well many americans enjoyed some fourth of july fireworks and barbecue or many other stick to the streets to highlight the freedoms they say are under siege by the u.s. government details on this demonstration coming up meantime privacy rights groups are convinced the n.s.a. spying programs are designed to protect americans from terrorists in fact some are willing to legally challenge the u.s. government's policy egypt remains in a state of crisis after president obama dorothy was forced out of office today morsi supporters of the muslim brotherhood find themselves at odds with not only off the opposition protesters but also troops. it's friday july fifth eight pm in washington d.c.

i'm margaret howell you're watching r t we begin with a global protest and response to the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance programs revealed by former cia employee outward snowden the rallies dubbed restore the fourth took place yesterday on independence day a day when americans celebrate the birth of their country and newfound freedoms that really took place across major u.s. cities and other countries protesters took to the streets to voice their anger and distrust of the u.s. government surveillance activities nearly a month ago snowden revealed that the n.s.a. has been tracking cell phone calls monitoring e-mails and internet traffic of every american since then those bombshell leaks many americans have been outraged by the government spy programs or teasingly important aisle without the restore the fourth protest in new york she brings us that story. on the birthday of america's independence hundreds are taking to the streets in new york city and throughout the

country to take part in the restore the force rally this is a campaign that was last month in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations about america's spying program up program that has shocked those living in the united states and those around the world know the restore the fourth game she would restore the fourth feel of rights which protects us citizens and search and seizures the purpose of this rally organizers say is to spread awareness and spur political action against unconstitutional spying by the u.s. government press freedom advocates that we spoke with say that these protests are crucial because mainstream media is not adequately covering the n.s.a. leaks and their importance to everyday citizens i believe that the fourth amendment is being breached by only the government but by the police with search and seizure

with the n.s.a. leaks and everything that's been coming out even though they say that there's laws that make everything they do legal it seems like legal gymnastics to me i voted for obama twice i donated twice but i'm tired of the expansion of these programs that seem to violate our rights every frighten me that the director of national intelligence lied to congress and i haven't really been any repercussions we're living in the midst of the of the largest. you know unreasonable search and seizure system we've ever seen in the history of mankind completely suspiciousness search and seizure of our information and that people should be infuriated that this crowd has marched more than common law matters down manhattan. here at federal hall first congress passed the bill of rights in addition to this and more than five hundred thousand people have signed an online petition stop watching dr demanding full disclosure of all. and i say programs now although this rally may be over those participating in it faded their campaign is just beginning for me or i'm

growing up or tonight. nearly two weeks after snowden's revealing leaks president obama publicly said that the n.s.a. spy programs were in fact transparent and were created to in fact protect americans from potential terrorist attacks but the question on the minds of some privacy rights groups is this can the government legally do this i was joined earlier by heidi bhushan to discuss this very topic she's the author of the book spying on democracy government surveillance corporate power and public resistance she's also the executive director of the national lawyers guild i first asked her if she thought yesterday's protest for representative of how americans perceive the n.s.a. spy programs. i think the more revelations that come out every day of the more upset americans are going to be at the violations of our fourth amendment and the chilling effect really that this vast information gathering program has on how

people communicate with each other how members of the press communicate with their anonymous sources and how really we operate as a democracy. well how do you know you're an attorney tell me is there a legal argument that would stand against the u.s. are reeling its own citizens and if so what is it. it's definitely the fourth amendment it's a provision as you mentioned against unreasonable searches and seizures we have checks and balances in place to go before a magistrate or a neutral judge to get a warrant that's what this country was founded on are are calling this rebelled against the notion that the british could come into houses and search really with impunity looking for something without any show that something wrong had happened so what we're seeing now really is blanket searches and tracking of information regardless of whether the government is listening in to the contents they can

definitely track relationships associations in violation of our privacy without any suspicion that something unlawful has occurred and that in and of itself is a breach of our constitution. why do you think that americans are ok with arguably what is an assault on their first and fourth amendment rights by their own government. i think that the government is saying that a lot of these programs must be conducted in secrecy one of the problems is that about seventy percent of our intelligence gathering is actually conducted not by the government by bye bye by private corporations our elected leaders. i have no idea really of how these programs operate that means they're not accountable and private contractors for example can act with impunity probably going beyond the letter of the law because they're not being monitored by our elected officials that

is a serious problem obama is operating in great secrecy classifying millions of documents and even two years ago signing in the executive order calling on government employees to turn each other in if they engage in what he calls suspicious behavior that creates a climate in which people do not feel free to talk openly and i think it also is dangerous to our security because it means that. people working in government aren't free to explore thinking outside of the box to solve problems and so we're operating essentially in a climate of fear. well heidi i'm sure that you saw it as most americans did national intelligence director james clapper first denied any government surveillance was going on and even later apologized for making an erroneous statement did he lie before congressional leaders and if so when is he going to be held accountable. i think that all of our elected officials including president

obama need to be held accountable i'm hoping that this surge of public protest is just sparking the beginning really of raising the national consciousness that our leaders have in fact misrepresented the truth or outright lied and they do so exploiting fears of terrorism. calling even our allies in the european union perspective terrorist and really of using that to justify this mass surveillance apparatus so with public outrage hopefully the public the elected officials will start to tell the truth. the french newspaper le monde. or did this week that france is employing an n.s.a. program look similar to ours here in the united states what do you make of that. well i think that it would be naive to think that other countries aren't conducting this kind of surveillance given the rapid developments in technology and the use

of sharing information and monitoring individuals to look for potential threats the problem i think with the u.s. program is that it's so massive in scope that it is we're now aware surveilling other countries including our allies and that really without. sensible intelligence analyst who are accountable to the government to look at the information in a way that i don't think they can do now given the scope of how much they were massing i think that we have to really take a look at how intelligence is gathered who does it and the role of corporations in that ok heidi we're running out of time i want to get to these next quickly americans have since learned that at least nine internet companies submitted to government surveillance servers including google microsoft yahoo facebook you tube skype a.o.l. and apple is there any way for these businesses to fight back against these request

. well that i think highlights the problem that corporations are accountable really to their shareholders so the bottom line is what drives them the government is supposed to be accountable to the public welfare we've long known that corporations have worked for the n.s.a. over the last couple of decades in developing the programs they now use to data mine i think that again public outrage is critical if people say i'm taking my business elsewhere we want you to change your policies businesses should respond ok heidi i have one final question for you why do you think that the narrative specifically of our national media is so focused on the whistleblower himself ad word snowden rather than the bombshell information. concerning the u.s. government has spied on its own citizens why do you why do you think they care about them and not necessarily what the n.s.a. is doing it's a distraction because most of the media in this country unfortunately is run by a few large corporate conglomerates that's why it's so important to have

independent journalists and. public accountability in journalism and again it's in the hands of a very few powerful companies that's a problem heidi really appreciate you weighing in and we have to leave it there that was heidelberg ocean executive director of the national lawyers guild libyan president evo morales says he's weighing the possibility of closing the u.s. embassy in bolivia after his plane was grounded earlier this week upon suspicions n.s.a. leaker edward snowden was on board take a listen. we will clearly examine and if it's necessary we will close the u.s. embassy in bolivia we do not need the american embassy we don't need their cooperation or diplomatic relations with them while they conspire against us from within our country and from the outside my hand won't shake to close the u.s. embassy we've got dignity we've got sovereignty without the us we're better

politically and democratically without the i.m.f. and world bank we're better economically so we do not need them. latin american leaders from argentina ecuador or nominating uruguay in venezuela met with morales in bolivia yesterday to discuss the issue the president had demanded an apology from france italy portugal and spain for refusing the libyan leader the right to fly in their airspace on tuesday until it was confirmed snowden was not on board his plane or ellis spent thirteen hours in the austrian airport waiting for clearance to fly the bolivian president blamed washington saying the u.s. force the european countries to deny his airspace request meanwhile michael moore took to twitter with some advice for the president morales suggesting that he quote fly back to moscow now pick up snowden and take him out of there and daring europe to stop him no word yet if of the libyan president has seen morris tweet. now to

egypt where a crackdown on the muslim brotherhood movement has turned violent after the military l sting of president mohamed morsi on wednesday tonight more than a dozen have been reportedly killed on the streets of cairo supporters from morsi took to the streets to reject the military overthrow the islamic president and replacement by a top judge meantime the egyptian military is accused of staging a coup to oust morsy and millions took to the streets calling for his removal all the men sort chairman of the supreme constitutional court was sworn in as interim president yesterday he promised new elections and encouraged revolutionaries who helped topple morsi to continue to protest here's artie's policies there in egypt with the latest egypt is pointing to disintegrate into chaos they have been violent street battles in the faint of the capital city between both pro and anti mostly demonstrators the two sides literally picking up chunks of pavement only one a tough cop tells it at each other this line is going on for the basic policy of we

always before god he decided to get involved now there are lots of questions being asked about the army it's being accused of doing patients little and of taking sides when the army did get involved in these conscious on the october the sixth bridge they literally picked up some of these actually most of the demonstrators on the back of the vehicles drove him over the bridge to be on the side where they were opponents was standing and fighting them from the opposite has also denied reports that he too used live ammunition early on friday when a group of promo few supporters marched towards the barracks where does believe that the former president is out at least three people were killed in those clashes here on real concerns at this country is disintegrating the violence there have been mass rallies by both pro and anti if you demonstrators with the supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood addressing the one man. abbé chase are stronger and then

bullets gone it does not love a trait in the muslim brotherhood threatening to continue the fight to the end of the divisions are extremely shop so much so that people are talking about a civil war the difference between what is happening now and what we've seen in the past is that morsi was a democratically elected president who was of the throne and this is the point that his supporters are making in fact the cuomo seat camp now wants to be known as we approach democracy that we have a situation that's not only disintegrating within egypt it's also happening now on the board is only on friday and killed in the sinai was attacked by islamists at the same time it's not most have taken over a number of government buildings in the sinai they raised the old kind of flag replacing the egyptian flag and that was there egypt is also closed its border with gaza and what we witnessing not only makes me want to tell situation but a situation day does waited to take the islamist extremists that operated on these

countries which is that was our t's policy we are. the hawthorne police department in california has received thousands of threats from around the globe after one of its officers was caught on camera shooting a dog the video has been viewed over one million times and has angered animal life lovers an activist alike but is the animal shooting an indicator of a larger problem the disregard for life by the department or his or moglen there has been following that story he brings us more. this is horrible and only traumatized cement though at the end it was holding her dog neemo with a newfound appreciation she was one of several people who witnessed hawthorne police shoot and kill a two year old rottweiler. side running as i ran right in the bathroom and i was like crying and screaming thought the police department says they shot the animal because of fear the dog would bite an officer the dog's owner a young rosie was videotaping us what operation at the time he claims his intention

was to make sure no one civil rights were being violated but after not responding to police requests to turn down because it coming from his car he was arrested for interview with police is during the arrest the dog jumped out of rode his car and came at the officers rosie feels police overreacted it wasn't this is in the love and. in the us police shootings of dogs aren't uncommon with cato u.t.v. in houston found the city's department shot one hundred eighty seven dogs since two thousand and ten he some police ruled all the shootings were justified here at the scene of the shooting there still blood on the ground they use a police force has come under major scrutiny following the videotaped incident the following the death of a rottweiler named max many observers say that this incident just part of a larger trend of over aggressive policing because of questions of a con the police conduct and how to handle situations that could be handled completely peacefully but instead they really overstep their boundaries and take

life whether human or animal just before the dog was shot officers say they were under intense stress and that when a swat situation in another recent high profile shooting officers also cited intense stress when they mistakenly shot an unarmed civilians journal manhunt for christopher dorner the man who allegedly went on a killing rampage after being terminated from the l.a.p.d. in california has a long history of police brutality and you know on the other side of the coin you have a resistance to it. it has been nearly a year since the city of anaheim you rubbed it in protests following a series of police shootings. as police arsenals become more military like the video. cameras will be a key tool. for abuse whether it's human or animal in hawthorne california. art. still had entered the u.s. state department is getting a big thumbs down for the amount of money it spent on the increase of the agency's

facebook likes just how much of the social media advertising campaign cost we'll tell you after the short break. the same story doesn't make it news. no cases by making.

it possible to navigate the economy with all the details such as texting misinformation and media hype you up to date by decoding the mainstream have stated if in your mind. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that the americans call. a dog. i'm sorry i missed the guy who cares about. you. are you know what kind of my terrorist cell is that i don't want the usa to defeat terrorism be a liberal chris. puplick the voters. are

going to support you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that's filled with inflation most of garbage because of breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know. are welcome to the big picture.

well when people like us right apparently the u.s. state department is no exception they care about the department on one image so much that it's ponied up over six hundred thirty thousand dollars and the u.s. taxpayer. are money that to garner these likes on their facebook page for more on that here's our tease meghan lopez well if you are one of the one billion active facebook users you know how much of a role social media plays in expanding and promoting your friendships even if you don't necessarily know the person today a person who lives in singapore or spain can become your friend with the simple click of a button your personal influence can reach every corner of the earth in a matter of seconds but since last year facebook has found

a way to stack the deck in your favor if you're willing to pay that is it's called promoted posts and basically what it does is reconfigure the algorithm on user's newsfeeds to move certain stories to the top depending on how much you pay and it's as easy as this simply write your post load it on your facebook page and then click promote and put in your credit card details the more you pay the more likely it is that your story will gain traction with this type of geo targeting economists call this artificial scarcity and that's not the only influence that money can buy in order to gain traction on facebook and fact this week the washington examiner discovered that the u.s. state department spent some six hundred thirty thousand dollars in order to buy likes on its page between two thousand and eleven and march of this year an investigation by the office of inspector general of the bureau of international information programs discovered that the bureau paid to increase the english

language facebook page likes from one hundred thousand to more than two million and to four hundred fifty thousand on facebook's foreign language pages but buying fans isn't a guarantee that those people are actually reading what you have to say in fact according to facebook's own help page certain websites promise to provide large numbers of likes for your page if you sign up and give them money these websites typically use deceptive practices are are scams people who like your page this way will be less. it's valuable to your page because they won't necessarily have a genuine interest in what your page is about if facebook spam systems detect that your page is connected with this type of activity will place limits on your page to prevent further violations of our statement of rights and responsibilities now whether or not the state department's facebook page will be flagged as a result of this report is still yet to be determined but even the office of the inspector general doubts whether or not this will have any positive effect in fact

just over two percent of the fans on the state department's facebook page actually engage in this page by liking sharing or commenting on it according to the report but supporters of the campaign say that this type of advertising is necessary because it's difficult to fund the state department's facebook page using the web site's general search tool so is this money will spent well you be the judge determine whether or not you like how the state department is spending all that money in washington meghan lopez r t i think said word snowden the public may know more about the n.s.a. surveillance program but if you think that snowden's leaks for the first sign of it increased scale of the n.s.a. surveillance you're in for a surprise the resident story her finest with more on that.

in. the cover of wired magazine from april of two thousand and twelve read deep in the utah desert the national security agency is building the country's biggest spy center it's the final piece of the surveillance network that will interest that and store your phone calls emails google searches watch what you say. written by james bamford the article describes the n.s.a. do you trial data center of purpose to intercept decrypt analyze any store baz swabs of both international and domestic private e-mail cell phone calls google searches parking was the travel itinerary financial records bookstore purchases and all other digital pocket litter it gives the code name of the project stellar wind

and says the n.s.a. has turned its surveillance apparatus on the u.s. and if it is then. it says the n.s.a. also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time it even mentions that journalists in particular are being spied on the article says the n.s.a. knows they're violating the constitution and that they don't care sounds familiar right sounds like what edward snowden just reveals to the world but the article is from april of two thousand and twelve and in two thousand and six leslie cauley wrote a story for usa today which was titled n.s.a. has massive database of americans phone calls. so where was the outrage then sure is snowden revealed a few more details and some power point slides but essentially the leak is old news so why only enraged now if we might be because both the mainstream

media and the general public needed hero we need a village intrigue and dramatic plot points we need our stories to unfold like movies. noted and gave us so now we care about the story. the u.s. government understands that just look at the show they put on in boston. so it would be great if movements like occupy wall street could learn from that if someone could somehow make a nice big movie for them with a hero and a dramatic plotline people might actually start to care about their message of decoupling wall street from washington. the bottom line is we might not have learned much new information from snowden but we did learn one thing for sure all the world is indeed a great big sound stage tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at

the residents. well that does it for nail for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america check out our website at r.t. dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at maggie l r t for nail have a great night. today on politicking almost twelve years since the nine eleven terrorist attack is the united states safe how much is the n.s.a. surveillance leak hurt the security of america we'll ask former senator joseph lieberman the co-chair of the bipartisan coalition for american security and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani it's all next on politicking.

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