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. 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 following this case is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more of this ahead. in georgia a fifteen year old boy was initially denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance the child's family claims it was because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law more on this story later in today's show.

hello there it's tuesday august thirteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm marinated and you're watching arctic we start our newscast in fort meade maryland today where bradley manning's defense team continues to deliver their case in the sentencing phase of the court martial of the army private first class many was convicted of leaking thousands of pages of classified documents to ante secrecy website wiki leaks our chief correspondent wiz wall joined us earlier from fort meade with the latest on the case and i started off by asking her what the defense is 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 counsellor where manning got angry he tossed over a table there were two government computers those flipped off the table and this mr redmayne said that he's worried or he thought he had the instinct that manning was reaching for a weapon so he had to intervene and 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 pre-training

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 that is on sunday sixty seconds of video from the trial was leaked do you sense a different level of security following this leak. well aaron security is so. far we've seen a ramp up as the 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 more 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 liver to 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 motions 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 moment 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 but i've been following the trial very closely. i don't know bob the mystic is the word that i would use we already got a verdict the verdict not guilty on the eight. the enemy charges 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 he'll. 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 of 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. that was our chief correspondent liz wahl. and while the defense team tries to lessen the

potential ninety year prison sentence facing bradley manning nobel prize committee officials say they received a petition with more than one hundred thousand signatures that endorsed manning to receive the coveted nobel peace prize six officials nominated manning in time for the february first deadline saying manning helped fuel a worldwide discussion about the overseas engagements of the united states there's a billion casualties of war and rules of engagement nobel committee members say a petition won't hurt nor help many nomination but he will be reviewed over merit not popularity if he is awarded the prize he will receive more than one point two million dollars but with manning sentencing expected to come next week he just might be in prison when the award is announced on october eleventh. today a new interview with edward snowden was published in the new york times the n.s.a. leaker made this admonishment to journalists in the wake of this year's disclosures

it should be clear that an encrypted journalistic source communications is unforgivably reckless but last week the founder of lava bit the encrypted e-mail service reportedly used by the her edward snowden announced the company would be shutting down in a message posted on the site's home page love a bit owner lavar leveson said quote i have 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 seeking secret u.s. court orders to provide the government with user content love of its message includes a section explaining how the government stop leveson from sharing his story and ends with 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 provider similar to that of lava bit and silent circle emptive shut down its site following lava bits closure the company said it did this in order to prevent n.s.a. spying i was joined earlier today by big chief operating officer and 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 the site is shut down silent mail to the mail service we're keeping silent text silent phone sound or peer to peer encrypted video voice and text ok now what do you think the shock the shutter of lava bit what that means for encrypted e-mail services the shutter of love a bit yes

a. well they're closing you know brought up the conversation they are the ones that got the knock on the door we decided 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 do 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 web site 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 or 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 the mail and that is the metadata that they talk about in the news the peripherial 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 the e-mail service provider is safe today. not the way e-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 it 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 sound with text right now silent taxes a true peer to peer. in corruption 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 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 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 percept him was that if you having 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 and i did 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 the responsibility of individuals it's the responsibility of lawmakers to scrutinize and do checks and balances to make sure that we're not over extending our reach i understand the job the guys are doing and this around the world too to our militaries but there has to be a balance thank you very much that was the chief operating officer of silent circle

. republican justin amash who has led the revolt in congress against the n.s.a.'s bulk surveillance program has accused the house intelligence committee of withholding key information from other house members. suspects his colleagues withheld critical documents from the house of representatives in two thousand and eleven just before crucial vote on surveillance political commentator sam sex has the full story we're certainly receiving a lot more information now as ordinary members of the senate than we did before i sit on the armed services committee. and we certainly had no idea about the scope and scale and magnitude of the collection of this data since edward snowden's leaks members of congress are now receiving much more information about the n.s.a.'s secret spying programs than they were prior but still bomb makers are saying they're not receiving the critical documents they need to make informed votes and

it's not just the white house and the intelligence community that's holding back they say what also their fellow members in the intelligence committees now the house and senate intel committees here on capitol hill are entrusted with overseeing the federal government's intelligence activities but apparently their oversight role has morphed into being the gatekeeper for the n.s.a. these secrets congressman justin amash who's led efforts to defund the n.s.a.'s domestic spying programs describes how difficult it is getting needed information from the intelligence committee we did not get the briefings that were required when you say we've had congressional briefings or when they allege that they put a stack of documents in front of that or two hundred pages long and they say go ahead and read it if you don't know the terms of art they're using if you don't know the specific definition definitions they're using you don't even know what it means the problem is when you go to these briefings you ask questions unless and unless you phrase it in exactly the right way you don't get the answer you need and this is coming from both the administration officials and intelligence committee

officials and if you don't know what to ask it's hard to find out the information on sunday congressman amash posted a document to his facebook page showing that in two thousand and eleven the white house gave information to the house intel committee related to the n.s.a. spying programs in the document the white house urges we believe that making this document available to all members of congress as we did with a similar document in december two thousand and nine is an effective way to inform the legislative debate about reauthorization of section two fifteen but as congressman amash know. it's i can now confirm that the house permanent select committee on intelligence did not in fact make the two thousand and eleven document available to representatives in congress many members of congress like a mob sure elected in two thousand and ten were completely unaware of the n.s.a.'s activities prior to the two thousand and eleven vote reauthorizing the patriot act and recently since the n.s.a.

leaks it hasn't gotten any better earlier this month the guardian reported on members of congress being denied information about the n.s.a. democrat alan grayson and republican morgan griffith both wrote to the house intelligence committee asking for information about the n.s.a. spying programs but they were rebuffed told their requests had been denied by a committee voice vote and when congressman grayson asked for a transcript of this vote he was told the transcript is classified in their defense intelligence committee member adam schiff claims it's hard enough for the committee itself and to conduct proper oversight on the intelligence community institutionally the members of congress are at a great disadvantage in the sense that we don't have any kind of the resources to investigate some these questions that the intelligence community does so we see you know in essence what the intelligence committee wants us to see now we're told that there is proper oversight on capitol hill that these intelligence committees are keeping a watchful eye on the n.s.a.

but as news breaks that these committees are also withholding critical information from members of congress and how long before others on capitol hill begin asking who's watching the watchers in washington sam stocks are today. 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 and 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 his family their son had been denied the transplant in part because of his history with law enforcement and poor grades doctors also alleged that stokes had not been reliable about taking his heart medication the public relations manager at children's healthcare of atlanta made this statement to our t.v. . in 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 case in this season in this particular case we are continuing to partner with the family. now the hospital has changed course saying that stokes will be added to the donor list after all i was joined earlier by michael dunn selfness a contributor for the nation as well as a novel or fellow at the nation at the nation institute to discuss this case i asked him what his take is on the hospital initially deeming anthony stokes non-compliant therefore making him unfit for a heart transplant and then turning their decision around but having won 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 men and bad grades but that would be just a simply ridiculous reason to deny someone a heart especially when you're talking about a fifteen year old i mean it would be ridiculous for anyone of any age but two

to say that a child isn't eligible for a heart transplant because you believe that. their history of. 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 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 this is this type of pressure on 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 you know 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 young boy a heart you look at the school to prison pipeline and look at how disproportion the 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 look at a black patient you see there they're suffering differently or you see that them not suffering at all now michael knowledge 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 vikki mentioned before that it played a large part in the hospital's decision to put stokes on the transplant list do you think without the media attention 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 a great embarrassment for that hospital to to have this on their record that they were going to did not not just did not deny you know a heart even deny them 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 dental smith a fellow at the nation institute. the council on american islamic relations held a press conference in tampa florida this morning to discuss the untimely death of her him 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 on the stasi a churkin of 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 direct to 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 continued 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 groom stick 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 a dutch excuse 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. 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 and 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 wait 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 they intend to continue working closely on this case because of syria's civil rights implications it's about due process of law they say they care spokesman discuss the details of the case with this morning says the group is firm in believing that people living in the u.s. 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 the i 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 hassan is a very good boy who wanted to live we met with. in florida last week it's a very difficult time for him he 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. york. does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our website r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at aaron aid see you back here at eight pm.

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