coming up get ready for a new tech report that companies linked to the n.s.a. prism scandal are pushing to expose more about it meanwhile there's a question about the safety of cloud storage that and more in a moment congress is working on the reauthorization of the national defense authorization act we know about some of the controversial items this act allows including indefinite detention but what else have the lawmakers tucked into this legislation details just ahead. support for whistleblower bradley manning reaches a new chapter famous faces have created the video i am bradley manning to highlight his arrest and treatment by the u.s. government we'll talk with some of his supporters coming up.

it's june thirteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching our t.v. well it's thursday and so that means it's time for our weekly tech report this week we wanted to focus on the effects of the national security agency leaks on our internet companies and the american public just to recap what we discovered last week the guardian in the washington post revealed that the n.s.a. has a program called prism which allows the n.s.a. to access mehta data from some of the biggest online companies in the world so think google apple facebook microsoft yahoo you tube a.o.l. you name it so that means that this agency can get private communications like e-mail searches chat logs and private messages all and sometimes they can do it in real time the prism program is justified under the foreign intelligence surveillance act and is designed to monitor foreigners however. many american

citizens ultimately fall under its watchful eye but these internet companies deny that they give the n.s.a. to rummage through their servers so the question remains what exactly are they giving the government access to and more importantly how can we keep our data and information private to talk all things tech i'm joined now by mancini gobby he's the founder of s s p blue and he joins me from our l.a. studio hi there team who so companies like google microsoft apple except for a they've all been implicated in this n.s.a. mehta data mining program they've pushed back and said that they aren't simply opening up the doors for the government so is there a metaphor that you could use that describes how these companies are working with the government or do we even know. unfortunately it looks like we lost the money for just a second or maybe some of his audio but let's talk

a little bit more in detail about what we found out now one thing that was very interesting that came out from all of this is the fact that it was a man named edward snowden huge leaked it he was in and he didn't graduate from high school and he actually leaked all of this data now representative peter king hit the airwaves yesterday saying that not only should edward snowden be the one that's prosecuted but someone else who should be prosecuted that is the reporters and the journalists that leaks that information that's something that we reported about yesterday so and lawmakers are speaking out about this they're also learning a little bit more about what this data actually entails many lawmakers say that some of it is necessary other ones say that they don't know exactly what should be done with it and some of them are meeting with n.s.a. directors and whatnot to try to figure out how much information the n.s.a. is really keeping under its belt and really grabbing on the american public now let me check and see if we have to back you might you can you hear me. very well so

let's talk about what these these companies as i was just talking about what these companies are giving to the n.s.a. is there any metaphor that you can lay out for us about how much information they're passing on to the government. well i think what we have to do is look at this from the perspective of the physical world investigations when the n.s.a. does counterintelligence activity they actually have to go into undercover operations and break into the cells in the people that they're investigating when those people move on in that same activity must occur to get their content they have to find out where they are who they are and what they're doing and if there's one way to think about what the government cares about more than anything else in the world when it is doing an investigation it is who you are where you are and what are you doing and we should look at everything that's happening has to fall into those categories sometimes you're going to want to know

everything sometimes you going to want to know just who you are where you are now google is pushing back and. they are saying something unfortunately it looks like human lost our sound again but one thing that i was going to bring up is that the n.s.a. is fighting back are the google i'm sorry is fighting against the n.s.a. to release information about what data exactly they handed over to the government of course all of these nine internet companies that were leads that are passing out this information are not allowed because of a gag order to say exactly what they were giving over and the fact that they were giving it over in the first place so we would not have discovered any of this if it wasn't for edward snowden who we believe is hiding currently in hong kong his girlfriend is in hawaii right now she's not talking to reporters we're also reaching out to try to find her now something else that's interesting to kind of note is that microsoft has been trying to lure in costumers with its ad campaign promising privacy so it looks like we have he wants you back so he wants you as i

was just saying on one hand you have google asking the n.s.a. to allow it to kind of disclose more information on the other hand you have microsoft lately while all this was going on trying to lure customers and by promising privacy can you talk about this. oh yeah absolutely i think this all falls into what i would call collateral damage of what's going on on the one hand the most important thing that you can do with a customer is to have their trust without trust you don't have a relationship with that relationship you lose your revenue and your greatest sources of revenue and all these companies have been getting hit by the one arm of the government that saying do something about privacy customers are demanding it and they have been responding microsoft google they're all great examples of that and on the other hand you have another arm of the government saying disclose information take away the privacy in some sense and we have an order and by law you have to do it so they're stuck in the middle of this and the question becomes from

a company is how do i maintain that trust how do i at the same time cooperate with a lawful order from the government to protect our own citizens of this country and they're still caught between these things and at the same time add to it a third piece if you do start talking about what you're disclosing or who you're disclosing about or the fact that you've been got in order by law you are creating a criminal issue for yourself as a company you could get prosecuted for that and at the same time if you did disclose it there may be an undercover operation that you're jeopardizing and somebody gets killed so the companies are caught in this three piece little piece of large issue which in essence is creating a lot of collateral damage and i think what's going to happen is things pass and i think what i should i if i was recommending these to these companies what i would say is start running an ad campaign run an ad campaign that separates the facts from the fiction and when you do and explain what happens in these criminal orders how do they work what kinds of information is requested what is the company doing

to protect your privacy in that process i think customers will say you know what i actually get it there are two competing interests but they are very well balanced by the companies who are stuck in the middle of them and they're taking both the. very seriously and trying to do the best they can and in that sense they will and they can get their customer trust back now he wants to twitter was notably absent from this list of companies cooperating with the n.s.a.'s present program what do you attribute that to does that mean that customers should feel more comfortable using the micro-blogging site than they should with the other internet companies well i think what we have to do is assume first where would the and they say be investigating they go where the terrorists might be going and if the n.s.a. says finds out that there's there's terrorist activity or high. activity against the u.s. happening on a twitter platform they will eventually get there one of the things that you have

to understand is the government is doing what governments always do they go chase bad guys when they're chasing bad guys they have to go where the bad guys go so if anything all it might be is that twitter is a very is a platform that pushes out stuff for the public to see much of these activities take place in private communications between one to one or one to several not in the way that twitter does which is push it all out everyone sees that whoever is following it's very public and not even the platform let's talk about what the public can do to protect its information so let's talk about cloud computing we've seen the shift from saving documents on floppy disks to c.d.'s and hard drives to cloud computing do you think that that shift will go in reverse now that people have discovered that these internet companies that the n.s.a. has access to all of their information and that they're willing to take it. i think actually the answer that question is a very international one if you're a u.s.

company that has and has done a great job in cloud computing and you're trying to get into the european marketplace that's the first place that backlash will occur because from a european citizen point of view the customer in europe they don't want to work with a company in the u.s. that has that the n.s.a. can access information from so i think the first thing that's going to happen is that concern out of the european citizen siri versus the u.s. citizens in the u.s. i think people are starting recognizing and polls are showing this again and again there is not as much a concern as you might expect on the other hand on the european side there is a huge amount of concern and their ex historically always has been a greater munna concern and protocols and privacy mechanisms in place so i think that's going to be the most important immediate backlash and that will then eventually turn into a long term imbalance of businesses competing in europe and in the u.s. he mancini gon founder of s.s.t. blue thank you so much for sticking around and talking with us thanks love. well

president obama has threatened to veto the reauthorization of the national defense authorization act better known as india yea over a number of concerns that he has with it those concerns include limitations on health benefits for retirees transferring detainees out of guantanamo bay the new start treaty the military pay alternative fuels purple hearts for the victims of the fort hood in little rock shootings funding for afghan forces and much more in total the administration raised thirty one concerns over the revamped n.d.a. but when the president talks tough house republicans are sticking a schedule with the bills markup and there are more than a few interesting amendments that are sneaking their way into this act political commentator sam sack shows us some of the more curious add ons lawmakers are trying to slip into the n.b.a. today the house of representatives finishes up their task of programming the american war machine members are currently slogging through one hundred seventy two amendments to the national defense authorization act

a bill that sets the guidelines for how our military functions now some of these amendments that are under consideration are very important they work to address serious problems with our current war footing all around the world for example a team of democrats have put forward an amendment to completely close the detention facility at guantanamo bay by the end of two thousand and fourteen and there are two amendments brought by republicans to weaken the power of our military to indefinitely detain american citizens and there's even one amendment that ends indefinite detention for any individual currently in custody under the authorization for use of military force and there's also an amendment by congressman keith ellison to prohibit the transfer of tear gas and other riot control items to nations in the middle east and north africa that are currently undergoing democratic uprising plus there are provisions to keep the president committed to the withdrawal timeline in afghanistan provisions to post the true costs of our wars online and a provision to allow undocumented immigrant. to enlist in the military and have

access to permanent residency within the united states there after so these are all relevant they address real world concerns there are serious amendments but remember where dealing with a congress that has an approval rating hovering around the fifteen percent mark it's about on par with b.p.'s approval rating during their two thousand and ten oil spill fiasco so naturally there are a few bizarro amendments to be considered today as well for the war machine and here are the top three first brought to us by congressman dennis ross amendment number sixty two prohibits the department of defense from using taxpayer funds to provide additional or upgraded recreational facilities for individuals detained at guantanamo bay detention facility congressman ross is bent out of shape about plans to build a soccer field saying back in two thousand and twelve quote get motion not be a place of comfort it should how's the worst of the worst of the world's terrorists

not be a training ground for the world cup congressman ross is also against closing the facility and giving prisoners there a fair trial so when asked can we at least improve the conditions there for the more than one hundred prisoners who are on a hunger strike many of whom have done absolutely nothing wrong in are cleared for release congressman ross well you'd rather not. and then there's congresswoman michele bachmann's amendment number one twenty seven which requires the p.o.w.'s be flown three hundred sixty five days a year on certain federal buildings because you know it's just much easier to fly a flag for prisoners of war than actually do something about our continuous military operations around the world that produce p o w's and produce missing soldiers and finally there's a moment number one fifteenth street from the cold war era brought to us by representative cynthia loomis as well as congressman steve danes in kevin kramer it

requires the department of defense to preserve currently active intercontinental ballistic missile silos in warm status warm status meaning fully staffed and functional just in case we need to deploy our entire nuclear arsenal at a moment's notice an act that would quite literally kill every living thing on the planet so great idea guys so yeah that's what congress is working on and if you think there's no way that there's no way that any of these bizarre amendments will pass over the house today just remember this is an institution that's less popular than cockroaches in washington same socks are to well ladies and gentlemen the king is back all month we have been promoting the new i show to head our to america's airwaves there has been so much speculation and anticipation and yes even criticism about what this new show will be well now the wait is over politicking with larry king will make its debut on r t america tonight at nine pm eastern and

it will read air at eleven pm mr king's journalism career has spanned fifty six years he's conducted more than fifty thousand interviews and this award winning journalist is ready for more here's an exclusive sneak peek at what viewers can expect to see tonight. again we're trying to go with the latest from the headline in the n.s.a. leaks immigration reform our guest republican congressman aaron schock democratic. political manager it was originally called that's today's politics security versus privacy where do you stand look i think what's difficult is it's not black and white in nineteen thirty six hitler made a speech once in germany and said when he did away with the warrens he said if you have nothing to fear why should you be afraid if we search your house and they had

a very low crime rate in germany and the people bought that well we have nothing to fear let them search his house there is a day that was a different time now but don't you fear that danger absolutely from our two studios in no way thanks for joining us here. so once again here's when you can catch the very first episode of politicking with larry king tonight in you won't want to miss it. well you can't patent something nature created on its own that's a ruling the supreme court handed down today in the case of the association for molecular pathology versus myriad genetics the ruling said quote we hold that a naturally occurring d.n.a. segment is a product of nature and not patten eligible merely because it has been isolated but that seed d.n.a. is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring we therefore affirm and part every verse and part the decision of the united states courts of appeals for

the federal circuit are to correspondent liz wahl tells us more about the background of this case and the significance of this ruling. it was a dream court today ruled against the patenting of human genes the night to zero ruling is a victory for patients doctors and medical researchers the ruling says quote a naturally occurring d.n.a. segment is a product of nature and not eligible merely because it has been isolated but seed d.n.a. now this is a strand of d.n.a. that has been synthesised is pattern eligible because it is not naturally occurring now essentially this means if somebody is born with a gene if it's found naturally that a company cannot patent it but if they manipulate or create a gene then in that case they would have rights to it now this comes after biotech company myriad genetics discovered an isolated two genes called b.r.c.a. one and b.r.c.a. two the company says it pumped billions of dollars into researching and eventually

identifying and isolating these two genes this gene sequence patients that carry this gene are at significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer a recent high profile example would be angelina jolie she tested positive for the breast cancer gene which led to her decision to get a mystery to me a myriad said that since they found this gene that they had rights and this led to it this twenty year monopoly over researching and testing and patients complained that myriad charged unreasonably high prices for this and other companies could not do their own research because of this monopoly and develop their own testing but today the supreme court says that naturally occurring genes are part of the human body and the company found but did not create the gene and therefore does not have exclusive rights to it this decision is expected to have far reaching consequences for the science and medical community here in front of the supreme court liz wall r.t. well the second week of the bradley manning trial wrapped up with testimonials from

pentagon officials talking about the damage the private first class caused by leaking military secrets the court is now on recess until monday. but while the defense and the prosecution regroup the i am bradley manning campaign is out recruiting more supporters even some a list hollywood terrorist have joined in and like my god like i maggie gyllenhaal and russell brand and bradley manning supporters say you ain't seen nothing yet so let's take a look back at how this unknown wiki leaks are transformed into a household name. he was the unknown army private first class who brought this video to the world. because of this video and the hundreds of thousands of classified military documents he leaked he has been branded as an american traitor and is currently being court martialed for aiding and abetting the enemy among other charges. but now another video is making its way through the digital world only this one is in support of bradley manning if you sign the

medical things on things that belong to the public and not some servers stored in a dark room in washington d.c. what would you would you do what would you do what would you do once. bradley for over one thousand and one hundred days the now twenty five year old was locked up in awaiting trial almost no one had access to him so for three years the government narrative was the only story the public and the media her. little by little one protest with a handful of people turned into the bradley manning support network and that turned into an entire movement we've seen the traffic on our website pick up a lot in the first day of bradley's trial we had forty thousand unique visitors to our websites and we're seeing more e-mails more people contacting about how they can donate and how they can attend the trial the support for this wiki leak or has

taken many forms from signs and stickers to t. shirts and petitions and we've organized hundreds of events. around the world tens of thousands of people send titian and we've also gained a number of celebrities supported he was nominated for a nobel peace prize by icelandic impede bear gaeta jones dozier for shedding light on american military wrongdoings in iraq there has even been a graphic novel created detailing the events of the trial cartoonist clark stokley has been sitting in the courtroom every day since the trial began using his pen to capture the emotions of the people documenting history with his sketches the story needs to be told. because. you know after the stroke is over all will have stories in the newspapers but we won't have this really compiled comprehensive publishing has agreed to print the book when it is completed and already people are

preordering it online it's going to the people who bradley manning is what he did for julian assange even comedian stephen called where it's catching the wiki leaks wave and spreading the word he's not the only celebrity drawing attention to the issue and for bradley manning supporters the celebrity power has been the key to getting the american public to pay attention in america we live in a culture where a lot of our news focuses on celebrity. where people are less focused on intellectual issues and more focused and sensationalism and celebrity so yes i think this is an effective way to communicate to a wider public so nearly three years after the private first class committed the biggest document drop in american history and two weeks into what could be a very long and drawn out trial it seems all eyes are finally on fort meade and bradley manning the bradley manning trial continues next week we'll bring you more from the military tribunals. and now to istanbul where the aftermath of the ghazi

park demonstrations are still pending police against protests. her turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan delivered a stark final warning on thursday to protesters who are in the thousands right now and still camped out in that park the prime minister says that he has reached the end of his patience with the continuing demonstrations five people have been killed in those demonstrations so far r.t. correspondent arena is in turkey with the very latest. actually has seen the largest number of crackdowns than any other city in turkey for the past two weeks or wednesday it was kind of the repetition of what happened before it was several people have diverged from a group of protesters who were there initially and weird off towards the u.s. embassy where police have used tear gas and rubber bullets against them to was quashed the momentum of the protests that has been happening in ancora obviously this is the capital that's where the seat of the government is though it does look like this is the main cause for the police brutality that we're seeing there people

from all walks of life having to have been arrested or somehow receive representation for their participation in the protests which are said will have to be over within twenty four hours at this point the protesters have to pack up their tents and abandon gezi park they were offered to carry out a referendum for the force the people out on the street said that is a joke that was kind of a friend could possibly talk about when we have already made it clear that we want the park to stay and they want to go. to one said during the meeting with representatives of the protest movement although even within the people out in the park or there's an increasing feeling that the people who are actually meeting with their no one don't really represent them like the people haven't really been camping out there for weeks there seem to be some sort of dialogue which obviously seems to have led nowhere several lawyers have been arrested for protesting the brutal police crackdown on tuesday which have been in istanbul of course they're. going to the streets protesting those arrests as well saying that this is no kind

of democracy where people can be arrested just for supporting a cause and to go even further than that we have to remember that there are several channels in turkey which have been fined for showing the brutal police crackdown on taksim square on tuesday so this again goes in with one of the major grievances the protesters have with everyone and that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on the on various media outlets in the country by. it doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon the protesters that we have spoken to insist that they will stay here until their demands are met and obviously doesn't seem like he's going to budge so we're in for a rather tense situation here in turkey. that was our tease a wrinkle to show. well it's becoming more and more commonplace in the u.s. to confine inmates in isolation for twenty three hours

a day at the end of may seven percent of the two hundred seventeen thousand inmates in the u.s. federal prison system were placed in solitary confinement that's according to a new report put out by the government accountability office that examined the unknown cost so that practice the report was drawn up at the request of three congressman illinois senator dick durbin maryland congressman elijah cummings and virginia congressman bobby scott who all highlighted the lack of public information on the practice so is putting inmates in a hole making prison actually safer our cheesemonger hell has more the whole segregation isolation lockdown i'm standing here in a cell just like the one that private bradley manning was held in for over three hundred days aside by eleven cell with just a toilet and a cot prisoners eat here he sleeps here and most of the time they're alone for twenty three hours a day only getting for an hour or so to exercise for

a long time we didn't know much about solitary confinement in the u.s. now we know a little bit more after the government accountability office released a report last month solitary confinement is used what a prisoner is considered a danger to himself or to others or if they have gang affiliations a day in this tiny cell cost as much as a night in a hotel room it can cost taxpayers one hundred twenty to two hundred sixteen dollars per day for just one prisoner insult here in confinement that adds up to roughly seventy thousand dollars a year to keep one of these individuals locked up meanwhile social programs are getting cut due to the sequester but our prison system is booming the population in solitary is growing faster than the rate of general inmates in the u.s. it's sept seventeenth. sent over the past five years what that means is that over twelve thousand u.s. citizens are in the hole and the government says that they don't even know if it's actually making prison safer the g.a.o.

said prisons aren't tracking the practice so they're not sure if all of this is a benefit at all. so what does this mean for the rate of people returning to prison once they've been released solitary offers little rehabilitation and deprives prisoners of normal human interaction but the bureau of prisons has not done any long term studies on the effects of this practice despite relying on it with increased frequency and conclusion that we've got a lot of growing costs without solid proof of either it's harms or its benefits. in washington margaret how will our tea well that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website that's r t dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez breaking the set with host abby martin is coming up at the taffeta at the top half of the hour and i'll see you right back here at eight pm.

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