a periodic review board assigned in two thousand and eleven to deliberate the fate of guantanamo detainees just concluded its first session and its findings the board ruled that yemeni citizen and get no detainee mahmoud. he is no longer a significant threat to the security of america the announcement comes as a sign of progress of these detainees many of whom were cleared for release years ago but the overclassification and the lack of transparency to trial observers journalists and the general public continues to raise doubts over whether closure of guantanamo will ever come to fruition this week marks five years since obama signed the real executive orders to ban torture close cia black sites and began the closure of america's most notorious prison so joining me now to discuss that secrecy that surrounds get now i'm joined by u.s.

navy lieutenant commander kevin beaucoup thank you so much for coming on to have a big it's a real honor over the last year there have been a handful of detainee transfers is this a positive sign that we should be expecting more of the let me start out by saying i represent along with various other excellent attorneys i represent three men who are currently detained at guantanamo bay and i will say this is a very positive sign in that last year eleven people were released from guantanamo bay. but eleven people per year even if we were to keep up that average you can see how long it would take to finally meet president obama's promise to close guantanamo bay we have to move much faster but the fact that the very first periodic review board came up with a result that mr mujahid no longer poses a threat to the united states is a very positive sign it at least shows that this board is willing to look at the facts as they are and to make an appropriate decision sure but for those who don't

understand really how the process works that now that doesn't necessarily mean much it could just mean that he's been transferred into the last security threat level of detainee and being transferred some are still definitely in another prison correct me that's exactly what it means in the case of mr majority that he essentially gets transferred from a category of individuals who are being indefinitely detained pending the end of the war on terror whenever that's going to happen to a group of now seventy seven individuals who are i should say a group of yemeni detainees who are being detained indefinitely until such time as the united states decides that its relations with yemen are such that we can trust them to accept the return of their own citizens however we trust them enough to carry out drone strikes unabated in the country without argument doesn't really hold too much water to me let's talk about the periodic review board why did it take them three years to review this one case this is probably the biggest concern that we all have as you noted in march of two thousand and eleven by executive

order president obama directed that these periodic review boards would take place in fact he said that they should take place within a year this was then codified in the national defense authorization act of two thousand and twelve so it became the law of the land and yet it took almost three years for the very first periodic review board to render its result. if this is the track record then we are never going to obtain significant results and let me note that the purpose of these periodic review boards is to identify the men who don't pose any threat to the united states and who are not going to be charged with any crime these men shouldn't be there in the first place these boards need to happen as quickly as possible because these men have been suffering now for upwards of twelve years there are men they are wrongfully detained who have had no opportunity

to prove their own innocence and we need to get these boards done so that at least they get one day before a panel and kevin another thing that you were telling me earlier is the limited access for trial observers journalists talk about that he has recently returned from vietnam this is an issue that definitely needs to be resolved in in the case of this very first periodic review board which was essentially litigated by a fine attorney named david remes there was no access by the press whatsoever and i think the media was surprised that something so significant would be held completely in secret i think the result has opened a lot of eyes and maybe future periodic review boards there will be greater transparency but honestly transparency is not something that we've come to expect at guantanamo it seems that they go to extreme measures to keep everything about the system there and the abuses that take place a complete secret from the american people and from the rest of the world and

you've established relationships of these men where you can better represent them and anyone else could yet they're per vanny and that from happening which is kind of screen over the people even more head again every it's the absurdity of guantanamo for five and a half years i've worked with these men i've established relationships with them i know their families i would love to represent these men at their periodic review boards and you know. an arbitrary decision was made that military attorneys cannot be part of this process even though we've established an attorney client relationship i can't be part of this process representing my men in the only hearing they will probably have for the many years they've been at guantanamo bay unbelievably frustrating. five years ago those three executive orders that i mentioned previously concerning black sites torture what has been done to halt those programs do you know every let me say when president obama issued that first

executive order promising to close guantanamo bay within a year there was a lot of excitement on our end at the office of the chief defense counsel we thought finally we were going to be be able to move ahead beyond this injustice that is one time i'm obey and now so many years later we find ourselves in a position where guantanamo is still open where it still continues to damage the reputation of the united states in fact earlier this week a group of thirty one retired admirals and generals sent a letter to president obama asking him to renew his efforts to close guantanamo bay and what they said was that one time does not serve the interests of america. as long as it remains open kuantan a mo will undermine the security and the status of america as a nation where human rights and the rule of law matter i don't know how you can say it any better than a good review really can have and you know the thing that irks me the most is that

people kind of blame the republicans for all this you know barriers that he's had to close it isn't it true that today obama could use a national security waiver to actually start the process of every single release of every detainee there and if so why isn't that being done well certainly with the national defense authorization act of two thousand and fourteen which we're currently operating under the the restrictions have been greatly loose i mean it used to be that a secretary would have to have votes for the fact that if we were to release somebody they absolutely would not engage in any misconduct now the standard is much more reasonable and so i would say yes the power has now been given to the executive to close guantanamo bay and do what needs to be done but if we're to wait for recommendations from these periodic review boards and they're moving at a snail's pace at which they're currently moving it's never going to happen and men

who are never going to be tried with a crime will continue to sit at one time obey year after year after year without any hope of justice they're going to be dead before they get hurt by this periodic review board thank you for pushing on being the strength that they need to get justice for these people navy lieutenant commander kevin beaucoup he really appreciate you coming on thank you betty. yo i always ask you to write me let me know you think about the show so here's the time for your feedback on twitter at white knight who are so whistleblowers are difficult subjects for us to have any idea how many sources died after many leave those documents let me take a wild guess zero who follows up by adding i was in kandahar at the time hundreds of sources were killed in the following weeks not enough to space to go into little

detail yeah ok cool story bro but i do like that you expect me to believe the truth or stranger that hundreds of people have died as a result of manning's leaks despite zero evidence to actually back that up on the facebook in response to my tear down of kevin o'leary for saying it's been tested news that one percent one hundred ten trillion dollars nicholas do you see says kevin donates millions he's into way mean he teaches people how to become rich he chose to answer without being forced into the narrative of feeling sorry for the poor instead he chose him to calm down and don't be so motional and since asian alist stick. first of all thanks for revealing what you clearly think about a woman's opinion hysterical and overly emotional second i'm speechless at the sheer ignorance that someone can actually defend the notion that a billion people just need the inspiration to get rich thanks nicholas i had no

idea so easy back to twitter at nail lol says after seeing everyone's expos and nestle and breaking the set i am no longer eating or buying any nestle product even jelly taught him and that is awesome we vote with our wallet every day so kudos to you for taking a stand and i hope that you find a decent alternative to jelly thoughts. back to you tube john webster says why can't i download your podcast anymore update your audio wings please him and we are really sorry about that someone was doing it for us and stopped so we're going to get on that and we're going to start uploading the audio of the show again on i tunes appreciate all watching and listening and caring about the issues and for your feedback as always now let's get on with the show oh. i know. tanya laid it well tell me how you are my little grandson.

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putin. and they have to realize that you know do you have to let it go the patient the notion of. i don't allow the distance to have feet in old life to planned it all the future i still have so granted you over there on tuesday but you know to add conditions conditions from decisions to made in both of those to a state this and this. under the control of the stimulus this is look i'm i'm just not going to oppose the good us nor the israelis nor the american to force all of us a bit daughter arrived at this edition of the political. as a new physician i swear to abide by the hippocratic oath. to the best of my

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world this is the united states i'm very tough by the way you know sure i was worried that they may not know why they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like the rand. turbans prayer rugs and we know that they're coming from the middle east take our situation and. concentration to journey study this is. not even one skill the fact that. a stranger. all this week has been awfully busy for the country of switzerland one trail john kerry is trying to stop the syria peace talks from collapsing and the un secretary

general and syrian foreign minister are sparring over who gets talk of longer in the negotiations the ones with the vent is overshadowing all of this a hollow to world economic forum in the city of davos you see this is a chance for all the genius business and economic leaders of the world to sit down knock some heads together and save the world from itself and this year tackling severe income inequality seems to be a major theme of the conference so of course as jon stewart points out financial journalists are making sure to hold these leaders accountable for coming up with some real solutions to this hair. problem. here to tell you bill is this place here the economic climate is now. been eating the cheesy swiss fondue last night the proprietor american my hotel gave us a private ride in his car because we couldn't get the taxi and i think that is me on the cheek maybe there's a hierarchy here ok so when you have an all access badge yes we were able to get this fox business rocks. what you're getting is are

you a financial journalist or just excited to be invited to the money oscars. now if you think that's hyperbole let's take a look at some of the events that are happening at the meeting of the minds actress goldie hawn is meeting in a panel on managing stress for the world's top business leaders because you know causing the collapse of the entire global economy can really take a toll on her blood pressure matt damon of all people is won an award for his work bringing clean water and sanitation to impoverished areas of the world and while of course his contribution in this area is admired shouldn't really be a top priority to give an a lister yet another award to add to their pile and of course it wouldn't be a party without u two front man bono schmoozing with david cameron and wrote in capitalism as the only way to lift millions of people out of poverty but beyond hanging with just celebs the business and political elite are having an all out rage are and. in fact according to b.b.c.

at the prestigious belvedere hotel alone form attendees have ordered one thousand five hundred ninety four bottles of champagne and and three thousand bottles of red and white wine for boozing it up at three hundred twenty parties in just five days who knew solving global inequality could be so much fun and you know the eighty billionaires and hundreds of millionaires have a good reason to celebrate according to the washington post the three hundred richest individuals on the planet increase their wealth by five hundred twenty four billion. dollars over the course of last year. and it just wouldn't be a fun economic solutions get together without appearances from the who's who of the speculative banking world you know executives from aig just b.c. and citi group not to mention jamie dimon and lloyd blankfein the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan and goldman sachs if these are the people trying to tackle global equality i might as well have justin bieber leave the mothers against drunk driving convention

but perhaps most disturbing is a poll taken by prince waterhouse coopers among thirteen hundred or so business leaders at the forum when asked about their top economic concerns seventy two percent of executives said over regulation of corporations no i didn't say that wrong over regulation because we all know that the two thousand and eight financial crisis was kicked off by too many government officials preventing banks from unloading toxic mortgages on a populace the people at the helm of solving global inequality are hollywood celebrities criminal bankers and giddy but kissing journalists so don't be fooled by all the hype because davos is really nothing more than a bunch of one percenters up in the alps laughing that you'll never have a golden ticket to the party.

well you guys it's friday and as usual i've been inundated with you guys the press seen as hell news all week so the line of food can't talk right now my good friend we can have those the moment of clarity webster is here to break it all down what is manning to be so leave out of all of the. m.s.m. is obsession with justin bieber last week actually was really happy to hear congressman harman the same some really really cutting things about the n.s.a. . let's take a look i think at this point we should seriously consider not not can comment on it let me let me interrupt you congresswoman let me interrupt you just for a moment we've got some breaking news out of miami standby if you will. right now in miami justin bieber has been arrested on a number of charges the charges leading the charges including resisting arrest and

driving under the influence he's appearing now before the judge for his bond hearing let's watch. i read isn't it more important justin bieber's in court than global unconstitutional spying lee i don't understand what you have a problem with all right justin bieber is a national treasure not our nation canada but still he is a national treasure and you can make fun of you can make fun of on better capitalism obama the pope but i will not stand here while you insult the creeps all right there is a baby elvis we are going to have a baby over to do it all right of course you know thinking interrupt you and i send you stuff surveillance of whatever. really is incredible you know as ridiculous as the media is for being infected with a little golden child here is it really great that they're finally covering waits that. thank you they are there finally go over and wage theft because it's the see oakland raiders cheerleaders is the jeweller's i know i don't know what it is about

this one story that finally made them cover it i don't know if it was the or there is the flawed so i i realized what those numbers are which they came up a little earlier but what they are is i realize that people are paying attention this because it's a cheerleader so i brought some stats for you as you can see and i made them in a way that americans would finally pay attention so there's eighteen point five million vacant homes vacant homes around the country there's three point five million homeless so that means every a homeless person could have five homes if we just gave them built and i think we should deal with it that way i think we should tell the corporatocracy look let's give the homeless people five homes and also you crazy and then we'll go let's compromise one home you have got that you lost me out of your leaders. i go numbers again. if you combine all the u.s. millionaire households households it's fifty trillion dollars of wealth us millionaire households there it is now america will pay attention to that number right now they'll care ok now how much how much would it take to pay the u.n.

is estimated to to end world hunger this year thirty billion and we have fifty trillion thirty billion the koch brothers alone could do it all right so we have that number in a graphic i think we do to bring that graphic there. will care now they care now they get it see this is what we need to give kids in school. i mean spread it around and talk about it wow incredible well you know you know it's amazing fox news covering this sure there is the bounce and. you just got to throw those numbers on the nipples and then you're all good really. you know speaking of billionaires have you heard that the real life elise the i'm being created in nigeria this is absolutely ridiculous it's all the rich people who are building their own little you know their own little hub that they can. you know when climate change comes down when the fan they'll have their own little terrarium i mean how do you feel about the apartheid to point to here you know it's a it's

a fake island which i think is great you know you when the devastation that you've created comes you go off to your little fantasy world they could you know they could call it up it's their own planet pluto for plutocracy if they can have their own planet there i think it's a great idea and plus they put it there because the people are like living in squalor it's outside nigeria the people are living in squalor so that's easy workers those are disposable people according to that right so it's easy to work for nothing that's why my clothing shop is actually in the north pole that's where i want it to work shop because no one told melting those off to work for nothing so it's. just me falling apart i'll just be happy to have something to work on speaking of wages the let's go back to the open to me as a guy just can't get enough of that story but there is you have to. get enough of that stuff there is actually fantastic news to report when it comes to wages lee i have to play this. as the. world eighty five richest people is equal to the three and a half billion poorest people it's fantastic and this is

a great thing because it aspires everybody gets the motivation to look up to the one percent and say i want to become one of those people i'm going to fight hard to get up to the top this is fantastic news and of course i applaud it. what could be wrong with this yes really i mean isn't it amazing that really just the three have billion people just because the inspiration to be rich i mean then you just write a song to build up a bird sound even if you don't have bootstrap that even if you don't have boots even if you don't have shoes you can some of them will strap water bottles to the palm of pizza pull yourself up by your water bottles ok you know this clip actually is kind of inspiring because it shows that in this country it doesn't matter if you're black white old young or even a sociopath you can become rich like kevin o'leary even sellafield sociopaths can make it in this country so. american dream very early that's the only people who can make her care for the themes. and of course the point one

per cent of the one percent does i mean davos switzerland this week for an economic forum the one and only goldie hawn modern a panel on how to alleviate your stress leave because really nearly causing the entire collapse of the global financial system is stressful it's stressful sometimes have you ever tried to get barbecue sauce out of a diamond here it's very difficult ok it's very stressful it is but i also did read that they're doing some things to consider the you know the underprivileged the people having trouble around the world like during the hot stone hand massage yoga they're doing the giving pose so they're just to remember the giving for giving pose and the chocolate water fountains actually the lifeguard they've hired is an underprivileged child for the talk of water so that they're considering the poor while they're there. oh my god of course our fear back out banker jamie dimon just got a raise despite knowing billion dollars in the company but i think he deserves it don't you. think you deserve that look if you're acting surprised i mean did you

expect tony soprano to stop leaving the mafia you know you want to thaw it you want to thaw if you're running a massive bank you want a dog to go to he lied to investors during the during the london whale scandal and now they can raise more money you got a part of the back for doing such a good job these it's a great job destroying the entire economy thank you lee can't comedian host of the nuclear web series always amazing to have you on a student at let's do that as a. show you guys have a good weekend or break the set all over again next week oh oh. welcome to the future the news hit so we hit the road to focus on new technology.

on this month's show no policy is complete without school shootings. and we learn about the next in kill through revolution this has the potential to save lives. no new update here. we've got the future of coverage. maybe also reflects the massive surveillance operation that is going on when we're talking about defending against terrorism which ultimately i think is it's a catch twenty two right because you don't want to take a program away that is saving people and creating a safer environment but at the same time you know i truly believe that we all have a right to freedom i believe we should be surveilled etc. china for example growing exactly the way the west credit in the system they're

creating more debt in the system the rich are getting richer and the poor poor eight hundred million people live a little less than fifteen dollars a day in china and that doesn't seem to be changing it's the number one problem the chinese government has right now you know it seems to me that what the rich have done is that you know they made themselves so comfortable but in the process of destroying the entire process of where they got their wealth from in the first place the government people. to worry about these. things. i mean if you're a billionaire. we're going to be sort of light at the top of the. majority want to believe.

the. economic down in the final month. and the rest. will be if we need. well if you're a mom and a lot of these policies you. feel . pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure we'll.

be. breaking news this hour on our t.v. you're looking at live pictures from ukraine rioters in the country are trying to storm a convention center where some two hundred police officers are based that's after the opposition rejects president got a call which is proposals aimed at quelling the ongoing anti-government riots. this is two police officers kidnapped by writers in ukraine's capital have been released both were allegedly tortured as fears are mounting radical protesters derailing at the concessions of the authorities. and in other news up to twenty nine people are killed in street clashes with security forces across the.