but sadly, israel and osher with like a tremendous and, very closed. >> thank you, antony loewenstein for joining us, co- founder of independent australian jewish voices. he has been closely following the prisoner x story brick we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> we turn now to a remarkable investigation into law enforcement's unregulated use of young confidential informants in drug cases. on monday, new yorker staff writer sarah stillman won a george polk award for her eight- month investigation on the topic. her article is called "the throwaways." is spurred calls for reform in several states. in your article, she describes how police broker deals with young, untrained informants to perform high-risk operations with few the go protections in exchange for leniency. the results can be fatal. one such informant, detroit teenager shelly hilliard, was murdered after being caught by police with less than an ounce of marijuana and agreeing to set up her drug dealer in o