and of a now into the case of the late internet activist aaron swartz just yesterday attorney for the defense alleged prosecutorial misconduct the defense believes federal prosecutor steven heyman withheld key evidence from them also ideas sure whether or not the government obtained wore a swartz's computer and thumb drive properly so what does this mean for the case moving forward chief political correspondent for c n n declan mccullagh joins me now hi there declan so aaron swartz as a lawyer is accusing the prosecutor of misconduct what kind of wrongdoing is he accused of exactly. it's basically withholding evidence and prosecutors have a lot of responsibilities one of them is to turnover was a close call for torrie evidence that shows the defendant. actually didn't commit the crime here she's charged with or evidence of prosecutorial misconduct and this is what aaron swartz is lawyers are asking they're asking the department of justice to investigate and the u.s. attorney's office in boston that coordinated the prosecution saying that this evidence this shows the prosecutors may no

could have been making six figures doing the same thing i want to turn the conversation now to aaron swartz as you mentioned john there is a link there and swartz faced decades in prison he allegedly broke into the mit computer to make academic journals public and after after he took his own life many say prosecutors went way too far and pursuing have now mit is making documents public what does this mean for the case. first they're not making everything entirely public in the rejecting certain names and there is a bit of a fight going on the judge in the case actually has discretion whether or not to release this so it's not completely transparent process so far so is it fair we don't know that's up to the judge right now. i think just thirty seconds left what do you think this means for the case john. i think it more than consequences for the. quinces for mit in a from a p.r. standpoint i think they're doing this to distance themselves from what has been you know a tragic and very public spectacle they have repeatedly tried to sort of disown what happened and i think there's there they ma

attorneys for the late internet freedom activist aaron swartz have filed a justice department ethics complaint over his prosecution. he took its own life in january, weeks before he was set to go on trial for downloading millions of articles provided by the nonprofit research service jstor. he was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh. in a letter to the justice department, his attorney accuses federal prosecutors of misconduct saying they sat on exculpatory evidence. in email with help from the attorneys of aaron swartz appears to review prosecutors' claims they did not have time to obtain a warrant to search his laptop. the letters released comes one week after the attorney general eric holder publicly to the prosecutor's conduct saying their case against aaron swartz was a good use of prosecutorial discretion. unrest broke out in a brooklyn area of new york wednesday night at a protest over the police shooting of 16-year-old kimani gray who was shot dead by two plainclothes officers who claimed he had a gun, but one witness has said he was not ar

regarding that bloomberg headline i mentioned else affair and this is the company of course for which aaron swartz died because he was downloading this taste or documents and read else if there is one of these companies that hold all this intellectual property from various public entities whether schools. or court systems so a federal judge in new york dismissed a copyright infringement case two attorneys brought against newton massachusetts based reed elsevier and west publishing corporation edward l. white of oklahoma city of new york sued in february two thousand and twelve claiming that the publication of their court filings in west litigator and also his lexis nexis legal database infringe their copyrights they jacked it to the commercial use of this they were doing their job in court reed elsevier was taking their content and selling it behind putting it behind a copyright wall even though the courts the federal courts are financed by we the people and they make a profit from it and the courts decide and of course the favor of the major corporation time for another number but i'm up there bi

on the computer fraud and abuse act the same law that prosecutors used against online activist aaron swartz i could have landed him a life sentence in prison might be missing something here what kind of message are we sending to our youth when computer doctors and internet activists are facing life in prison yet rapists can walk free after year look this is just one example of how warped the justice system is in this country and that's why i'm breaking the set. ten years ago today the u.s. launched a full scale invasion of iraq millions watched the initial shock and awe bombing of baghdad as it was televised uninterrupted around the world so how did this all start to take a quick look back in time.

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said to alter the cyber a law about the family of late activist aaron swartz a drove him to deadly despair but to the disappointment of internet freedom activists advocates the changes will only bring harsher punishments. and the story of a russian man who tried to make friends dream of immortality come true by occasionally exposing him to radiation but on our journey dot com to find more on that. immigrants who want to become british now off to study hard after the u.k. government introduced its new citizenship test it requires an applicant to know as many as three thousand facts about the country's history and a test that even many british natives fail to pass our furthest more. well since cullen the famous british landmark in london's trafalgar square don't commemorate admiral nelson he died in the past. in eighty nine by this also now be on first with one of the questions one person has. already is being criticized focusing too much on historical information and not enough on practical knowledge it's become a standard joke and i mean you know something which is supposed to be taken ser

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regarding that bloomberg headline i mentioned elsevier and this is the company of course for which aaron swartz died because he was downloading this taste or documents and read else of air is one of these companies that hold all this intellectual property from various public entities whether schools. or court systems so a federal judge in new york dismissed a copyright infringement case two attorneys brought against newton massachusetts based reed elsevier and west publishing corporation edward l. white of oklahoma city of new york sued in february two thousand and twelve claiming that the publication of their court filings in west litigator and also his lexis nexis legal database infringe their copyrights they jacked it to the commercial use of this they were doing their job in court reed elsevier was taking their content and selling it behind putting it behind a copyright wall even though the courts the federal courts are financed by we the people and they make a profit from it and the courts decide and of course the favor of the major corporation time for another number but i'm up there a bi

computer fraud abuse act the same kind of landmark legislation to see if that was used to go against aaron swartz that's used to go against your me him into every one tied to another and any sort of computer crime falls under the sea of eight and what they said on him or did was that he accessed a protected computer without authorization now when he access to protected computer he just went on to a website and he found this information just sitting there and you know he said a few months ago before he was actually sentence you said no one asked permission from google before they google you don't you don't call up silicon valley and say hi i'm looking for a hamster dance because that's a really good website and i still go to that all the time so you violated a law that's just really isn't a defined in for doing that he's now going to spend going to get out of prison when he's thirty now indices you screwed because the government didn't like him and these antiquated laws are exactly that now we have about a minute left i want to ask you and i know that computer security community that that communit