parts of the financial industry and people from main street to moloto wall street were wiped out among bernanke is most outspoken critics ron paul do you think gold is money. no the former presidential candidate called to end the fed we have devalued our

paper currencies gold has gone up and that's why there's consideration for many not only ron paul but steve forbes and others to talk about having some sort of modified gold standard where fiar currencies are anchored by hard assets though there is a renewed push to go gold some economists say a move back to the gold standard would be disastrous it doesn't make any sense at all i mean it would cause the great recession united states was an eight trillion dollar housing bubble a housing bubble that led to last construction and consumer consumption those opposed to bringing back the gold standard say fears of inflation are overblown the federal reserve created over two point three trillion dollars since two thousand and eight and inflation is running at about one point one percent annually right now over the last twelve months so. it's kind of.

unworkable solution to in the existing problem but the problem real or perceived is triggering a gold rush of sorts but more citizens and states losing faith in the decisions made here in washington liz wall r.t. . well in a new twist on the obama administration's battle with transparency a recent bus to geisha led by the associated press found that some of barack obama's political appointees are using secret e-mail accounts to exchange information and conduct official business instead of their official government e-mail accounts and the white house is defending it the associated press says that the practice of having multiple e-mail addresses to separate internal x. journal correspondence complicates the office's legal responsibility to hand over e-mails under open records qwest the a.p. says that they have identified secret e-mail accounts from government officials including secretary of department of health and human services kathleen sebelius

the associated press sifted through hundreds of government e-mails received through the freedom of information request but the organization was unable to find any material turned over from the secret addresses white house spokesperson jay carney acknowledged the e-mail practice and said it wasn't a big deal take a listen. this is a practice consistent with prior administrations of both parties and as the story itself may clear any for you request or congressional inquiry includes a search in all of the e-mail accounts used by any political appointee so the answer is all of this information is provided having alternate e-mail addresses for cabinet secretaries and other high profile officials makes eminent sense well he went on to say that even he has a separate government e-mail address from his own internal dealings so now that the practice is out in the open what will this mean for the future of government

transparency well the freedom of information act requests are a powerful tool for citizens to learn about their government but loopholes like these could erode their effectiveness. it's been over one hundred years since the police in the u.s. started using fingerprints to keep track of people they are rust but now we have a supreme court decision suggesting that police can even collect d.n.a. from an arrest for more on this change the war president so we harvest has more. my fellow americans if you think the u.s. government only keeps track of criminals and other bad guys who deserve it think

again because the truth of the matter is they have given themselves the right to attract any of us at any time for whatever reason they want without even telling us how well the supreme court just ruled that cops now have the right to swap people for d.n.a. upon the rest even if they have not been found guilty of a crime so yet here in the us you are innocent until proven guilty but the government is going to track you on a biological cellular level either way and the government likes to use an outdated poorly written federal statute called the electronic communications privacy act it lets them peer into anyone's e-mail account without telling the person that they are being watched and if you communicate with anyone outside of the us they like to use a contentious provision of the foreign intelligence surveillance act as a way to track you. also thanks to documents that surfaced after the government's

controversial investigation into journalist james rosen we now know that the government has no problem tracking your every move through your cell phone's g.p.s. the documents reveals that the government issues over one million surveillance requests to cell phone service providers every year and notice they do not have to tell you that you're being tracked so if you're going anyplace embarrassing you might consider leaving the cell phone at home. also police departments can now use something called the mobile recognition and information systems for morris it's a device that slides over an i phone and allows the pleased to point the phone at you to identify you to facial recognition software it doesn't matter if you've done anything wrong or not also more it can take retinal scans and fingerprints on to go so if you see a couple into an i phone at you you might want to run as if it were

a gun. worst of all the f.b.i. is building a billion dollar database to merge existing mug shots fingerprints and other biometric data into one giant all thing machines that will catalog about one third of the entire u.s. population so you do not have to be guilty of a crime you do not even have to be aware that it's happening but the government has all sorts of ways of keeping track of your every move so when it calls itself the land of the free i guess they are referring to the government itself because apparently they are free to track you however and whenever they want tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter as the resident. that's going to do it for nell for more on these stories we've covered go to

youtube dot com slash r t america check out our web site at r.t. dot com slash us you also follow me on twitter it underscore j underscore how will for now have a great night. good afternoon o. welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring in washington d.c. let's get to today's headline. there's been a lot of economic data that was released today and a bit disappointing on the housing and unemployment front first the private payrolls company reported only one hundred thirty five thousand jobs were added in may it was expected one hundred seventy one thousand that we learned that mortgage applications were down the week over the week by eleven point five percent capping a four week downward trend.