coming up on r t a former cia leader wanted by italian authorities it is arrested in panama but the u.s. blocked his transfer to italy this comes as the u.s. is putting pressure on countries around the world to deny edward snowden asylum is it a case of do as i say not as i do. another week in the bradley manning draw is rough enough and we'll have a report from the courtroom on today's proceedings as the trial heads for the finish line. and a new page is added to the debate over capital punishment georgia passed a law to keep secret what chemicals they use in lethal injections more on this story later in the show. hello there it's friday july nineteenth five pm in washington d.c.

i'm marinate and you're watching our t.v. first to the ex cia chief arrested in panama robert seldon lady a former cia base chief in italy was convicted in the two thousand and three of duction of an addiction terror suspect from a street milan and sentenced by an italian appeals court to nine years in prison this after being tried in absentia in italy for kidnapping for the kidnapping of the muslim cleric now at the behest of italian authorities the country of panama detain levy this week this morning though u.s. officials told the washington post that lady was on a plane en route to america meaning he won't be sent to italy to serve time. the trial of lee who has since retired from the cia brought the first conviction anywhere in the world against agents involved in the cia's extraordinary rendition program a practice said to have led to torture the suspect the terror suspect known as abu omar was abducted in february two thousand and three transferred to the u.s. military base first in italy then in germany before being flown to egypt the cleric

alleged he was tortured in egypt he was later released i was joined earlier by colonel morris davis former chief prosecutor of quantum obey and prefer and professor of law at howard university he first talk to us about the hypocrisy of what happened. caption there was entirely accurate hawk or c. because us exactly what it is a movie like the rule of law when the end result is favorable to the united states but it is not so favorable then we just tend to ignore it and so certainly demanding that russia's and you know edward snowden back or will boycott the winter olympics is a bit hypocritical when you know we're shielding our own people from accountability that have been convicted in a court that we recognize as a legitimate court to know we're shielding them from accountability now you experience something like this firsthand as a prosecutor at guantanamo bay correct yes yes and now it only has faced some blowback from the latin american countries for its alleged role in diverting

a plane the plane of the libyan president even morale is there now a lot of american countries in solidarity with morale is have a move there envoys from italy among other european countries so why isn't the u.s. listening now well because we're the big kid on the playground who's going to tell us that we can't do it again you know we're great at preaching to others about the rule of law and you heard the president yesterday on mandela's ninety fifth birthday talk about you know honoring you know accountability and respect for the law but we ignore it when it's inconvenient so that's certainly what we're doing here with italy where you know there are lapdogs when it comes to when we need to favor blocking evo morales you know head of state was an extraordinary step you know for the countries that forced his plane to land believing that snowden might be on the plane but then you know when they ask us to extradite people back to their country we've had the same thing you know with amanda knox right where a similar case where they've asked that she be extradited back to be retried in

their courts or the twenty three americans that were convicted along with mr lady so you know when it works to our favor we like extradition like abu hamza al masri that we got extradited from the u.k. here but it's posed to be a two way street not a one way street or we're going to get a lot of pushback from italy on this it seems like they. we're doing what we asked for with the way even morale is that this time we're not doing what they're asking for oh yeah i think the italian government tends to be like our government here where the different branches may not be acting in total concert certainly the legal system you know has asked for amanda knox have asked for the cia and the air force officer that were involved in the extraordinary rendition of omar to be sent back to serve their sentences but i'm not sure that diplomatically that that's necessarily in concert there because again you know they they helped block evo morales at our request it's again. a diverse picture there. to your knowledge have cia operatives ever face justice in other countries after breaking

their own sovereign laws not that i'm aware of any certainly you know we've held john kiriakou accountable here but we hold him accountable for talking about cia programs not directly carrying out a cia program but you know we certainly work very hard to get our people back. to avoid accountability and there's certainly no accountability here when they're when they come home what this case mean for global global cia operatives moving forward well i think the lesson i would take away here is it's best to vacation domestically whether or not you know president bush or vice president cheney or robert lady that these people that have been involved in these programs these post nine eleven. burd the law the if you leave the state comfort of the united states and you're at risk of others that don't turn a blind eye just letting you pass through so i would i would stay within the us that's the takeaway for all your cia operatives do you think that mr whately well

great name by the way will ultimately serve prison time in italy no seriously doubt it unless he again is foolish enough to go to a country that might actually honor the law and you know italy followed proper procedure the conviction of the twenty three has been affirmed by the italian supreme court they submitted an arrest warrant to enter pole acted on the warrant so they did everything by the book we've been the impediment to the rule of law so seriously doubt that you're going to see him or any of the others in a jail colonel morris davis thank you for your time here daily really appreciate your insight. elsewhere it's been a chaotic five months that quantum obey with as many as one hundred six detainees on hunger strike and now at the beginning of ramadan the strike has ended for some though things still remain tense many prisoners are being force fed after dark since during the holy month muslims are forbidden to eat during the day all of this

is being played out as the debate goes on over when and whether to close the prison but a commentator sam sacks takes a look at what if any is hunger strike has accomplished. late february two thousand and thirteen reports begin trickling out that prisoners at the guantanamo bay detention facility have refused meals for several weeks a hunger strike is beginning but the u.s. continues to deny it lawyers of one of those prisoners say the strike is in response to a new search for seizures at the facility but other reports indicate that the strikes started because president obama forgot his five year old promise to close down the prison facility he began the year by not even mentioning get mao and his inaugural address or his state of the union address so the prisoners went on a hunger strike to force the president to once again remember what's going on a kuantan a mo bet march nineteenth the hunger strike count swells to twenty four and the united nations human rights body announces it is looking in to the strike later in march fifty days into the strike the international committee of the red cross sent

a doctor to the prison to monitor the situation april fourteenth the plight of good mo hunger strikers makes the pages of the new york times was one prisoner telling his experience of force feeding if twenty first prison officials admit that eighty four prisoners are now on hunger strike more than half of the population and sixteen are being force fed acknowledging the size and scope of the strike the u.s. military announces that forty additional medics are being sent to the prison at the end of april the hunger strike number jumps to one hundred members of congress take note senator dianne feinstein writes the obama administration urging them to begin sending home those eighty six prisoners that have already been cleared for release and then on april thirtieth and president obama himself is forced to address the situation i get no for the first time in several months it is not a surprise to me that we've got problems in guantanamo criticism begins mounting against the force feeding policy the american medical association writes to defense secretary chuck hagel saying the practice violates medical ethics may sixteenth the

hunger strike reaches one hundred days and further grows to one hundred two prisoners with thirty undergoing force feeding a week later may twenty third president obama. in addresses kuantan imma get more has become a symbol all around the world for an america that flouts the rule of law he announces he's reopening the shuttered office in the state department in charge of finding ways to transfer prisoners out of guantanamo he also announces the lifting of the prisoner transfer ban to yemen june seventh one hundred four prisoners now on hunger strike forty one being force fed president obama's chief of staff denis mcdonough accompanies senators dianne feinstein and john mccain down to get mo to monitor the situation july first as the number of hunger strikers peaks at one hundred six with forty four being force fed lawyers a forgive mode detainees file a motion in the u.s. district court in washington d.c. to stop the force feeding on july ninth the judge rules that only president obama has the authority to stop for speeding meanwhile prison officials say they are

prepared to continue force feeding striking inmates during the holy month of ramadan the next day senator dianne feinstein again writes the white house asking the president to halt the practice of force feeding and then as the holiday of ramadan begins the hunger strike slows down on july fourteenth that's reported the prison guards have brought back communal living for prisoners at the facility who give up their hunger strike reversing months of confinement in individual cells today good move fishel say the number of hunger strikers has dropped down to seventy three with forty six continuing to be force fed and within five months into the hunger strike not one good motive taney has been released but still this hunger strike has had some achievements the prisoner transfer ban to yemen it's been lifted and that office in the state department in charge of resettling detainees it's been reopened but most importantly the hunger strike has forced people to talk about guantanamo bay again and knowing that their plight can't be ignored any longer could provide these good detainees just

a little bit of hope. in washington same sex artsy. now to the bradley manning trial where thursday a military judge rejected a defense motion to dismiss a key charge of aiding the enemy in the court martial bradley manning if you army private who turned over hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group wiki leaks the try the trial continues today with more rebuttal witnesses from the government prosecution artie's liz wahl is in fort meade maryland with the latest. well today we heard testimony aimed at giving the court an idea of bradley manning's character when he was serving in the army at the time that he leaked the classified information the prosecution called journalese show men took the stand she was manning seen leader on base and was responsible for counseling manning and her testimony was controversial she said manning's behavior was questionable and based on her conversations with the army private she believed manning had no loyalty to the united states she said she once pointed to

a flag announcement and what it meant to him he said the flag meant nothing to him according to this witness that went as far as saying she had suspicions that manning was a spy during cross-examination manning's attorney david was attacked this witness has credibility yes there was she never would put such a serious allegation in writing if she was concerned about this he kept drilling her on this asking if she really thought he was a risk why she never put it in writing knowing manning was an intelligence analyst and that he worked with classified information on a daily basis also called to the sad was showman supervisor mr achatz showman said she reported the showman said that she reported these concerns to aca and when asked about this he said he didn't recall these concerns and he also said that he suffers from memory loss who pointed to the fact that manning had filed

a complaint against this witness that was an equal opportunity complaint for using derogatory terms toward manning specifically calling him quote faggoty now all of this gets back to trying to prove manning's intent when he leaked troves of documents to wiki leaks that offend says he did it to expose that wrongdoing but the prosecution is alleging that manning aided the enemy when he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents because they believe in the prosecution's prosecutions view they believe he knew. who the information would be on the internet and as a result be seen by the enemy also discussed today are the charges of theft of government property they are banning faces the defense is trying to get these charges dismissed the government is saying that manning stole sole government information but they've been struggling to prove that there's a monetary value behind these documents manning obtained and if so what the value is but we're still waiting to hear the judge's ruling on this it's unclear when

that is going to happen it is expected that we are going to hear more testimony from more witnesses in this rebuttal phase of the trial before we hear a verdict from the judge possibly next week in fort meade maryland liz wall marty. in georgia this week a new statute called beautiful injection secrecy act shields the way the drugs to be used on death row inmates are required and manufacture georgia has had a difficult time of acquiring the drug pentobarbital after european producers objected to its use in executions now on monday a judge temporarily postponed georgia inmate warren we hold scheduled execution after attorneys raised questions involving the state's supply of the execution drug now it wasn't the first time he'll hill's scheduled execution has been postponed by a challenge to georgia's execution method now last july a previous execution date was put on hold by an earlier challenge to the state's plan to change from a three drug cocktail injection to

a single dose of pentobarbital who was condemned for the killing of an another inmate in one thousand nine hundred to discuss this i'm joined today by richard dieter executive director of the death penalty information center thank you for joining me and thank you for having me now first question if you could talk about the new injection secrecy law and if it threatens the first and eighth amendment in georgia's constitution was a sleeping law passed by georgia that forbids revealing any information about the manufacture of the drugs they're using or who's going. to administer them and maybe even makes it a crime to do so so it's a form of censorship and it also restricts the defendant from being able to challenge it because with no information they have nothing to complain about and it of course prevents the court in the public from knowing as well right now just was the first state to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded a term that they still years and one nine hundred eighty six which laid the groundwork for the two thousand and three supreme court decision outline the

execution of people who suffer from mental illness says now why do you think georgia is moving forward with this execution today which we're getting a second that they actually didn't move forward today as execution all of this despite the state throwing it at legal well they hold that he is not mentally retarded does not have this because they require proof beyond a reasonable doubt the most extreme form of proof and they claim that there are at least were worse some psychologists who said he wasn't mentally retarded so that's that's a doubt. but now all of the state's psychiatrists and psychologists agree he is mentally retarded and now they're saying well this new information comes too late so you know it's an adversarial process the state often pushes in the defense pushes back. in this case a person's life is on the line in a number of laws that are rendering this execution unconstitutional are in play right now what the legal repr question is if any will the state ultimately face if

it carries out this execution well they would be embarrassed if it's clear that they did something unconstitutional but that's where the courts step in and i think you know i think one court has already stepped in now in georgia and said this this law is clearly beyond the pale this is unconstitutional they never did get an appeal today to the georgia supreme court but i can't but think that the ruling that's going to be upheld this is a bad law that georgia passed and i just going to have to change it if if my son riis. when the they are allowed to carry this execution out then then i think you know we have to take a broader look at our constitutional protections now on the subject of pentobarbital that's the. in the objection three part cocktail an objection why did their european manufacturers stop sending it to georgia well their company that responsive to public concerns or european based company in almost all of europe is opposed to the death penalty opposed to assisting with executions in the us it's

the last thing they want to do and quite a drug company gets very little income from a dose or two of the barber pole for an execution so it's simply not in their financial or or professional interests and they don't want to be associated with killing they are making drugs for a living for health so this is not the first company a number of companies for a number of different drugs have separated themselves either stop making the drug that's being used or forbid its exportation now again this is the pentobarbital is only one component of the three components use for lethal injection what happens when it only pancho pentobarbital is used in lethal injections without the other two well the other two are meant to make it faster process they're also more dangerous they are very painful so the first drug if it's used alone slowly put you to sleep and causes vengefully all your systems to you know wind down and stop

gradually it takes maybe fifteen minutes to a half hour it's like going under anaesthetic without a doctor controlling it eventually you die and that's what happens and is that painful just using pentobarbital well we never have talked with anybody who's kind of values that i think me the medical evidence is no that is you know you're supposed to be unconscious and then finally you die but you know this is a new drug this is. a new thing for georgia to be using people have to be trained injected correctly in the dosage has to be correct in that the medicine better be pure or else there could be problems so that's what george was being asked to reveal and they said no when i can tell you anything now despite these new findings by the doctors that say mr mr hill is in fact mentally disabled. what do you think will actually move forward for george do you think that they will

put the appeal in and try and move forward with his death well there's two issues one is this lethal injection anything and then they they may still challenge that because that's a law that georgia passed now on this mental retardation thing they say it's over they say there's nothing more so what warren hill has done is gone to the u.s. supreme court with a special appeal and that is going to be considered in september so if if that is to is still out there then the nothing will happen until september but the there's no guarantee that the court the supreme court will take this so there's really two avenues going on and either one of them could block the execution both have to be satisfied for it to go forward thank you for your time that was richard dieter executive director at the death penalty information center. elsewhere hacker group anonymous allegedly posted thousands of congressional staffers e-mail addresses and passwords on an online message board the twitter account last resort

announced over twitter that it had accumulated the e-mail addresses and passwords which it gathered from the senate dot gov subdomain the activist group says it scrambled the password so that they went directly lined up with the e-mail addresses a system administrator in the senate said that they leaked passwords don't match the requirements for congressional accounts and that many of the email addresses had already expired now the opi last resort twitter account said the hacking was in return. the n.s.a. surveillance of american citizens meanwhile the original document with the e-mail addresses and passwords has been removed from the internet still ahead on archie it looks like the motor city is broke this city attempts to declare bankruptcy so what does it say about the financial stability of other major u.s. cities more on this after the break. this team story doesn't make good news no softball no puff pieces the tough

question. welcome back now to detroit the fourth largest city in the u.s. filed for bankruptcy thursday afternoon after struggling with an eighteen billion dollar debt once the very symbol of american industrial might detroit became the biggest u.s. city to file for bankruptcy its finances are ravaged in its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long slow decline in population and auto manufacturing and the motor city is bankruptcy battle is likely to be a long and painful one meanwhile

a judge just said that detroit's filing it violates michigan's constitution a ruling that the michigan a.g. pledge to appeal joining me now to discuss is our team producer and detroit native america david and prime interest of bob english welcome guys thank you for being here today. here it's great to have you know first to america detroit has been on the brink of bankruptcy for some time now can you explain what brought to trade to you know being nearly twenty billion dollars in debt that's a lot of debt it is a lot of debt and it's frankly very sad you know it's something that i think a lot of people in detroit aren't incredibly surprised to hear the city has been in decline for many many years all of my life since i've been born at least. but it's been it's been hard to watch i think as an insider being from detroit and on the outside now living here in washington d.c. but i think what you're seeing really is just this sort of vicious cycle that the city is not really been able to get out of you know you have high unemployment because you have high unemployment you have thousands of people that are just

leaving the city in droves to find economic opportunities elsewhere when you have people leaving the city you're obviously producing less tax revenue you have to tighten the budget and not to mention that when you have more unemployment you have more issues like crime and then that's just one inevitability of having high unemployment so that puts a further strain on resources from the police department the fire department etc so it's not all that surprising that a system like that that's frankly unsustainable would would collapse it makes a lot of sense now bob cherry there are. more than one hundred thousand creditors on it on a sixteen page story back up the filing and in what order will they get paid out and how will that be determined can you expand on that a little and i promise not to get to that because it is a company that if it is bankruptcy is a very complicated process and they're not even in bankruptcy court yet so this is something that has to be determined this lawsuit this whole filing could be thrown out because they are alleging that it while it's the michigan state constitution

but if it does proceed to bankruptcy court we have an orderly liquidation process where we have people who have bought bonds in a lot of these bonds were bought by like state pensions and so you have teachers who are involved who they're going to get a certain amount they're going to get a certain amount based on the claimant whether it's secured or unsecured those are the actual terms of that are you it's interesting you know america we're going to go back to what kind of responses are we having from detroit politicians and its citizens. detroit politicians brings up some bad memories for people but you know obviously the governor of michigan and the emergency manager kevyn orr are one hundred ten percent behind this filing they believe that you sort of have to rip the band-aid off to start the healing. year decline so they're sort of ready for that recovery to start but there are some a weary politicians like mayor dave bing who never really wanted to pursue this filing in the first place and i would assume it's because he doesn't want to you know hurt the future of his the city workers

a lot of global emissions are are are going to be in jeopardy moving forward aside from that i would say that the traders are pretty optimistic detroiters and metro detroit years are pretty optimistic about this they're not looking at as hitting rock bottom they feel like we hit rock bottom a long long time ago and that this is really just this is a move forward this is the thing that had to happen to move forward to turn the page and really sort of you know kind of the beginning of the end of the pain right and that kind of leads me to bankruptcy it's often its own it. it sounds about right it can be a positive thing for a city can you serve me on that it's like a reset and this is kind of a microcosm of the financial problems that we had in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine we didn't clear out a lot of bad debt and as a result we've we've had these zombie big banks kind of limping along and it's been a drag on the economy so in detroit this is been a drag on the economy and these pension obligations unfortunately the money's just not going to be there so there has to be an orderly liquidation process maybe it's

a bankruptcy court hopefully the rule of law is followed ok now america seems to be a trend lately like any place filled with abandon warehouses it seems lately you're going to find hipsters to fill them and that there's been a couple documentaries out recently about the hipster movement towards the trait is this true no it absolutely is true and it's a very cool thing because when you think of this radio and think of hips and there's not a not that not at all but this is something that's really you know started to take root in the last few years and i think it's really because the city sort of started to evolve into a haven for artists the detroit tech industry is booming it's really start starting to outpace multiple other cities and there's a lot of r. and d. there's a lot of research and development and all of these elements combined are really attractive to young people and that's not what i'm saying but you have to clear out the bad stuff first and in order to do that you know it's going to take a liquidation process a bankruptcy process to do that to bring the art now final wrap up or do you guys think positive or negative for detroit moving forward positive. because they were

smiling about bankruptcy this is terrible but it is a positive step everybody knew it had to happen we're moving in the right direction ok so optimism moving forward that's what we're thinking for the certainly optimism detroit has the foundation it has everything it needs it has strong industries some of the finest academic institutions great cultural institutions so i am a huge proponent obviously i think it's moving forward and not by its now. thank you guys i really appreciate you joining me today to talk more about it. ok that was breaking that me that was breaking a set producer amir a david and prime interest to us and bob. english and finally with the secretary of homeland security janet napolitano announcing her resignation and there's an opening in the cabinet and pundits have begun floating the name of ray kelly the commissioner of the new york police department as a replacement though some civil liberties liberties advocates are concerned about his record with stop and frisk and surveillance of muslim americans so some people went to the petition site change dot org to take things into their own hands and

why have ray kelly at the helm when you can have done that develop rb sensation r. kelly the man has for claims of the world's greatest and is known for his special brand of real talk the only question can he handle the bump and grind of d.c. bureaucracy that's the series that does it for us today for more stories that we covered you can go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america and check out our web site r t slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at aaron aid thank you we'll see you back here at eight o'clock.

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