america's andrew blake was at the hearing. i'm p.f.c. manning finished reading his thirty five page statement he turned his microphone off he was done testifying and a handful of members of the press gallery actually journalists began applauding it was something that people had waited for a long time there he was speaking very truthfully and with power about what he did and why he did it and i think that resonated with a lot of people a big small man only five foot two you know one hundred some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read it thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single fact that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he actually honored what he did himself in the way that he actually took still to this day is ok with with releasing information and is aware of the significance i think really shows this was someone who had committed to doing something and

concerns that any form of security research sites could result in prosecutions our web producer andrew blake was at the sentencing and joins us now to tell us all about it hi there andrew here so can you explain the arnheim or is crime in layman's terms you know if you mean if you want to call it a crime i mean the federal government called it a crime is a poem is called a crime but you have sort of a huge legion of supporters now the electronic frontier foundation that you have that is actually taking out his appeal to show just how significant this case is and how much of a stretch it might be as far as what the d.j. is actually doing but to back up what our own home or actually did was back in two thousand and ten when the i pads came out and every upper middle class white person america ran out to the apple store to go buy one eight hundred eighty and apple didn't really know what the hell they were doing so he found out that there was a security flaw to use websites and what he found out was pretty much information about every single i pad when i say information i mean the e-mail addres

andrew blake. coming up nearly ten years ago the war between the u.s. and iraq began over suppose that weapons of mass destruction had we'll look at the cost of the war and ask if the u.s. economy would be in better shape today if that money would have been used at home. the same story doesn't make good news. pieces some tough questions. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit starting in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. we're watching is the serious heavy snow blowing into boston earlier today. you can see it's going to become much more. and there's still a lot of snow out here at least for snow. if. the senate is going to pretty incredible day there and the record snowfall throughout much of it might still be a slog to be driving less and some emergency vehicles are exceptions. let me let me or one order let me ask you a point. here and this is what we have in the bank we have our knives out. the fire was a bad thing mary gearin the phrase we're being i don't want me to talk a

however i did agree that the cables might be embarrassing for more of the new details our producer andrew blake was at the hearing today and joined us earlier from fort meade i asked what these pleas mean for the case. well it all comes down to whether or not the government actually wants to accept his plea now if the government says ok p.f.c. manning we will take your plea of guilty on ten different counts and not guilty on the told others he could face a maximum sentence of twenty years behind bars now there's another chance that the government could accept a plea but at the same time decide to continue prosecuting him under charge of aiding the enemy now if that's the case that is a charge that does does carry life in prison now the government could elect to actually execute manning if they can convict him aiding the enemy but they already said that they would not do that so far from from what we heard today manning did it make guilt to everything for the first time ever actually for the first time after a thousand days they actually stood before a court and said i did this then the other th

s andrew blake opposed to the pieces of the puzzle together. in these e-mails they go back to september twelfth two thousand and twelve and stretch into february sixteenth of this year and that's a couple of months in the day after the benghazi terrorist attacks and the day after those benghazi terrorist attacks happened the american still didn't know what was happening and it took days and weeks actually for the u.s. government to the united nations you obama administration for everyone to get their story straight but what we see in these documents actually put together a couple pieces of the puzzle if everything proves to be correct the sources that we're reaching out to secretary clinton last year and into this year were taking insurgent groups of militant islamic groups in algeria and linking them with not just the attack in benghazi on september eleventh but with the hostage situation that we saw back in january of this group that would be the. directly linked with al qaeda and it's really putting together all sorts of pieces that we haven

cyber attacks on american companies and military computers talk about all this i'm joined now by andrew blake he is our web producer here at r.t. hi andrew so thirteen teams for authentic action what kinds of action are we talking about that's a really good question because keep in mind this is news coming from general keith alexander the head of the n.s.a. and the head of the u.s. cyber command the n.s.a. is the same agency that won't even tell americans if they're being spied on they won't even admit how many americans are spying on their one of the most secret organizations within the united. government so we're not actually hearing a lot about what they're doing and on top of that layer of secrecy what we know about the u.s. cyber of this attacks goes back to an executive order not to the cybersecurity executive order but the policy directive cited by obama last year a public sorry presidential policy directive number twenty actually and it's been a few months and it still remains classified we really don't know what it says other than what we learned from a washington post report a few m

storm a bunker in the netherlands where the company's headquarters located auntie's web producer andrew blake explains exactly how the web battle went global. this is actually just a fight among two companies one guest geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can host lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do online and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally we spoke to someone from from cyber bunker who you know defended it and said it was a stance that was existing. and to be. effect ok or censorship we're going to say which were the job into the bush issue and where they can just go to the website and it would show up and do it on a regular basis if people do not comply with their demands they just missed the yo

history now andrew blake is from the american newsroom and revealing to you you saw the young soldier in the courtroom the weight of the world on his shoulders describe. you know for that for the conditions that private manning is had to suffer during the last almost three years what he did yesterday is his statement his testimony his admission was something way more powerful than i think most people would have expected given what he's had to endure it's been over one thousand days it was detainment since he was first picked up in may two thousand and ten and charged with releasing all this material and since then he's had to undergo so much just completely agree just treatment nonetheless yesterday there he was is a small man only five foot two you know off one hundred some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read it thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he actua

him escape the most serious charge of aiding the enemy that carries a life sentence america's andrew blake was in the courtroom. there's been over one thousand days of detainment since he was first picked up in may two thousand and ten and charged with releasing all this material and since then he's had to undergo so much just completely agree just treatment nonetheless yesterday there he was is a small man only five foot two you know of one hundred and some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read a thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single fact that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he actually honored what he did himself in the way that he actually still to this day is ok with with releasing information and is aware of the significance i think really shows this was someone who had committed to doing something and was aware aware of the repercussions and is ok with that in the press room there was a couple do

between major spam fighting group based in geneva and a dutch web hosting company our web producer andrew blake explains my colleague bill dodd how the battle turned global. this is actually just a fight among two companies one geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet they actually protect one point four billion e-mail accounts across the entire world than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can host lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do online and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i know earlier you guys actually spoke to someone from from cyber bunker who you know didn't go ahead and actually credit himself with that with this attack but kind of defended it and said it was a stance that was existing so that they can go up against this big interna

victims of the a sold claim is so powerful it slowed internet access around the world where producer andrew blake explained. this is actually just a fight among two companies one guest geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can hold us lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do on line and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i think we're seeing something that's a little childish it's between two groups who just don't don't quite get along what's happening as a result of this is the whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions of happening for an entire week now and is you know under investigation and as we saw earlier when we were talking to cyber bunker it seems like tha

dollars in fines if he is actually found guilty i was joined earlier by our team web producer andrew blake who's been following the story since the beginning and he broke it all down for us. yes you know this case has actually been going this investigation going on for a really long time we only really found out about everything yesterday so backing up a little bit i mean you seem to cover all the bases pretty well but keyes was fired from his job at this small time fox affiliate in sacramento back in late two thousand and ten and after he left there supposedly two months later he logged on to a chat room that was frequented by members of anonymous and at some point whether he was in that chat room once or twice or whatever he handed out the log in credentials username and password so that someone could just log on to a company computer and take a look around so what are not happening at least what we've been told is happening in nothing more than this was that someone changed a story on the l.a. times website for around thirty minutes and so on to the computer fraud and abuse act he is no