i found it unique that i walk in front of the aclu office and they have a camera in the front. just for future resident. >> your next portion of the report. >> firearms discharge review board, i will ask my able assistants to come up and make that presentation. >> thank you for your patience, commissioners. chief suhr and president mazzucco and commissioners and director hicks, john from the department's officer-involved shooting team. shooting investigations team with the internal affairs and tonight he willing presenting the summary of officer-involved shootings investigations for the first quarter, 2013, where they are to date and the armed discharge review board summary. >> the first quarter of 2013 firearms discharge review board met on march 19, 2013 and reviewed two complete investigations the first was 11-004, and second was discharge, 001-13. as mentioned it convened on march 19th. the voting members were deputy chief tom yoka who chaired it from the administrative bureau. and the deputy chief loftus from operation and deputy chief shmidt from deputy operations and the

served ashat, he project council on the aclu technology and liberty project. and with that, i will say without objection all the witnesses' statements will be placed into the record. each of you will have five minutes to summarize your statement. you are first. >> good morning, chairman, ranking member, and members of the subcommittee. thank you for asking me to testify today on the important topic of privacy and unmanned aircraft systems. i am a nonresident senior fellow for the center of technology at the brookings institution, i holdsor at ucla. appointments in the a tactical engineering department the department of public policy. the views i express are my own and do not represent brookings or the university of california. when discussing privacy it is helpful to keep in mind the variety of platforms possible by this developing technology. some aircraft such as the global hawk are as large and nearly as fast as business jets. some can stay aloft for long times. in the summer of 2010, a solar powered airplane with a wing span of 74 feet stayed aloft for ove

. >> now the aclu wants teare named in the lawsuit. >> the person that could have said no, should have said no and who didn't say no but was involved was james teare. >> chief teare retire from the police department this past summer ending any criminal investigation against him. councilman james benoit said he can still be held accountable. >> even though he's the former chief i think it's important for him to answer these allegations. >> a judge will determine if the former chief should be forced to talk. >> reporter: now, the ex-chief did testify before a grand jury on the leopold matter. that testimony is private. i'm mike schuh reporting live. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you very much, mike. the aclu is suing leopold on behalf of 11 people said to be on that enemies list. >>> a baltimore county councilman is sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to dui. todd huff was pulled over back this february. he had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit. yesterday a judge ordered him to serve 2 years of supervised probation. >>> in florida george zimmerman appear

the aclu is suing leopold on behalf of 11 people on that enemy's list. governor is pledge ing ing zero tolerance when it comes to the city jail scandal involving smuggling and sex with correctional officers. he said he knew for months about the federal investigation at the baltimore city detention center. he called the indictment of 25 people including 13 women correctional officers, ugly and shocking. >>> this morning baltimore city police are investigating the 70th homicide of the year. a pan was shot last night in the 1200 block of walters avenue. according to the baltimore sun there were 8 fewer homicides in this city at the same time last year. >>> millions of dollars will be coming to maryland as netflix begins filming the second series of house of cards. the area has landed another season as the stand in for washington dc. it's generated $140 million in its first season and provided 2,200 jobs. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next, >>> conservatives like me know that in a budget crisis, everything nonessential has to go. >> congr

the aclu wants to add -- as a defendant. last summer at receiving a no-confidence vote from the police union. remember what happened with kevin kamenetz and a group of protesters last week? >> it is my job to talk and your dog to listen right now. >> -- job to listen right now. at theas quite a scene ceremony for the new elementary school. protesters wanted to keep the green space tackled kevin kamenetz and other county officials who were there. the county executive admitted that he lost his cool. >> hey, listen, i should not let them get under my skin. i have never seen seniors heckle kids before over schools. you would think we were trying to put it risen -- prison there. we're trying to do the right name for the school. -- writing for the school. >> the school will address overcrowding at other schools. the school is being built on county owned property. it has been designated for that purpose. >> walk into the airport and finding long lines. airport officials believed a new security check when it will get you your gate m

the aclu concludes -- thousands of protesters with the havevist movement blockuppy blocked access to the european central bank in frankfurt, germany and a protest against european austerity. the demonstrators were confronted by scores of police in riot gear. the unemployment rate in eurozone tons to wrote -- new record of a 12.2%. more than 19 million people in europe were out of work in april. hundreds of garment workers protested thursday outside a factory that makes clothing for nike. most of the workers were women and have been striking to demand a $14 a month pay increase. at least 23 garment workers or injured monday by military police wielding stun batons. the workers outlined their demands with one describing how she miscarried following the clash with police. >> i was pushed by the military policeman and fell on the ground in front of the factory that day, then i lost the baby. >> i protested to demand more pay because the current pay is not enough for my daily spending grid also, the factory owner and ministry of labour agreed to increase the pay 14 u.s. dollars per month.

the aclu of [inaudible] upholds the values of fairness, equality and rights for all. immigration reform must include the [inaudible] committed and loving couples in same sex relationships to sponsor the spouse or permanent partner in the same way opposite sex couples have long been able to. this has cost this lbgt families to live in fear for far too long. this is a critical component of any reform proposal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you supervisor campos and yee. i'm a resident of a state that tried to legislate morality or a type of morality through proposition eight. now those same forces are trying to do the same thing through a federal immigration bill. i want to thank you supervisor campos for taking the lead on united families acting. you supervisor campos are this generation's hero for equality. senator diane knew the first openly gay elected official, harvey milk and she also announced his assassination. i urge her to ask herself the one question, what would harvey do? would he stand up for equality and will you? thank you. >> thank you,

the center for international security cooperation and a junior affiliate scholar, and caid is at the aclu of massachusetts where she quarterbacks the -- [inaudible] and defending core first and fourth amendments and due process rights. is i wanted to kick off this discussion by describing one of the major surveillance battles that we've been facing over the last few years, and it's a story that's particularly close to my heart which is the story of mark klein. mark klein was a 64-year-old retired at&t technician who came out publicly including coming to my organization with schematics, plans, detailed blueprints from at&t's folsom street facilities in san francisco. and these plans showcased a secret room based in at&t's facilities. it was locked on the inside. we've actually seen picktures of it -- pictures of it. and inside this room was a fiber optic splitter that created a copy of the internet communications of americans and sent it to the national security agency. caid, i wanted you to kick off this panel by talking about what is the national security agency, what what does this kind

in 2009, the aclu and public patent foundation filed that lawsuit. year, the supreme court agreed to hear it. this year, the case was heard and a decision expected this summer. maybe as more companies get in on this, maybe you can get the test done for $500, if you feel that's important for you. >> with angelina jolie, we don't know what she is going to do about the possibility of ovarian cancer because her mother died of that. >> the breast cancer was an 87% chance, much larger. i'm not sure what she's going to do with the-ry. >> the genetics are precursor themselves. >> if someone in your immediately family has cancer, you should get it done. >> given the story that we started with on the first block today, about the justice democratic investigating the associated press another reminder to sign up, send money to the aclu for the valuable work they are doing across the country. i am going to honor angelina jolie tonight by watching for the 18th time "laura croft." >> when we come back, oh, they're doing it again. i can't believe they're doing it aga

including comments from democrats and the aclu.gation are expected to be relieved later this morning. >> governor ed rendell, you've run a state and big city and the democratic party. let's talk about just this is mind boggling, "wall street journal" reporting this morning that the probe is showing it's far wired than just groups that were called patriot or tea party. they also included groups that were worried about government spending. the debt. i guess fix the debt would now come under irs scrutiny. taxes. even ones that may lobby to make america a better place to live. this was purely political. what does president obama need to do this morning? this is about as bad as it gets, isn't it? >> absolutely. i think you said in the first hour he has to hammer this loud and clear. again, there's abuses on both sides here. as john pointed out in his earlier comments, 501-c4 area is an area that has been to looked at because subsidizing things. >> the irs didn't look at both sides. >> absolutely. >> we might as well not talk about that?

i hope it's in part of the aclu's work. we have a bill in massachusetts right now which would limit data retention of license plate information. what i'm getting at is you can go to your chief of police in your city or town where you live and say, what kind of surveillance equipment do you have? what do you guys use what you have license plate readers? when you delete that? write letters to your local newspaper. op-ed in your local newspaper divulging what you learned from your local police department. go to your city council meeting and tell them that you were worried about this stuff. ostensibly we live in a democracy and citizen should be able to control what the police do. so we should exert some of that power and tried to take control of our police departments back from the federal government, which for the past 10 years has been showering departments with the lives of dollars to buy all sorts of surveillance equipment that is then essentially sucked up by the federal government ultimately. so get involved by joining t

from an aclu point of view, we worry about not just tracking by industry but by the government.fear that this kind of information collection can be accessed not just by customers but can be collected and sold to the government. the aclu uses the internet as one of the most powerful tools to exercise you're first amendment right since the printing press. you can speak, you can learn. this is a tool that is unparallel in its value. but if you're afraid to go on a particular website because you think that may put you in a certain profile or class, you may not want to learn about sensitive information. you may not want to delve into areas or join particular groups and we think that harms your first amendment freedoms. that is why we think a do not track mechanism is a powerful way to create a shield for you so you can do those things that you think are controversy. with all respect in terms of what you're doing in tomplese sell--regulation. we don't believe self-regulation is not enough. passing a base line of creating a do not track option of some sort would be benefit herbal. it i

." >> and the aclu who didn't care about the guy who made the video. the aclu will represent everybody. >> not me. >> whoever did say stand down, i find it incredible to believe it would be the president of the united states, does have to answer questions. if he did, could they and would they have been able to get there and save lives? >> no. there was no way of knowing that when they gave the stand down order. americans in harm's way, send them. for 237 years of our history we did that. until last september. obama changed everything. >> saying obama, you're taking -- >> i have got to tease or else they're going to keep yelling at me in my ear. coming up, the house set to vote on repealing obama care today as concerns over the i.r.s. powers to implement the law grow. could it make them want to get rid of the president's signature legislation? we'll bat that around when we come back. >>> in a short while the republican controlled house will vote for the 37th time to repeal obama care. well, it won't get past the senate, but here's why the vote is signif

. >> well, finally stepping up. >> greg: the aclu is suing because they asked to find out if they were being targetd, and you're talking about the doj. not necessarily the irs. can i make a point? remember the tea party got together and pushed back against obama care? look what we have now. we have the irs about to take over administering obama care, a perfect circle, and the tea party was right from the very beginning to push back from this. this is bad. >> nobody is giving them credit. >> right. >> that's the problem. >> hopefully this rebirth, is that a real word? >> it could be. >> it rebirths the tea party. >> it's like high plains drifter returning to the town after he was almost killed. >> it should be bigger and stronger now because they have more sympathy from the other siefd the aisle. now they're not the big bad bullies. maybe they should make a case to abolish the irs, get rid of it all together. i talked to a woman from the tea party patriots. you would not believe the questions they asked her at the irs. under the threat of perjury. they said predict in the future the ans

prisoners at gitmo today, from kuwait, leader of the aclu and here to talk about the president's newronepom and because it's memorial day weekend, we are going to tell you about what beers to drink this weekend. yes, and the pope has said ath the istests, you are as good as we are. >> seems barack obama was quite the charmerback in high school. time magazine yesterday published pictures of the then 17-year-old from his 1979 prom in hawaii where he had his afro-like lock hair and his classmate, kelly allman offered up the photos and a shot of obama signing her yearbook. he called her extremely sweet and foxy in the note and asked her to call him to hang out over the summer. >> oh, boy. >> he was 17. he was in hawaii. >> absolutely. didn't know michelle. yet. >> i bet am times were good. >> since injured baseball player alex rodriguez isn't playing baseball, he has time to work the the real estate market. he sold his home for $30 million in miami made a whopping $15 million profit on the property. the sale moving quickly whoever the buyer is wants a-rod out within two weeks. >> nothing

prior to that he served as the aclu type knowledge in liberty project.thout objection off the witnesses full text this will be placed in the record. each of you will have five tennessee summarize your false statement. we have a timer in front of you. i think you're all familiar with the green, yellow and red lights. mr. villasenor, you are first. >> good morning, chairman sensenbrenner, ranking member scott of members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on import topic of privacy and unmanned aircraft systems for ua asks. i'm a nonmetal center for knowledge innovation at the perkins is to shoot a professor at ucla in both electrical engineering department department of public policy. it is i express here are do not necessarily represent those at the brookings institution at the university of california. when discussing unmanned aircraft privacy, thoughtful to keep in mind the greater platforms made possible by this rapidly developing technology. some unmanned aircraft such as the global hawk used by the u.s. military are l

so, michael mcleod because here at the aclu. let's start with the irs. i really want to focus on the doj because i think that's the most serious issue here and it may be the one real scandal of the bunch. with the irs, do you see any criminality there? any -- what's the real heart of the issue? >> targeting the tea party groups. >> you put this in context. the irs has a history of exceeding its authority going back decades. go back to the roosevelt, frank lin roosevelt administration at least where he used the irs to target andrew melon who had been treasury secretary in the 1920s kennedy against the radical right groups nonprofit groups and these lists, of course. and j. edgar hoover used the irs as his own special investigative agency best we know. in the most recent bush administration, they went after the naacp. there are all of these examples of the irs doing this. in this situation, we still don't know the facts t looks like it's, you know, a relatively low-level, minor snafu of some kind whether by design or inadvertent or through income pet he kn

to tape something you can immediately up load it to the aclu website and they'll use that informationect you in the future. >> that's actually really great for the audio. >> or, we have a phone? now you have my picture. >> i don't want to know what's on that phone. >> oh. >> we want to show you guys the one piece of footage that is out in the public, abc 23. >> we saw something yes. >> i'll talk to that right now but basically you can't see a whole lot from the surveillance camera but you do see blows low to the ground, and the deputies admit it is their batons that you're seeing in that clip. >> struggles between silva and the deputies and then a series of blows that the sheriff department said is the deputyies' baton. a close examination of the tape shows at least 19 blows delivered by at least three different officers. >> now that's a conservative estimate. judging off of that alone, it doesn't look like they're receiving that much resistence. it looks like three are two or three officers above the man and if he was in fact intoxicated it seems less likely he could be effectively a

for coming here and look at the exciting cameras and how to map the cameras by you support that the aclu and other advocates that we don't rush into more surveyance unless there's a critical need to do that. i haven't seen that but i have full confidence that the inner agency cooperation is keeping our public save >> thank you supervisor. should we have a motion to file this hearing? again thank you to all the city agencies for coming and to all the members of the public to speak on this item. mr. brown it was good seeing you and i agree with you on brown mann >> item 3 is a hearing on the revenues anticipated policy rationale and update on future parking meters that include expansion in our neighborhoods. >> it's been introduced by supervisor farrell and many are interested. and we thank the supervisor so with that. >> thank you chair campos and supervisor. i call for a hearing regarding sfshgs mta for introducing parker meters into our neighborhoods. certainly the first of those plans is underway in the south eastern neighborhood. i've asked mta to focus their presentation on the stati

>> target the aclu and see what happens. >> the irs is the story here. that is the big one. this is going to grow. the republicans do run the risk, let me tell you, of overkill. the hearing they held on benghazi was a public lations disaster and i thihink they had better see the films of 1998. >> y y said d the pr testimony s >> thanks for >> it draws hillary clton into this and puts her fingerprints >> on thursday, it sounded like trying to blame congress for not passing funding for increasing security. what did we learn from the e- mails? >> we learned there wawas a tutf war.this should not surprise us. the cia and state department are fighting with each other. i think this is much a about not much. maybe there was some pitics involved but i do not see a scandal. >> one of our panelists have written we have evidence of a cover-up of a cover-up. would somebody explain to me what crime is being coveredp? >> that is the worst part of this. unlike in wa itergate where thee was a crime, with the state department wanted to do was to edscure the idea it had neglect the warnings a

this was part of obama's plan. >> hina shamsi of aclu. former defense analyst, josh foust. thank you, really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. >>> the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. in 1996, a man who had no authority to do it decided he would issue a holy order. that man's name was osama bin laden. he issued this self-styled fatwa which he called a declaration of war against the americans occupying the land of the two holy places. the land of the two holy places is saudi arabia. the two holy places being mecca and medina. osama bin laden was, of course, a saudi citizen, and his whole first declaration of war on the united states hinged on the fact that the united states had military bases in the land of the two holy places, in saudi arabia. so that was 1996. then two years later, the second bin laden and al qaeda fatwa, the firs

at the aclu. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> robert gibbs is with us tonight as well. coming up. stay with us. >>> okay. it was may 2007. republicans across the country were in the process of trying to figure out who their nominee for president was going to be in the upcoming election to succeed george w. bush. one guy who really wanted the job was a former governor from massachusetts who that year sort of tried to run on the i'm a tough guy platform. >> i'm glad they're at guantanamo. i don't want them on our soil. i want them on guantanamo and they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they're on our soil. some people have said we ought to close guantanamo. my view is we ought to double guantanamo. we ought to make sure the terrorists -- >> double guantanamo. yes. mitt romney lost that republican primary. he lost to this guy. >> for closing guantanamo bay because it's become a symbol. it may be one of the nicest places in the world to live in, but it has become a symbol and we need to close guantanamo. >> john mccain won the republican primary that year. and

and what i see happening, and i have had discussions with the aclu and pretrial on.it's not a cookie-cutter situation. bail is very personal. to have a policy or government entity responsible for arresting you and adjudicating your case and the sentencing and bail. there no check balances involved in this. i have sat in los angeles and waiting for the sheriff department for a gentleman that had to get to his job or lose his job. and 36 hours later he's still in custody when he could have been bailed out through corporate bail. our industry brings to the state of california revenues in excess of 11 to $20 million to state revenues. and what i am hearing is that this movement is to chop us off completely. and i say no. we need to co-exist. there is a place for corporate charity bail and pretrial. but until the last year we really have not been invited to the table. and this kind of dialogue is very important. you need to hear what we have to say. and there is a misconception that gps monitoring, who is going to pay for that? the taxpayers or the defendant? generally i

this was part of obama's plan. >> hina shamsi of aclu. former defense analyst, josh foust. thank you, really appreciate it. >> thank you.

deputy legal director at the aclu and a guy at the center of these fights. thank you. >> thank you. >> robert gibbs is with us tonight, as well. stay with us. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. vo: ta friend under water is end usomething completely different. i met a turtle friend today so, you don't get that very often. it seemed like it was more than happy to have us in his home. so beautiful. avo: more travel. more options. more personal. whatever you're looking for expedia has more ways to help you find yours. to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal. >>> it was may 2007 and they wanted to figure out

the aclu recommends these rules be based on three key principles. first, no mass surveillance, no one should be spied upon by the government unless the government believes that person has committed a crime. drone use over private property shall only happen with a search warrant based on probable cause. the same standard used to search someone's house or business. it may be permissible to monitor individuals in public at a lower standard, perhaps reasonable suspicion, but the key is to prevent mass suspicionless searches of the general population including for intelligence gathering. exceptions to this rule should be limited to emergencies connected to life and safety or narrowly drawn administrative exceptions. second, information collected from drones for one purpose, to combat a fire or perform search and rescue should not be used for another purpose such as general law-enforcement. information collected by drones should also be kept securely and destroyed promptly once it is no longer needed. third, drone's should not carry weapons. weapons devel

the aclu says the obama administration is reading emails and other electronic communications without a warrant, despite a court ruling against the practice. in response to recent freedom of information act request on the issue, the justice deparle released a memo with black rectangles covering every bit of text except the title, sender and recipient. aclu spokesperson josh bell told abc news -- president obama has appointed an acting commissioner to lead the irs a day after the former acting commissioner was fired over the tax agency's targeting for right wing groups. is currently controller of the office of management and budget. meanwhile, another top irs official has announced his departure. joseph grant says he will retire next month as acting commissioner of the agency's tax exempt and government entities division. the obama administration took another public hit thursday when a justice department inspector general's report found gaps in record-keeping for terror suspects to enter the federal witness protection program. according to the report, the program failed to disclose par

it included the aclu.e a very pleased to very distinguished group of panelists who have flown in from different parts of the country. it is a particularly interesting group today, because we have technologists, researchers, an activist, and a lawyer. we have what i think of as the perfect spectrum of digital rights defenders sitting in one room today willing to talk to you frankly about their thoughts on government surveillance, what the problems are, and what you and i should be doing about it. and whether or not there's anything we can do about it. i would hope to move back and forth free flow style between government surveillance issues and privacy issues and corporate collection of data. as we move along, but feel free to write your questions down. i will introduce people and we will just jump into it. i promise you that this long introductory remark has been the only long introductory remark that you have to suffer through. , raise yournelist hand a little. she is a senior research fellow at the new a

. >> reporter: when hunt goes to trial in june she will have the backing of the aclu.ttorney says i do think it is a shame that this case couldn't be settled. what hunt is risking is trial where she could be convicting. if she is she is facing 15 years and a lifetime labelled as a sexual predator. >>> our thanks for that report. this is fascinating. it has devoivided a lot of peop on social media. this is going to trial, how high or low is the bar here for the prosecution? >> this petition has tens of thousands of signatures. i want to read something from katlyn hunt's attorney. high school relationships may be fleeting but felony convictions are forever. >> if it is a felony conviction not only do you have prison time but it stays on your record forever. the law is the law. and at 14 years old in florida you are not considered able to consent to a sexual relationship. >> some states have these romeo and juliet clauses that within four years you are not going to face some of those consequences. we will see what happens here. >> we will dig deeper in the 9:00 hour. we'l