the media that it's for disasters domestically or foreign wars and putting people in camps like abu ghraib in iraq or camp x.-ray in cuba but now more and more documents are coming out confirming what r.t. had from sources and my research into this in the four films i've made in the police state series starting with police tape two thousand and one hundred ninety nine where i witnessed marines training to confiscate firearms on the west coast and put americans both on the left and right into camps and even segregate them according to their different political persuasions now we have an army document that dovetails with huge increase spending hiring tens of thousands of people in the military to specifically be internment camp officers and actually had military personnel blow the whistle on this to me in the last year about the hiring of tens of thousands of people in the training camps that they've shut up to train the prison guards for these and in this new document i was going to say i talk a little bit yeah you're talking about the you know they're hiring hundred thousand people and tal

claims of torture at abu ghraib. lawsuits filed by some prisoners are now revived. >>> the latest on a georgia woman, battling a potentially deadly flesh-eating bacteria. >>> eyewitness news at 4:00 continues with denise and vic after this. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is 4:30. 69 degrees. cloudy with light rain in some areas. hello. thanks for staying with eyewitness news. i'm denise koch. >> and i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. >> a commencement speech during his campaign. president obama takes the stage today in new york city. in tonight's wjz campaign 2012 report, women's issues are front and center, as he speaks to graduates at barnard college. allisonalison harmelin reports for wjz. >> president obama looks out at the sea of cap and gowns. >> hello class of 2012. >> the president gave the commencement speech to 600 graduates at the all-women's school, as he works to court female voters. >> indeed, we know we are better off when women are treated fairly and better in every aspect of american

. >> for example the 44 signs on the front page about abu ghraib. what is hilarious is west win would hide the liberal media. obviously plants the assumption that everybody knows that -- >> asking a network news president if they are biased is like asking a drunk if he can hold his liquor. that is just not reelection evacuate. >> what he did say, what happened is he did say bias is not just how things are done. we also tried to expand who who was there in terms of race, color et cetera. so he said that, too. >> we have to take a quick break. up next, do the media care about freedom of religion in this country? >> this isn't a fight that we asked for. >> the nation's top capital administrations. elimb nateing our freedom of religion. big news but the media don't seem to care. why? >> and he was abled the most trusted man in america but a new biography pops that balloon. ahh, now that's a clean mouth. i wish could keep it this way. [ dr. rahmany ] after a dental cleaning, plaque quickly starts to grow back. but new crest pro-health clinical plaque con

the largest defeat the united states had after 9/11 was abu ghraib, and some of the other legal mistakes that were made were also harmful to the effort. and so the judgment of the military is that while lawyers are not without serious costs that are on balance effective and important, as for, you know, the ngos and what motivates the center for constitutional rights, one of the, perhaps, surprising things in this book coming from me is how i celebrate the role of human rights institutions and national -- nongovernmental organizations and the role that they have played in making the presidency accountable and legitimating it. the center for constitutional rights, whatever you think about what it was motivated by -- and i don't think motivations count as much as what they accomplish -- they won several very important supreme court victories. and those supreme court victories led to a spate of judicial review that led to the blessing of the gitmo policy, basically. without those lawsuits, and this is one of the great ironies for the human rights organizations, without those lawsuits and the

standards going on the united states itself saying stands accused of many great human rights abuses in abu ghraibin iraq and afghanistan it will surely definitely be on the invitation list but i think that the consensus of british people is that our government as a democracy should not be dealing with dictatorships we should not be going out of our way to embrace them and welcome them because we stand or we attempt to stand for human rights and democracy and therefore collusion with to run a call regimes is completely against those principles britain and the united states have long historic ties with bahrain of course the united states has its fleet naval fleet base there part of course oil you know this is all i'm afraid all about money and profit making and i think time and time again we've seen sadly western governments that trumpet their support for human rights often put them in second place when it comes to lucrative oil in arms deals i think also of course the royal family have a long historic tie with other rule families including the royal family of bahrain but given the very grave human

abu ghraib, the same. our top five markets, i have some charts here. our top five markets are up on the screens there. they're indonesia, nigeria, afghanistan, burma, ukraine. we have 38 million viewers every week in indonesia. i say viewers because it is mostly tv there. in nigeria, we do very solid reporting in housa on the radio, we're second-largest after the state broadcaster. afghanistan, we are the evening news on the state television. i was until just recently a viewer. here's a graph now that shows you the media trends in pakistan. and this underscores something we may all want to dwell on. you see the dotted line? that's the use of social media. it is skyrocketing right now. this is our future, clearly. the mobile device. between february and march of this year alone the growth in use of mobile sites was 6% to almost 3 million visits for the month. so we use -- how do we penetrate? one of our jobs is to penetrate closed media environments. china, iran. how do we do it? we started the short wave but they jam it. we used satellite tv and that i

both cases iraqi detainees claim that they were tortured by the company's interrogators both the abu ghraib and other u.s. run prisons in iraq so as we see a greater reliance on military contractors what kind of precedent could these cases set joining me to discuss this derrick crowe political director at brave new foundation gary thanks for joining us tonight and first can you just tell us i know there's two separate cases here one has four plaintiffs one has seventy two but they sound pretty gruesome in terms of what exactly it is that these people ledge or done to that. well the plaintiffs in these cases in these cases allege that syria and el thirty two contractors under contract with the government deprived them of basic human necessities they beat them and ran electric current through their bodies they subjected them to sexual abuse really ation and they put them through some really sadistic mock executions and what that shows you you know an ethical company would have said no thank you we're not going to treat people that way but what you get when you inject the profit motive into wa

preview foundations derrick rose going to be on the show to talk about a court ruling a former abu ghraib detainees who say they were tortured at the hands of contractors have the right to tell their stories in court and meantime don't forget to become a fan of a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch the you tube dot com slash feel ownership and coming up next is the news. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. to what extent and i would call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be at your defense to protect your administration and your successors none none you're saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role absolutely obvious contradiction of this is one of the issues over which we have immense gentian but they will be here they will be

soldiers, the visuals of the abu ghraib teuscher is still very strong in peoples minds, but they they have fresh images accrued to them in some sense that the obama administration is no different than the bush illustration, both abroad and back home, where the administration of course provided funding for just one example company of police department in cooperation with the cia to do human mapping, and other worse to conduct surveillance and plant people in muslim communities and schools, to gather information. so i started by talking about the song of roland and how assemblies the project did anxieties about our own feelings about her on behavior upon the muslim world. i would say that we are still in unsent anxious about that. i think we are anxious about the fact that even though we say we are for peace, that we keep going to war. i think we are anxious about the fact that we say today the muslims are treacherous. if we look at who he supported over the last few decades, we supported saddam hussein in the war against sudan. we supported jihad is mujahedin against the soviet union.

the visual of the abu ghraib torture is still very strong in people's minds, but they have fresh be images that prove to them in some sense that the obama administration is no different than the bush administration where -- just one example, provided funding for the new york city police department in corporation with the cia to do human mapping. in other words, to conduct surveillance and plant people in muslim communities, at schools to gather information. so i started by talking about the song of roland and about how in some ways we projected our anxieties about our own feelings about our own behavior upon the muslim world. and i would say that we are still, in some sense, anxious about that. i think we are anxious about the fact that even though we say we are for peace, we keep going to war. i think we are anxious about the fact that we say they, the muslims, are treacherous. but if you look at who we supported over the last few years, we supported saddam hussein in the war against iran. we supported jihadist mujahideen against the sow -- sow vet union. -- soviet union. in other words,

the real reason that i wrote that book was on abu ghraib. i was so disturbed about the way america was -- what america was doing around the world and the way it was behaving around the world and that was not the america i grew up in or believed in. i look for a subject that i thought showed america as i saw it and that was fascinating. when the amazing thing was all these young men particularly air force pilots and navigators and whether men, mechanics had been away from home for three four years and came back and started school and got married and bought a home and got a wife and what not and in the middle of the night in -- lost track of time. they got phone calls and many telegrams because there were no phones in every home and that time saying report to fort dix by 4:00 in afternoon three days ahead and put back on duty slept in barnes and the mud and what not and did what everyone knew was in possible which was to feed one of the largest cities in the world by air. the planes they began with, these things were little d.c. 3s and move to

reader two -- an iraqi national, died while detained at the abu ghraib prison where he was held for interrogationsby government agencies -- >> this iraqi died while in u.s. custody. the details surrounding the circumstances at the time of death are classified. reader one -- died as a result of asphyxia due to strangulation. reader two -- fractures of the ribs and a contusion of the left lung imply significant blunt force. reader one -- cause of death, strangulation. manner of death -- homicide. reader two -- manner of death, homicide. reader three -- manner of death, homicide. >> so here we are, into our 11th year after 9/11, still at war in afghanistan, still at war with terrorists, still at war with our collective conscience as we grapple with how to protect our country from attack without violating the basic values of civilization -- the rule of law, striving to achieve our aims without corrupting them, and restraint in the use of power over others, especially when exercised in secret. meanwhile, the news keeps coming. five of the guantanamo prisoners were recently arraigned before a military c

thought and i agree -- but in any case, he thought -- is unreliable and, you know, things like abu ghraib damage not only your interests in the area, but your ability to collect good intelligence. if you're dealing with somebody who thinks you're going to torture him or just tortured somebody else, they don't like you. and when he first went to the middle east, he thought his basis for success was we in the united states had a better idea than, at that time, the soviet union. or if there are, say, radical terrorists involved, you could simply talk to someone in their family, maybe try to talk them out of it. so, in fact, of those 21 people that he obtained confessions from -- and they were doing a coup -- many of them, there was a few of them that went to jail for some periods of time. none of them were executed. most of them, if not all of them, returned to government service or involvement in the elite, the ruling elite of jordan. so that's one of the secrets to jordan's success or has been one of the secrets to jordan's success and their legitimacy is coercion on the lowest level possi

we had the problems of abu ghraib before. the guantanamo bay detainees still continue to be an issue even though president obama indicated he planned to close guantanamo bay a year after he dame to office, because it's a very difficult issue to figure out what to do with the detainees. i think we take a certain sense of humility in looking at other country's short coming and abuses in human rights while also trying to fix our own short comings. host: in the saturday new york times, after guantanamo bay bayh, starting anew. profiling a man who was kept at guantanamo bay bayh and a c-span junkie writes in saying how could we criticize anyone when we kept a private for leaking information. guest: he has been charged with leaking classified information which is a crime in the united states so, i would not get too wrapped up in his case. host: republican, in aalaska. good morning to you. caller: good morning. i'm calling about this. i agree with the previous person who was on this. who was on there. america seems to experiencing w

>> even if it wasn't legal, it puts you guys in jeopardy because you say what happened with the abu ghraibs and saw what happened with the burning of the quran, this would be right up there. let alone save your guys' lives. >> the motivation that we had was to protect the people who work for us. but it was also legal. the lawyers had been saying for a long time, you can do this. >> how has this changed your life moving forward? >> well, you know, when i made the decision, i understood at the time that possibly this could come back to haunt me. i mean, you don't make a decision like that in washington. >> would you do it again? >> i would do it again, yes, yeah. >> don't blame you. check out his new book, it is a blockbuster. "hard measures" jose rodriguez, we thank you very much for joining us. >> pleasure. >> good luck to you. >> thank you. >> we'll talk to you again. >> thank you very much. >> coming up next on "fox & friends" look who is in the studio right now, baseball legend cal ripken jr. next. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whol

i think abu ghraib has a pretty clear idea what needs to be done. maybe that is what it needs to take. maybe the idea of the long war, which i think we officially abandoned, maybe that needs to be brought back. >> i think what you're getting at, there was an earlier question about third-party intervention. there is a measure of understanding and and understood response. sometimes the question is, maybe the main recruiting tool and the main engines for insurgencies the presence of the counter and surgeon. you have to make a decision as to whether your intervention and character of your intervention is excess -- exacerbated in conflict not. i am not an isolationist, but i think the measure of responses probably the key point. >> mila, and would be not our concern -- my only comment would be not our concern. we return to a policy where we have a much smaller footprint, advice and assistance -- advise and assist. we seem to be better with a smaller footprint than a big one. >> [inaudible] >> hand over the microphone, please. >> when you're talking about

abu ghraib comes to mind, and so i just want to applaud the fact that john brennan has come here to spend more than one hour with us, laying out in great detail what the rules are for something that has been revealed today, which is the use of drones in certain operations, targeted operations. the debate will continue. no question. people in this audience and people listening in have different points of view. we certainly no one woman did during his remarks. this is to offer a platform free of spin and partisan rhetoric to have these issues thoroughly, and you honored us by coming here. thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> tomorrow, join a chairman addressing international peace, discussing a partnership and security challenges. you can see that live at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> president obama held a press conference with the japanese minister. and the nobel prize winners, including former presidents jimmy carter and me tell gorbachev, and later, british prime minister