you know for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. coming up on our t.v. u.s. government released documents showing a past secret court ruling on n.s.a. surveillance the fisa court chastised the n.s.a. for illegally collecting tens of thousands of e-mails more on the i'm asking unmasking of the fisa court ahead. army was a lower manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for leaking documents but the story does not in their full look at the extreme conditions placed on the media as well as we cover the trial. san francisco officials are considering a class action lawsuit against nevada they claim nevada gaya gave hundreds of psychiatric patients a one way ticket to california more on this clash later on today show.

it's thursday august twenty second four pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r t well the obama administration is trying to beat its critics to the punch in the wake of the n.s.a. surveillance scandal they are coming clean in a way the white house released documents dealing with a foreign intelligence surveillance court ruling from two thousand and eleven after the electronic frontier foundation filed a freedom of information act request in the documents the court lambasted the national security agency for illegally collecting as many as fifty six thousand e-mails from innocent people each year over a three year period then the n.s.a. proceeded to misrepresent the size and scope of these collections to the fisa court for surveillance court chief judge john bates wrote in the october twentieth levin decision quote the court is troubled that the government's revelations regarding n.s.a.'s acquisition up. internet transactions marked the third instance in less

than three years and which the government has disclosed a substantial misrepresentation regarding the scope of a major collection program so the n.s.a. secret is out and instead of reporters beating the n.s.a. cannot offer a story here in a story there president obama spilled all of the candy on the floor presumably so that we can get our sugar fix and then move on but is it really that simple well political commentator sam sacks us here now to discuss sam is it really that simple i mean this we report says that tens of thousands fifty six thousand per year americans had their internet communications illegally monitored by the n.s.a. how does something like that happen we can't confirm that number fifty six thousand that's kind of what the n.s.a. figures are saying but this whole centers on section seven zero two of the fires amendments act that gives the n.s.a. the authority to conduct this sort of mass surveillance as long as it's on foreign targets and they don't need individual warrants for each target they basically go to the pfizer court they explain the program that they're going to use to explain

the rules that they're using to collect this data in the files a court signed off on it then they go and they start collecting this data and then it's up to the n.s.a. to do with what they want now this data that they're getting through the internet we're talking mostly internet data here about ninety one percent of the data they collect is straight from internet providers through programs like prism which we've heard about through these leaks then there's nine percent of the data which is collected through upstream and basically this is where they tap right into the buy brought to cables and internet hubs around the world and just suck information right out and what we've learned is that the n.s.a. doesn't have the technological capabilities when they're plugged into these fiber to adequately protect against american communications and domestic communications from being collected so once this data is collected it goes into a major massive n.s.a. database and then n.s.a. analyst can go in search these databases and then touch american communications which goes against spies a court order and when the fires a court learn. about this in two thousand and eleven they basically said look what

you're doing here is unconstitutional you have to put in new parameters to limit the search to protect americans did it work we don't know we don't have any opinions from two thousand and twelve addressing this but we had a report last week by the washington post which said thousands of abuses are still existing at the n.s.a. in two thousand and twelve in fact abuses went up from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and twelve that's a shocking revelation as well sam now the fisa court is supposed to provide adequate oversight critics have called it a rubber stamp court does this release back up either one of those claims it doesn't seem likely and you mention the quote by a former pfizer judge bates who basically said look this is the third revelation in less than three years where the n.s.a. has misrepresented what it's doing with the with their authority here he goes on to note that judge bates notes that we can't know for certain exactly how many people have been touched by this we have to reel in that's the fifty six thousand number we talked about we have to trust on the trust the n.s.a. is number and this goes back to what the former pfizer the chief justice said to

the washington post a few weeks ago that the pfizer corps doesn't have the tools to conduct the necessary oversight it needs to have so is the pfizer court being a lapdog for the government are they lack is for the government maybe but also the pfizer court just doesn't have the capability to perform the sort of oversight and checks on the n.s.a. that it should have and any guess on why the administration is declassifying these documents. it could be for a number of reasons i mean first off this was in response to an foi request electronic frontier foundation for your requests this sort of decision by the pfizer court that pointed out the unconstitutional nature of this program has been long talking talked about by senators like ron wyden so people have known that these documents existed have been pressuring them to say to release them and now that the n.s.a. knows the documents are being released against their will and that rather than having to react to that maybe they're trying to get out in front of the next leak and finally sound we have just about a minute left but this is separate from the n.s.a. spying that the edward snowden revelations kind of talked about that phone metadata

that it did this a new classification released really tell us any more about that right so there's internet collecting the stuff through things like prism that section seventy two of pfizer now this metadata phone collection which was the first leak by snowden to that section to have to the patriot act and judge bates goes against that and he basically says that the standards by which they going to use the metadata has been flawed this program. that pfizer was misled on how the n.s.a. was going to be using all this metadata how they're going to search it and basically smash this with this metadata program to very interesting and i'm sure there's more revelations to come whether the obama administration likes that or not political commentator sam sachs thank you so much for coming and. private first class manning now knows how the foreseeable future will play out but manning's lawyer david coombs says that the battle is not over yet coombs is now in the process of requesting a presidential pardon or at the very least reducing the wiki leak or sentence to

time served last night hordes of supporters gathered in front of the white house to protest army judge denise lynn sentencing decision here are some of the sights and sounds of those demonstrations. where they barely say that was the case it is or is it crazy that the reverend wright a group they read it three ways you could have if you're trying to bait the right people articles report here for every where they. are you raise the brow for bradley where they. are to correspond to lose wall has been reporting to fort meade each day to watch the manning's court martial play out she was there when prosecutor showed the collateral murder video and when manning apologized here's a behind the scenes look at what it was like to cover this trial. this is the last glimpse of manning the public may see for a long time it was moments before the military judge sentenced manning to thirty

five years for one of the largest leaks of classified information in military history i think it is a very. harsh sentence the man did not kill anyone and for me one day is too much when there's too much people can debate how many years x. y. but in terms of justice one day is too much for bradley manning throughout the summer long trial supporters stood behind manning some of them showing up early in the morning to demonstrate outside the gates of fort meade the secrecy and security of this trial has been criticized to get from this parking lot off base a visitor in the parking lot to the media operations center you have to face a number of hurdles first you have to get your car searched by bomb sniffing dogs and when you arrive your belongings are searched to and you are searched with a metal detector and of course cameras of any sort are not allowed in the courtroom

at one point there were armed guards patrolling the inside of the media operation center looking over reporters shoulders making sure no one was using social media while court was in session it may be why continuous coverage of the trial has been sparse with mainstream media outlets only showing up on big days it's something manning's attorney david coombs took notice of in his first public appearance since the trial started if you could have cameras in the courtroom you think for a moment you wouldn't have wanted to know say nancy grace. not present every day whom says media coverage and the way the trial played out would be different if cameras were allowed it's something he says he's going to fight to change the trial brought to the spotlight the debate over transparency and a free press. goal is to get whistleblowing stopped and the goal is to try and begin to associate journalists with their sources as if they're coconspirators and

that representation is involved the president is charged really a chore which was aiding the enemy for a simple act of providing information to your journey well now that the court martial has closed many defense is now working on freeing manning during this post trial process whether it's through a presidential pardon or working on getting the sentence overturned through the army court of criminal appeals while the trial may be over here for carolyn for many feds and his supporters the fight for his freedom is far from over here in fort meade maryland liz wall artsy. also new today manning released a statement thanking supporters and announcing the next phase in life part of it reads quote as i transition into this next phase of my life i want everyone to know the real me i am chelsea manning i am a female given the way i feel and have felt since childhood i want to begin hormone

therapy as soon as possible i hope you will support me in this transition the issue of manning's gender identity came up a number of times during her court martial the military even released this picture of manning texted to her supervisor showing chelsea in a blond wig and makeup but while manning supporters might be ready to accept her decision the fort leavenworth military prison in kansas said today that it will not provide transgender treatment beyond psychiatric support particularly when it comes to hormone therapy chelsea's lawyer david coombs told n.b.c.'s today show that he will take action in the two against the army if it doesn't choose to support manning with hormone therapy and the eighty ceases a.c.l.u. excuse me sent out a statement saying that the prison may be violating new things constitutional rights by denying her the treatment historically civilian prisons have paid for

care for transgender issues though several cases are currently under dispute. to egypt now where to pose a ruler hosni mubarak has really been released from jail and helicopter to a hospital today where he will reach treated and then sent to house arrest former president mubarak was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators during the two thousand and eleven uprisings hundreds were killed by police forces in these protests meanwhile the man who was elected in egypt's first ever democratic elections mohamed morsy is still behind bars and protests and violence in the country continue christians have been targeted in numerous attacks across the country over the past week churches have been burnt out adding yet another wrinkle to this crisis artie's belcher who is in egypt with the latest. egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak has left a tour prison where he's been held for the last few years in undisclosed location where he will be under house arrest now he's been put on the house arrest despite

the fact that he will be free today because the prime minister said yesterday that basically according to emergency law he needs to be under house arrest and we're not sure what will happen to him after that but he is due for his retrial to start again on the twenty fifth of august which is in a few days now the reason that has been allowed to walk free today is because he is his maximum amount of time that someone can spend in detention without being charged he was sentenced in june last year to guilty for being responsible for the deaths of protesters however the appeals court found that trial to be. procedural grounds and therefore all the organized the retrial this means that basically the court turns back to the end of the journey was devised evolutions as if you've never been sentenced and therefore it's almost like he was never tried so he can keep him in prison much longer however he is still facing trudges charges of corruption as well as being both in the killing of protesters so he will continue

his trial but will be kept outside of prison under house arrest that was artie's bell truly reporting from cairo. well if you can to fix the problem let someone else deal with it that seems to be nevada's line of thought anyway officials in san francisco california are considering legal action against their neighboring state for allegedly buying up hundreds of poor psychiatric patients a one way bus ticket to california so the sunshine state would pay for their treatment did you get that hospitals are forcing patients on a bus to become another state's problem this practice has allegedly been going on since two thousand and eight san francisco's letter to nevada as attorney general comes shortly after a psychiatric patient named james. labby quite brown filed a federal rights us civil rights lawsuit claiming that nevada gave him a one way ticket out of the state brown is now seeking

a class action status on behalf of as many as fifteen hundred people to discuss this disturbing case i'm joined now by alan lichtenstein he is the general counsel at the a.c.l.u. of nevada alan thank you so much for joining me how was the state of nevada in justifying shipping off mentally ill patients to the state of california i think the answer is not very well i think there's a lot of double talk there kind of denying the problem there suggesting that even in the case of mr brown who was clearly hearing voices knew nobody in sacramento where they sent him didn't agree to it was and was told show up at the greyhound station and then call nine one one they'll take care of you they're still making the ridiculous argument that he was really in charge of his own discharge plan so i think their response is denial denial denial. and that's unfortunate because.

he's one individual as you mentioned there are numerous individuals that this is apparently happened to and that's the basis of the lawsuit so he is very much concerned that what he went through doesn't happen to other people now that's allegedly been going on for years as i said is there any proof of this other than people saying that this is what is going on and why are we just finding out about this right now well the proof is emerging and as we go through the process and go through discovery and look at the records and we're discovering more and more people who were telling the same story that they were sent to places where they knew no one where they were not able to care for themselves. but they're just . taken in voluntarily on a seven to seventy two hour hold and then discharged in a taxi with a bus ticket saying go to the greyhound station and go where this takes you so we

are getting more and more information about this. the reason we haven't known about it before it hasn't been as publicized before is because we're dealing with a population that doesn't have much of a voice and so a lot of this a lot of the reason why this. is because of the outrage that is cause that once people know about it wasn't there again is no lobbying group for the the indigent mentally ill now just to play the devil's advocate here could it be argued bad that nevada was doing the humane thing by sending these people elsewhere since arguably the state could not provide the proper treatment that these patients needed well one can argue anything the credibility of the argument is lacking why because they're not sending them to places where there is

a treatment plan where there is some way of dealing with them and sending them to greyhound stations with the suggestion that they pull mine one one i'm not a mental health expert but i dare say that that is not an acceptable discharge plan for anybody thank you very much for coming on the show it is a shocking trying to engage and i really appreciate your time sir that was alan lichtenstein general counsel at the a.c.l.u. of nevada well imagine a world where police can predict a crime before it happens while it may seem like science fiction place apartments around the world claim a computer system can tell officers when crime well occur and where it will occur are to the wrong one though took a ride with the los angeles police department to see if cops really can stop crime before it happens. steven spielberg's creepy thriller minority report police can predict who will commit

a murder before the killer strikes that's science fiction real police say they can't predict who will commit a crime but they do think they can predict where crime is going to happen. right here you think you're here besides responding to usual radio calls officers in los angeles are using predictive policing technology called credit pull the l.a.p.d. has been using it since two thousand and eleven the computer program is used in several u.s. cities and in the united kingdom predictive policing is a forecast that's been generated over crimes over the last six to seven years. it gets into a database and they predict where a crime is going to occur within the city there will be a box a radius about a two block radius where the forecasts will predict a crime will curve and will send officers to patrol inside that box the use of cutting edge technology in the war on terror has made national headlines but on the local level an increasing amount of police departments are going high tech and

using massive amounts of information in an effort to prevent crime before it even happens to see a police could really predict crime i took a ride with sergeant rowland fogle police computers drew a red box around the area he patrols with right here right here tomorrow here ok. just minutes into the patrol a call comes in on a possible burglary in the area highlighted by the computer forecast all that. pointed out there and he had in mind. anyway the. suspects were quickly detained as several officers were already near but well police say that predictive policing cuts crime civil libertarians raise concerns about profiling and constitutional violations happen. there's people who are carefully with an idea being very suspicious to anybody they have in this particular area. possibly reasons for the

moon concerns we follow the constitution we police we could constitution constitutional policing so while we do not we know we still do our police work as we are it's just we do spend the time inside the boxes to prevent crimes from happening the l.a.p.d. says it reduced property crimes and it's futile division by twelve percent in a year if we can read for the first time. i want you to make sure really the l.a.p.d. is program focuses on burglaries and car theft it cannot predict murders or assaults by gang areas like these housing projects don't show up on the red boxes either somewhere the cutting edge technology may be abused these kinds of technologies may be able to police to protect against crime so forth but they also get this power to train us all the suspects predictive policing is just one of several high tech tools the l.a.p.d. uses the police admit technology can't work alone. or we don't have to do your

site working for you. we're not going to get it as a rule police changes in america big dead appears to be a major part of law enforcement future. in los angeles ramon galindo r t. a number of studies have come out in recent weeks examining the overprescription of pills in the u.s. it's not just a depression sleep in exile any pills that fall in this realm they're also all over prescribing or mis prescribe medication for patients with physical illnesses a study published in the journal of anti-microbial chemotherapy found that sixty one percent of the time physicians chose the most powerful drug they can to deal with illness the broad spectrum and to pay off. access there are known also doctors prescribe these very powerful pills for ailments that are not cured by that type of antibiotic

a quarter of the time that actually happened that's thirty to forty million prescriptions per year and this overprescribing has created a lot of drug resistant infections as a result since our bodies become accustomed to these types of powerful drugs to talk about the possible reasons for this type of over prescription and miss prescription i'm joined now by dr al johnson he's a doctor at the internal medicine al thank you so much for joining me let's start off by talking about the overprescription or misperception of these really broad drugs what is the reason or what are some possible reasons for that is that simply because doctors don't know what's going on with the patient i know there's numerous reasons one is because the patient may come in it's hard to know exactly what the patient has because there are resist bugs out there are six three days to get their culture back. and the patient can become very ill and i was in three days so the doctors tend to err on the side of safety to use a broader spectrum in

a logic particularly in the near you when complications can occur at the same time by over prescribing these types of pills could it be argued then that we are creating some of those those drug resistant bacteria and things like that it can but most of the argument comes from the hospitalized patients. the drug resistance is not seen a great lot in the outpatient setting or less of patient has chronic illness now part of the other problem is that we as doctors are encouraged not to do very many test because testing at the cost of medicine and of course the cost of medicine is a big big topic now however to really find out what is going on you need proper cultures you need proper blood test run and you need to really look at the individual's immune system and so people have chronic infections many times i see

him in my office and they haven't had the simple blood test of gamma globulin to find out whether the person has enough gamma globulin so if i could infections and that's an underlying cause for their chronic problems another question that i want to ask you about a possible reason is that the cultural phenomenon that goes on in the us why a person expects to get some type of a pill whenever they go to the doctor could that play into this overprescribing i don't think that is a big big problem that people use a gun to the doctor not because they want to but because they feel bad and they will listen to the doctor and that's what my experience is they do want some help if there is a will they want to know that yes they're going to feel better in a day or two so instant gratification is part of our culture now whether it's from the media or from a response from someone you know just not answering their cell phone they want from the doctor to they want to feel better and up the television all day and bush you

know asked the doctor this x. the doctor that so we're bombarded with all kinds of questions now that we didn't used to be bombarded with about why don't we use this medicine or why don't we use that medicine it doesn't work for money problems so let's talk about the role that the pharmaceutical companies play in this do they have a role in this and encourage people or doctors to overprescribe. they do you know that's why their every ties in on t.v. . they've been restricted in what they can do with doctors so they're going to the public their job is to make money and sell their product to patients then hear this and we as physicians have to answer a lot more questions instead of just what the person is in the office for because of what the they hear from their advertisements and finally do you think that this is unique to the united states or does it go beyond that this idea of overprescribing or mis prescribing well you know doctors are trying to do the best

they can and it may be i'm not really familiar with what goes on in other countries . it's hard to get to see a physician in canada immediately. so here we have better access doctors typically try to treat what the patient presents with and to get a cure as well as the satisfaction of the patient. how some of these studies are done it really comes into question and so when we have a study like this. we need to go back and look under what conditions the study was done who they're looking at what kind of clinics so many times it is clinics that are done in an indigent areas very interesting and questions that do need to be asked anytime a study is done dr alan johnson a doctor of internal medicine thank you so much you're welcome. and that does it for now for the stories we covered you tube dot com slash r t america.

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length. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring and i'm bobby bush and let's get to the story that we're tracking today. well the latest on bloomberg gate as it is that they allegedly misrepresented the truth a scandal erupted when it surfaced that bloomberg reporters were skimming personal data from bloomberg prominent clients the firm claims they fix the problems two years ago however every knew of an independent firm has revealed otherwise and that would be independent firm was none other than from a tory financial group yes the very firm that signed off on m.f. global's risk controls just before john corazon blew up the firm with customer money apparently antiquated excel spread.