are posting their business online so just a little earlier i spoke to investigative journalist wayne madsen and i asked him shouldn't people expect that others including the government will read what they post. well absolutely we have to look at where the seed money came from the social networks we do know that the central intelligence agency through in-q tel its venture capital firm provided a lot of seed money for many of these companies that develop these social networking operations and programs so people have to be aware that when they put personal information online they're basically doing the cia job for them it's one of they just pack up all their personal information and send it to langley virginia . let's talk about something that happened recently because we are still very new in terms of the result in the consequences of social media twitter facebook etc but as i have been very recently the district attorney's office in boston a couple weeks ago subpoenaed twitter they asked for user information and ip addresses for people involved with occupy boston we're showing right now on t

well joining me now to talk about this investigative journalist wayne madsen who returned from libya not too long ago welcome wayne so first want to ask you your reaction to prime minister vladimir putin statement that the u.s. was directly involved in gadhafi that well i think the prime minister putin is correct because of course as prime minister he has access to his own intelligence that was gathered from every place from russian diplomats to intelligence operatives and and other sources i myself received a call the morning that. khadafi was captured along with his son and other members of his entourage. they left sirte after sun up now the charge was they were trying to escape if they were trying to escape sirte they would have left while it was still dark under cover of darkness with the headlights off and instead they waited for sun up at that point when the sun came up about eight o'clock in the morning at full full sunrise over sirte all these white flags started to appear in white flags of truce white flags of surrender it was quite clear that something had been worked out in

interesting discussion and one that needs to be had more i would argue investigative journalist wayne madsen in tampa florida hi so we're talking a little bit about twitter and you know here at r.t. a bunch of us are pretty active tweeters but i've got to say and out of the our own queen of twitter is our senior producer lucy cavanagh of lucy is spent weeks at the occupy wall street protests both in new york and in oakland and us yesterday she got back from russia where she was covering the protests there she was back and here in studio with me a little earlier so i asked her about this notion that you're starting to see out there quite a bit that the occupy wall street movement and the movement in moscow are very similar here's what was he said about that. you know i really don't think it is and i'm almost surprised at the fact that i'm saying that myself because before i departed on this trip to moscow you know sort of read all the new york times articles in the mainstream media articles the time magazine naming the protester as the person of the year lumping in moscow with that and so i g