coming up on r t turkey's streets are now why world of tear gas and water cannons police and protesters clashed in the latest crackdown of those raising their voices against the nation's prime minister more on this on rust up ahead and he might just be the world's most sought after man but n.s.a. leaker edward snowden is nowhere to be found hong kong politicians are telling him to get out while american lawmakers are telling him to come home and face the music will dive into the snowden saw go ahead and bradley manning on trial the whistleblower could spend the rest of his life in jail for leaking u.s. government secrets an update on the trial coming up.

it's tuesday june eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r t we begin tonight with the unbelievable sights and sounds coming out of turkey government forces have moved in on protesters and are attempting to shut down demonstrations sites particularly attacks from square in istanbul here is how the scene played out earlier tonight. turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan said that he has quote no more tolerance for the anti-government protests that have swept the country these are the biggest political demonstrations to hit this country in decades for more on

this developing situation i'm joined now by. the director of the turkish project at c.s. i yes thank you so much for joining me so talk about this crackdown of the protesters doesn't indicate a turn in these protests that started all this very peaceful in one square when it was an act it was peaceful until the police intervene very early in the morning of may thirty first so to be june eleventh so this is been going on for twelve days they began in busy park and then they continued into pex and square and what the government did today was to use the police to clear the square but they have yet to clear the demonstrators in gives the park and the prime minister is committed to actually getting them out so you could raise the place and put it into operation his plan to implement a project which does not involve a park but it may involve a shopping center. reconstruction

a military barracks and so on so you know if the square is clear it is not the end of it by any means because he still has the clear the park so is it really is about a simple shopping center being built so or is it more than that is this a manifestation of growing uncertainty in this country well as the everyone has been prime minister for foreign. more than the half years he has developed he's won three elections he's developed a style which is very much he's known that that he knows best for the country and on so many issues he's so furthur in style has led to people becoming on happy but it wasn't until some recent measures which included restrictions on alcohol and the tone that he was in particular about the demonstrators that led to them boiling over so this is the biggest challenge is he said because the restrictions in decades and the biggest challenge to me is that i go on and frankly for the first

time one can say that it is a question mark over his political future and it wasn't too long ago i think it was just about a month ago that he was actually here in d.c. that came at a very interesting time i think it was on may seventeenth that he was here speaking with president obama i was right in the midst of the i.r.s. scandal that we were facing here and if you remember that was when president obama had asked for the umbrellas to bring over and shade him and the prime minister which is very funny because the media made fun of him saying that that was him trying to overshadow him trying to protect himself from the media blitz perhaps the same can be argued with this prime minister well this is very embarrassing for for a very the white house the actual meeting was on the sixteenth and president obama did devoted most of his day there are to one there was a meeting in the morning then there was the white press conference that you mention and then there was a private dinner at night with only two aides on either side and my understanding is that there was a great deal of. disagreement particular about syria business and i don't want to

president obama commit himself to a more active policy on syria which the president has been unwilling to accept he went back and chastened by this experience and knowing that the things are not going well in syria and we're going to get much worse from his point of view because the opposition was losing he decided to shore up his support in the persis led to even greater frustration on the part of the youth will bend. demonstrated in this square that not only the square but also in one car is a mirror and a whole range of other cities across their queue so let's talk about this on one hand you have the prime minister coming to the u.s. and telling mr obama that he wants him to be more aggressive when it comes to syria because syria is also known as crack of dawn on his people but at the same time could it be argued that that is exactly what's going on in turkey yes and the model of the united states had in mind for turkey for the arab countries throughout the arab spring we can now say that that you know how can turkey be an example for. the

other countries are going at least if it's behaving towards these cities in the exact same way that is that everyone used to complain about now we have a situation in which the syrians have retaliated for their own statements by saying that the syrian government is betting syrians from going to turkey because they're placed on safe. ironic that that damascus would do this through a great period this particular juncture but it underlines the contradictions in mr jones policies which are coming home to roost and we have a very short amount of time left but turkey has been fighting to get in the european union for years is that even possible at this point does this hurt it absolutely but i'm not sure that they're going to care it's because they're going cares a great deal about washington but it doesn't worry as much about brussels will end . director of the turkey project at c s i s thank you so much for weighing in thank you. now so the fall out from the revelations that the u.s. government not only has the ability to monitor your phone and your computer records but that it has been storing them in mass here's the latest information n.s.a.

leaker edward snowden is currently in hiding he was last seen in hong kong and is believed to be still in that area and surprisingly booz allen hamilton has announced that it has fired snowden for violation of the firm's code of ethics and policy meanwhile there has already been some international fallout as a result of these surveillance revelations germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that she will raise the issue of n.s.a. eavesdropping on european communications when she meets with president obama next week also the european union has issued a complaint about the spying to break it all down with me i was joined earlier by michael brooks he's a producer for the majority report as well as jesselyn radack she's the national security and human rights director at the government accountability project here in d.c. and i started off by asking michael if we can expect to see more of this international fallout relating to the story in the coming weeks. i think you'll see it in two ways we're going to continue to see i think this kind of pushback from europe on

the sort of civil liberties and monitoring questions although again. it will be interesting to see the level because we already know that the u.k. government as an example is pretty complicit in this program in some respects so let's kind of see what's this closed about maybe the level of information that european nations have had about these programs to begin with but i think you'll still see some pushback from them in that regard and then i think and other states that probably have some questionable records in these areas as well like china probably some pushback and calling us out for hypocrisy frankly since we like to lecture on these types of issues ourselves that's a very good point now just telling me you were yourself are a whistleblower you have seen this firsthand experience it firsthand tell me because what we've seen in the media recently is that the people talking about

whistleblowers or people talking about leakers people talking about american enemies so can you define the difference is there a clear difference between leakers and whistleblowers as. mr snowden is a classic whistleblower he revealed. waste and illegality patent illegality what america has been doing in. federal laws the patriot act and the foreign intelligence surveillance act unfortunately as is a case in almost every whistleblower scenario as soon as someone finds out who the whistleblower is they start focusing on that person and trying to go after them in other words shooting the messenger rather than listening to the message and it should be no mystery to anybody why he would flee because as you can see people at the highest levels of our government are talking about proclaiming him guilty before he eat. in charging him and launching a worldwide manhunt for people like him and julian asuncion worldwide manhunt like

the one for osama bin ladin now meanwhile michael in response to all of this information coming out a few lawmakers have actually come out and said that they want to rein in this program the surveillance program just a bit senator angus king said that congress should think of ways to limit the amount of data spying these agencies actually conduct senator dianne feinstein has now asked james clapper to review and quote refined these n.s.a. processes and limit the exposure to american private communications but my question to you is why does this only happening now why now that the public has found out isn't that the point of the legislative branch to keep the executive branch and others in check well that's exactly right and the legislative legislative branch has consistently kind of abdicated their responsibilities in this regard with some exceptions like senator wyden and senator udall and a few others they've kind of willingly ceded their authority on this and i think

it's particularly ridiculous in dianne feinstein's case because she's called for extraditing snowden she's made very hawkish in blanket statements about this program but now she's saying that there does need to kind of be additional oversight which is it's a very good point now and just on our team had a chance to sit down with our wiki leaks co-founder julian a songe today and he not said that he not only sympathizes with this leaker edward snowden but that he really feels like he is very much in the same position as edward snowden so let's take a listen to that. empathize having been through a very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through this interview and other ways to use the snowden's plight back in october last year i published a book called so i think punks calling for exactly that. so the action in relation

to the mass of my own stuff is developed in the united states and you know where exactly is the state is doing science and it's very pleasing to see such concrete proof presented in public so just listen as i had mentioned before your whistleblower yourself and as i have seen it i think you all over the place lately i've seen you on c.n.n. i've seen you all over where are these media stations why are people willing to listen to you now listen to what you say now well that's a good question because i represent four in a shady whistle blowers who have been saying exactly the same information for three years now you've had some of them on they have war in that n.s.a. has been spying electronically both the metadata and the content of all the digital data in the united states and i think because we finally had an actual order and an actual person who had more recent information there was a

a moment where people seem to awaken and start discussing it i feel like once a whistleblower came forward which is his right to do and i totally support him i think he's a roic for doing this but i knew it would launch a lot of people in you know in government to attacking him rather than the really amazing powerful dark issues that he brought to light which exhibit he mastered criminality against all americans and my question is why people in in europe and around the rest of the world are show angry and every american should be in the street over this won't be interesting to see how he is traded in compared to some of the other n.s.a. and other whistleblowers that we've seen in the past now michael i want to take a look at the scope of what this security information is actually dealing with for american secret now and how many people are actually dealing with that four point nine million people currently have clearance to access confidential. secret government information one point one million of them are private contractors and

eighteen thousand seven hundred fifty are both allen hamilton employees specifically now let's go a step above that now of the people that have that security clearance one point four million people have access to top secret information and four hundred eighty three thousand of them are private contractors so can you talk about this i mean this is we're talking about a lot of people here who have access to american secrets and we end reality any one of them could have leaked this information so if prison that program is really as embrace it as warrant snowden says it is does that mean that almost five million people have the key to my digital life to your digital life. you know i that's a really good question and i think it's sort of raises the reverdy important things one is what are we class of flying and why and getting really specific in that regard you know one of jessica's clients and i'm familiar with this thomas drake

and thomas drake was really whistleblowing on basically corporate abuse and fraud in the n.s.a. in a kind of contracting process that was one thing that he was calling out of basic good government stuff so why is that classified number two i think that there's a disturbing parallel in some respects between we talked about the ninety nine percent and the one percent with regard to occupy there's a disturbing informational privilege there in terms of who has access to classified information and number three i think we see in a lot of policy areas this real space and using contractors across the board. and quantitative methods which sometimes can have value but it's a very crude and simplistic way of approaching each policy question and you see that in this area you even arguably see it in education in some respects and that opens up a lot of room for a lot of. really questionable decision making and inefficiency as well as broad

access to our private lives like you raise and jesselyn the director of the national security intelligence agency james clapper recently sat down with an interview with n.b.c. reporter andrea mitchell and in that interview she asked him did you lie to senator wyden when you were testifying on capitol hill and i looked on my person because i want to get his his quote correct he said quote he told the truth in the least untruthful manner so he responded in the least interesting man is that really the best that we can expect from our government officials from the people who are running these agencies is the least untruthful manner and i think he committed perjury frankly and should be taken to task for that and everything else he said about snowden it mean he's completely incredible. before congress and should be called out on it a lot of people have been perjuring themselves here so those just quiet and no credible kind of thing and finally michael according to

a tweet that was sent out by bloomberg earlier today google when asked the government if it could publish the security data request that the n.s.a. had sent to it what's the likelihood of that happening very quickly. you know i'm really not sure about that i think again i think the real question is as with all of these things what will motivate how that information is handled will be politicized or not those are the real questions there's been all sorts of double standards with regard to how all of this type of information has been handled and that's a real core part of the problem all right michael brooks producer of the majority report and jesselyn radack the national security and human rights director at the government accountability project thank you both for joining us thank you well edward snowden might be of trying to avoid the public eye but private first class bradley manning was front and center in court today as week two of his trial forced on now is the defense's turn to question the computer forensic analysts about what they were able to find and if they were able to prove conclusively that bradley

manning believed all of this content with malicious intent arcee correspondent liz wahl joined us earlier from court in fort meade maryland to fill us in on the very latest. we heard testimony from a number of computer forensic analysts first to take the stand was a military computer analyst a man by the name of jose berg now he talked about a conference he attended in berlin germany back in december two thousand and nine it's a it's called the here be dragons. communications conference it's organized by the chaos communications club now this is an annual event that brings together tech savvy people from all over the world thousands of people annually attend this event everybody from computer hackers to their computer experts now. those berg describe that to issues were highlighted at this event net neutrality and wiki leaks we know that as he testified julian assange himself was there to talk about

his organization the organization of wiki leaks and what this organization is. attendees to come forward and leak information what happened is the defense ended up cross cross-examining i was asking him if there was any mention of terrorist attacks on mention made any mention of aiding terrorists which has said that there was no mention of that you might be wondering why this is significant well as we know there are a number of chance charges against the army private the most serious of which is aiding the enemy and this could be there's a big burden of proof there to prove that manning did in fact when he leaked this information to try to to help the enemy and in danger national security and lose how did the both the prosecution and the defense react to this kind of information . well there was a couple of interesting developments to tell you one one thing that stirred the

most reaction in the media room today were some of there were journals that were some of his supporters it was this was this testimony by a computer analyst so the really going to tell you why this is significant in the opening arguments of this case the prosecution said that they would prove that manning sent classified videos to a man by the name of jason katz now he was a department of energy employee back in two thousand and nine we're talking about an unseen video reportedly shows a military helicopter firing down on civilians in afghanistan resulting in mash casualties now the prosecution said that they were going to prove that manning sent this video to cats back in two thousand and nine manning said that he didn't send any didn't leak any information until two thousand and ten now today on the stand. shaver a special agent or excuse me a military analyst was asked is there any connection between katz and my client

to which shaver said no that was our to correspondent liz wall reporting from the bradley manning trial. well as we've seen in recent days with the n.s.a. leaker edward snowden bradley manning has as many civilian supporters as he does the government critics the ground support network has conducted numerous protests all over the years in support of the whistleblower these protests started off with just a few people but of the expanded well beyond that supporting the private first class is becoming more mainstream take a look at this. we have to be good with the cables were not top secret stuff. that observed charge. you saw in the medical things. things but belonged to the company and not the sensors are stored in a dark room in washington d.c. what would you what do you do what would you what would you want. him

bradley. bradley manning. bradley bradley manning bradley manning brothers bank which we have all my family banning. so various saw celebrities like maggie gyllenhaal and russell brand along with whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg supporting the twenty five year old bradley manning has spent over one thousand and one hundred days in pretrial detention but with the start of this trial he is finally being knowledge both by the government as well as the public. well there's another scandal brewing in washington d.c. and this time it involves sex drugs and the state department and internal memo from the state department's inspector general listed eight examples of wrongdoing by agency staff or contractors they include former secretary of state hillary clinton security detail hiring prostitutes while traveling with her u.s. ambassador who trolled public parks for paid sex and

a security official in favor of two committed sexual assaults on foreign nationals the internal memo sought the light of day thanks to a lawyer for a whistleblower who used to be the senior inspector general investigator over the state department it's reported officials trying to use their authority to stop these investigations which might be a whole new scandal in itself now according to c.b.s. news four members of clinton's security detail received one day suspensions you may recall back in april two thousand and twelve several members of the president's security detail were caught in a prostitution scandal in colombia. well this week peru's president oh yeah oh yah. i actually made his first official visit to the united states and met with president obama today at the top of the agenda trade and the transpacific partnership the t p p is a huge trade deal currently being negotiated behind closed doors among the twelve

pacific region nations the most recent round was in lima peru in may while congress has the legal authority for regulating u.s. trade it has not been allowed access to draft texts instead hundreds of private sector advisors have been working in that treaty just one concern arising from the link to document is that as with past free trade agreements corporations would be empowered to sue host countries they feel are hurting their bottom lines in other words the t.p. would have more power than any participating countries law peru has seen this before under previous agreements american owned ranko group inc demanded eight hundred million peruvian dollars to pay for their actual findings the problem was concerning a metal smelter ranked as one of the most polluted places on earth their complaint that when the government didn't give them more time to clean up the mess they were

violating ranko investor rights and needed to compensate mining has historically been a driving economic force and poor rule and with the recent dip in poor economic growth whom allah has declared new investments in the country of national interest. well thanks ever so noted in the public is once again reminded of the dangers found in the expansion of government surveillance unfortunately this isn't the first time the us government has violated the civil liberties of americans in the greater interest of national security of this country time and again politicians have decided that the public is to be protected by violating the brightest value that the nation was actually founded on sometimes it might seem that fears of a surveillance state is simply in the now but it is also quite a part of our history for a trip through history the residence laurie harshness tells us more.

it was shocking to learn that the u.s. government was secretly collecting millions of phone records from verizon recently but before we even had a chance to digest that the world learned that the u.s. government was collecting data directly from the servers of google apple facebook and other internet giants effectively spying on us all and has really shocked everyone but the truth of the matter is the u.s. has always surveilled its citizens in two thousand and one the government enacted the patriot act which significantly broadened their legal right to spy on citizens in a wide variety of ways all in the name of terrorism many people think that's when the

surveillance state was born but that's not the case in one nine hundred eighty three president reagan severely weakened the restrictions on the f.b.i. with this misguided mind under those the f.b.i. could conduct a full investigation if they had a reasonable indication of criminal activity that vague language reasonable indication has given the f.b.i. wiggle room to pretty much watch anyone they want. during the civil rights movement of the sixty's and seventy's the government did everything they could to derail the movement through surveillance or hoover was the director of the f.b.i. for time and he sent informants to activists meetings regularly intercepted their phone calls and planted news stories to defame civil rights leaders to be on. and he also secretly illegally monitored anti-war protests and groups in the forty's

the us had mccarthyism which was little more than an illegal which hunt that entails the government spying on anyone they didn't like the forty's also saw the passage of executive order nine zero six six which allows the government to round up american citizens who happen to be of japanese descent and put them into internment camps that is a non parallel the level low of surveillance there was the chinese exclusion act of eight hundred eighty two where the government targeted chinese citizens there was also the alien and sedition act of seventy ninety eight which allowed the government to detain citizens the habit of spying on citizens goes back to this country's birth the internet has just made it all a helluva lot easier and we all willingly participate we know facebook and google privacy policies suck but we still use them so the bottom line is that the real surprise isn't that they are tracking us it's the fact that we continue to be

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