i know that i'm. really not. the worse for the little thing the only one out of the. well if you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm reminded of the spanking the sat so question all the frequent travelers out there how do you feel about the t.s.a. sure there's the issue of radioactive body scanners and the fact that they're incapable of incorporating software the attack our privacy but the t.s.a. is problems go much deeper than just body scanners corner a recent report by the government accountability office over nine thousand cases the t.s.a. misconduct occurred between two thousand and ten and two thousand and twelve alone

includes everything from employees to going on the job forgery sexual misconduct and stealing from passengers and i'm not just talking about anything that one former t.s.a. employee stole forty thousand dollars from a checked bag another robbed between ten and thirty thousand dollars in cash from travelers and even worse he paid off his supervisors to let him do it and despite this damning report the t.s.a. is trying to say no worries guys take care of this lawlessness but then fly one representative is seeking out. why are there so many cases and what is t.s.a. doing about it the report says they really can't get a handle on it that that raises a lot of issues seriously why are there so many cases of misconduct within the t.s.a. what people are being hired at this agency apparently pedophiles according to tennessee congressman murtha blackburn released a report last year documenting the t.s.a. is hiring practices and insufficient use of background checks blackburn told news channel. five this report details highly disturbing cases where head of files and

child pornographers wearing law enforcement uniforms are not only patting down on suspecting travelers but in many cases stealing valuables from their bags look eyes this is a government department paid for by taxpayers one that travelers are required to comply with if they want to get on a plane so on top of being borderline molested by a rent a cop when we travel now with the worry about them stealing from us too so if you feel that the t.s.a. is doing more harm than good join me and let's break the set. the clock for a never seen anything like that. there are plenty of reasons why the average person might keep their mouths shut after witnessing criminal activity at work beyond having a career to think about sometimes blowing the whistle could turn someone's entire life upside down this is certainly the case for army private bradley manning who

was just found guilty of nineteen of the twenty one charges filed against him including six counts of espionage collectively these guilty charges could still send the whistleblower to prison for over one hundred years and while the final sentencing remains to be seen the verdict sense a clear message from the federal government bad p.r. for the powers that be could land you behind bars for the rest of your life this chilling effect is the reason why waste fraud abuse and even war crimes going to counted for the last decade a steady crackdown on those who are exposing damning truths is slowly morphed into a full blown war on whistleblowers so to talk about how the whistleblowers survive i'm joined now by the man who literally wrote the book on how to be a whistle blower tom divine legal director of the government accountability project thank you so much for coming on tom thanks for having so tom let's talk about the verdict the bradley manning trial nineteen of the twenty one charges six counts of espionage what does it say that we're using in this piece of world war one

legislation that was designed to prosecute people who were spied. i've just done it's blowing the web so it's an act of that i mean let's just set a sense of the world our countries are enemies of the united states and it's questionable promise you mr manning with us. murder us how our captors murdering innocent civilians under reporter and there was no car about the convictions for those parts of the disclosure he probably could use some training he may have crossed the line and gone too far with some of the disclosures but the heart of it was the united states violating the principles of humane warfare in international law in. and if that's an act of espionage to expose that we've got a real serious problem we do indeed and if he is faced with the one hundred your life sentence here what precedent with that set of what implications but that have

for not only whistleblowers but journalists i think it's going to sudden example of one way street accountability here we've got a witness to a murder who's being sentenced to life in prison and potentially in the perp of the people who engaged in the murder there's not even any government attention to their activities that's sort of backward set of priorities and i don't think it's acceptable in our country and i don't think that. we're going to allow this to keep happening the other thing that i think is very important before they sutton's private manning is to determine if the information he exposed was legally classified you can't classify cover up under the law she can classified to protect secret sources or it's secret methods of intelligence and you know exposing a murder is not exposing the source and last helicopter

shooting on innocent civilians in reporters is a secret method of intelligence for the united states doesn't qualify there either i don't know how to get down to the things that are really classified and see what you can disclose right and unfortunately i mean there's so much overclassification going on which is a crime in itself you don't see anyone being prosecuted for that you know i can't help but notice the double standard that's glaring between whistleblowers who are on the hailed as exposing fraud abuse that are wasting money awarding awarded millions of dollars for review revealing fraud on the government's side in the case of northrop grumman in two thousand and six i think you know we're exposing things that help the government you're hailed but when you're doing things that. you can work. times you're prosecuted i mean is someone who does the vice over five thousand whistleblowers in your career do you support snowden's escape plan and this kind of seeking asylum outside of the us i think it's

a tragedy that he needed in this case when mr snowden's disclosure of domestic surveillance as. a whole planet was supplying our government was flat out lying to congress and the public about domestic surveillance and it's thanks to other premier whistleblowers and mr snowden market it is a little more effectively that we realize that we've lost our privacy that big brother has moved into every american family that has a computer a telephone a smart phone all of that is property of the united states government and president obama welcomed a great national debate about whether this is a good idea or not but how we can have a debate or trying to put the president who made it a person who made it possible in general there's a fundamental contradiction here and the government's got to sort out which statements are genuine and which statements are just political your organization

the government accountability project i mean you're covering a wide variety of arenas here where people can blow the whistle on government misconduct one of which is the manipulation of climate science data which i thought was really interesting can you talk about that we represented numerous was. james hansen who is basically a pioneer exposing the threats of global warming the bush administration ordered him not to speak to anyone anyone in the world without prior permission he defied that we defended him and the administration. the administration was violating the laws of our land and we were able to get them and forced another scientist cults. he was working in the white house environmental this. and he found out that the head of that office a former oil company lobbyist was censoring the reports of the real scientists to get rid of any indications that we were in trouble when there was overwhelming

scientific consensus for it successfully with the with. the climate change scientists to they've been the pioneers of getting the truth and i think we've seen getting the truth out it's not only the beginning of very intensive struggle the truth has inside us all free yet but at least we're able to fight for it indeed and right now it seems like there is such a lack of protection for whistleblowers what is your organization doing to help protect them so they can be safe to pursue things in the public interest first for trying to implement successfully a legal revolution in free speech rights there's always a time limit but in the last decade we've overhauled the laws to protect federal government employees after a thirteen year campaign we've gotten best practice free speech rights for most employees in the corporate sector and getting this right some paper is just the

beginning. they're not worth the paper they're written on so we're trying to see if there's honest implementation of those rights and we're also not shifting to the areas where we haven't even had success on paper one is the intelligence community was so blowers. we passed great for government contractors last year government contractors and all civil service employees except it's working in the intelligence community and what's ironic to me is the chairman of the house intelligence committee who said mr snowden should have worked through proper channels he is the kind of tension who sabotaged those free speech rights for anybody who tries to work with them proper channels he had they couldn't be cleaner . and we're going to we're going to the man to fight so that there are safe options for the checks and balances of the government to work without engaging in professional suicide we have about thirty seconds left but is this the worst you've

seen in terms of a crackdown with lawyers in your thirty years experience in order to always be only third child rights of never been stronger but they've never been more vulnerable to being put under criminal investigation and prosecuted in quite frankly i pushed on those rights but it's a lot more chilling to try and put a whistle blower in prison than it is to fire them which is why we need this organization more than ever before tom devine thank you so much for coming on talking about the government accountability project thank you for having. me. so guys on this show i frequently cover stories that demonstrate just how little we actually know about the food we eat but america is not only in the dark about genetically modified foods in comparison to the rest of the world there are also plenty of ingredients frequently found in our grocery stores that you will

never see in other countries why because there are legal so for the sake of becoming better informed consumers let's go over about five of these chemicals that are part of our daily diet sorry with artificial food dye which is in practically everything we eat from soft drinks to mac and cheese but artificial diets are derived from chemicals and these chemicals are derived from petroleum you know that highly toxic black sludge that makes the world go around taking that into consideration should come as no surprise that artificial food have been linked to nerve cell damage and brain cancer which is why you won't find that grocery stores in norway finland france or that you hate and like the u.s. those countries are willing to trade in that delicious yellow die number five for the overall wellbeing of their people there's a less drop which is commonly found in fat free potato chips and french fries although it's designed to lower calorie counts it's also been linked to anal leakage and vitamin depletion a less stress currently banned in the u.k.

and canada next up brominated vegetable oil found in sports drinks and lemon lime sodas because it makes food dye stick to liquid unfortunately it's also used as a fire retardant not really something you want to be consuming and with something so toxic it's unsurprisingly been linked to organ failure birth defects and schizophrenia and this chemical retardant is now banned in over one hundred countries but not here in the u.s. of a then comes as no diet carbon i might add the common ingredient breads frozen dinners and box pasta basically it's bleach used to be turned baked goods white harvard's also used to bleach things like yoga mats if you can. are they pronounce the name of something that's probably not something you want to be eating which take a cue from australia the u.k. and most of europe and ban it too and finally there is just straight up arsenic has poison unfortunates included in chicken feed which ends up in your chicken dinner

and i'm not quite sure why it's being used because we all know that arsenic is toxic and deadly if you ingest enough of it that's why the e.u. has banned the use of it in poultry all together thoroughly disgusted yet i know i am what's worse is that the food and drug administration is supposed to be one of the only groups that identifies the harm and these food so they can keep it as far away from our plates as possible oh right i would probably require the government to cut the stream of tens of millions of lobbying dollars that's pumped into congress from chemical corporations but surely it can't be about hard considering how many other countries have already done this i think it's time that they have to start looking out for our health of their pocketbooks. still ahead tonight we'll take a closer look at the city of detroit and what the future will hold an exclusive report from the test producer in there david.

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gold in colombia. it's been less than a month since the city of detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history seeking chapter nine protection for nearly twenty billion dollars worth of debt and long term liabilities now michigan state officials have taken the reins of the city's financial matters seeking to find a solution to a problem that many say is been brewing for years but although the detroit faces a dwindling population in the stressed economy the city may be turning a new page. producer amir david recently traveled to detroit to see what lies ahead for the. motor city. we cannot and must not and we will not while it may seem like a calamity of the distant past it was only four years ago that the obama administration rode to the rescue of two detroit automakers general motors and

chrysler the federal government port eighty billion dollars into the companies extending them a lifeline out of a looming bankruptcy. but it seems the city of detroit won't get the same bailout even after declaring a twenty billion dollar debt becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history and this time around city employees will feel it the most as they are likely to see significant cuts to their pensions and post employment health care benefits bill will of voice of concern is reverberating throughout the city hasn't quite overtaken another sentiment one that's magnified over the last few years i've been here all of my life and i've seen it in a big not like it is more good as come to speak it is buying business these games and i see a lot of construction going on a lot of people moving down here a lot of jobs job opportunities for people down here and it's just becoming a vibrant city detroit is a place where things can grow there's room here and there's. fresh fresh minds

people are moving here all the time so i feel like there's unlimited potential here it's sincere optimism which many experts say is a result of the innovators and investors that are taking a chance on the city that is what took me to tech town a business incubator that's cultivating the startups that are dancing new technologies an area that president and c.e.o. leslie smith says has only grown the activity that we're saying you know in the midtown and downtown is certainly exponentially different than it was three and five years ago in terms of the support for entrepreneurs the punning for entrepreneurs the opportunities for entrepreneurs to kind of grow in large businesses here it's a snapshot of a booming tech industry that's taking detroit. by storm according to automation alys latest tech report the growth has been so large that the city is now starting to outpace multiple national tech hubs like boston chicago and even silicon valley perhaps the greatest symbol of detroit's tech renaissance in the madison building

once a movie theater the fifty thousand square foot building is now home to over three hundred entrepreneurs and american investors investments are giving the city a huge boost but it's not just american entrepreneurs looking to detroit as fertile ground there's a whole host of foreign investors who are banking on the city's potential case in point china so far over sixty chinese companies have put down roots in detroit investing in a myriad of businesses and new vehicle technologies roberts the kano who oversees detroit as wayne county executive has been to china seven times since two thousand and five he says the recent activity is sending a very powerful message they still see this is a strong economy i mean people i know get uptight about them buying or treasury bonds and things like that we'll step back and say what does that mean that means they believe in your economy and that belief in the economy is echoed by detroiters

we're starting to see their community change. one of those neighborhoods is cast oradour an area that seen unprecedented development with refurbished streets new restaurants and retail shops claire nelson both works and lives in the neighborhood what i'm seeing is. a lot of investment and creativity and innovation happening around retail cooler so this tax finally for the first time in a long time is why i want people experimenting with new ideas new ideas being brought to the city by new people with a younger generation not only working in detroit but living here to revitalizing the city one neighborhood at a time and that's why people here say detroit. might just be carving out a new identity perhaps not one soley defined by cars but rather by the innovation that's bringing the city back to life in detroit mira david r t so here to talk more about its recent bankruptcy to turn around and how the city can pick itself

back up i'm joined now by a detroit native and because david i have. you know i really love this story because we always hear so many negative things detroit the city of death the. depression that's what made you turn to the story of when this is a city that obviously gets a bad rap and it's really hard being from detroit and you know living now living in new york and living in d.c. always having to fend for the city but the reality is that's that's those are the stories that get the most traction there you know that kind of new cells that decrepit buildings abandoned buildings but the have to remember it's a fraction of what the city represents there's a lot more going on and that's why i wanted to go back and tell that story absolutely and i really loved it the way you did it where does the bankruptcy filing stand right now so the latest is that a u.s. bankruptcy court judge set the date for moving this case along so august nineteenth is the key date that is the deadline for all motions arguing you know for anyone to

put forward any type of like challenge to detroit's eligibility for bankruptcy a trial that would address that question what happened in october keep in mind that these bankruptcy cases can take a really really long time in the case of california which i'm sure you remember i think it was back in two thousand and nine that took a whole entire year to go through bankruptcy court so remains to be seen this is going to and it was much smaller city that we're talking. you had the chance to speak with robert kahn who oversees detroit as the wayne county executive and he's talking about the pensions and how the punters are really going to be feeling the brunt of this economic downturn let's hear about what he had to say. some of these financial institutions only good coming. or yeah it's a momentary hurt for them but they're going to go they're not going to be bankrupt and they're going to move on. if you limit the pensions for these pension years they don't have the same resources as the financial institutions zs just you know

you're talking about sixty five seventy year old people you know that aren't going to have the same resources to be able to get back up and perhaps get another job right away or be able to recover right away so i mean it makes a good point of course the trainers aren't able to bounce back like multibillion dollar he's actually but did you get the chance to talk to him about what the government can do i mean is there anything they can do to help these people don't you know to be honest it's very unlikely that the government can do anything because i'm sure you know it has to be passed by congress considering the partisanship in congress right now any direct aid is kind of out of the question but he did say there are things the government can do they can issue federal grants that go into reconstruction of roads transportation that kind of thing not only that he mentioned what happened in the wake of hurricane katrina which is that they moved a lot of federal conferences to new orleans to help bring people to bring money to the city so may not be direct aid just money but there are things that the that the federal government can do and the state government can do to support the city this

is such a shame these pensions will be lost i mean it really just hurts me so much to hear that these people work so hard and they might lose their entire pension you know i read a report recently talking about how detroit was actually considering at one point to sell its art from the museums there i mean is this an option that's on the table i mean all options are on the table the emergency manager kevyn orr has a lot on his plate right now and he is not taking anything off the table he said if that's what it comes down to it may have to happen but we've going to have to take a look at really is is it is it worth it when this is something that is a cultural symbol we're talking about the g.i. gave the detroit institute of arts to one of our you know only the only museum one of the biggest cultural institutions and certainly characteristic of the city so it remains. be seen whether this is a battle he really wants to take on right something that maybe would would bring people to the city to c.d.r. why would you want to be rid of that is definitely a cultural hub you know what i found really interesting also they were talking about before was how a lot of people are moving into this city and this is you cover this in your report

i didn't realize that people didn't generally live in detroit and work there but you're saying that trend yeah and you know it's not like most other major cities where everyone you know you work and you play all in the same area for the city of detroit as you see there the population has been leaving. it's not the case anymore i was actually frankly surprised to see that myself you talk to a couple people who are there to central syria that is a. breakdown for five or six years now recently here but a year ago. i would've done that six years ago. people that are out and about even totally different than it was six years ago the number of stores everything is changing i live in an hour right now but i'm thinking of moving you know downtown detroit and i've got some family here you know a lot of my friends that have moved in city and i have faith in detroit because like you know how it was back in the 1940's. going to come back super encouraging words there from people that you just talked to in the screening i never thought i

would see that and saying you know detroit's coming back what will it take for detroit to get back does that get worse before it is better well i mean it's already it's already hit rock bottom it's already been to worse so now it's really only going to get better and that's really really exciting of course there's a lot of work that needs to be done a lot has to happen with city management but as i covered in my report there is tech innovation there is investments coming into the city right and left and i think all of that is really really exciting for the people that live there and they're really starting to see the growth and if the federal government turns its back on the city the community involvement in the strength of the people there who are really pushing for to get back on its feet really can cultivate really prosperous future absolutely see what happens thank you so much david for breaking it down thank you. if you like to see so far you guys who are you. channel on youtube dot com be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode we'll solve all of our interviews posted separately under the videos tab and heard one of my interview with david seaman on all things n.s.a. so check all that and more on youtube dot com slash break and. you guys that's it

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