coming up on r t a judge makes a major ruling in the bradley manning trial will the wiki leak or face the aiding the enemy charge we'll have a report from fort meade just ahead a lawsuit against a key provision in the india a has been thrown out there are fears that the provision allowing the detainment of anyone anywhere suspected of helping terrorists more in this court case coming up. and it's thursday so it's time for the tech reporter though that i can promise is less time in purgatory if you follow the pope's twitter is that really the case we'll talk more about that in tonight's tech report.

it's thursday july eighteenth eight pm in washington d.c. and i'm meghan lopez and you are watching our t.v. while the last line of defense for wiki leaks or bradley manning's legal team failed in court today military judge denise dillon dismissed the team's request to drop the most serious charge facing the army private first class the charge of aiding the enemy and here's why she turned it down george allen says that manning's training made him aware of the fact that terrorist organizations use the internet therefore he should have known that the seven hundred thousand military and diplomatic documents that he leaks could end up in the hands of american enemies so is this a prelude to the next ruling and what type of legs and example does it set for future trials against whistleblowers earlier i spoke with ortiz liz wall who's covering the trial at for meat and i first asked her if this ruling was a huge blow to the defense. well it certainly is a big disappointment to the defense's case magen as you said the judge today did

not dismiss that charge that charge of aiding the enemy that is the most serious charge that bradley manning faces so as of now the possibility of life without parole is a very real possibility for bradley manning the court examined all the evidence and all the testimony that we've heard so far in this trial and what the judge found at least right now is that there is enough evidence to move forward with that charge and i understand that coombs a defense lawyer david coombs stated that at best prosecutors might have shown that manning was negligent or that he should have known that i could access wiki leaks and has done so in the past but that he might not have had actual knowledge but other than aiding the enemy charges was what other charges did the judge actually dismissed. ok i just want to make it clear clear that coombe said that there's that man and should he never said that manning should have known that is the prosecution's theory that manning should have known

and that that's kind of the definition of actual knowledge that he should have known with evil intent that osama bin laden or al qaeda would have seen that like you said it's it's the defense's theory that possibly he was negligent but got to make that distinction there and other other charges today that the judge didn't. the the other charge today that the judge did not dismiss is the computer fraud charge the judge despite the defense has been insisting that manning did not hacked into any database did not hack into any computers the theory is that manning all the information that he leaked that he had access with the security clearance i had at the time that he had access to this information the prosecution however is saying that no matter how you cut it this is an unauthorized use so as of today these charges are standing now in order to convict manning as

you a set of aiding the enemy the government must prove that he gave wiki leaks intention intelligence was quote evil intent and actual knowledge now obviously this charge was dismissed and it could result in him getting one hundred fifty four years to life live from that you or your family or your standpoint sitting in court there have you heard of any evidence proving that he had actual knowledge of that. well that meghan is the big question that's a big question and as you said earlier it's what the prosecution is saying is that manning's job as an intelligence analyst meant that he should have known he should have known what he was doing he should have known what the consequences were that that was his job he was computer to work on computers that his training would have informed him that. this is how al qaeda this is how the enemy obtains information that this is one method that they use to obtain intelligence they're saying that

this this this is one way that he should have known the prosecution already excuse me the defense however is saying that there was no intent there there was no evil intent there they're saying that manning is a whistleblower that he leaked this information in an effort to expose wrongdoing and to spark a national debate now i understand was that the prosecution began its rebuttal this afternoon what are we hearing from them. well right now we are hearing a rebuttal to the way that the case has played out as we know the defense rested its case the prosecution rested its case so right now we are hearing just rebuttal testimony to what we've heard so far today a lot of it was kind of very monotonous computer testimony computer forensic analysis we know that the prosecution is going to try to do kind of rebuttal the way that the defense has basically questioned the motives the defense of course

has had says manning the whistleblower that the reason he did all this was for noble causes the prosecution however is going to try to prove otherwise that he's for some reason leaked this information to gain notoriety and by doing so he put lives in danger and that that was his intent and that does that at least is what the prosecution is going to try to prove it during this phase lose any idea of when we could see this case being wrapped up here. while the case is definitely winding down we are in the rebuttal phase right now it's unclear when we will hear closing statements could be as soon as tomorrow could be next could be early next week those are some of the dates that are floating around so we're going to hear closing statements and then of course it's up to the judge judge colonel linden eastland to deliver this verdict in this case meghan and manning chose to be trying to buy a military judge instead of by a military jury could this decision and given the fact that the judge will now

dismiss the charges of him or refuse to dismiss the charges of aiding the enemy actually be backfiring on him. well that i think at this point that's speculation we don't we don't know right now the judge did refuse to dismiss these charges it is important to note that at this phase of the trial there is not as much. have a burden of proof right now the judge is saying based on the evidence she has heard so far there is enough evidence to move forward with the trial to let these charges important to note that when it comes to the verdict that the judge has a higher burden of proof when it comes to that pays of the trial she is going to have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that manning when he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks that he did so with actual knowledge that the enemy was going to get their their hands on this information mag and so we're here at the final final end of the trial here so we will be keeping

a close eye on it our to correspondent list wall in fort meade maryland thank you for the update and it's not a good day for civil liberties advocates either a federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit that would have prevented the u.s. from indefinitely detaining people under the national defense authorization act the second circuit court of appeals found that the group of lawyers journalists and activists who brought a lawsuit against the obama administration cannot sign a case saying they quote lacks standing because section ten twenty one says nothing at all about the president's authority to detain american citizens the non-citizen plaintiffs also have failed to establish standing because they have not shown a sufficient threat that the government will detain them under section ten twenty one now the group maintains that the n.d.a. which i should mention was really often two thousand and twelve they say it's unconstitutional and that it could possibly lead to the arrest of innocent americans they are now looking to the supreme court for

a final verdict i was joined earlier today by tangerine bowl and she's the founder and director of revolution truth and she is also a plaintiff in the indian case and she filled us in on the very latest. well the fights are over and we have plenty more to try with this case you know it's just surprising it's frustrating it's a bit exhausting. just from personal standpoint and from our team standpoint it's unfortunate. now journalist chris hedges was particularly disappointed in this ruling and the statement that he released to drew truthdig he said quote it means there is no recourse now either in within the executive legislative or judicial branches of the government to hold a steady assault on our civil liberties and most of basic constitutional rights and means that the state can use the military overturning over two centuries of domestic law to use troops on the streets to seize u.s. citizens strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military detention

centers now your group argues that the indefinite detention clause has a unique effect on journalists can you explain that a little bit more detail. i can say we stood as you know over two things the first amendment in the first amendment in regard to the first amendment it has had a chilling effect on speech on my speech microplane speech and other journalists that we know who are not part of this case combine that with our relations about the n.s.a. surveillance dragnet surveillance and the unfortunate clapper case really a case that percentage is also part of it and we know that the government has absolute right to target any one of us it's not that difficult for them to do so and you know combine that as well with a stay assault on whistleblowers and it's definitely chilling our speech and our freedom of association we're all worried about who we provide a quote platform to which might be construed as substantial support or being that's associated for us and i think that's particularly worrying for people who have

worked with her by around with you. know on the judge in this case ruled that you do not have standing to bring this case up as i mentioned earlier so that my question is who has standing if anyone to bring this case up. so i want you for an answer to that it's a great question and the people who would ask any of the people that we have no way to are they are indefinitely detained somewhere on this planet we can't reach them and they have no right to access the next forty or even family members or friends to advocate on them it's surely happening people have and definitely detainees who are innocent we saw that and we see it's probably happening outside of outside of so but we're powerless in this instance just like with clapper with the banks as couldn't prove that they were being targeted they were sort of the tricks de facto targets of surveillance we can't prove that anyone's indefinitely detained because we have no right to know that and if you recall october the government or any actually refused to assure

a thing court that the provision had not been applied in that it were what injunction which would have taken them to court. and credible. where we have no rights no cower no recourse to find out what you've been going on and they were denied having it's just absurd now after the federal court of appeals the next step is the supreme court but they also have the right to not take up this case in your opinion does the highest court of the land that really stand to take up this case because it is so controversial. well so there are a few other options we have before the supreme court we can file an extension which are which would we would be asking the full twelve judge court in the second circuit to hear our case we can actually go back to judge for us and ask her to clarify a few things and then we can get it to the supreme court you're right because you don't have to take the case we have hopes based on the supreme court's very strong stance on first amendment issue. is that they will actually take the case it's

certainly such a critical case there are so many ambiguities here that the second circuit didn't result it would be very surprising because it didn't take a case it would be it would be pretty rough for me virus ago you were all of us if they didn't take the case because it would be so shocking very interesting and we know that on our show yesterday we talked about congressman rush holt and he trying to repeal the patriot act and parts of the fisa act as a result of the n.s.a. leaks it'll be interesting to see if one of these people actually takes up your case in the india a and indefinite detention in specific tangerine bowl and founder and director of revolution truth and a plaintiff in the n.d.a. case thank you so much for shedding some light on this. well let's head to cuba now where guantanamo bay officials are making notable progress in their attempts to end the hunger strike at the facility a military spokesman announced this week that dozens of the chaney's had quit their hunger strike bringing the number of men participating in the forced starvation down to seventy five with forty six being

force fed also new this week u.s. district judge rosemary collyer rejected the request of three detainees to block the military's practice of force feeding she said the detainees had failed to show that the military is policy is quote and reasonable now there are a few reasons attributed to why so many men are ending their strike first one time away officials are enticing them with communal living arrangements if they choose to resume eating also it is the beginning of the holy month of ramadan meanwhile the. the administration has appealed am one the right to search the growing of the detainees each time they enter the camp after meeting with their lawyers here's the reasoning the obama administration gave for the first time to the government's knowledge a federal court has restricted a military commander from implementing routine security procedures at a detention facility holding enemy forces notwithstanding the universally recognized need for the maintenance of discipline and order in those facilities

however lawyer david graham says that this is just a scare tactic meant to punish the detainees. for devout muslim men i think it is the. one of the worst forms of humiliation there could be and for that reason if they don't want to leave their camp because of the searches they end up not being able to meet their lawyers not being able to have telephones with their telephone calls with their lawyers not being able to have telephone calls with their families now reince went on to say that he believes that these searches will stop when the hunger strike ends but given the obama administration's adamant stance on this issue that commission is unlikely to become a reality. back here in the u.s. the death of a chechen man who was being questioned by the f.b.i. is becoming shrouded in even more secrecy a florida medical examiner's office said tuesday that the f.b.i. has ordered it not to release the autopsy report of twenty seven year old even i am

told asha that asha was a friend of suspected boston marathon bomber tom or lance are naive and was being interrogated in his home possibly about a triple homicide that happened back in two thousand and eleven and here is where things get weird told off of was surrounded by at least three f.b.i. agents in the massachusetts state police officers being questioned for the fifth time when he was shot and killed by those agents his family released photos that they say are of his autopsy showing that he was shot six times in the torso and once in the back of the head officers inside the house at the time have also told conflicting stories about the moment that led up to the shooting one said that he had a knife others said he had a blade some say that he had a metal pole or maybe a broom or even a ceremonial sword or that he threw a chair or that he pushed a table at officers today the f.b.i. and the justice department say that they are forbidden the release of the reports

about the shooting because of an ongoing internal investigation they are checking for wrongdoing within their ages. it's but if you're waiting for a response don't get your hopes up it should be pointed out that the f.b.i. has internal shooting process review has reviewed some one hundred fifty f.b.i. shooting cases in the last twenty years and it has found that it's agents were not culpable in a single one of those shootings the medical examiner's office said that it would check with the f.b.i. every month for permission to release this autopsy report and we in turn will be checking in with them. well it's thursday so that means it's time for our weekly attack report now the pope says that following him on twitter couldn't lumen a path to heaven i'm talking of course about indulgences pope francis says that following him on twitter could curry favor with the big guy meanwhile teachers are saying that smart technology is actually dumbing it down to future generations to talk all things tech ashton moore is

a digital media and tech specialist and i first ask him about the pope's new social media campaign. in the pope's social media campaign is probably the biggest social media promotion or campaign of all time in my opinion a lot of organizations or companies will give away free or they will give away free tickets to events but in this case if you do follow the guidelines to following the twitter a code to actually follow through with what suggested then you can according to the catholic church now spend less time in purgatory which is a very big deal for catholics to do better than an i pad right action for better than a sure so obviously just to give our viewers some context not to get into too much of the theology and all just as our remission of temporal temporal punishment due to sin the guilt of which has been forgiven temporarily anyway it's not forgiveness

but obviously this is this is a big thing for catholics how many catholics have started following the pope. on twitter and do we have any indication that it was as a result of these indulgences well if you look at news articles yesterday this is just a very simple and quick way to check statistics if you look at news articles yesterday many of them were saying that we had on the poster account maybe two point six million followers as of a few minutes ago he now has over two point seven million followers just look here that. could be as many as one hundred thousand followers overnight that's a lot of followers that's like that many it's a lot of our time and there are thousands and yes so obviously these indulgences are maybe catching on but talk about the pope and the vatican shifting stance when it comes to social media i know that they're taking to twitter they're taking to facebook and they're taking to pinterest of all things i talk about this well it's actually super fascinating to look at it from the organizational standpoint of the

catholic church because it's obviously a very established. organization they've been around for a long long long long long time and it's actually their adoption of social media says to the world that if we're doing it why aren't you in my opinion because they're able to to learn how to use it correctly and in my opinion this is a wonderful way to to bring in. followers of the catholic church to engage with them to talk to them to get their attention engaged with their own social media i think it's just really a way that they're saying to the world that you know now is the time of all times to start thinking about what your organization what you are as an individual are doing on social media as well so you said that you think this is the biggest social media campaign of all time do you think it is the best social media campaign of all time have you seen better. is an interesting word i would say and

terms of or i. from you follow in. a twitter account of the knowledge that can be imparted to you in terms of the articles that can be shared to you i would say spending less time in purgatory if that's what you believe in and it's an amazing thing i mean it really is because the idea is that is that you are able to follow pope social twitter account and if you actually pay attention to what's been tweeted what's being shared the news is being pushed out through the account that you will indeed it will be counted as an indulgence which is something that comes naturally after a confession and then you get to again spend time in purgatory who would want that now while the vatican and the pope might be pushing for people to move on to social media and use their social media and order to talk with the pope in order to become

more active in the church teachers are going the other way and you pew study a survey of teachers found that they think that social media is causing their students to have improper grammar but includes probably is arising that includes informal conversations and it includes spelling your thoughts on that as well the pew study to be fair. as well as some cons and it so the cons of course. plagiarism for example people copying from wikipedia but the prose of the same teachers for the pew study show the same teachers are saying that it's increasing collaboration it's increasing creativity and because these individuals the middle schoolers and the high schoolers are finding that they have a wider audience if they create original engaging content then what they're doing is they're actually sharing more collaborating more and thinking more about what they're posting and what they're creating now i'm not testing that teacher said it is ninety four percent of them say that their students should write more by hand

because they say about me writing by hand mic. them feel more actively engaged in the content that they're writing in self editing and things like that do you think that there's any truth to that to that kind of aspect of the research well i can say that i personally. have been behind the keyboard since i was about nine or so my handwriting is pretty terrible it's pretty awful but i feel like creative wise in terms of what you're what you're making at least again from my experience i type a lot faster than i can write and so if i'm trying to create something on paper it'll take three hours but if i'm creating something on a keyboard or even a blackberry or an i phone or an i pad i can just do it a lot faster and general which gives me more time to do it gives you more time sort of pulling a piece of paper out of the typewriter it gives me time to just delete and so i'd say you know maybe you're not as involved by sitting there and writing but at least in my experience it helps me to create ashmore as a digital specialist it thank you so much for coming in and for waiting in on these

topics on this tech talk thursday very well thank you for having me. well talk about sweetening the deal panamanian officials were performing a routine cargo check on a boat bound for north korea after receiving information that there might be drugs on board when they found this buried inside a container carrying sugar bags were two hundred forty tons of soviet era defense weapons including two anti aircraft missile systems nine missiles in parts and two in my g. twenty one jets that's according to cuban officials now on cuba's part they say that the weapons were in bruit to north korea for repairs and that they are quote obsolete regardless this is a direct violation of trade treaties since it is considered undeclared military cargo experts believe that the sugar could be cuba's statement to north korea in exchange for those weapon repairers the crew now faces possible charges of illegal

weapons smuggling in panama. well since the start of the industrial age consumption of energy resources has grown by leaps and bounds it's a trend that may reach a tipping point was more of the public fear in the effects of climate change and even the hope of renewable energy development may be too late but still people are attempting to innovate continuing to find good alternatives to fossil fuel for a somewhat odd example of that the residents laurie harshness has more. scientists from the bristol robotics laboratory in the u.k.

have come up with the renewal energy source that is probably right in line with where the future of energy is realistically had a first some background according to recent industry reports overall worldwide energy consumption increased by over fifty per cent in the last twenty years over the last ten years a load that increased by thirty percent as we make more and more shiny new electronic toys and as more regions on the planet continue to develop our rate of consuming energy will most likely continue to skyrocket and as a consequence our planet's water air and food supply will continue to get filthy or because let's be honest the current energy grid is such a big moneymaker for a handful of powerful companies that there is no way we're just going to switch gears to clean energy according to projections by the u.s. energy information administration the fossil fuels will still dominate for decades

to come we are probably going to fracking the hell out of our natural gas supply and we probably are going to grab as much gas as we can from oil sands and other through these sources because that will keep all that sweet sweet energy money flowing to brackley into the hands of those currently in power. so the future of energy will continue to be dirty and our planet will continue to get trashed eventually though. we're going to have to look for good new will source that and now back to those british baf and that bristol robotics they just came up with the world's first urine powered fuel cells powered by p.v. the fuel cell can generate enough energy to power your phone to perform simple tasks. they use a stack of microbial fuel cells that contain microbes that feed an organic matter

like garrett and produce electricity in the process so if your phone is diagnosed problem just have another beer and let your you're in power you back up. when we think about the energy production of the future we like that picture grass the meadows graced with quiet pristine. or frank lloyd wright as codes peppered with solar panels and crisp clean air all around them but with the way we are heading now our energy production is going to get thirty year before we give renewable sources and honest go and by that time we could be living in a state so dystopian that using our urine as an added to the stores will hardly be the dirty is part of our day tonight let's talk about that by following the end twitter as the resident.

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zachary what happened that day i don't know but a woman killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime or did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like men know because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. let me let me i want to know wouldn't let me ask you a question. here and they spent working.