thank you and it's a. it's week two of the bradley manning trial the wiki leaks whistle blower could spend the rest of his life in jail for exposing the true face of the iraq war and update on the trial just ahead. this is the truth this is what's happening you should decide what you're doing. and the source of the n.s.a. leaks reveals himself to the world edward snowden is now in hong kong with plans to seek asylum in iceland we'll tell you more about this ines a whistleblower and the latest developments in this explosive story and a milestone in congress representative john dingell becomes america's longest serving congressman but that raises questions should there be a limit on how long a person can serve look into that issue later in the show.

it's monday june tenth eight pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching r t well we begin tonight with the trial of army private first class bradley manning in fort meade maryland today's hearing resume just as a news broke of yet another whistle blower that whistleblower has been identified as edward snowden but before we get to that story today the prosecution in the manning case will slated to focus on a specific video that the private first class had leaked to wiki leaks the video showed an airstrike that happened back in two thousand and nine in afghanistan at least twenty six civilians were killed in that attack however the court spent the majority of the morning talking about computer forensics and bradley manning's internet searches correspondent liz wahl joined me earlier with the very latest information coming out from that trial take a look. for week two of the bradley manning trial here in fort meade maryland and

today we heard testimony from a number of witnesses mostly in relation to computer forensic analysis first up on the stand today was a man by the name of the buchanan he is a contractor for the n.s.a. he was also trained at security for something called intel legs and was not is a web based search under used by the u.s. intelligence community and that allows users to find all kinds of information including top secret information and so the point of this testimony is to authenticate evidence proving whether what bradley manning searched for in terms of the information that he's accused of leaking we also heard from another analyst. a man by the name of david shaver he is a special agent for the computer crimes investigative unit he provided for more parental canalis says and he will be able to verify that here in searches did in fact happen he says bradley manning searched the terms of wiki leaks dawn and

iceland those specific terms back in december of two thousand and nine so today mostly mostly details in regards to evidence computer based forensic evidence and as i understand it later they were supposed to talk about examining a certain video today that showed the deaths of twenty six civilians in afghanistan did you hear anything about that today. dad did not happen today they did go on recess at two pm a very lengthy recess they said it was they went on recess excuse me a new birth supposed to resume back at two pm didn't resume back until two forty five up until that point that we went on recess it was mostly all talking about a computer forensic analysis they did not discuss at that as of this point that i left the point that you did not discuss that video but there were reports circulating that that was going to be one of the main highlights of today's testimony. circulating that there is another video separate from the now infamous

collateral murder video in baghdad of two thousand and nine the apache helicopter. you know what area forces shooting down an innocent civilians on the ground this is something separate according to reports. of a helicopter shooting down on civilians resulting in casualties in afghanistan now this did not happen but we were told you were provided a list of forgot that equipment is on deck and i do know that at least at some point whether it's today or some point this week we do have a pilot in apache helicopter pilot slated to testify as of today that that did not happen now this trial has been overshadowed by a new whistleblower that is and i say leaker edward snowden so i want to talk about this because also julian assange about edward snowden on sky news if we can talk what he said he said quote edward snowden is

a hero who has informed the public about one formulation of a mass surveillance state what other countries need to do is line up and give their support to him everyone should go to their local properly titian's and press and demand they step forward and offer mr stoughton asylum in their country it will be telling to see which countries genuinely protect human rights and genuinely protect the privacy of the public so lives talk about this was anything said about edward snowden today. well not in the trial but i can tell you up on the media there. yeah it's impossible not to draw these parallels between bradley vetting edward snowden they're both relatively young they have bradley manning who admitted to one of the largest military leaks in u.s. history snowden now accused or it also admitted to one of the biggest leaks and the national security administration's history so of course. we did hear from snowden

trying to said apart from adding saying that he scrutinized the document a little bit more or of was very very careful in terms of what information he released and released the information to kind of drawing that distinction between him and bradley manning but i did speak to the press spokesperson of the bradley manning support network today and he was very quick to point out the similarities saying that both bad did it what they did in the interests of transparency and the public's right to know marty correspondent liz wahl reporting from fort meade maryland thank you so much was. well over the weekend the guardian revealed the name of the man who leaked documents detailing the n.s.a. is top secret surveillance program on american from pewter networks this is the leaker twenty nine year old edward snowden he is a high school dropout who was a former employee of the cia so didn't work for the n.s.a. for four years through different private contractors most recently he was an employee of booz allen hamilton living with his girlfriend in hawaii and making

a six figure salary but he gave it all up and here's why i'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office watches what what's happening and goes this is something that's not our place to decide the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong. and there's more we also learned this weekend about a program known as boundless informant that catalogs the trillions upon trillions of commuter computer communications the n.s.a. collects from around the world as a result of this massive intelligence leak the department of justice has announces launching a criminal investigation also numerous lawmakers are demanding for edward snowden to be extradited and prosecuted for leaking national security secrets now some of those lawmakers went so far as to call the former n.s.a. contractor. defector and an american enemy but while all eyes are trained on the

man who leaked this information to the guardian relatively few are focusing on the director of national intelligence that being james clapper the leaked documents prove that clapper lied when he was testifying in front of the senate intelligence community committee and march there clapper testified that the n.s.a. was not collecting meditate on the public of the american public so why are authorities looking to prosecute snowden while they are keeping their hands off of quite far political commentator sam sachs looks that the man who no one else seems to want to question if you have a contractor that has been hired who is then hired this twenty nine year old who's now holed up in some hotel room in hong kong claiming to be the defender of democracy somehow in the people's republic of china if anyone were to violate the law by releasing classified information outside the legal avenues certainly that individuals should be prosecuted that the full extent of the law that's house

majority leader eric cantor already turning up the heat on n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the man behind a series of leaks laying bare the united states's national surveillance complex the chairman of the house homeland security committee peter king has chimed in to releasing a statement saying the united states government must prosecute snowden to the fullest extent of the law and begin extradition proceedings at the earliest and then the two chairs of congress's intelligence committee's representative mike rogers and senator dianne feinstein weighed in is dangerous to us it's dangerous to our national security and it violates the oath of which that person so i absolutely think they should be prosecuted if i say i do snowden is now promising more leaks about what exactly is going on within the n.s.a. and while wall makers have harsh words for these leaks they seem to be ignoring the consequences of the revelations where they believe that top obama administration officials are routinely lying to congress about which. really going on at the

n.s.a. this was director of national intelligence james clapper testifying in the senate back in march could give me a yes or no answer to the question does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all i'm illions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly and then snowden's leaks broke showing that the n.s.a. was indeed collecting data on millions of americans using verizon networks and that a top secret program known as prism has the n.s.a. plugged right into the servers of leading internet providers capable of siphoning off information about what individuals including americans are doing online snowden's latest leak is about n.s.a. tool known as a boundless informant which records in analyzes all the locations around the planet where the n.s.a. is gathering data and just how much data they're collecting it revealed that just in march of this year the n.s.a.

collected ninety seven billion pieces of intelligence all around the world including three billion pieces right here in the united states but last year when the n.s.a. was specifically asked by senators to give information on how many americans had their communications reviewed the intelligence community's inspector general responded in a letter saying quote obtaining such an estimate was beyond the capacity of the n.s.a. and dedicating sufficient additional resources would likely impede the n.s.a.'s mission snowden's revelations have rocked the intelligence community they've exposed the lack of oversight congress has given to the white house's domestic spying operations the question is will congress use this new information to rein in the surveillance state and hold white house officials who lied to them accountable or will they go after the messenger and make sure snowden pays a high price for blowing the whistle in washington sam sat r.t. for a deeper look into the. and i say phone and computer surveillance as well as the leaker

edward snowden himself i was joined earlier by sharon bradford franklin she's a senior counsel at the constitution project as well as david cole a pinto david is the legal director of the national whistleblower center and i mean and by asking david to talk about edward snowden's leak and how it compares to other leaks in history from people like john kiriakou bradley manning and even david l. daniel ellsberg take a look this is probably the biggest whistleblower disclosure since daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers and individuals like mr snowden who work for contractors of intelligence agencies or even intelligence agency employees have no place to go to make this type of disclosure so it really shouldn't be a surprise to the obama administration that someone has again chosen to communicate grave problems with this surveillance system to

a member of the news media show that we be surprised at how snowden outed himself was that a smart move on his part it was a smart move for him to stay alive number one it's a very dangerous thing that he is doing for his own family's own safety and to come public in this way i think is a very admirable thing all right sharon i was able to catch up with n.s.a. whistleblower bill bennie about the prism program which allegedly allows the n.s.a. to access online data from nine of the largest internet companies in the country this is what he had to say. my personal view is that the intelligence community is bamboozling congress and the administration they are telling them that we have to do this in order to find the bad guys in the networks and that's just absolutely false you don't have to do that there were ways and means to do that and i lost that ability and capability with them and they just threw it away so instead they

opted to collect every but everything they could about everybody in this country and one of the reasons is that that they would want to do that the only one i could think of is they want to be able to leverage anybody in this country so essentially what bill binney is saying there is that the government chooses what is and what is not legal and sometimes it could be to the betterment or detriment of that person it really just depends on how that wants how the government wants to use it so do you agree with that kind of analysis and talk about the use of the prison program as a leverage against a citizen well the prism program has been linked to the five amendments that that's the authority the government is citing and we already knew with the passage of that act that the standards for the government collecting all sorts of information about communications are fairly low they are supposed to be targeting foreigners located abroad so people who don't have fourth amendment rights but they can collect communications even if they're it's reasonably likely that an american is on the

other end of that communication and what's particularly troubling one of the items as particularly troubling with this disclosure about the prism program is the standard they're applying is just a fifty one percent likelihood that the targets are actually foreigners located abroad that's not a very high standard and that's something that a bill bennett brought up again so let's talk about this but first of all n.s.a. spokesperson judith and emmel told the guardian that the n.s.a. can't identify the people communicating by using their method data and that is something that builds any laughed at so take a listen to this. on the one side you have phone numbers now these phone numbers whether they're whether they're your landline phone or your mobile phone or your satellite phone all connect into this public switch telephone network and those numbers that are unique in the world and you're talking about switches that are routing these communications from one point of the earth to another and they have to know exactly where to send it so you know exactly where it went and exactly

where it's coming from so there's no question that you shouldn't has fairly ninety nine point nine nine nine percent accuracy on identifying that so you pointed out holes in that fifty one percent accuracy he pointed out holes in that fifty one percent accuracy talk about being able to identify people well this is something that very senators like senator wyden and udall have been asking the government to do for some time now they're saying we know there's a possibility you can intercept communications under the five amendment acts that have americans on one end tell us how often this is happening so we can make sure to incorporate safeguards and the director of national intelligence has said we don't have a way of estimating that and so this is obviously calling that into question and we should force the government to look at this more seriously and to build in safeguards to prevent the collection of americans communications to greatest extent possible under this program now david let's talk about whistle blowing whistle blowing is defined as bringing government illegality into the public eye it's all

these programs have the courts and the legislatures backing them is what edward snowden is doing is that illegal. if you read the transcript of his interview to the guardian which was published over the weekend he explains actually he was asked what is it about these leaked documents that what's in them what's going to show and his response was they're going to show that the n.s.a. routinely lies to congress and that the in n.s.a.'s responses to senator wyden and to. mr udall were wrong and false that is whistle blowing now here and pay backing off of what we just heard and then as senator a brock obama back in two thousand and seven in talk about warrantless wiretapping let's take a listen to what he had to say i will provide our intelligence and law enforcement

agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom that means no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime no more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war no more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient to. now president obama is a constitutional law professor much like yourself does he need a refresher course on the constitution or is what he's saying in this program constitutional well from what we know so far there's certainly been an aggressive interpretation of the statute the surveillance laws on both the section two fifteen of the patriot act that's been cited for the rise in order and the five amendments act and particularly with regard to the five amendments act when you have an interpretation that is so broad so far reaching it certainly intrudes on american fourth amendment rights and it's very hard i think to argue otherwise and

under section two fifty the patriot act of arisan order program it's hard to see how the ellens that they're doing collecting these phone records on millions of americans. is relevant to a counterterrorism investigation that this relax standard under section two fifteen so it's stretching the statutory language and it is threatening compositional rights as well and finally david what's next for edward snowden well you mentioned in the beginning that there is discussion about him possibly seeking asylum and iceland or elsewhere and we just don't know what's next for him if he is presented extradited to the united states he faces prosecution like bradley manning and others under the espionage or sharon bradford franklin senior counsel at the constitution project and david cole of paint the legal director for the national whistleblower center thank you so much for playing and thank you thank you so we

know how some experts feel about what the n.s.a. is up to well what about the american public how are average americans reacting to the news of the prison program and the obama administration's actions were guarding surveillance artie's chad oil hit the streets of d.c. to find out. i would you. were tapping you know you very disappointed i prefer that they were reading my email as i feel like google is already reading them i don't like it but the biggest things about government is that respect private liberties and privacy rights we have the right to privacy but if they're tapping into all of our stuff then what happened to privacy i think everything should be private it's my business and government should have any reason to be in it since i don't know exactly what they're accessing it's hard for me to know but would they be ok with the government seeing your emails if it was for the sake of protecting the u.s. according to a c.n.n. time poll from april of this year over forty percent of americans are willing to

give up some of their civil liberties to fight terrorism in forty nine percent are not are you surprised at all by the obama administration gave themselves involved in all this not really i mean only trust the government so much. for them they're really wasting people now not so much because the obama administration yeah i'm really surprised they're not really with all the. other scandals that have been coming out recently from sort of from the patriot act on it seemed pretty clear that something like this was going on whether the government is tapping into your phone records or your e-mail account it seems that most people agree they wouldn't be surprised either way in washington i'm chad boil. still ahead here on our john dingell it's a major milestone in his career but it just might be thomas jefferson's worst nightmare the u.s. representative has now become america's longest serving congress then what is congress supposed to be a career path for

a limited tenure well look into that issue after the break. the words you heard all day long right out of the. radio guy and. what you are about to give you never think anything like that until. well it's a big week on capitol hill as one over the hill lawmaker reaches

a major milestone u.s. representative john dingell has become the longest serving congressman in american history the exam year old has served fifty seven and a half years and counting but not all are celebrating critics say this is further proof that congress is increasingly being viewed as a career instead of a public service r.c. correspondent margaret howell looks into the idea of term limits. the currently longest serving member of congress is now congressman john dingell dingell took office in one thousand nine hundred fifty five holding on to his congressional seat for the past fifty seven years meanwhile a gallup poll from last week said that seventy one percent of us think that congressional term limits are a good idea remaining relevant to constituents after spending so long on capitol hill isn't clear what is clear though although times are changing congressional seats art once members are in office in most cases they can win reelection after

reelection easily nine out of ten times according to open secrets to out of work the public's dissatisfaction and distrust of congress in general is reflected in a recent rasmussen poll conducted that subtly six percent of us think that congress is doing a good job in a five to four decision in one thousand nine hundred five the supreme court ruled that term limits for congress are unconstitutional looks like for now if you land yourself a seat in congress it is yours until your district decides to throw you out last week senator dingell surpassed senator robert byrd for congressional longevity you remember byrd died in office after holding his seat in the senate from one thousand nine hundred fifty nine to two thousand and ten or do you remember strong thurmond aged ninety eight who died in office there was an actual ambulance parked outside the capitol for several days on standby seemingly waiting for senator thurmond to expire and earlier this month senator frank lautenberg died during his second round at office just after saying he wouldn't seek

a sixth term with little to no congressional turnover this could be one explanation as to why politics in our country don't change either congressional stagnation theory quine by political science author david mayhew attempts to explain that higher rate of incumbency reelection to the u.s. house of representatives in recent years this rate has been over ninety percent or higher this stagnation may attribute to preserve. ring the status quo may use theory was coined in the one nine hundred seventy three cycle house still has an eerie element of truth to it doesn't it thirteen years ago and the two thousand elections arguably the most controversial presidential election in u.s. history congressional quarterly put out a list they stated that three hundred fifty nine of the four hundred thirty five members of congress for save i.e. guaranteed reelection safe and stagnant are two terms that seem to coincide with congressional incumbency in washington margaret howell r t well they've all done it

from time to time politicians changing their minds on different matters over the years but when the public football public figure flip flops on an important issue it's never a great fit even president obama is guilty of it senator obama promised privacies to the american public president obama has overseen the prison program and much much more for her two cents on the president's changing stance on privacy and national security the residents lori confidence. aren't just shoes you wear at the beach that are horrible for your feet they are

also a favorite habit of politicians where they flip from standing behind what agenda and flock right to standing behind the exact opposite agenda they stand at a podium passionately supporting a position they once publicly denounce expecting as all of them by it but we have a collective case of every need. all politicians do it and they do. an apologetic please and right now if president obama turned we all know that we're rock the ports the notion of the government collecting as much data as possible on everyone and everything under the sun in the name of national security or at least we know he supports it right now right now it's convenient for him to support the collection of data on private law abiding citizens because it's been exposed that his administration does it to ridiculous lengths so of course the third is a podium recently and full on support of the government collecting as much data on

as many people of possible. which is a tremendous flip blot from where he stood in two thousand and five he was a senator back then and he sponsored a bill called the safe act which would have amended the patriot act to require government agents to show they have quote specific and articulable facts that a targeted person is an agent of a foreign power before accessing their phone records the safe act would have outlawed the data collection best iraq has obviously been doing and vehemently defended recently and he sponsored that bill back then. then in two thousand and seven when he was getting ready to run for president he literally said these words he said his national security vision quote means no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of

a crime. if you see the flip right well you know what i think i see the flop which is this our belief in any politician ever they all flip flop whenever it's convenient they don't care about issues they care about their careers and their pocket and they will espouse any belief if it helps them get ahead so i'm not surprised that rocks flip. opcode luckily i'm data collection i'm surprised that any of us still believe and me being that comes out of a politician's mouth so it's time for us to kick off our own flip flop get off our permanent mining vacation to the beach put on some grownup shoes and feta our politicians in that we don't believe you anymore tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident.

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