for those just looking to visit the united states you have no idea how rough it is for our dedicated hardworking public servants in congress thankfully thankfully there silent hidden struggle has finally been brought out of the darkness and into the light by the valiant and heroic efforts of the fearless representative from utah republican jason shape it's monday this week announced to the world just how real the struggle has been for he and his fellow congressmen and women to make the rent shape it stated quote i really do believe congress would be much better served if there was a housing allowance for members of congress you shouldn't have to be among the wealthiest of americans to serve properly in congress you know jason you just have to be able to serve the wealthiest of americans to work properly in congress or quit public service and cash in a box moves like you are like you just did and of course biggest news of the week

was well the moves and one of the best light cards we've seen here on capitol hill this week saw c.n.n. taking on all comers we had donald trump and james o'keefe versus c.n.n. c.n.n. versus their own journalists and staff and the c.n.n. tag team with a tag team with the new york times in a cage match against well honest journalism. poor poor skinny journalism had no chance in that one so what the fireworks already flying let's head into the weekend and start watching the hawks. it looks like. this would. be the plot of. the day like you that i got. this.

week so. welcome to the watch of the hawks i am tired robot and i'm having a wallace joining us today in the hawk's nest to discuss this week full of stories as the host of redacted tonight natalie mcgill yeah and redacted correspondent lee can say all that and i thought i'd switch it up a little bit so you get to me i get a little of the she believes. the real brains behind me so i want to start with. you know rights congress rights warrior jason the safe words. he has called for twenty five hundred a month stipend for housing cause saying it is on his way out he's leaving. and he went on the saga i got to regis quote washington d.c. is one of the most expensive places in the world i flat out cannot afford a mortgage in utah kids in college and a second place here in d.c. i think twenty five hundred would be appropriate in a real help to have at least decent quality of life in washington. reaction this

and should we start taking a collection like the only accurate thing about that statement was like yes d.c. is a very expensive place to live and yes the only thing he had here is the is that somebody with one hundred seventy four thousand dollars salary there's a thirty thousand dollars a year stipend like my first job out of school like my first. the base salary wasn't even thirty thousand but i had to work my way up to that these taking the exact wrong. out of this all right yes he made let's say you live for benefit of say he is struggling to get his kids knowledge of the help of coming to inclusion college too expensive to see how it's going to be it's tough to live like this like we need to where is he passing bills or did he in the past try to pass bills making college less expensive or like helping people that are struggling it's like you know just give me a little money and help me out jason's giving that very real world experience though because you know what. one hundred seventy four thousand it sounds like

a lot but when you're talking about splitting home between two cities like you said he probably is actually struggling with the family but i think i'm in the light bulbs should be like wait a minute i'm struggling. want to what are you sorry a lot of these are really only what i think this shows that we should take more things away from congress and then the learn how it's what it's like to live like that. your flights home are not paid for by the taxpayer you have to live on food stamps and let's see if you still think that's an extravagance why don't you try living outside of the city and commuting in like everybody else has to do on a train that might catch on fire. and then the effects of the i think actual people in d.c. who are a lot worse i don't. think you have to use their tap well also it was the big c.n.n. and then. stories this week sense they seem to come on after another and some of the thank perk are. and some of them are bigger so in this like cnn's ongoing war

with the brand name in chief it heated up this week with the james o'keefe videos and the botched a story and there's even more stuff happening as you say so president's been on the offensive against that which led to this interesting quote from c.n.n. foreign correspondent clarissa ward. if what point does this become dangerous and i'm not just talking about danger in germany was that tearing at the social fabric i'm talking about dangerous as in a journalist gets hurt because i can tell you working overseas in war zones you know people are in vold and by the actions of this administration in vold and by the all out sort of declaration of war on the media. so. i ask you tyrrell it. started with the story go to our panel let me ask. her concern that the president's rhetoric

is putting c.n.n. in danger how do you feel about how does that how does that. explains it all can't be wrong i mean look. this is a thing that gets me i would feel more sympathy for the rhetoric if they didn't do the same to places like like our t.v. or other independent news outlets a baby ballot and say oh well you know we're you know propagandists everyone is there in the pocket of. couldn't buy her logic mean that like people were going to see her because of who we work for and to me it's kind of like you can't have that both ways you have to be very above board and but you can't complain when they go out to well i think and this is so this whole scenario so like laughable it is creating these crazy bedfellow of fellows where it's all eating on itself i mean you have o'keefe who put out this thing that some of it may be true and i'm sure there are plenty of producers that understand that most of these rush's stories are

absolute crap however he's also like a known con man who's a doctor videos and put out complete crap and took down acorn with complete crap and like so it's like going to him for the truth is like it's bizarre thing where everything's even on exult and they're yelling at trump the press comes in the day one guy was like how dare you al dos for you know we're doing our jobs and it's like no you are a completely awful media mainstream media is complete crap and trump is a known liar and lie and constantly so you could have both of those are not mutually exactly said remember they married them on. the redacted. let's move on plug if you're sick of the mainstream news media as constant servings of nothing burgers and freedom fries then you need to drop in you're dumping your draft and head on over to our days were adapted tonight. i have company new show is serving up daily helpings of all natural family farm raised to see servings of true progress and organic comedy salad at low prices well. there's

a surprise there wasn't asperger's of in the. words so so mr camp. unlike the cameras and the white house press briefings as they're always on. what are you tackling on this week's dr tonight well i covered the secrecy in this white house because you remember when they first came in there like they had cameras everywhere there was it was like it looked like some tween was like facebook live in the old office it's like shaky video of trump just signing the walls it really would is why is this happening and now they realized oh it's like our corruption is slowly being shown to reveal already a state or whatever you want to call various things but until now they've banned all the cameras and the press and so it creates bizarre exchanges where you have a press briefing the idea of which is to show the american public what the white house is doing here at the cameras are off and anyway i played a clip from that on the show take a look so basically you know have spies in

a bunch of reporters one hundred lying in a like a linen closet yelling at each other this is actually from a press briefing this week to stand in the front row and take us through where the president still believes this is where there's no. we're pretty sure the cameras are wrong why don't we turn the cameras on when we turn the cameras off i'm sorry that you just want to turn the cameras on sean there in the room but what is wrong . it sounds like they're in the upside down place from stranger things like no well ok you have a good. shot of. for at least some of these really some of these briefings the white house even said reporters couldn't record a video or audio and couldn't report on the fact that they were instructed dr of orange. and right now i'm reporting on the fact that they weren't allowed to report that they weren't allowed to report. oh.

l.s.d. seems tame. i mean i would like to end with an explosion but the point to begin the end of that is that obama was the most secretive administration to date and trust may be trying to top that but you have to you have to look to obama who passed down a dictator's toolkit the unitary executive war powers the you know the secrecy around all these things not answering for your requests these are dictators toolkit and now you pass them off as if the next president's going to be you know what i want to give back all those tools that you created for yourself that's a great point so i got to. hear that the c.c.u. scope of basically given the works of twitter kind of the f.c.c. off right yes ok so the f.c.c. with will probably end up drawing the ire of sites like netflix and twitter because they are joining over forty thousand other sites and organizations and people in

aid net neutrality day of action that's taking place on july twelfth and so all of these sites are agreeing to basically do like an internet blackout sort of similar to the one for the sopa back in two thousand and twelve where all the sites on the front page will have things that say blocked or upgrade or it will be that spinning wheel of death that everybody enjoys. so obviously it's to draw attention to f.c.c. is attempt to get net neutrality and to. prioritize the basically highlight that getting that neutrality gives priority to like big telecoms and corporation. has it been on the trail the story for a while is this all in vain i mean the way it kind of read to me in the stores is like well we're going to take your letters for the next month or so and we're already much moving forward and our voice of what are. especially the guy at the head the head of it is a complete you know shill for the for the telecoms he was a lawyer for the big telecoms and so it seems like they're going to force him

through no matter what i mean that seems to be the plan however as natalie mentions in her package it will look awful for them if they have millions upon millions of comments saying keep net neutrality we need this and then they do it anyway so the least we can do is make them look i have the right idea that actually might so there's a problem real quick it just hit me at the table if twitter and that works voluntarily shut down but i don't really like it but if they are going to protest we're going to shut down well lord knows what it so well over their signature trail they drop it with. that. porn have just been a little slow yeah i don't want to have to tell them where you can do by just certain things that people's lives do you think how quickly you think how they do there is no way i can do that all right and instead they send comments and actually seen one hand. well. we're back to the right which airs every friday on our to america and redacted. which features exclusive interviews and panels every thursday

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these are stories that no one else. might have to hold to the american. west. the story of auburn's vedas perhaps one of the most emblematic of the dark and complex history on the war on terror captured in pakistan in two thousand and two shuttled around the world from one cia black sites to another tortured three years on and now indefinitely detained in guantanamo bay is a perfect case study of just how much we are willing to sacrifice in the name of feeling just a little bit safer we were joined earlier by john kerry aka the officer who led the capture of of ada and joseph hickman the ex military intelligence officer who officer who took custody of him in guantanamo to discuss their book the convenient terrorist and to uncover the true story behind out there's

a beta and his relationship with the u.s. intelligence service where he was sitting with him. you were saying he was kind of you know there you have you need a passport to get that but boy do we know why or how was he regarded with that organization himself did they treat him with the respect i mean where did he kind of fall into that it was. actually i mean he one toy he was he was getting a little tired of this group he was traded or not. he he tried to join up because they refused is his membership i think it says. but do you know they didn't. you had a traumatic few years earlier and it just you would be helpful now later on you did you didn't want to do with. it. ok we're investigating him and we plan the big you know the big takedown of him but the interesting thing about kind of where you . kind of you know how he was described afterwards is to me is that is he

kind of the guy who you know was guilty a little bit but really it's kind of like wrong place wrong time in that era of u.s. war on terror and his story is not unique you know there's a very well told story. that's been reported on everywhere p.b.s. frontline all over the place about about six week people from northwestern china who it sounds crazy but but were in tora bora the day the bombing began because they were looking for a job i mean they had no idea that september eleventh had taken place things were so bad in northwest china that they went to afghanistan to look for work and somebody told them you should go to tora bora it's close to the border they happened to get there the day of the bombing we captured them they had no idea why they were captured it's kind of the same situation with the beta sure he was a bad guy but there were a lot of bad guys and there were certainly a lot of people who had done far worse things than abu zubaida did another thing

too after we captured him in the days following his capture he and i had some long conversations and one thing that he told me that's always stuck in my mind is that he never wanted to attack the united states on nine eleven he wanted to attack israel he said that all he ever wanted to do was to kill jews but that no one wanted to listen to him that the decision had already been made that the attack would be against the united states. well let me let me ask you both will start with you obviously you know the i'm human too. treatment of the baby is probably the of the most important aspect to kind of learn from these events and say let's try now at never to let this happen again. but what other elements about this case do you do you believe has not been focused on enough by let's say the media or activists you know in regards to the beta. but i think i think one big thing and we mentioned

in the book that i write about is. is if he was an al qaeda he was obviously with some sort of group what group was it and i think that of a lot of focus should should go there he definitely had ties and connections with was out to russell safe and his group and he's a warlord in afghanistan and but but we won't i mean i found documents government documents saying that did this did this say if he had the rand account in camp and bury camp and just say to camp which were all this. so if it's obvious that bait is with this group who are day long comes out turns out that these people have really been doing this work for the cia since nine hundred seventy three. and i just find it fascinating you now say it is actually highly member of parliament

now afghanistan he's run for president once but it's it's stuff that they don't want you to know they don't want to know that you know we go there come back and say is it ok the beta may not have been know tida well who was it they don't want to know that he was actually with a group that was heavily funded by the u.s. government in. and the cia that john is that like you know when you walk in the halls of the cia is there just because there's not shared information we're allowed to be like oh we're going after this guy over here but all we're paying this group you know that he's more associated with so many years ago no one thought to bring us up but oftentimes oftentimes that is the case but there's an old saying at the cia too you can't buy an afghan warlord but you can certainly rent one and that's really what we've seen over all these years was was. working for the cia you bet he was and the cia has no problem paying him on the one hand fighting

is people on the other and calling it normal. life at the cia wow i want to i want to know what i know a lot about you never really that that's a good i'm going to act well i definitely want to say would definitely check out this book the convenient terrorist this is a fascinating and in-depth insightful book if you really want to know what's going on behind the seams and behind the headlines former cia officer officer john kiriakou former u.s. marine just a figment thank you both for coming on today and for your service to this country thank you so much thank you. on the topic of the cia's unpublicized tactics and activities sean stoma sat down earlier with award winning journalist paul williams who served as an f.b.i. counter terror consultant for many years as well william shares with us his research in the sites he claims are used as radical islamic training camps within the us as well as the cia's involvement with controversial turkish cleric. williams latest book operation gladio comes out august fifteenth and details the

cia's covert work in the cold war europe paul thank you so much for joining me today i want to start by discussing your own personal career because you went through a sort of revelation as someone who self described as a former neo con who actually started to understand that perhaps the way that the world works. isn't quite what it seemed and some of these so-called jihad ists and terror groups weren't actually really just anime combatants were actually being supplied and protected by our own cia sean they swallow the the red pill but i don't want to. i was writing i was i was on fox news all the time all the time i was writing books that were very successful one called osama's revenge and mix them eleven another one called al-qaeda brotherhood of terror broke on and on and i was a neil come on in favor of the war i thinking that oh man we had to go into iraq believing the whole thing and what happened was i was

a reporter and all reporter in the newspaper and. as a reporter i was not getting my news from the internet i had to go out in the field so the first place where it was a islamic paramilitary camp in new york state called islam berg and now if you go to islam berg it is probably worse than anyone can imagine because they have underground bunkers they're training with fully automatic weapons. when they're finished with the training and most of these recruits young recruits forward they're being trained it is slumber and by the way there are at least thirty five other compounds like this around the country went once or finished with their training they go to pakistan and from pakistan they go into afghanistan and they fight of course you know the u.s. troops so i went there at least five times i was the only one that actually went in there i mean i went in there with. a camera guy by the pat walsh where he's about

four hundred pounds but he was very very very brave the pictures that years so you of as a bird we took we saw the going to grow bunkers we saw the training we even heard the explosions and the explosions that were going on there well. what i found out was a lot of these people from its slumber when they came back believed that they were and they were financed by the cia that's the first year this is the head of the camp a guy by the name of shape chalabi who is from lahore pakistan and has set up all these camps throughout the country came here with a blind shake up more than i see a transport he came here to recruit young blacks young black muslims for the job they set up these training camps and when they were done originally they went to afghanistan to fight the soviets but that's still going on these people are still

being trained in the funding is what i discovered my first this is of how i came to a bit of reality that the cia was funding this operation now during this operation and that explains it why they couldn't persist day after day night after night training these people to become jihadi s. and to fight over there right without taking action against them because because the f.b.i. i know and i worked for the f.b.i. for years did anything about it but so when you broke this story and this number get out and see say thirty five other camps training camps for militants they're going on here. you know when you would approach let's say for the official story from f.b.i. or cia what story would they give you as to why these trapped these camps were allowed to operate without being raided they couldn't they couldn't explain it. there was absolutely no explanation and once again i worked with i had contacts in the f.b.i. i worked for the f.b.i. i was paid by the f.b.i.

for ten years now the second thing i found when i started looking into a guy by the name of for to look good and you were there very much interested in gladio and you know how strategic coolum is to the entire. glad to go to google and has a compound and source pennsylvania less than an hour from where we're sitting but forty minutes from my house while i went up there as well at his compound and silage heard it was very similar to what was going on in islam burke they were training doing paramilitary training the place they were armed to the teeth they were all coming in from there from turkey. the neighbors had complained and nothing was done nothing was ever ever done they talk to the neighbors or complain about the helicopters flying around the property properties for surveillance night and day they complained about the explosions going on in the property the sound of gunfire and of a k forty seven s.

nothing was done so then i discovered now this was really really really you would drop the scales for me i was googling when he applied for his permanent residency in the united states he was thrown out of turkey as you know for trying to overthrow the turkish government but this is going back to one thousand nine hundred eight he was throwing a turkey and just like july me he's transporter this is a guy called the most radical most dangerous muslim in the world transported. from turkey to washington d.c. originally i'm just i'm a ca transport i discovered that i figured this is insane this is insane and the next thing i found i find out is the camp the camp that he had that series berg was once again backed by the cia. well that

is our show for you today remember going in the school told the up and up so it's all you all i love you i am tyrone but i'm top of the wall asleep on watching those hawks and have a safe day i'm tired of it but. what politicians do to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. will somehow want to be. that into going to be close beside them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water using the how. i should.

i do not know if the russian state caught into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact. based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are

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