alexa o'brien, if you could talk about what this sentencing hearing is about.t is different than a civilian court. new evidence can be presented here. >> that is right. since the court ruled that lack of damage evidence was not relevant at trial, essentially, we enter the sentencing phase with these two concepts, whether or not there was damage from these releases and what his motive was. but we will see happen is the government will bring out 13 witnesses in closed sessions or with classified stipulation, so under black redaction, talk about the damage from these leaks. in the pretrial record, in public reporting, we know, for example, the brigadier-general, who was the head of the defense intelligence agency's information review task force, determined that there were no sources or methods in the afghan war logs -- war diaries, or the iraq war logs. robert gates wrote a letter to senator levin in 2010 telling him as much. that letter is part of the court record. we also know the department of state has another classified damage assessment. what is interesting,

we will speak with independent journalist alexa o'brien. she has been in court every day since the trial began. and we speak with michael ratner. we will also discuss charges against edward snowden, who remains trapped in a moscow airport, even as the u.s. has promised not to torture him if he comes home. states has been so incredibly dominant, it can bully almost any country in the world. it is difficult to take it on, to reveal, as these people have, the massive surveillance system on its citizens. >> all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. areorters of mohamed morsi calling for more protests after another mass killing by state forces. at least 72 people were killed on saturday when egyptian police opened fire on a muslim brotherhood rally in cairo. the attack came three weeks after 60 supporters were gunned down in a protest against morsi's ouster. the also came after thousands of egyptians turned out for dueling political rallies for and against the egyptian mi