coming up on r t bradley manning could face a maximum of ninety years in prison after leaking classified documents to wiki leaks now his defense team is trying to whittle down that sentence we'll have a report on today's proceedings next. and an encrypted e-mail service used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has been shut down the owner of the site says that he's legally barred from even saying why and a second web site has also closed its encrypted e-mail service is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more on this ahead. and in georgia a fifteen year old boy is denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance the child's family claims it's because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law more on this story in today's show.

hello there it's tuesday august thirteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our two. we start our newscast in fort meade maryland today where brother manning's defense team continues to deliver their case in the sentencing phase of the court martial of the army private first class manning was convicted of leaking thousands of pages of classified documents to ante secrecy website wiki leaks our two correspondent liz wahl joined me earlier from fort meade with the latest on the case and i started off by asking her what the defense was arguing today. yes erin and we are in the middle of the sentencing hearing for bradley manning right now that offense is focused on trying to get the most lenient sentence possible for manning now the defense today focused on manning's mental health a call to the stand several people that manning worked with in the past most of

them in supervisory roles today they called up to the stand chief warrant officer joshua redman he supervised manning while he was stationed in iraq and he talked about a confrontation with that manning had with a counselor where manning got angry he tossed over a table there were two government computers those flipped off the table and this mr redmond said that he's worried or he thought he had the instinct that manning was reaching for a weapon so he had to intervene physically intervene at that point there was another supervisor that came up and testified about an e-mail that he received from manning this e-mail was came with the subject my problem and attached to this e-mail was a photo of a bradley manning dressed as a woman dressed in drag wearing the blond wig and makeup you know all of this there and gets back to that mental state of manning the defense is saying or portraying

manning or trying to get to his mental state at this time the healing to hundreds of thousands of classified documents they're trying to prove that at that time manning was in an unstable mental state that he had a lot of internal struggles and that he was possibly even. suffering from some kind of a gender identification disorder all of this is trying to get back to this mental state of bradley manning at the time now liz on sunday sixty seconds the video from the trial was leaked do you sense a different level of security following this week. well aaron security is so far we've seen a ramp up as this trial has gone on i don't know how much more stricter security could have gone and this video that you're talking about this leaked video sixteen seconds it didn't have much journalistic value but it was traced to an overflow trailer so it wasn't traced to the media room where most of the reporters are

camped out reporting on the story watching a live feed it was traced to destroy all or so it's believed that it was a member of the public and not a journalist that leaked this video and as a result there and we didn't see much of an effect here in the media room for what you heard today does it seem like the defense has a strong case for decreasing the sentencing for manning. a well a it's hard to say right now manning faces a maximum of ninety years behind bars that's down from the one hundred thirty six that he faced after the judge the livered the verdict found him guilty on most of the charges not guilty on the aiding the enemy charge the judge did respond to one of the motion to dismiss that max from one thirty six to ninety years and fair and mental the mental state of manning plays a big part if the judge is going to use that as a big factor when she does deliver the sentence then yeah i think that the defense has done a pretty good job of proving that manning was troubled at the time or was

struggling a motion only at the time that he leaked this information what's the environment in the courtroom today do supporters seem optimistic. well it's it's hard to say right most right now in the media room where i was viewing the courtroom where i was during the trial today it was mostly reporters a couple of supporters loyal supporters that have been following the closely activists that i've been following the trial very closely. i don't know optimistic is the word that i would use we already got a verdict the verdict not guilty on the aiding the enemy charge nonetheless he still faces several decades behind bars so i'd say hope is waning but i guess the hope is still there they're keeping a close eye on this trial hoping that at least at this point to help. get the most lenient sentence that he can at this point with any word yet or indication of what

manning will say when he testifies on his own behalf. well we don't we did we haven't gotten any advance warning or. indication what he might say we do know that he is supposed to come to the stand tomorrow that at least is what the legal spokesperson told us today that he is expected to testify tomorrow and usually the way that it works is that the defendant is the last person to go in these cases in the sentencing hearing so manning is expected to speak tomorrow should be the last person to take the stand and that there may or may not be a rebuttal from the government but this case is winding down we could hear a sad tense from the judge aaron as soon as monday. and that was our chief correspondent liz wahl. today and their interview with edward snowden was

published in the new york times the n.s.a. leaker made this of monish meant to journalists in the wake of this year's disclosures it should be clear that an encrypted journalist source communication is unforgivably reckless. but last week the founder of lava bit the encrypted e-mail service reportedly used by the are edward snowden announced the company would be shutting down in a message posted on the site's home page love a bit owner at le dar leveson said quote i've been forced to make a difficult decision to become complicit in crimes against the american people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down lava bit yet the circumstances of the shutdown remain mysterious amidst the controversy over edward snowden's revelations that companies are receiving secret u.s. court orders to provide the government with user content love of its message includes a section explaining how the government stopped leveson from sharing his story and ends in a warning quote without congressional action or

a strong judicial precedent i would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the united states silent circle is another encrypted e-mail service similar to lava bit and silent circle preemptively shut down its site following lava bits closure the company said it did this in order to prevent the n.s.a. sperm spying on them i was joined earlier today by vic hyder a chief operating officer at silent circle and i started off by asking him why he decided to shutter silent circle's e-mail service and what led to this decision. well we made a deliberate decision it was a difficult one but with the threats that are out there towards email the process itself is just inherently not as secure as our standards require so so it's sort of decided to shut down silent mail to the mail service we're keeping silent text silent phone so in our peer to peer encrypted video voice and text

ok now what do you think the shot of the shutter of lava bit what that means for encrypted e-mail services the shudder of love a bit yes a. well there they're closing you know brought up the conversation they are the ones that got got the knock on the door we decided to do it before that that came to us before we received a letter and were forced to either be complicit in the what we say is an invasion of privacy or. or shut down so we did a preemptive thing and you think that letter is just it would have been a short way away had he not done that i think our decision to shut down at eight pm on thursday night was critical to our not getting that letter interesting now a lot of it's on our there he was very cryptic on the website he sent a letter out and personalized website to all of his users apologizing but it was

quite cryptic what do you think actually happened. well i don't want to. i don't want to guess on that but there are users out there that you know good and bad for for these services it's a good service for good people to protect the citizens of the world against the criminals against the corporate espionage but there must have been some legal justification to request access ok now it does shutting down the state does that actually. users from you say provider having to distribute information about them well yes it does because we don't hold anything in the information the only information that was available was via sound of mail and that is the metadata that they talk about in the news the peripheral information that's coming across in the subject line and the ip addresses the date the geo location those

kind of things but if you put all that together it really tells a story so that is the piece that encrypted mail doesn't cover it encrypts the message but not that peripheral data so we wanted to extricate ourselves from that conversation allow ourselves to on the sleeve tell our members of sound circle that we don't hold your data we're not able to give anything because we don't have it. do you think any encrypted e-mail service provider is safe today. not the way you mail is processed the way it is right now we're working on a new. completely peer to peer encrypted e-mail application that will really modernize and secure the e-mail process they won't truly be e-mail but it will look in feel like e-mail that will give you that ability to send data to send applications to send attachments much like we have with our silent text right now

silent taxes a true peer to peer. encryption communication process that allows you to have attachments on you can put a p.d.f. file a powerpoint presentation i've sent over one hundred megabytes on one text and for a ten minute video that i sent and that is completely peer to peer nothing is stored on us we don't hold it we have nothing to give up so the control is in the hands of the customer and when do you see this launching a new e-mail service well the e-mails. services we're working on it and we expect to see it here in the next year ok some people say that those who turn to encrypted e-mail services are doing bad things they have bad stuff to send what do you have to say to that well the perception of encryption has completely changed in the last fifteen years and when phil zimmerman was fighting the fight in the wars. that perception was that if you had been corruption and you were the nation state

that you were hiding something you were some kind of criminal these days with with all the information you have on your phone on your devices on you computers if you're not protecting yourself you're. maybe a little bit ignorant about the threats and if you are then you're seen as maybe a more responsible. user do you think the u.s. government is violating the constitution doing what they're doing well i won't get deep into that i mean my background i had twenty four years in the military i just got out two years ago i support the constitution in those states you know and i raised my hand a couple times to go to that oath. i feel that there is a rising tide of surveillance out there that we have that we need to push back against it and it's a responsibility of individuals it's a responsibility of lawmakers to scrutinize and do checks and balances to make sure that we're not over extending our reach i understand of the job the guys are doing

from around the world to to our militaries but. there has to be a balance i think thank you very much that was the chief operating officer of silent circle congress may being in summer recess but that hasn't stopped politicians from voicing their opinions particularly in light of all the surveillance issues surrounding the government lately and on the topic of n.s.a. leaker edward snowden california congressman tom mcclintock had this to say. i think it would be best if the american government granted him an amnesty. to get him back to america where he can answer questions without the threat of prosecution we have some very good laws against sharing secrets and he broke those laws on the other hand he wrote them for a very good reason because those laws were being used in direct contravention of our fourth amendment rights as americans the justice department in charging snowden

under the espionage act seems to disagree but this isn't the only political news of the day regarding the n.s.a. the ticket in new jersey the democratic primary it to replace to see senator frank lautenberg is underway this is the first election since the revelations about surveillance on american citizens and candidate rush holt the u.s. representative from new jersey's twelfth district is a strong proponent of putting an end to domestic spying along with he talked about it in an interview with r.t. america the face of bill was set up to deal with. catching spies and. protecting this country from people who would do us harm and there's no question it's a dangerous world there are some things that must be done to protect us to enforce the law. but the way it's being done these days it has turned

americans into suspects first and citizens second. now despite the new spotlight on programs like prism and the secrecy of the face of courts newark mayor cory booker seems poised for victory so on this first election since snowden's leaks it's now in the hands of the voters as to whether or not they object to the government's eyes peering potentially a little too close. well if you watch president obama's press conference last week you might remember the president calling for an independent outside group of experts to review u.s. surveillance policy true to his words yesterday president obama outside experts to review our entire intelligence and communications technologies so on tasking this independent group to step back and review our capabilities particularly our surveillance technologies and they'll consider how we can maintain the trust of the

people we can make sure that they're absolutely is no abuse in terms of how these surveillance technologies are used and as i started to say before that clip true to his word yesterday president obama released a memo ordering the creation of just such a group so which autonomous civil liberties advocate did the president choose to organize this team of surveillance watchdogs none other than the director of national intelligence himself james clapper that's right according to the directive addressed to clapper quote within sixty days of its establishment the review group will brief their in terms findings to me through the director of national intelligence and in case you forgot this is the same director of national intelligence that gave this response to senator ron wyden while testifying on capitol hill does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly.

now not only does the memo give selection powers to the man who according to his own words testified under oath in the quote least truthful untruthful manner but the stated mission of the intelligence oversight panel has also shifted according to president obama's friday speech a major goal of the group would be to find out how the government can ensure there is no abuse of surveillance programs yesterday's memo makes no mention of this objective but instead examines whether u.s. surveillance activity quote optimally protects optimally protects our new national security and advances our foreign policy while appropriately accounting for other policy considerations such as the risk of unauthorized disclosure and or need to maintain the public trust clapper chart charged with maintaining the public trust will have to keep an eye on the sun. and in other news a fifteen year old boy in georgia was just added to the heart donor list after the

hospital initially deemed him not a good candidate for the transplant now initially doctors at children's healthcare of atlanta told the family that they wouldn't put anthony stokes on the transplant list because of his history of noncompliance according to stokes his family their son had been denied the transplant in part because of his history with law enforcement and poor grades doctors also allege that stokes had not been reliable about taking his heart medication now the public relations manager at children's healthcare of atlanta made this statement to our team. and all transplant cases we work closely with the family and their support network to coordinate the best possible results for the patient and continue to find solutions in this particular case we are continuing to partner with the family. now the hospital has changed course cena steps will be added to the donor list after all joining me now to discuss this case is michael denzil smith a contributor for the nation and no nobbler fellow at the nation national at the

nation institute how are you doing michael dunn are you now michael what's your take on the hospital and nationally damon anthony stokes noncompliance there for making him unfit for the heart transplant then turning around their decision well having one they should have given more reason why they found him to be non-compliant i think that that was one of the complaints of the family is that they didn't give any reason to begin with and then they they were left to guess that it had to do with his history of with committed bad grades but that would be just a simply ridiculous reason to deny someone a heart i mean especially when you're talking about a fifteen year old i mean it would be ridiculous for anyone of any age but to just say that a child isn't eligible for a heart transplant because you believe that you know their history of note with the with law enforcement precludes them from. a healthy life is.

addictive of the kind of racism that we see in this country because i mean where do we are dealing with a fifteen year old black boy and what happens is the lives of black children become devalued in this country i mean we've seen that as an adult with trayvon martin with jordan davis with with for key avoid with ayana stanley jones in detroit i mean we've seen the devaluation of black life in this country and i think . especially they had to reverse course because the story getting out caused great embarrassment for them and i think that's the power of journalism and that's power of activism and you know online communities that can put institutions to revote reverse their ways so you're saying that you think stokes is race had everything to do with the hostiles original determination. i don't i don't think that they looked and said here's a fifteen year old black kid let's deny him a heart i think what if their reasoning had to do with his involvement with law

enforcement what we have to look at why are young black men disproportionately involved with the criminal justice system why would a fifteen year old. have a record that one would look at to say we should deny this this young boy a heart you look at the school to prison pipeline and look at how disproportion a black youth are suspended or dealt with by police in their schools these type of records early on and their behavior isn't any different than their white peers but it's perceived differently and i think you also have to look at simply b.b.c. sort of implicit our unconscious bias that all of us carry when you're dealing with i mean you're talking about the medical profession there's a long history of black people dealing with the you know the medical institution in this country and being treated as guinea pigs being treated as experiments but also being seen as not human or seen being seen as different from white patients in

which they're the means for treating them is different and so that when you when you look at a black patient you see there they're suffering differently or you see that them not suffering at all now michael technology has anything like this ever happened before to a fifteen year old child where his or her heart condition has absolutely nothing to do with their behavior that to my knowledge absolutely not now do you think that all of his media attention it obviously like you mentioned before that it played a large part in the hospitals decision to put stokes on the transplant list do you think without the media attention of the journalists doing what they did this ever would have happened. no i don't i think that this is one of the great tools of media is being able to put this type of pressure on people and i mean this is great embarrassment for that hospital to to have this on their record that they were

going to deny not just. you know a heart even but did not even placement on the list to try to get a heart i mean that that just seems agree just and just completely unfair that was michael dunn's will smith a fellow at the nation institute. the council on american islamic relations how they press conference in tampa florida this morning to discuss the untimely death of abraham todashev todashev was shot and killed by an f.b.i. agent in orlando florida on may twenty second while being questioned in connection with the boston bombings r.t. correspondent ana stasia chuckin up brings us the latest. the father of twenty seven year old of the chechen man who was shot several times and killed by the f.b.i. in his orlando home on may twenty second during several hours of questioning in connection with the boston bombings directed florida last week to seek answers to why the killing of his son took place and why the death is covered with

a thick veil of secrecy by u.s. officials since the circumstances and details of the case continue to remain murky almost three months after it now this tuesday the father. of attended a joint press conference with the council on american islamic relations a prominent civil rights group that has been helping the family in this case since day one it's important to keep in mind that after the killing of the bragging took place there have been plenty of conflicting reports on how exactly events on ravelled f.b.i. officials had said that violent confrontation ensued inside of regulars home some said he was armed with a knife other reports suggested it was a broomstick and some even said that the young man was not armed at all we know however however that he had serious knee surgery in the days leading up to his death and was barely able to move with crutches even now the main goal of this latest press conference was to introduce to the public and to let people hear the father's story as well as to see his determination to get answers to his son's

killing in his own home the father he has previously said he would go so far as to sue the f.b.i. if he didn't get answers in an interview with us he had referred to what happened as an unprecedented intentional murder this entire time after the killing the f.b.i. has been refusing to release autopsy results both to the family of the killed man and the public this is been a cause for major outrage for the family as well as organizations backing him up such as care in the american civil liberties union both groups have demanded that the autopsy results be released as well as an investigation conducted locally this was initially denied by local authorities in florida saying they need to. for the f.b.i. to conduct their own federal investigation it looks now that things have finally started to move forward as a local department of justice in florida is now participating in the investigation in conjunction with the feds both are reviewing the case and care as well as. of the father are waiting for tangible results and answers part of care being part of

a legal team he now also has a high profile attorney working on the case of his son's killing the group care has said that the intend to continue working closely on this case because of its serious civil rights implications it's about due process of law they see the care spokesman discuss the details of the case with this morning says the group is firm in believing that people living in the us should not be afraid of being shot and killed by authorities in their own home moreover without officials being held accountable now the florida chapter of care has carried out their own independent investigation but they will for now hold off on the results and findings while the florida deal jay and they continue their inquiry into death but they say to them it's clear that it did not have to die the young man's father when he spoke to us said if they wanted real answers from him they would have kept him alive today's press conference of the way he described his son is a very good boy who wanted to live we met with. in florida last week it's

a very difficult time for him who lost his firstborn the oldest of twelve kids and had to sell his personal belongings to seek justice for his son he will likely have to travel a lot between the u.s. and russia in the time to come as he's here on a tourist visa and this case is only in its first stages and. that does it for now i'm marinated stay tuned prime interest is coming up. i grew up near me airbase. i dreamed of becoming a pilot ever since i was a child. and they're going to go crazy i grow simoneau my. i love just play by them up.

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