the issue there i think sure it's valid you know what i'm ok john why had president of the rutherford institute thank you for joining me this evening for the past few days brazil's biggest city south pollo has been in traffic chaos a subway workers went on strike demanding a hike in salaries just before the world cup kicks off thursday in a four pm match between brazil and croatia a team usa hits the field monday june sixteenth and a very tough group g. match against ghana followed by favorites to win portugal on the twenty second and then germany on the twenty six that when it comes to supporters getting to those matches where union leaders have temporarily halted the transit strike but warned it could resume on the opening day of the soccer showcase as thousands of fans stream into the city graham phillips is in rio de janeiro for r.t. . so there are real with the city's economy copacabana beach so it decides it wants to be the main things in here but you don't because construction with just two days until the world cup begins to sit down hosting the world cup should be a celebration for any

whitehead president of the rutherford institute thank you very much sir. thank you the number of men on the roster at the guantanamo bay detention center in cuba has just dropped to one hundred forty nine after the u.s. exchange five taliban officials affiliated presents for the safe return of sergeant bowe bergdahl now critics are weighing in on his worthiness to be rescued and the wisdom behind the swap the twenty eight year old idaho native was the lone u.s. military present of war in afghanistan when he was rescued in a secret operation conducted by several dozen u.s. commandos over the weekend originally he was captured june thirtieth two thousand and nine after mysteriously disappearing after a guard shift at a u.s. base in afghanistan the president didn't and here is the usual thirty day congressional notification required due to what national security advisor susan rice called the year two urgency of bergdahl. declining health the night before bergdahl is released five afghan men all held indefinitely since two thousand and two at get were released

in a legal vacuum we're here to talk more about this is john whitehead the president of the rutherford institute he's also the author of a government of wolves the emerging american police state which raises concerns about the impact on americans constitutional rights in an era of expansive police powers and government surveillance sir thank you very much for joining me now in the article according to a two thousand and ten document the n.s.a. says it's taking a full arsenal approach that digitally exploits the clues the target leaves behind in the regular activities on the net to compile biographic and biometric information that can help implement precision targeting here's what most people want to know what qualifies as a target and how do average americans know they're not getting caught up in it is that i've been working this for years working with little agencies everybody's a target if you appear to be extremist you say the thing. you're going to be watching but if you lose facial recognition software they're going to be able. to create three d. images of human bodies almost all graphic im