coming up on our t.v. after days about the brass what's next in turkey as night falls we'll have a report on the violent clashes between police and protesters just ahead. there's growing fallout from the revelations of the n.s.a. is a massive surveillance apparatus here in the u.s. the a.c.l.u. is filing a lawsuit against obama while the director of the n.s.a. stands by the intelligence gathering a deeper look coming up. and the bradley manning trial continues today in the court reviewed the video and the files that were leaked to wiki leaks and what was found on medics computer updates on the case coming up later in the show.

it's wednesday june twelfth four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret how well you're watching our t.v. . we begin now with the violent clashes between police and protesters in taksim square which erupted in chaos after police armed with riot gear and tear gas forced thousands of demonstrators to disband yesterday and today what began as a protest against the development of the instant ballpark the ball bearing turkey citizens to take to the streets in protest of prime minister are to once a government calling it an authoritarian regime for the eleven days straight on the streets arrest are under way police have already been cracking down on protesters who've taken to twitter and other social media sites accusing them of inciting terrorism well turkey's authority armed with riot gear sprayed protesters with water cannons and tear gas aimed at dispersing them fire rocked it on the ground an instant poll and discuss what's happening in turkey i was torn earlier by arena go

and i started off by asking her what she's seen on the ground an instant poll since the protests crackdown began yesterday. well at this point the official figures though are the figures that we're getting from the doctors association of turkey say about more than forty six hundred people have been injured and we're talking about people who have suffered from the tear gas inhalation people who have gotten scratches bruises who may have may have been beaten by police but also these are people who have sustained you know damages or i was the injuries from being from just falling on the ground as well i mean you can understand that when the police are dispersed and people when there is thousands of them out here at the scene is incredibly chaotic everybody's running and you have to remember that there were barricades was the protesters have been building steadily over the past almost two weeks or so obviously there is a lot of room for damage as far as that is concerned but we do know that there have been just least four deaths so far the protesters we're looking at a total figure so of course the casualties i don't know if they will be rising at

this point or not a but we are looking at thousands of people who have been injured olver turkey as a result of the protests all right so i read that one can you tell me what the police are saying versus what the protesters themselves are saying. well you can see that the police aren't really talking to police who was the protesters are the purchasers are basically camped out here and guess the park there's an increasing number of them right now in taksim square so it does look like we may be in for another interesting night of possible clashes and maybe tear gas as well the police are insisting that they made their brain problem with protesters is that they are obstructing the movement the traffic right here on taksim square which is actually a very busy thoroughfare for the city the protesters are saying that their demands are not being heard their rights are being violated they want their rights to be able to say that they're protesting the government's plans to get rid of gezi park or what they want to keep the park and they are absolutely determined to stay here

until they get assurances from the government that the park will stay here so at this point we also have of course the prime minister to one who says that this is. situation will be over within twenty four hours so obviously doesn't really matter probably what the police are saying it does matter what the prime minister is thinking and is directing because he is actually the man who does make all the calls in this situation ok i read as i understand it there's a war being waged in three places there's a conflict going on on the ground there is a war on television and you know the state run channel that would rather run images of penguins rather than the protests happening in their major cities stations like turkish t.v. stations have been fined by broadcasting watchdogs because they're showing protest and finally that war waged on twitter where police have actually arrested protesters tweeting about these protests how are protesters responding to this. absolutely. well they're not watching the local t.v.

that is for sure they don't trust their local media as a matter of fact so they prefer to watch international channels actually we've gotten a lot of response from people who say we go to our tea or or other channels in order to get information about what's happening but also of course nobody is going to tell them to stay off twitter. twitter as far as they know you cannot trace through a person's ip address so unless you actually confess to posting something on twitter nobody nobody actually has the right to arrest you so they're right there they're on the internet and they're of course out here on the streets as well i guess there is there is the confrontations on the streets of course but there are the protesters are absolutely determined to stay here for as long as it takes and i don't know if you can hear them behind me but they are yelling and clapping and cheering so i think i think some action is about to start a matter of fact i read it can you tell us what they're chanting. over in turkish but i do know i haven't heard the cry that they have been sounding for a while but they did have. they did have

a cheer which was. which means to go away or basically resign that did sound throughout the last ten days on taksim and pretty much all over turkey so that does seem to be the underlying message that the people in taksim and other places like on carollo or is near are directing the turkish government at the moment i read it we're running out of time here i want to get to this quickly about what's fueling this chaos now i understand that the prime minister erdogan said that he would sit down with protesters and discuss this crisis and immediately he sent special forces to talk to them as we saw with those flash bangs and the water cannons are people scared or do they feel like they're putting strong pressure on him. i don't think people are scared i think people are getting more angry that is the correct i think that is the correct word there if they were scared there wouldn't be five thousand people in gezi park right now or in. estimated five thousand people there would be people out here on the street obviously there's a lot less of them there than there were before the violent dispersal on tuesday

but they're still out here and people are still obviously walking around and they do a little bit like protesters and they're obviously protesters so they're they're getting angrier they're not scared they're just getting more determined and most of them are young people so they obviously have a lot of us durations in towards i guess making their voices heard in making their mark in their country's history that's what they have actually been telling us i really think you so much we have to leave it there we're out of time thing here that was our t. correspondent ironical whoosh. was the turkish protesters and police came so i had yesterday the u.s. mainstream media was all over it take a listen to people who are angry. and saying that the government workers are completed lying to them so where are we now richard the prime minister said we're going to stop this as you can see a very different scene here. where an easy come not at all like

yesterday that what we're seeing right now is these for these few hours after what really was the worst violence since this demonstration began. but what about the turkish media well they've been staying far far away after the turkish broadcast media watchdog find media outlets who cover the gezi protest because it quote was harming the physical moral and mental development of children and young people around a clean off the turkish media is covering the n.s.a. surveillance scandal rather than the violence gripping their own country. the fallout continues from last week's revelation about the national security agency's unprecedented mass surveillance and collection of domestic phone records yesterday the a.c.l.u. responded with a lawsuit against the obama administration for these actions is c.l.u. deputy legal director j. j. meal jaffer stated the program goes far beyond even the permissive limits set by the patriot act and represents

a gross infringement of the freedom of the association and the right to privacy members of congress are weighing in on how the government should respond to edward snowden who sell an employee who leaked documents detailing the n.s.a. surveillance to the guardian and the washington post meanwhile most of them are calling snowden a traitor who should be punished and charged for him to his disclosures congressman peter king took it a step further take a listen if they were we knew that this was caused by this nation i think action should be taken so she is on something of this magnitude i know that's the whole issue of the week she's been gone is over the last month i think something on this magnitude there is an obligation both tomorrow so we go i believe so to discuss this and other new developments i'm joined now by stanley cohen an international human rights attorney welcome mr cohen so i understand it very much thank you i understand that the a.c.l.u. has filed a lawsuit against the obama administration over the n.s.a. collecting u.s.

citizens phone records what do you make about suits or. well i think it's unprecedented in scope because the the criminal wrongdoing of this administration is unprecedented in scope i have thrilled to see the a.c.l.u. move as quickly as it has hopefully congress at least some congressional representatives will grow a backbone and will order a complete open and transparent hearing into what i consider to be an on president of violation of the first and fourth and fourteenth amendment rights of all americans ok well as we've seen congressman peter king is calling to criminalize not just people who leak the classified information but also the journalist like glenn greenwald who publish the information so it's king an outlier here sir do you think that this idea is going to catch on. peter king lives in a fantasy world where he expects americans just to listen to his nonsense peter

king's favorite allies secrecy peter king's favorite allies intimidation peter king is long been in the poena to free speech he's long gone in the ponens of of the most important aspect of our government which is the fifth estate which is robust discussion and the role of journalists in peter king's world where to leave everything up to him everything up to the government and just blink our eyes and blindly walk forward committing his crimes all over the world peter king was outraged over the investigations that had to do with weapons of mass destruction which we know did not exist in iraq peter king is always outraged over anything and anyone who dares to challenge him and others like him who believe an ignorant public is a say public right mr cohen some some strong opinions there so what would happen to the quality of journalism do you think in this country if congressman king had his way. if congressman king had his way there would be no journalism of congressman king had his way the president would simply issue press releases where the congress

would issue press releases and we would go quietly into the night blinking our eyes starstruck would dictate so mom hi this is a man who has spent his lifetime living behind closed doors in secret congressional hearings spewing forth absolute nonsense that were never reaches the air of day shows that it's ridiculous well some as we know are focusing on the leaker snowden and the leaky greenwald but others on capitol hill are zeroing in on the director of national intelligence james clapper you remember back in march clapper denied in front of the senate that the n.s.a. was collecting u.s. citizen data clearly he's been disproven here's congressman just an amish of michigan's response to that he says perjury is a serious crime mr clapper should resign immediately well clapper said that he responded in the least truthful manner is that enough for do you agree with congressman amos should he resign well i've seen the transcript and resignation

would be an easy way out for someone who took an oath and lied to congress the bigger question is that he lied to congress to protect the president that he lied to congress to protect other politicians that's why you need a complete hearing a transparent hearing it's not about throwing one person under the bus this is ministration has embraced the most repugnant the most restrictive the most illegal surveillance techniques of any administration in history with this particular program and others it's about time that the american public's treated like citizens that we are that we're allowed to weigh in that we're informed and that we get the truth and get the truth quickly before this goes any further down the wrong road ok what do you think's responsible here then is it clapper or is it president obama or bo it's obama it's obama obama is is someone who is as on wall street the c.e.o. of the united states government. either one of two things happened either obama was kept in the dark which means that it's simply an outrage or he knew about it he condoned it he ordered it you proved it there's nothing that this administration

has done that obama has not ultimately been responsible for including the prosecution of whistleblowers including the n.d.a. and including all attacks on free speech in this country today the buck stops here mr obama your responsible you should be held accountable let's see what congress does with its obligation now it will be watching and mr cohen so i want to take you quickly now you've represented as i understand it a lot of non us citizens including those that the u.s. government has deemed terrorist how does the surveillance of some of your clients compare with what's going on in uncovering about the n.s.a.'s surveillance on american citizens well i've got to tell you i've done more so-called terrorism cases real and fake than any lawyer in this country over the last twenty years ninety nine point nine percent of all the classified information is rubbish it's nonsense it's one person saying something to a thirty second person saying something to

a third person it has no integrity it has no viability it is this very type process that brought us weapons of mass destruction and killed a million iraqis once and for all the people of the street have to stand up and say to people like obama and say to peter king not on our watch secrecy is no longer the password to the democracy that we live in we're supposed to live in air the information let us select let us be informed all right and want to take you know sort of these potential companies that were involved in these internet companies who were named in these leaked documents for participating in the n.s.a.'s data collection have been speaking out to google sent an open letter to attorney general eric holder and f.b.i. director robert mueller asking if the company could make its national security requests public do you think that publicizing these requests would be helpful. we live in a free and open society at least that's what we're told ere it transparency publish it let us decide we had the church hearings thirty years ago the last time the

president ran amok deciding that they could keep secret cointelpro and keep secret the cia involvement in the united states these are matters that are not to be kept secret google and other companies should take those national security letters and thrown into the fireplace we are above all else supposed to be a free and open society the whole mark of that is the truth will always wise in the marketplace of free ideas enough secrecy enough misleading enough weapons of mass destruction in iraq enough whistleblower prosecutions enough persecutions of journalists all right so i have one final question for you i want to take you back to that a.c.l.u. lawsuit do you think that they're going to make any headway oh i think they will i mean in fact i think that they'll probably force congress to try to preempt it in some way i would expect over the next week to ten days a congressional investigation to begin it's not going to move out this lawsuit and the president will claim sovereign immunity and other defendants will say we're

held above and beyond the law because of national security but ultimately a lot of this is public a lot of this is information that sits properly in the court equal branch of government a co-equal branch of government and let the light of day hit the secrecy mr cohen we have to leave it there thank you sir that was international human rights attorney stanley cohen thank you so much. well the foreign intelligence surveillance act was created by the fifes a court back in one nine hundred seventy eight the feis a court is tasked with forcing the government to comply with search warrants before they spy on non u.s. citizens here in the states following the september eleventh attacks however the patriot act gave the face a court to low a lower legal standard to obtain those surveillance warrants and otherwise increase the court's power to find support operates with a veil of secrecy the u.s. citizens even know exist political commentator sam sachs brings us more on the powerful court and how it affects all of us this program by the way is fully

overseen not just by congress but by the pfizer court a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs to make sure that the executive branch or government generally is not abusing them and that their it's being carried out consistent with the constitution to really know what sort of oversight is applied to the n.s.a. and f.b.i. as domestic spying operations and you have to know what goes on inside a pfizer court unfortunately we're not allowed to know what goes on inside a pfizer court the court meets in secret sometimes right here at the district courthouse in washington d.c. it is the secret warrants it right secret legal opinions there is no jury there is no defense which makes you wonder why it's even called a court in the first place the pfizer court was created with the one nine hundred seventy eight foreign intelligence surveillance act to make sure authorities

obtained surveillance warrants before they spy on foreign agents within the united states. then after september eleventh the patriot act expanded the court's size and scope increasing the number of judges from seven to eleven and lowering the legal standards to obtain surveillance since the new use of the court has exploded and virtually all of these requests are approved by the pfizer court in fact since the court was created only eleven warrant requests have been rejected all more than twenty thousand have been approved so when the n.s.a. and f.b.i. wanted to collect data on millions of verizon users in the united states they went to the pfizer court to get a warrant and it wasn't the first time they have tamed such a secret pfizer warrant and it's a whistle blower bill benny the fight's a warrant that was issued to the f.b.i. to get data from verizon. that's that's been going on according to the paper anyway since not

a two thousand and seven if you look at the top corner top right corner of that order it's thirteen dash eighty that means it's the eightieth order since in this year of two thousand and thirteen but on what basis is the pfizer court granting these surveillance warrants well we can't really know since the legal justifications are kept secret so domestic spying in america is quite literally based on a secret law oregon senator jeff merkley in a democracy understanding how a statute is interpreted is essential to the conduct of our responsibility in forging forging laws and ensuring that the constitutional vision is protected to put an end to secret law senator merkley introduced legislation this week to require the attorney general to quote declassify significant foreign intelligence surveillance court opinions allowing americans to know how broad of a legal authority the government is claiming to spy on americans that legislation

has co-sponsors on both sides of the aisle and will be taken up by the senate judiciary committee meanwhile off the hill several organizations have taken up similar fights the a.c.l.u. filed a motion this week to force the pfizer court to reveal its legal opinion behind granting the verizon warrant the electronic frontier foundation has been fighting since two thousand and twelve to declassify certain files a court opinions but it shouldn't be this difficult senior obama administration officials have promised to make the legal opinions available in two thousand and eleven the former assistant attorney general of the united states lisa monaco promised members of the senate intelligence committee that she would quote work to ensure that the department continues to work to make this important body of law as accessible as possible but so far nothing some other. bombshell leaks have revealed the inner workings of the n.s.a. there's a renewed call for more oversight but the best of the white house and congress can

offer is a secret court with secret legal proceedings that issue secret warrants and right secret legal opinions so that sound like oversight to you in washington same sex are two. still ahead here on our t.v. the bradley manning trial continues with a look at the files that were leaked this includes the get no files and the videos of war that wiki leaks may have obtained from bradley manning we'll bring you updates on this review after the break. the same story doesn't make it news no softball interviews no puff pieces some tough questions.

well it's the sixth day of the trial whistleblower and for me armor army intel officer first class private bradley manning it continues today the court is considering whether manning's first charge the release of the video of the deadly attack in afghanistan could be a challenge because of conflicting dates and times of when this video was transmitted they're attempting to determine whether manning began sending classified information to wiki leaks within weeks of starting an intelligence analyst job in iraq in two thousand and nine for more on this article is wallace out for me today covering private manning struggle. well today is day six of bradley manning's court martial here in fort meade maryland today we heard more forensic computer analysis from mark johnson he's an army computer crimes investigator and he testified about what he found on manning's personal laptop what

he found when he combed through the hard hard drive of manning's mac book pro a couple of interesting findings johnson said he found chat logs between two elio says below believed to belong to julian assange the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks these two names are press association and nathaniel frank and he says he found a long list of chats between manning and a songe he says that they discussed everything from iceland to iraq. to wiki leaks much of this information is classified defense then cross-examined the witness asked if there was any evidence that a songe asked for specific information the answer to that was no also asked of the witness if there was any evidence that manning was searching anti-american websites johnson said the answer to that was no also in continuation two major developments yesterday. in the beginning of this trial the prosecution said that they were going

to be able to prove this link between bradley manning and a man by the name of david capps that manning actually sent this video of a deadly attack in afghanistan and the farah province resulted in mass casualties mass deaths that they were going to prove that manning sent this video classified video to caps yesterday when asked when the witness was asked if there was any evidence of that the answer there was no today that was reiterated. it was asked johnson was asked if there was any connection found on this computer again and said no there was no evidence now this is seen as a big blow to the prosecution's case they allege that this is this was all done in a conspiracy all. part of the charge the most serious charge against manning which is aiding the enemy a sentence which carries a life said ted's so we will keep you updated with all these new developments here in maryland liz wall r.t.

now to guantanamo bay cuba where a hunger strike among detention camp detainees is that its worst since it began in february according to military statement of the one hundred sixty six detainees one hundred four are on hunger strike and of those forty three are now being force fed ensure through a tube the run through their nose and into their stomach four of these detainees detainees are now being observed at a hospital the prisoners are on hunger strike to protest their content you detention of the conditions of that facility but there's a new twist as well the chief prosecutor for the work crimes tribunal tells foragers that only twenty of the one hundred sixty six detainee's there could face charges fewer than the thirty six that president obama's one ton of review task force said would be tried army brigadier general mark martin said that the court does not have enough evidence to convict many of the detainees originally thought to have committed international war crimes seven of the twenty detainees who are

expected to face charges finish their trials and six are facing pretrial hearings this next week president obama has renewed his promise to shut down the detention center during a speech last month despite pushback from congress and he lifted a moratorium on sending detainees back to yemen where the majority of the detainees are from yet the protesting of detainees can't see this coming soon enough. and we have breaking news coming from the top of the central intelligence agency deputy director of the cia michael morrell has resigned john brennan the cia director announced that the deputy director slot will be filled by avril to haynes haynes as an outsider to the cia and she will be the first female deputy director at the agency she served as white house deputy counsel in charge of national security issues as well as legal advisor to national security council for the past three years haynes is known for helping to rewrite the rules on drones recently announced

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry i'm boring and washington d.c. let's get to today's headlines. silicone valley is heating up in the wake of the national security agency whistleblower scandal the american civil liberties union is now involved in attempting to rein in the n.s.a.'s alleged snooping but several tech giants are being proactive as well do no evil google is seeking permission from the u.s. to disclose the volume and scope a federal request for customer information which twitter officially why but facebook won't join the fray asserting the disclosures would be vague and the meaningless and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg face.