up next and it discusses the need formula of the obama administration to avoid using dawn time in the bay prison camp looks at other news ignored by the mainstream means you . welcome to the ilona show where you'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey are going to live in washington d.c. now tonight we'll talk about the somali man that's being brought to new york to be tried on terrorism charges and you'll never guess where he was held for two months while being interrogated well if you get another obama broken promises the white house makes plans to keep up to ten thousand troops in iraq after the withdrawal deadline at the end of this year and we'll see what it would cost us to adequately invest in green technology but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know i thought that yesterday was ridiculous when the so-called knew it was going every over every single little detail of every single juror that was deliberating on casey anthony's case what happened after that verdict was read that's a really takes the cake i mean what do you do when a v

so if you're the obama administration and you still want to capture people abroad interrogate them but you can't take them to guantanamo bay seeing it has your first order of business when you became president it was decided to have order to close it but what do you do apparently to scatter people and hold them interrogate them on navy vessels in international waters that's we've now learned after the obama administration announced yesterday they'll be prosecuting a somali man accused of having ties to al shabaab and al qaeda in civilian court in new york that a bill could hear what are some eight was captured on april nineteenth he was held on a navy vessel for two months where he was interrogated heavily without being right in iran to warning and reportedly those sessions were very very productive then after a short break from interrogation a separate group of law enforcement terry gaiters came in and then delivered a miranda warning after which are some he continued to cooperate and give more statements so this raises a lot of new questions about the administration's take on civilia

one of their colleagues or former colleagues get prosecuted how is this happened under this administration obama pledged that he was going to have the most open and transparent administration why has it gotten worth during his tenure that's a big surprise it is they really a breaking of a promise that obama made on the campaign trail in two thousand and eight in which he supported legislation that was pending at the time that i actually would have given court access and jury trials for even intelligence employees employees that work for the n.s.a. or the cia to bring their cases of whistleblower retaliation into court and to seek damages before a jury the exact opposite has occurred while. it's the speculation is if you read jay neiers piece. for example in other articles that have been in the newspaper you look at the the obama administration's obsession with classified leaks the irony here is that this leak a so-called leak case against drake didn't even charge mr drake with leaking classified information they actually took a legal theory and used the espionage act and accused him basically of

and you mentioned that you have called for investigations in the past have you called on the obama administration to investigate george w. bush and senior administration officials in the past well i guess what's different about this report is reste the civically named for individuals for which there was overwhelming amount of evidence regarding their roles in the use of torture so it had more evidences come out since our last report and we added that to our previous reporting as well as including the public admissions on the part of of bush in his memoirs as well as runs rumsfeld and do seriously think that the obama administration will launch a criminal investigation with this latest report and with these calls. well we hope they do but obviously there has been resistance to it and probably will be resistance to it but you know human rights watch reports on abuses world ride wherever there are abuses we call on the governments to investigate and there's no reason why we wouldn't do the same here in the u.s. if the united states has not and vesta gated in the past though and you hope that they wi

obama and his administration did an awful lot of fumbling. sometimes making matters worse. i'll remind you of the henry d. lewis gates, president obama had introduced a bill to banish racial profiling from the state of illinois. he could used that occasion to talk about the need to do such a thing. but he didn't. he quickly devolved the situation into one that could be solved over a beer. of course, it can't be solved over the beer. but got worse. one the heros of the self right movements, andrew brightbach doctored a tape that he was speaking at a naacp because he comments in a manner to distort what she really said and what she meant. before she could explain, the obama administration had fired her. one of our heros. once again, fumbling on the issue of race. a third instance still occurred. that was van jones. i hope you know the case of van jones. he was appointed as a environmental czar. he was tasked with the issue of fighting for environmental justice. however, because glenn beck went after van jones, the president fired him. why did glenn beck go after van jones? he

he's being charged in a federal court when the center for constitutional rights asked the obama administration what legal justification they had to hold him in that manner the administration didn't have an answer for it so what we're seeing is president obama who himself is a constitutional law expert seeming to raise serious constitutional challenges with his own policies as commander in chief and as president that totally and very interesting journey i guess i got to ask you this though a lot of these that much more targeted missions they seem to be thought of the new era of this so-called war on terror and many see the osama bin laden targeted killing as a successful one as something that you know they want to see more of so i want to get your response to those who say this is exactly what the u.s. government should be doing you know gathering intelligence carrying out missions aimed at terrorists no matter where in the world they are. well i mean the bin laden hit is is going to be the stuff of lore and hollywood films and there's going to be the can't kill bin laden movie and disney trade

special special rapporteur on torture was trying to get permission from the obama administration to see bradley manning while he was being held on a go. you know they wanted to evaluate the conditions that we he was being held at make sure that didn't amount to torture make sure that his human rights were being violated by the country which claims to put human rights above all but guess what even now months later with bradley manning at fort leavenworth in kansas where his conditions are reportedly much much better the obama administration it still will not let one mendez the u.n. official see him in his conditions of a groove so drastically if you're so sure mr president that even when he was being held back at quantico that he was being treated within the pentagon's regulations then what does appear trying to hide you know even the bush administration allow detainees at guantanamo bay to be visited and they definitely do not have a good track record so you're going to let bush make you look bad now well today one mendez a special investigator on torture for the u.n. released a stateme

do at a lower standard just about anybody else that's where we are right now and that's the obama administration don't think it's because it's the left that somehow it's better in fact it's a lot of the same but in some cases even more than anything we have ever seen from the bush team and i think a lot of people are starting to realize that as more information comes out about the obama administration's actions as more time goes by as well now i'm just curious because yesterday the white house unveiled their new counterterrorism strategy and john brennan actually said that for the first time u.s. officials are now able to envision the demise of al qaeda do you think that's really possible are they getting cocky there. or is there getting cocky they have no idea we know it's the worst or here is what we're seeing is this expansion in various ways it's easy to start even if we find that mr gates himself again my former boss when i was at cia who has come out saying if any department defense secretary ever said we're going to go back in danger go back into the middle east he needs to have his head

do that we how many times as israel i'm sorry but you know dumb things in the face of the obama administration especially when it comes to building the settlements but never once has aid to israel been questioned especially by the administration itself so why in pakistan why i would say between the two israel's a much better friend and ally than pakistan's ever been i mean they're pakistanis are the best friends money can rent and if they were rated on even the standards you put on a car rental agency we would have dropped them for another one in a long time ago so they're not really anybody we can count on but they're the only one we've got you know you dance with the one that brung you and they're the only ones we've got who can do anything in the northwest regions where the taliban hangs out. one of the things that that was said by at least the pakistani military because of course they said we heard from the defense minister but he's not really he's not really the one with any of the power he doesn't run it so what we hear from the army are those are the statements usually the matter they s

the obama administration officials are now so eager to talk about how dangerous somalia and al-shabaab have become and how they pose a serious threat to our national security you know the government is feeding this story for a reason and the l a times has been more than happy to eat it up no questions asked it's an incredible testament to the very subservient nature of the press these days this is why our war on terror expand throughout the world an unstoppable pace and americans continue to sit scared and let it happen because it's in the government's interest to do so to continue to spread that fear and the mainstream media rather than asking any questions is happy to let it happen and miss the real story. well hacking scandal surrounding group or murdoch's media empire continues to grow each day last friday it was hinted publisher of the wall street journal and a c.e.o. of dow jones resigned over the weekend former news of the world of the rebecca brooks was arrested scotland yard chief paul stephenson stepped down on sunday night and by today john gates the assistant commissioner w

the gentleman from alabama blamed the obama administration. i feel like humphrey bogart, when it comes to fannie mae and freddie mac, republicans cannot proceed without obama. why have we not seen that? because of obama will not let them do it. a recent entertainment and elegy was wilson, in which the republicans of the house are geraldine annika obama is the devil. the chairman said that he was asked by the obama administration to wait. i have checked with the administration. he misunderstood them. no one in the obama toinistration has passeasked hm wait. i have a role that i try to fall myself. no matter how tight the quarter you are in, avoid saying something no one will believe. the notion that they are not acting on fannie and freddie -- esther garrett said it was not a simple problem. the republicans in the house have a bill opposed by everybody who is dealing with the housing market. that collection of radicals, all disagree with the plan, all think you have to have a more comprehensive approach. the republicans have this problem, their

prisoners are held have been rendered from kenya is that one story that sheds light on the obama administration for continuing all of those actions and they criticize the bush administration for what we interviewed jeremy on this program last week but for some reason one of the big networks and i literally read it not a single one of them decided to give the story any play up and suddenly suddenly today the l a times came out with some groundbreaking information that new american intelligence raises concerns about a widening alliance of islamic terrorist groups plotting to target the u.s. and you know where their alliances yemen and somalia and you know how they found out some of that information according to the l a times it was learned when some ali author allowed the cia to interview shabaab militants imprisoned in mogadishu now this is all according to anonymous u.s. officials of course but it's not odd that first the story is completely ignored and now the l a times is reporting on it from anonymous u.s. officials and they don't bother to ask why somalia out there already is would be so ki

think a lot of people are starting to realize that as more information comes out about the obama administration's actions as more time goes by as well now i'm just curious because yesterday the white house unveiled their new counterterrorism strategy and john brennan actually said that for the first time u.s. officials are now able to envision the demise of al qaeda do you think that's really possible are they getting cocky there. they're getting cocky they have no idea we've got the worst are here is what we're seeing is this expansion in various ways it's easy to start even if we find that mr gates himself again my former boss when i was at cia was come out saying if any department defense secretary ever said we're going to go back into age or go back into the middle east you need to get his head examined i believe that's the quote but the problem is it's easy to get it it's very very very difficult to get out and sometimes it's very hard to summarize just how will you are doing yes we are killing people here and there but you can have the problem that we have is we never know if we're actually

some interesting back and forth on medical marijuana and on the drug war in general from the obama administration and now sadly the net the latest casualty of the drug war may be none other than willie nelson himself facing drug charges in texas originally caught with six ounces of marijuana somehow taken down to three ounces so would it be the distribution or higher level felony charge he had a plea deal set up so that he could plead guilty and pay a fine as long as he stopped by the courthouse to pay a fine because apparently the prosecutor is a fan turns out the judge is a fan too and is refusing this plea by mail kind of deal that he had set up so that maybe the judge can talk to him in person but as sad as it may be that willie nelson may be going to jail for marijuana charges what we're seeing nationally regarding medical marijuana dispensaries from the obama administration is much more worrisome now back in two thousand and nine there was the ogden memo that came out of the justice department saying we are going to deep prioritize going after medical marijuana dispensaries operating within

the obama administration maintains it must be raised by august 2nd or the u.s. will begin to default on its debt. republicans want deep spending cuts to go along with any debt ceiling increase. there is talk that lawmakers may cut a short-term deal that would include spending cuts and push back the looming deadline by six to eight months. >>> a look at the morning's other top stories, violence ate fourth of july celebration in baltimore. a 4-year-old boy was shot in the leg as he was leaving the inner harbor with his parents around 10like 10 -- around 10:00 last night. it is not clear in the shoot -- if the shooter aimed at the boy. he was taken to johns hopkins children's center and was reported in stable condition. >>> prince george's county council members will meet behind closed doors to talk about what it do with their colleague leslie johnson. she pleaded guilty last week in the corruption scandal that brought down jack johnson. so far, she says she won't resign her seat on the council. she set to be sentenced in october. four fellow council members and th

the obama administration recognizes the partisan vote on cut, cap and balance for what it is, nothing but a one-day stunt that has no chance of becoming law. so the obama administration are still talking positively about the possibility of raising the debt ceiling. this morning president obama said he and republican leaders were, quote, making progress in the negotiations. and treasury secretariary ty at geithner said this on cnbc this morning. >> you've seen the leadership of the republican party in the senate and house take default off the table as lench for a deal. that's encouraging. >> geithner remains adamant that revenues be part of any deficit reduction deal. >> it's also going to require through tax reform some modest changes in revenues so we're not sustaining tax breaks for the most fortunate 2% of americans, tax breaks we can't afford. we need to have a balanced package. everybody recognizes a need for a balanced package. there's no deficit reduction deal that didn't have a balanced package with some revenues as part of the deal. >> late last week the white house released

republican senator kay bailey hutchison said we're about to find out how serious the obama administration is about reducing spending. listen to what she said. >> you do the thingshat are essential. this is where the administration is going to be tested. if they start doing the chicken little thing by not paying social security recipients or people in our military or interest on our debt and instead choose to cut the things that will hurt the most but not the things that they could cut responsibly, that's going to be the test that they're not serious. >> ken, she's talking about a test. is this a logical test? if you strongly believe that spending needs to be cut or taxes need to be raised or somehow the budget needs to be dealt with, is this the way to keep the administration's feet to the fire? >> i think this is nuts.

the obama administration -- activism. the obama administration is encouraging this judicial activism. the obama administration is taking legal positions that threaten the role of congress as a coequal branch of our government. those positions challenge the separation of powers that is designed to protect the freedom of americans and even the right of people to govern themselves, which is the basis of representative government and the purpose of the congress. the united states happens to be a party to the vienna convention on consolate relations. this treaty gives rights to the citizens of countries who are parties to that treaty to have access to their country's consular officials if they are arrested abroad. there are some foreign nations in this country who are sentenced to death without those rights being respected. all of these death sentences appear to be valid under the american constitution. now the story is complicated, but in 2008 the supreme court ruled that failure to comply with the treaty was not an obstacle

it for what it is, nothing but a one-day stunt that has no chance of becoming law, so the obama administration are still talking positively about the possibility of raising the debt ceiling. this morning, president obama said he, and republicans leaders were "making progress in the negotiations." and treasury secretary tim geithner said this on cnbc this morning. >> you've seen the leadership of the republican party in the senate and the house definitively take default off the table as leverage for a deal, and that's encouraging. geithner remains adamant that revenues be part of any deficit reduction deal. >> it's also going to require, through tax reform, some modest changes in revenues so that we're not sustaining tax breaks for the most fortunate 2% of americans, tax breaks we can't afford. we need to have a balanced package. everybody who's looked at this knows we need to have a balanced package. no deal in history that needed to have a balanced package. >> late last week the white house released a video of president obama that it hopes will help explain to supporters why he has been open

you extensive coverage of the illegality of this war but not explainable explanation by the obama administration or why this president and all those unilaterally and without asking congress but we knew the american people also didn't get a say and rapper marcel card he has decided to make music about that. dresden it's all. the scope. of human rights. it's. something. the only thing. i also take a look at how this war explains america's greater foreign policy agenda. you know you'll be promising. the same. thing the word again. was present and it will sweep. the needle. the problem. even if you force the whole the bed to the response instead. it's a topic that we've touched upon it many times on this show a power of music to become a political tool so why is he the only one doing it joining me from our studio in new york is rock artist marcel card here his album hands off libya is due to be released this august marcelle thanks so much for joining us tonight so your album is coming out in august so far we gave the audience a taste of two songs on there why are you making an entire album about lib

well let me say this in in the obama administration since we've had him in office remember that we're in a post racial society and i don't think that race does anything to do with this story i really think oh come on the post racial society just because we have a black president doesn't mean that all of a sudden black people who often dominate the unemployment numbers all of a sudden got jobs you know i mean things have not totally same facial society are his words not mine but the fact of the matter is that whatever story i mean o.j. was black and his story he was all the way n.f.l. superstar. my belief my true feelings are that whatever story at the time hit and stuck it would have been that story whether it was a young black single mother or a young white single mother as long as it had the the pieces of the puzzle that the american public wanted to watch then that's what would have been on t.v. or whatever some of those pieces of the puzzle that. you have a young child you have a young mother you have parents involved you've got lying to the police you have a body that was missing

. >>> medical marijuana growers say they are feeling the heat from the obama administration. the new threat facing the industry. >>> and another person throws his hat into the presidential rink. the message this candidate is bringing to the campaign trail. >>> and the steps investigators are going to take to identify the final victim of the fatal amtrak crash in nevada. the 10:00 news continues in 90 seconds. >>> is the obama administration about to crackdown on california medical marijuana clubs? as ktvu's john sasaki reports a new memo from the domedome has licensed cannabis dealers concerned. >> reporter: this plant is targeted by some new federal weed killer. >> indicia is good for people with pain who want to sleep. >> reporter: the justice department issued a memo that says people that are in the business of districting marijuana and those who knowingly timeiate such activities are in violation of the controlled substances act regardless of state law. >> we could always be busted at any time. >> reporter: richard lee is president of oaksterdam university. >> the science

secretary of labor paid a visit today, she found herself degending against critics saying the obama administration has not done enough to create more jobs. >> labor in the house? >> at the oakland marriott u.s. secretary of labor is here before the asian pacific labor alliance to tout president obama's record on job creation in a city with an unemployment rate over 50 poors in 16 months 2.2 million private sector jobs have been created in the private sector. >> everything he's tried is a job killer. >> alameda county republican party chair says the obama administration has delivered far fewer jobs than promised under this stimulus. >> first of all the stimulus did not work. we are over 9% unemployment still, and we know there are people unemployed. they're no longer bothering to take a look. >> after the speech a thousand union members marched from downtown to city hall. saying fewer tax breaks for corporations would help create more well-paying jobs for the middle class. and in emeryville she toured corporate headquarters of jam ba juice. the company created 2500 summer jobs for young people thro

what you also have to do as the bush administration and the obama administration has not, is the true regulatory reform. especially on manufacturers. when we saw the bush administration raise the cap a standards for the democratic congress, i opposed those because it would make it harder to manufacturer. you then saw unfortunately a building upon that of the obama administration with the cap and that are now being attempted to be implemented through the e.p.a. can you not have big government coming down, trying to impose these regulations on people and expect the economy to grow. so those are things right off the bat that you have to have punt mendally. you also have to get beyond what we're seeing now and allow for all the above energy strategy in the united states. we're watching inflation rise at a time -- energy is something that goes into the cost of of everything product you have. we have seen where they talk about grocery bills going up 5%. it was a spike they hadn't seen before that high. energy goes into every single thing you purchase. every single thing you produce. especia

you extensive coverage of the illegality of this war but not explainable explanation by the obama administration or why this president involved has unilaterally and without asking congress but we knew the american people also didn't get a say and rapper marcel card he has decided to make music about that. because it's a. human rights. thing. the only thing. i also take a look at how this war explains america's greater foreign policy agenda. you'll be similar to the same point. when. she was president it. really gave them the needle. the problem. even though the first call the police storm since did. it's a topic that we've touched upon it many times on this show the power of music to become a political tool so why does he only one do it joining me from our studio in new york is rap artist marcel carvey his album hands off libya is due to be released this august marcelle thanks so much for joining us tonight so your album is coming out in august so carby gave the audience a taste of two songs on there are you making an entire album about libya. well toward the end of his life martin luther king s

pushed this issue for a comprehensive peace agreement between the north and south and then the obama administration, you heard president obama at the united nations in september really calling to push this along for north and south to have this referendum and to move towards what they would want for their people. and in the case with south sudan. and the last several months, the united states has been very active in terms of helping for this day, helping south sudanese get ready for independence. they still have a long way to go, but i think susan rice, who has been working on this sudan issue for decades and colin powell who was in the bush administration just showed that this is very important to the united states. >> and will that u.s. embassy be a prelude to the u.s. sending an ambassador soon or have they already done so? >> well, they haven't done so yet, but i think the intention definitely is to a point an ambassador now that there is a full embassy. we haven't heard anybody nominated yet. we understand that's forth coming. also today there was a flag raising in washington of the south suda

policies carried out by the obama administration just how many resources the us putting back and does this mean that our counterterrorism policies really are wreaking worldwide more since earlier i caught up with jeremy scahill national security reporter for the nation magazine and author of the book of blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army and i first asked him if he had any idea when he went to mogadishu and this is what he would find why i went there as part of an investigation i'm doing into u.s. targeted killing operations and my original intent in going there was to look at the way that the joint special operations command was engaged in targeted killing operations inside of somalia within a couple of days of arriving in mogadishu i received information that indicated that the cia had just set up a secret counterterrorism training base at the airport and then i met a man who told me that he had been in a basement dungeon prison in a facility where there were also cia operatives and that's how we started our investigation so yes we were looking into the

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the announcement was made in delhi and she went on to found at the obama administration will not ease pressure on neighboring pakistan. -- she went on to vow that the obama administration will not ease pressure on neighboring pakistan. >> this used to be rare. now they are routine. both countries are determined to strengthen their strategic global partnership, defense and regional security or on the agenda. the agreed to work closer together in afghanistan as the u.s. agreed to pull out its troops. hillary clinton praised the recent resumption of talks between india and pakistan. >> we think this is the most promising approach to encourage both sides to build more confidence between them and work to implement the kinds of steps that will demonstrate the improved atmosphere that is so necessary for us to deal with the underlying problem of terrorism. >> she also said that terrorism was on everyone's minds following last week's bombing of mumbai which killed 20 people. the attack revealed once again the vulnerability of the indian cities and the police who are investigating. the securit

the court sided with the obama administration in this case, which argued embryos were culled long ago, using private funding. researchers hope that embryonic stem cell research stem cell research can one day cure spinal cord injuries, parkinson's disease and other human ailments. >>> a small group of people in east san jose are fed up with the i way a local banking branch is maintaining foreclosed homes. about 20 members of the community organization took three small trash bags into the branch. the garbage came perfect a property own bid wells fargo, serviced by bank of america. san jose code enforcement say they're going to fine owner who's don't properly maintain properties. bank of america tells abc 7 news it will pay fines and clean up property within 48 hours. >>> a sacramento woman faces charges tonight for excessively dialing 911. chp arrested the 44-year-old jennifer today for making nondrg emergency calls to chp command center in sacramento. police say in june she called 911 a total of, ready for this? 2147 times, all nonemergency calls. on the 4th of july she accused of call

proposal, quote good news and say it may help move negotiations on the deficit and elsewhere, the obama administrationise to reevaluate rules by 2025. the administration has a 56 mile per gallon target up from current 27 miles per gallon. but auto makers are saying necessary technology isn't yet in place, and this would take place midway through a program slated in 2017. >> and ask any die hard shopperer, finding a good deal could be a religious experience. a couple claims an image of jesus's face showed up on their walmart receipt. workers say the ink is activated by heat. >> i was looking on the floor. you can see the receipt, he was looking at me. the only way you can get it right is to put heat on it. if it was on the floor and heat hit it? how could it be a face? >> the two swear they did not tamper with the receipt. >> and they're looking into getting it tested to prove it's auj thent yike very interesting. and there is jobs, jobs, jobs. there is one thing threatening the hiring spree. >> dreaming of an international vacation? there is a way to get there for just $100. details on that and your c

in fact there has been a crack down on illegal workers under the obama administration. with more employer audits in nine months than during the entire previous year, and more recently than in the final years of the bush administration. >> we call a silent raid. >> oakland city councilman represents pacific steel union workers. workers may face being fired or possibly deported. >> the fact of the matter is that these people are employees and work and pay taxes. they support their families. >> and the berkeley city council recently passed a resolution deannouncing the audit here. today, many locals and their staff as agreed to send letters of opposition to the obama administration after that meeting this afternoon in oakland. but the reality is that the company said many workers, hundreds of workers are fired from the company this would have an impact on the berkeley economy. live this afternoon in berkeley abc 7 news. >> and these audits seem to be one of the leading strategies for the obama administration. you mentioned how unhappy folks are. is this having an impact on

must go down and there's no place for him in the future and that's the view shared by the obama administration as well and it was we could see from the statements made by hillary clinton but russia criticizes the scope of the foreign intervention in libya also says the actions of the allied forces is a violation of the u.n. mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want foreign minister lavrov was asked about why russia is blocking a u.n. initiative to condemn the syrian president assad foreign minister lavrov said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely this free syrian president and the syrian government and president assad in moscow sees it as the wrong attitude he said it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent the situation it's getting critical of the west will sort of come to help our. the way it is happening in libya minister lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition should resort to violence agitating peac

no word if the obama administration has a backup plan if congress can't come it a compromise in time. >>> the estimate -- to a compromise in time. >>> the estimated 33 million americans hitting the road for the 4th of july holiday will be paying 83 cents a gallon more for gasoline than they did last year. don't look for relief any time soon. as fox's mike emanuel reports, the price of oil is going up. >> american drivers will pay on average $3.55 per gallon at pump this holiday weekend and those high fuel costs are a drag on their wallet and on the struggling economy. when president obama took office in 2009, the price was $1.84 per gallon and it more than doubled by this may before dropping as the global economy slowed and demand reduced. the high price of crude and concerns over supply led the president to announce he's putting more than 30 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve on the market. a week later oil prices are creeping back up. >> the tapping of the spr is a short term solution to our energy problem. it's really a knee jerk reaction to the unnecessary morato