coming up on r t the us government released documents showing a past secret court ruling on n.s.a. surveillance the face of court chastised the n.s.a. for illegally collecting tens of thousands of e-mails more of the unmasking of the fight afford i had an army whistleblower manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for leaking documents but the story does not in their look at the extreme conditions placed on the media as we covered the trial and san francisco officials are considering a class action lawsuit against nevada they claim nevada gave hundreds of psychiatric patients a one way ticket to california more on this clash later in today's show.

it's thursday august twenty second five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan 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're coming clean in a way any way the white house released documents dealing with the foreign intelligence surveillance court and the ruling that came out in two thousand and eleven after the electronic frontier foundation filed a freedom of information act request pretty recently in the documents the court lambaste of 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 that collection to the fisa court former surveillance court judge john bates wrote to the two thousand and eleven october decision saying quote the court is troubled that the government's revelations regarding n.s.a.'s acquisition of internet transactions marks the third

instance in less than three years in which the government has disclosed a substantial misrata. isn't taishan regarding the scope of a major collection program so the n.s.a. secret is out instead of reporters beating the n.s.a. can ya for a story here and a story there president obama spilled all of the candy on the floor presumably so that will get our sugar fix and then move on but is it really that simple political commentator sam sachs joined me earlier to discuss this and i first asked him how all of this could even be possible. we can't confirm that number fifty six thousand that's kind of what the n.s.a. figures are saying but this all 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 they explain the rules that they're using to collect this data and the files a court signs 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 up streaming basically this is where they tap right into the 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 the spies a court order and when the pfizer court learned 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 mentioned 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 that 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.'s 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 locky 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. 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 a long talk and talked about by senators like ron wyden. people have known that these arguments 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 had 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 stone through things like prism that section seventy two a fison now this metadata phone collection which was the first leak by snowden to that section to get to the patriot act and judge bates goes against that and he basically says that the standards by which they're 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 just reported to prison then for leavenworth to begin serving a thirty five year sentence but manning's lawyer david coombe says 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 leaks are sentenced to time served last night hordes of supporters gathered from the white house to

protest army judge denise lynn's sentencing decision here are some of the sights and sounds of those demonstrations. where they barely say that was the case it is. crazy over here right where they read it ok. you're right they've tried the part of this report where for every where they. have you raise the brow for bradley where they. are to correspondent lose wall has been traveling to fort meade each day to watch manning's court martial play out she was there when prosecutors 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. too much people can debate how many years of 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 the air 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 operations 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 spars 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. the goal is to get whistle blowing stopped and the goal is to try and begin to associate journalists with their sources as if their coconspirators and their representation is involved the president is charged really

a chore which was aiding the enemy for a simple way 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 or a parallel for many heads and his supporters the fight for his freedom is far from over here and for maryland liz wall artsy also new today manning released a statement thanking supporters and announcing the next transition and 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 that i feel and have felt since childhood i want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible i hope that 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 photo of a picture of manning is one that she texted to her supervisor showing chelsea in a blonde wig and makeup but while manning supporters of 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 that hormone therapy manning's lawyer david coombs told n.b.c.'s today show that he'll be taking class action or taking action if the army doesn't provide manning with hormone therapy and the a.c.l.u. also sent out a statement saying that the president might be violating manning's constitutional rights by denying her that treatment historically civilian prisons have in fact paid for transgender issues though several cases are currently under dispute. to egypt now where deposed the ruler of hosni mubarak was released from prison and

helicopter to a cairo hospital today where he will be 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 twenty nine eleven uprising hundreds of people were killed by police forces in those protests meanwhile the man who actually was elected by the first democratic elections mohamed morsy is still behind bars and protests and violence actually continue christians have been targeted in numerous attacks across the country over the past week churches have been burnt down 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 tour prison where he's been for the last few years. disclose vacation where he will be under house arrest now he's being 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 evolve to 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 the book has been allowed to walk free today is because he is 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 trying to. keep him in prison for any look 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 true reporting from cairo egypt. well if you can't fix the problem let someone else deal with it that seems to be in nevada's line of thought anyway officials in san francisco california are considering legal action against their neighboring state for allegedly buying hundreds of poor psychiatric patients a one way bus ticket to california so that the sunshine state would have to pay for their treatment did you get that hospitals forcing patients onto a bus to become another state's problem this practice has been allegedly going on since two thousand and eight san francisco's letter to nevada's attorney general comes shortly after a psychiatric payton a patient name. james flavia brown filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming that nevada gave him one of those tickets out of there brown is now seeking a class action status on the behalf as of as many as fifteen hundred patients to describe and discuss this and more detail i'm joined now by gabriel's

a trend he is the deputy communications director at the san francisco city attorney's office thank you so much for joining me now and how is the state of nevada dealing with this are they explaining in any way not so far now the mid-water gives them until september of the knife to make a formal response to the letter that was sent to them on tuesday and we're going to have to see formally how they deal with the problem by that time are we dealing with anything more than allegations at this point is there any physical evidence of this going on yes there absolutely is our investigative team for months conducting an exhaustive investigation trying to track a population that's often indigent very transients but they have chased down a lot of those go evidence they've chased down actual people and we have evidence that we believe will win this lawsuit or in a court of law if it comes to that so let's talk about the burden that this puts on taxpayers how much are they paying per patient is there any way to determine that there is a way exhaustive investigation to determine exactly what services were provided

again we're not going to speculate if we go to court with something we're going to have documentation that says these are the services that were provided this is how much they cost in the demand letter right now the total stands it will show five hundred thousand dollars as justice for a san francisco goes but there are other california jurisdictions for whom this has been a problem and the investigation is ongoing to that number that dollar figure could go up as time goes on so let's talk about how for how far your office is willing to take it where are they willing to go with this. well court in one word we're willing to follow a lawsuit because california taxpayers are footing the bill for something that we shouldn't and we let them know on tuesday that we are ready to go to court to get our taxpayers' money back and you said something specific there you said california instead of san francisco how widespread is this program to go beyond san francisco other jurisdictions in sanford and california are conducting their own investigations on mr brown here mentioned earlier is actually someone who was busted sacramento and they are conducting their investigation as well the five hundred thousand dollar figure reflects just the city of san francisco the city and

county if other figures come to light later because other jurisdictions conclude their investigations and come up with dollar figures then them will compile a larger figure and they will decide what legal action they might want to take but this practice is absolutely widespread beyond san francisco we know of several other work issues which this is the case gabriel is there any indication of what happened so these people once they are bussed over there do they get in fact that help that they need yes and no the thing is a number of them and this is true of the patients or the subject of the demand letter or actually essentially instructed to call emergency services upon their arrival but that is that is a very imperfect method of getting the care that they need compared to for example making an individual plan making sure that their bus the appropriate destination and that there is help waiting for them on the other side as opposed to simply putting them on a bus with absolutely no plan made for their arrival so yes people are accessing services and in fact that's that reflects the the monetary figure we're speaking is

chair that was provided so yes people are receiving services but that doesn't mean this is the right thing to do by any stretch of the imagination now at this point carol is there any example or idea how far up the chain of out of the skull is is it simply the hospitals doing it or is someone else buying the tickets. we don't know we do know that in the case of most of the tickets that were given to the patients the subject of the letter that the hospital had paid for the hospital that we're speaking of is in las vegas it is run by the student whether the order to initiate this practice to continue this practice goes and hire a chain we do not know at this time although we are investigating the will this story is very concerning it's very disturbing if you wouldn't mind keeping us updated as you continue to proceed throughout this trend deputy communications director at the san francisco city attorney office thank you so much for having me well be careful where you look you could inadvertently be lining the pockets of google depending on your eye movements that's in the near future anyway the internet giant was granted just granted

a patent for google glass like sensors that would track a person's eye movements to find out in real time what advertisements people are actually paying attention to is called up pay per gaze and the idea is that this technology will measure how long you look at an ad and also your emotional reaction to it as indicated by your pupil dilation does that sound a little bit like clockwork orange to your own and the way there is also news out that an f.b.i. official came out this week saying that the days of major cyber attacks by the hacktivist group anonymous are over and finally researchers in new york are using twitter to find out what areas are most depressing based on tweets sent out by people in the nearby surrounding neighborhoods are you ready for today's tech report let's get to it we've got pete tackling is a tech editor at mashable pete thank you so much for joining me let's start with the bizarre id tracking patent how will it work. well essentially they're going to

create a sensor that will exist in certain devices that will track your eyes to see what you're looking at it at what part of the edge you're looking at it your emotional reaction to it. it's it's a technology that's been around that's actually sort of in its infancy and there's a bunch of companies dabbling with actually one of them is toby which actually has demonstrated and i track the laptop but this is actually a patent that explicitly uses the technology for advertising very interesting no i understand i know it's just in its research phase but eventually what is the idea who is going to profit off of it well the idea is if you believe google is good it's a win win so that the advertisers win because they'll know if people are looking at their ads and if they are what kind of reaction they're having to them whether it's positive or negative and they can then use that data to help the user to serve a better ads hopefully that will please them more personally i look forward to the day when we have the data that finally definitively proves that nobody looks at

internet advertising at least display advertising that nobody knows display ads really just are completely useless and everybody just gives over them and everyone does skim over them i know i certainly do you could people one day be inadvertently supporting companies that they are inherently against simply by looking at it say a vegetarian accidently looking for too long at a steak ad. yeah well it all depends on the emotional reaction part of this and this is something that has taught to people dilation how accurate that is so you know there could be some false positives and false negatives that's always the case with these kinds of technologies that they take a little time to iterate and shake down these issues so over time presumably it's going to get more accurate and will serve you a better ads now let's watch here is the f.b.i. agent austin berg last is a special a special agent in charge of the f.b.i. is to cyber division in new york and he said quote the movement is still there and they're still yakking on twitter and posting things but you don't hear about these

guys coming forward with those large breaches it's just not happening and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players who of course is talking about anonymous there so my question to you is anonymous over no i would say it's not in its current form hacking is certainly still is. but it's kind of like you have to understand what anonymous is it's not this one group which is very specific people who just happen and the hidden or unknown no known in this is this name that a lot of people attach themselves to on any given day and may stop doing it at any time it's a very a very amorphous movement and hard to pin down so to say that anonymous is over and i don't think that's quite what he would seem is inaccurate but to say that this wave of your hacks is on now a trough i think that's true and how catastrophic because one of the things that he pointed out was the discovery that hector months ago or also known as abu on the internet was an f.b.i.

informant how catastrophic was that the group. i think pretty huge i think for to that group and anyone interested in doing some major illegal activity online and it was it was clearly a blow that sort of said even if you practice this and you are successful you will be caught at some point so and really don't even bother story let's switch topics one more time to talk about these most depressing areas according to a new study that uses twitter can you quickly explain it to us yeah there was a study that some researchers did that looked at tweets over a certain period of time that looked at these merely the emoticons the emotional content of this tweet so if there's a happy face it's a positive tweet and there's a sad face it's a negative tweet and they put you know use some context as well. but then the put this all on a map located in new york city to find sort of the most happy and sad places in new york and it turns out the saddest place isn't my apartment which was

a shock what his the fattest place of us now your apartment. as well the places were mainly kind of what you expect they were transportation hubs was the main one so places like port authority the brooklyn bridge places where you might find someone stuck in traffic for a half hour maybe has time to pull out a smartphone and tweet what a lousy time he's on the other side the best places turned out to be open areas like parks like central park in prospect park where you know you might have a more positive experiences and less waiting and apparently pete's apartment to catch all that editor at mashable thank you so much for joining us my pleasure when the city of richmond california is going head to head with big banks to deal with foreclosure the city is trying to force lenders and investors to sell underwater mortgages at a discounted price using eminent domain now the federal housing finance agency is threatening to limit restrict or even quit mortgage lending to any city that follows richmond suit our correspondent erin eight explains. lawsuit filed in san

francisco federal court by three mortgage bond trustees will prove to be a litmus test for the success or failure of a new scheme involving eminent domain now traditionally the power of eminent domain has been exercised when a state or city seizes private property without the owner's consent historically the most common uses of property taken v.m. and demand our highways railroads and other public facilities however the city of richmond california has crafted an interesting strategy for one point eminent domain richmond is a working class suburb of around one hundred thousand people on the san francisco bay and public officials there have teamed up with a private investment firm mortgage resolution partners or m r p together they began sending letters to mortgage companies last week to purchase loans on six hundred twenty four properties in the city properties that richmond now owns thanks to eminent domain and the city is threatening to for sale if the investors resist the

strategy aims to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure by allowing the city to forcibly buy mortgages from the investors at a price below the properties current market value the city would then reduce the loan balance and refinance the mortgage resulting in a lower mortgage payment for the homeowner the lawsuit filed against richmond and r.p. serves as a key test for whether other cities can move forward with the same strategy now at least four other california cities have teamed up with the financial firm assisting richmond however none have been so brazen thus far units of wells fargo deutsche bank blackrock pacific investment and fannie and freddie mac. filed a lawsuit all together now their lawsuit alleges that the loans are being seized being seized for a valid public purpose and valid public purpose that's a key condition for a city invoking eminent domain it also claims that interstate commerce laws are being violated and that the proposed use that eminent domain is unconstitutional because it benefits only a small group of richmond citizens at the expense of out of state investors. now

supporters of the plan they say it helps out not only specific homeowners but also the larger community by reducing foreclosures which ultimately hurt property values and decrease the tax base and legal advocates they say the constitutional challenge isn't likely to hold up in court because interstate commerce isn't hindered now robert hockett he's a cornell law professor who advocates for using eminent domain in this way he says interstate commerce isn't burdened because quote it doesn't prevent credit from flowing in any particular way opponents however they point out that the specific loans richmond wants to buy more than two thirds of them are current on their payments investors say that's easy loans for mortgage bond trusts that aren't underwater would significantly damage the value of those investments and much the same way that sovereign debt default can raise borrowing costs for a country communities where the threat of loan seizure exists we'll see similar adverse effects when it comes to when it comes time for them to borrow now the underlining question is this sums it all up what is

a valid public purpose is usually the homeowners who lose when a community exercises eminent domain but this new scheme raises that keeping homeowners in their homes is in the best interest of the community it's not a bad argument however it does remain to be seen if this strategy will hold up in court r.t. aaron aides. normally when you board a plane you have to take your shoes and belt off during the preflight screening process but one man went the extra mile sneaking onto chance there on the little merkel's government plane in nothing but his underwear i could not make this story up if i tried so fasten your seat belts things are about to get ridiculous clutching a bag full of marijuana and ecstasy pills the man said police on a four hour long goose chase in the attempt to catch him during this gala van the man got on the wings of the plane and danced he sprayed a fire extinguisher around the inside of the plane and then went into the cockpit

and pushed all of the buttons that's according to der spiegel the incident occurred on july twenty fifth and the man was eventually arrested he is of turkish descent and apparently he got in a fight with his girlfriend before doing all of this the plane was parked at a closed military section of the cologne airport chancellor merkel was not on or near a plane when the incident occurred instead she was hundreds of miles away attending wagner opera performance of the flying dutchman and leaving the want to be flying german man for local authorities to deal with all right well that's going to do it for me for now but for the stories we cover more of the stories we cover and go to youtube dot com slash r t america and check out our website for the latest and greatest information coming out on all the stories we cover today and a few that we just did not have time to get to also in the meantime follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez tweet me your comments your story suggestions and your feedback i want to know what you want me to cover see right back here at

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