who tortured him and whether officers would be prosecuted for his murder one fact is rarely noted mr alger his fate was sealed by two medics a doctor and the medical command responsible for his health care according to the third geneva convention ratified by the united states. the number of doctors involved in detainee abuse is unknown but in declassified government documents the case is just one among many involving medical complicity and cover up of torture a pathologist working for the armed forces institute of pathology collectively systematically and uniformly suppressed death reports in. u.s. prisons and afghanistan and iraq today extent that they ever became aware of them in those cia rendition prisons as well. they have been teaching easier since last july nobody knows what cave they're in while you were nobody can reach the detainees the detainee is under the control of the american the super. secret prisons and populations profoundly and in fact when you look in iraq and what happened after the ghraib experience including the death of john mahdi came out what happened was that su

who tortured him and whether officers would be prosecuted for his murder one fact is rarely noted mr alger his fate was sealed by two medics a doctor and the medical command responsible for his health care according to the third geneva convention ratified by the united states. the number of doctors involved in detainee abuse is unknown but in declassified government documents the case is just one among many involving medical complicity and cover up of torture a pathologist working for the armed forces institute of pathology collectively systematically and uniformly suppressed death reports in. u.s. prisons and afghanistan and iraq today extent that they ever became aware of them in those cia rendition prisons as well. they have been teasing he's here since last july nobody knows what cave they're in well you know what he can reach the detainees the detainees under the control of the american the super. secret deaths in prisons populations profoundly and in fact when you look in iraq and what happened after the great experience including the death of jamal he came out what happened was that

said industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after alger was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission very difficult this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were be hadad and burned in over ins and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which revelled to address hoping to verify these reports but there is still no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can there actually to address the old town admiral blood and the work his house in complex nearby a drum a lear both are now besieged. with maybe some blankets here to separate other are below and that room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in t

then moving forward the whitaker chambers alger's his trial that took place around a 1950. if you read with this you know, that trial was not just a trial about whitaker chambers and colleges of but of world views and it hit communism versus the theus dick world views that chambers had come to embrace over the course of his life and what was then a relatively inconsequential backwater newspaper fed is "the washington post" which covered that trial extensively and had its coverage picked up from the country because it was also a trial of new ideals it established "the washington post" as a leading progressive best newspaper of the late 20th century. all of these factors come into creating a media we had today by 1986 husband and wife team along with their collaborator could write a book called the media e. lee to which they found after extensive survey the journalist were well to the left of the public on a wide a range of ideas. not just the culture war that we think about but also on ideas such as affirmative action era energy policy as well. fast-forward 15 years we come

depth about my work as well as the show including one called white out press der spiegel max kaiser alger miner joe rogan stuart wilde global post and firedoglake yet none of these sites are apparently notable enough to allow me a sacred page. i was joined earlier by breaking the said host abby martin and i asked her how she found out about this issue to begin with. i don't really care if i have a page on my computer i just thought it was funny my dad at christmas is like hey you're on wikipedia it's really cool and i saw that the page got removed and then it got resubmitted by another user and then it got removed again and someone wrote an article about it saying hey what's the deal and so i kind of just wanted to bring attention to the fact this editing process is actually really a skill how does it work and can anyone just upload and sure enough i guess anyone who is a user can create at it or vote to delete content but there's only a sacred few admins that can kind of oversee the whole process and they consider anything that's really not corporate media unverifiable third party source

spiegel max kaiser alger my energy. rogan stuart wilde global post firedoglake those are just to name a few of all the websites that i've written about breaking the set about the show breaking this that doesn't have a page either i mean this is broadcast to millions people around the world i think that we. brings up this question of editorializing because i think you think of wake up eating you said you know everybody it's everywhere you. see something and wonder about it and you'll just kind of check out that would find as a basic information and it's supposed to be very basic fact based not editorialize but i guess it calls into question is there editorializing when it comes to you know deciding who deserves a page and who does it yeah and here's where it gets interesting because you know i don't think this is necessarily people saying i'm going to censor abbey margaret i don't like her views who knows the problem is that unlike encyclopedias that you would get in a library you know in book form would be acts as a kin

pact in 1948 backed off because she had julie and while he was investigating alger hiss, he went through a difficult time making these decisions. and by his own admission in his memoir he was miserable to live with that she supported him all the way and helped him through that. in 1950 he ran for the senate and they drove all over california in a panel the station wagon. she passed out 65,000 symbols. and of course the most memorable which many of you probably know about is the scandal the crisis where i have now picked them as the vice presidential couple. they were starting their campaign and they were going to take the special train up the coast and they were very excited and as they went around the train that had no outside communication, they would stop at a particular town and only then could they find on the phone and begin to hear the post had charged them with having slush funds, and of course the main thing in this campaign was going against the corruption of the truman administration. this was devastating. it was almost a depressive thing being on the train because every stop

max kaiser alger miner joe rogan stuart wilde global post and firedoglake yet none of these sites are apparently notable enough to allow me a sacred page the author of the article legend that i am banned claims that wikipedia is censoring me on purpose because it's now just another tool of the establishment but is this really the case the way with a pedia works is that literally anyone can edit and create content on the massive database as long as you have an account which is open to anyone that signs up many times completely incorrect information is locked up for weeks or even months without being edited corrected or verified but the ones that are heavily viewed and sourced pose another problem altogether the information on the more controversial of subjects death tolls of wars or contested government narratives almost always back page minimized or downplayed referenced at all at the very beginning of the entries on both j.f.k. and nine eleven questions that boldly stated that most if not all of those theories have been completely discredited according to independent reviews media an

depth about my work as well as the show including one called white house press der spiegel max kaiser algerminor joe rogan stuart wilde global post and firedoglake yet none of these sites are apparently notable enough to allow me. now here to talk about what's happened since that broadcast went to air i'm joined by abby martin host of breaking the set thanks for joining me ok take me back to the beginning how did you find out in the first place that this was an issue you know i don't i don't really care if i have a picture of a computer i just thought it was funny my dad at christmas is like hey you're on wikipedia it's really cool and i saw that the page you got removed and then it got resubmitted by another user and then it got removed again and someone wrote an article about it saying hey what's the deal and so i kind of just wanted to bring attention to the fact that this editing process is actually really a skill how does it work i mean anyone just upload an entry notice anyone who's a user can create edit or vote to do the content but there's only a sacred few admins that can kind of

he's horatio alger gone mad. >> he's a superstar ceo. >> we had a lot of energy.of spirit. we had a lot of desire, a lot of vision, a lot of hope. >> a nashville wannabe. and when federal prosecutors accuse him of masterminding a $ 2.7 billion fraud, the singing ceo becomes a tv preacher. >> the only way we're going to stand perfect before god is being washed in the blood of the perfect lamb. >> it's a tale of rags, riches, and redempti

he was having a book party that night the first person he sees when he returns is one of the guests alger hiss to which he sees the secondary of american history. [laughter] tom is going to find a particular letter. [laughter] >> yes. if i can. [laughter] the. >> it is the duty of dan rather. [laughter] >> when you look dash liberalism right now under assault every possible way we're being very retro. >> i think the word is now becoming available with cats new york we can cab of be like this to mention the word liberal. [laughter] >> you said that but not what will show up on the block afterwards. [laughter] >> but fnn any particular moment divergency? but the affordable care at the democratic president they are trying to do some p.r.. in the idea came from heritage. it is not a moment where the natural american anxieties which is as old as the republic does not feel those are reassured by the more center-left. i wonder what you fifth thing about this historically a of practically through the weapons of your father's work -- through the lens of your father's work. >> he was a great propon

four horsemen of the apocalypse and sanifi doesn't want to end up as regeneron road kill or how about alger. here's a company you may know as the purveyor of breast implants but it has a top notch eye c car -- care business. last summer with it stock flying high at $115 and there could be a generic challenge well before anyone expected it. algeren plunged from 115 to 85 so the ceo told us that there'd be real hurdles to any generic challenge. guess what? pyatt was dead right. the generic challenge was far more difficult than the rumor monger said. brand new ones which is algeren went up today. guy came on, promised us this, and there was no reason to doubt him. everything he has ever said has come true. everything. i mean, you had to have that faith that mild mannered pyatt wasn't blowing smoke. he has been so bankable that the idea of anyone questioning him or his outlook was ridiculous. what an investment. or how about google, which is a large part of my charitable trust. last night, google bought a company that makes a smoke alarm and it's so love and so powerful it is driving powerful t

and alger hiss, i can't rewrite history. i'm asking you. how does christie say i'm not going to change my team, my ammo. i'm going to go a much different approach to getting things done from the tough guy way i've been doing it. >> well, look, not exaggerating the severity or scope of wrongdoing, because we don't know what that is. but the analogs we have from modern american political history are nixon and clinton. there is a lot of scrutiny on him. what is going on inside his operation now is what we saw with the clinton folks, which is you have to adjust to a new normal, which is there is two worlds. there is the scandal world, subpoenas, people testifying under oath, not sure which colleagues you can necessarily trust. and then there is the daily business of governance. and christie, for his own psychology, has to get back to the second part while still dealing aggressively with the first part. and that is very tough for anyone, particularly for somebody like him who is used to having his way, doesn't get a lot of national scrutiny day

and richard sherman should be a w horacio alger story, and it's a test that want people to be passionatew racialized it was. like mouthy black man, getting uppity, and i should also say, like, it's totally possible to not be into him talking trash after a game and have it not be motivated by racial animus. >> exactly. i personally thought his behavior was unsportsmanlike. i was an athlete this high school, i would not have responded that way. at least, that's what i'm saying for the record. i would not have responded that way, in all seriousness, but i will say this, though. was the response that he got, the racial response was so disturbing. and if you look at the fact, look at governor chris christie. people praised him, up until this moment, he was praised for jumping into people's faces, yelling at teachers, his wife was laughing as he was yelling in the face of a teacher near the jersey shore. when you see the contrast, and they say, finally, a hero standing up to those tough teachers, finally, a hero. and now him doing something very similar and he's lambasted. >> i want to talk ab

moving forward even further, the whitaker chambers/alger hiss trial. again, if you've read "witness," you know that that trial was not just a trial about whitaker chambers and communism, but it was really a trial of world views. it pitted the atheistic world view of communism versus the threistic world view that whitaker chambers had come to embrace over the course of his life. it also, by the way, put what was then a relatively inconsequential, small, back water newspaper on the map. that newspaper, of course, is "the washington post" be which covered that trial extensively and had its coverage picked up around the country and was -- because it was also a trial of new deal ideas, it really established "the washington post" as a leading liberal-progressivist newspaper of the late 20th century. well, all of these factors and more go into creating a media that we have today, so much so that by 1986 robert and linda lichter, a husband and wife team, along with stanley rothman, their collaborator, were able to write a book called "the media elite," in whic

a horatio alger sort of story. a story of the son of poor irish immigrants who rose to great heights through determination, hard work and sterling character. his is also a wonderful love story. a poor but hard working irish catholic boy be -- boy who fell in love with a new england protestant whose prominent family had come to america in the 1600s. it took 12 years for their love to overcome the vast social and religious gaps that separated them. his name was john joseph donovan, but he was known by one and all as j.j. his story is told in the museum exhibit now showing in the galleries on the floor just below us. it is called the treasures from the trunk: the j.j. donovan story. i had the privilege of cur rating -- curating that exhibit. well, the donovan story begins in 1845 when a terrible blight struck the potato crop of northern europe. the potato had become the staple food that sustained the poor of your. of europe. especially the poor catholic population of ireland. failure of the potato crop resulted in the