has been found to be blatantly wrong so we're going to tell you what it is when we speak with glenn greenwald and aaron swartz has been arrested for downloading millions of documents from jay store on mit's network and could face up to thirty five years in prison we're going to speak about the debate over open access but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. a g.o.p. presidential candidate michele bachmann is served to the number two spot in a new poll right behind mitt romney and just like all the presidential campaigns this one's getting dirty anonymous former bachmann staffer told the daily caller that michele bachmann suffers from migraines and what do you know the mainstream media has just gone absolutely crazy over it. is surging in the polls but consider your migraines affect michele bachmann's ability to lead a sort of bachmann campaign this is a first big challenges and it's evidence of what happens when you jump up into the top range of these all these polls this story gain some traction after anonymous bachmann aides detailed years of my agrees t

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inaccurate plats about our war it's tiring to dive into that topic for the special guest salon dot com glenn greenwald . really believe there's something. wrong with. the future however. we now have more proof of the government making moves to try and stop the hacktivist group anonymous right here in the u.s. i reported to you earlier this year that hackers were arrested in spain on suspicion of having ties to the organization but they were all released because the authorities could not find substantial evidence to tie them to the crimes but it does seem as if teenagers are somehow becoming the persons of interest in these incidents they were they were a short while back when ryan cleary was arrested on suspicion of being linked to the hacktivists and that's something the both like an anonymous have vehemently denied on twitter but yesterday the u.s. justice department and the f.b.i. arrested four teen people who they believe to be members of anonymous and are tied to the cyber attack of pay pal's web site now the f.b.i. went to six different locations yesterday in long island and bronx brooklyn to fi

. >> joining me now is glenn greenwald. glenn, thanks so much for being here. >> great to be with you, chris. >> so the fact the senate wasn't even able to vote on authorizing the war in libya, i wonder what you think it says about how dysfunctional the politics have become and our framework for waging war. >> well, it's really quite extraordinary because the constitution says congress has to declare wars for them to be fought. the president has the right only under certain circumstances, so what we clearly have is a war being waged by the obama administration that is plainly unconstitutional and plainly illegal, and so for harry reid to stand up and say we were going to have a vote in recognition of the legality, but we just can't get the vote so we're going to cancel the vote. you know, barack obama said when he was running for president, no more ignoring the law when it's inconvenient, that's not who we are, yet this is a perfect example of doing exactly that. >> i want to get back to a quote from then-candidate obama in

classified information and today we have one more glaring example pointed out by salon dot com glenn greenwald and it was big news in the new york times reported that pakistan's intelligence agency the i.s.i. had ordered the killing of pakistani journalists. whose body was found weeks ago but how the new york times actually know this just because several senior administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity of course told them so and in that same piece the new york times and knowledge of the disclosure of the information in itself could further aggravate the badly fractured relationship between pakistan and the u.s. it is far as we know it's no investigation has been launched no grand jury has been convened in virginia no one is sitting in solitary confinement for passing on this classified information so how do we apply this to the obama administration's war on whistleblowers do they only go after you if it's the secrets that make them look bad or discuss this with me is christopher chambers lecturer at georgetown university and author of the blog not turner's revenge chris t