i think. it was march and i. figure there's a good everything that's new it one representative at a reporter can't get a handle on it that that rare skip is caught right at this if he apparently pedophiles last year and use of backtracks torn down on suspecting travelers but insists back look ice is a government that trucker quit that they want to be molested by a rent a cop and we can sue for us too so if you feel like the t.s.a. is doing me and set. the target. there are plenty of results from out witnessing criminal activity on someone's entire life upside down that many who was just found guilty of nineteen of the twenty charges filed and six counts about the notch collect these and that was predict something from the government land you behind bars for the rest of your life doing effectively fraud abuse and even war crimes going to act on those are

exposed on the talk of i mean the man who literally wrote the director of the gottlieb i just want to read it to the trial is six say that we're using this piece of world war so just our enemies. civilian center reporter it's for the out of people training he may have crossed the line and gone too far with some of the disclosures but there is also a poet. that's been deeds faced with one hundred your life sentence here what he should have for not over because i thought sudden example and. you know with that being sentenced to life in prison and potentially in the perp of who gets to the government it has that sort of backwards 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 sentence private manning is to determine if the information he exposed was legally

classified you can't classify cover up under the law you can classified to protect secret sources or a secret method seven televisions and you know exposing a murder is not exposing the source and unless 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 want to get down to the things that are really classified and see what is disclosed right and unfortunately. there's so much overclassification going on which is a crime in itself you don't see anyone being prosecuted for that i 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 haled but when you're doing things that. revealing more crimes you're prosecuted i mean as 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 u.s. i think it's a tragedy that he needed in this case play on 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 are we going to 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 west so blowers james hansen who is paid. 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 rick welts. he was working in the white house

environmental. 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 a very intensive struggle the truth hasn't set us off free yet but at least we're able to fight for it indeed and right now it seems like there's 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 have great love 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 the hypocrisy 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 released their job 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 the struggle 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 the 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 they're all 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 diets have been linked to nerve cell damage and brain cancer which is why you won't find them at grocery stores and 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 well being of their people there is 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 a leakage in 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 it's a common ingredient in 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 it's probably not something you want to be eating so take a cue from australia the u.k. and most of europe and ban it too and finally there's 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 and 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. church is essential. to children the streets. that women kidnapped and converted to islam police will soon be another girl says for the cup to christians of egypt to the existence of such a thing to. the way of the cross city. the main competitor on the market is mother nature. may customers

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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 it is producer amir david recently traveled to detroit to see what lies ahead for the motor city. we cannot and must. 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 was 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 my life and i've seen it in a big not like it is more good as a misspeak but as banking business is i see a lot of construction go. and 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's 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. tight about the buying or treasury bonds and things like that. say what does that mean that music 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 oratory an area that seen unprecedented development with refurbished streets new restaurants and retail shops clear nelson both works and lives in the neighborhood what i'm seeing is.

a lot of investment and creativity and this is happening around retail commercial districts finally for the first time in a long time there's one more people experimenting with new ideas new ideas being brought to the city by new people with the 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 near david our team so here to talk more about its recent bankruptcy to try to turn around how the city can pick itself back up i'm joined now by a detroit native and because i had the you know i really love the story because we always hear so many negative things detroit the city of death the city of you know depression what made you turn to the story and you don't have one 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 mayor you know that kind of new cells that decrepit buildings abandoned buildings but the you know you 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 a much smaller city that we're talking to are there you have the chance to speak with robert ficon 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. even though. some of these financial institutions only get pennies on the dollar 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. if you limit the pensions for these pension years they don't have the same resources as a financial institution 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 makes a good point of course detroiters 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 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 it's just 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 what are you 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 still remains to be seen whether this is a battle he really wants to take on right something that maybe would bring people to the city to see the r. why would you want to be rid of that 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 covered this in your report i didn't realize that people didn't generally lives in detroit and work there but you're saying that trend yeah i mean it's not like most other major cities where everyone you know you work in you play all in the same area for the city of detroit is 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 losing their two cents and then six. every. five or six years now recently here thirty years ago. i would've done that six years ago. people that are out and about even in a totally different it was six years ago the number of stores everything is changing and even in there right now but i'm thinking of moving you know downtown detroit and i got some family here you know a lot of my friends that have moved in. city and i have faith in detroit there's like you know how it was back in the 1940's it was going to come back super encouraging words there from people that you just talked to it was a strange thing i never thought i would see that and i'm saying you know detroit's coming back what will it take for detroit to get back america does not 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 was to be management but as i covered in my report there's 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 even if the federal government turns its back on the city the community involvement in the strength of the people there were really wishing for it to go back on its feet really could call debate really prosperous future absolutely see what happens thank you so much david for breaking it down thank you. because like you see so far you guys had to our you tube channel and youtube dot com break in to send be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode will solve all of our interviews posted separately under the videos tab and courage i want to check out my interview with david seaman on all things n.s.a. so check out all that and more on youtube dot com slash break and. you guys that's it for us tonight thanks so much for watching and have a good night we'll see rabbi could break the set tomorrow.

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breaking news on the whistleblower edward snowden has left the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport after being given temporary asylum in russia. international news and comment this is with the twenty four hours a day live from moscow where it's not just turned eight pm edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia allowing him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport off the five weeks in limbo and the system him an attorney could china says that the paperwork issued today allows snowden to live work and remain in russia.