hundreds are expected including bus loads from the occupy wall street protests that is also when daniel ellsberg the pentagon papers whistleblower is scheduled to speak now we will be talking a lot about the implications of his case today but i want to give you a quick look at the ins and outs of the case what has both been revealed about him and about the u.s. government leading up to his appearance today in the courtroom. it was this video. of u.s. army pilots in iraq eagerly firing shots at innocent people on the ground and hundreds of thousands of secret military documents and cables leaked to wiki leaks there have been some criminal acts committed by u.s. government employees and those employees have never been held accountable for them all this made public over a year and a half ago by bradley manning a twenty two year old army private turned whistleblower for the past eighteen months that bradley manning has been behind bars has become somewhat of a symbol to his supporters he represents the extreme secrecy and lack of transparency within the u.s. government and the documents that make up

the leak but now he's considered an american hero so here's an interview with the man himself daniel ellsbergnow the administration continue to turn a blind eye the public began shining and they went to quantico to protest manning's treatment and keep in mind he still has not been convicted of any crime but it seems the president already has his mind made up on manning skilled. in the big. house move forward april twentieth of this year after facing scrutiny from the public over his treatment of quantico manning was transferred to a new facility in fort leavenworth kansas now while this. but he's also closed off to the public word is that manning is being detained in much better conditions so we wait for a trial to begin let's take a minute to see how weak how bradley manning have changed the world over the last year earlier i caught up with daniel ellsberg former u.s. military analyst who famously leaked the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy want he's also the author of the book secrets a memoir of vietnam and the pentagon papers and i first asked him if you think this has been a g

now and i'm going to speak to daniel ellsberg bradley manning enters a courtroom for the first time in the eighteen months of his detention and why the most damning charges against him could result in a death sentence we're going to ask if this kind of whistle blowing really deserves a medal then we've documented to you that in the last ten years more than four hundred terrorism related cases have been prosecuted in our civilian courts but is the word terrorism being applied.

now and i'm going to speak to daniel ellsberg bradley manning enters the courtroom for the first time in the eighteen months of his detention and why the most damning charges against him could result in a death sentence we're going to ask if this kind of whistle blowing really deserves a medal then we've documented to you that in the last ten years more than four hundred terrorism related cases have been prosecuted in our civilian courts but is the word terrorism being applied way too loosely to speak to an environmental activist who himself was locked up and housed within one of these units and then last night we were forced to watch yet another republican debate former governor of new mexico and a presidential candidate gary johnson is going to join us to give us his perspective on what was said and what was left untouched so you have all that putting a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. well this morning the article thirty two hearing for maryland began for bradley manning and the more than eighteen months of his detention th

what the press is and isn't being allowed to cover from kevin costner ola and catch back up with daniel ellsberg and what it all means for whistleblowers in america the north korea's leader kim jong il has died according to state news agencies and everybody is in a flurry to try and figure out what that means for the future but the problem is nobody really knows robert farley is going to help us hash all out of all that and more food and i couldn't go so happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so there are some big news coming out about how voters in iowa are feeling ahead of the january third primary a new poll from public policy polling and a survey taken from december sixteenth to the eighteenth shows of voters are once again changing their minds and there's a new candidate in the number one spot but it seems like the mainstream media doesn't really want to talk about who that number one is all that much. countdown to iowa only two little half weeks away folks the iowa caucuses right around the corner the latest public policy polling showi

inspiring or be intimidated and shy away from exposing wrongdoing joining me to discuss this is daniel ellsberg former us military analyst who famously leaked the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one he's also author of the book secrets a memoir of vietnam and the pentagon papers daniel we're so happy to have you again on the show tonight and you and i have spoken about the case of bradley manning but i want to know specifically what you think of the way that this pretrial hearing is going on finally after more than eighteen months are you seeing a day in court but all the details that i just mentioned in terms of how closed off it is to the press what do you make of that. well of course it is good at last that he's having the chance to have a lawyer call witnesses and. question the prosecution's witnesses and there's less to represent him in court after these almost two years now that he's he's been suffering what amounts to pretrial punishment i was thinking about sort of like the red queen in alice in wonderland punishment first this case sentence later trial after all if ever act

mentioned top secret nothing bradley manning allegedly released was classified top secret now daniel ellsberg good point during the time of the pentagon papers everything he released was top secret and yet what ok let's analyze the analyze it's lesser ways she has me less or less or that's lesser classification secret like it's not his fault i'm actually hundreds of thousands it's not his call to have access to the same thing if you're a twenty one year old it's not his call to make he evidence of your government committing war crimes we told them at nuremberg we told the germans that they had a duty to not obey illegal orders was over that point what he tried is done with all the national humanity as a us not bradley manning is called a may ok the us constitution by binds us to international treaties and us law so if he is guilty of what he is accused of he was trying to uphold the constitution ok seaton you want you have an answer go ahead yes who authorized the private in the army to release this information how do you think the president of yemen feels when bradley manning outed the fact

user named julian a songe so let's get more of those details here to discuss this with me is daniel ellsberg former u.s. military analyst who famously leaked the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one and kevin does still a civil liberties blogger for firedoglake gentlemen thank you both for joining us tonight and kevin i want to start with you because i know that you've been covering this pretrial hearing from the moment that it began and specifically about this news today that they think they found a chat between manning and another user named julian assigned to us more details but i would say this is the closest that we have gotten to seeing the prosecution actually prove there is some sort of link between julian of songe and bradley manning and i would say that. it is very evident now that manning was actively seeking out information about wiki leaks and the prosecution has raised numerous times that he was interested in iceland which was a base of operations so in that sense i mean can we say this is kind of damning news for bradley manning or perhaps even for julian assan she

what the press is and isn't being allowed to cover from kevin costner ola and catch back up with daniel ellsberg and.