and that was before assange began publishing u.s. secrets, provoking what he calls threatening statements from people close to power. >> what statements are you referring to? >> the statements by the vice president biden saying, for instance, that i was a high-tech terrorist, sarah palin calling to our organization to be dealt with like the taliban and be hunted down. there's calls either for my assassination or the assassination of my staff or for us to be kidnapped and renditioned back to the united states to be executed. >> well, as you know, we have a first amendment and people can say whatever they want, including politicians. i don't think that many people in the united states took seriously the idea that you were a terrorist. >> i would like to believe that. on the other hand, the incitements to murder are a serious issue. and unfortunately, there is a portion of the population that will believe in them and may carry them out. >> if nothing else, wikileaks is the latest demonstration that a small group of people with a powerfu

julian assange, thank you so much for your time, for your perspective. we really appreciate your taking the time this afternoon. >>> and thanks for watching "around the world." "cnn newsroom" starts right after this. >>> right now, too far, not far enough. reaction pouring in about president obama's speech about spies. and a drought emergency. some cities see annual rain amounts 30 to 40 inches below normal. the danger is growing as wildfires spread. and right now with an aarp card and a dance party, the first lady of the united states, michelle obama, marks the big 5-0. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, reporting from washington. we start with president obama's big announcement of sweeping changes to american surveillance. in his highly anticipated speech just a little while ago, he defended the vault collection of

wikileaks founder julien assange ridiculed them as embarrassing. joining us now from the white house we have more on the president's reformed proposal. so what's the reaction been like in washington? >> reporter: fred, president obama was really under a lot of pressure to make some big changes to this program, and what we saw in his proposals is, he left many of the details up to congress to really hammer out and fine tune those details. now, first of all, effective immediately, now nsa

most dangerous especially tater of totalitarianism we have ever seen these are the words of julian assange from his book cyber facts freedom and the future of the internet do you believe there is an effort in left online. yes i do i think there's significant freedom left online. and i don't agree with julian assange says quote i think that although obviously we should be quite concerned about a lot of the recent. revelations about spying and so forth the internet remains the most powerful tool for the spread of freedom in the world today are but in your estimation how much of internet is being controlled right now. virtually none of it you know in general the internet is a very open place where everyone is able to communicate and talk to each other governments try various ways to try to control it but they're almost completely unsuccessful but how are they unsuccessful evolve your personal data is actually being transferred to government agencies i mean everything you read on facebook or in any social media is not just yours or your friends to share with but it's also shared with the n.s.a

what's your evaluation of what assange said, particularly at the end?this is more about what wasn't said. >> well, i generally agree with what he said. i was disappointed in the speech and proposals. i think rhetorical flourishes are not adequate anymore. we have a system where it's in effect a dragnet surveillance of suspicious unless people, it's a violation of the fourth amendment. >> what did you want to hear from the president? >> well, i wanted him to say that we were going to end the bulk metadata information. he did say that he'll end nsa having access to it unless they get a court order, but the pfizer court is secret. we shouldn't have secret courts in america. who's going to appoint if judges and what is going to be the criteria if the public advocate? so, there are some serious problems with regard to not having an adversary system to have the checks and balances on the government's abuse of liberty and privacy. >> michael, is it your view that the president couldn't go further than this? >> during the commission on the 9/11 attacks, they ca

kate blanchard in blue julian assange mine. sandra bull lob in "gravity.". >> for best actor in a leading role. the nominees are christian bale in "american hustle." leonardo dicaprio in "the wolf of wall street." chiwetel ejiofor in "12 years as a slave" matthew mcconaughey for dallas buyers club. >>> "american hustle" for best picture. also for best picture, "captain phillips". dallas buyers club. "gravity." "her." "nebraska." "phil omenia." "12 years as a slave." "the wolf of wall street," nominee to be determined. for the complete list of all the nomination please visit oscar.com. >> and join us sunday night march 2nd to celebrate these incredible artists and films at the oscars. see you then. >> of course that broadcast will be seen right here. you saw chris hemsworth and the president of the academy announcing the nominations. the best movies of the year nominees, "american hustle," "captain phillips"," dallas buyers club," "gravity"," her," "philomenia" and also wolf of wall street. should be an interesting oscar year. it's 5:46 right now. we'll have

to people assange mingle are dying. we're asking the government to listen to what are the legitimate owners of our land . today but might be travel across the caribbean because go on more about you know. officers in crim white uniforms pick up their golden cargo and like we called from nano. there's no question that the united states has a history of intervening and america and fomenting coups and sasa nations the cia has admitted they were deeply involved in their own through carbons and want to well in one hundred fifty three mile a past a major land reform law this was going to have significant effects throughout all of central america it was right around that time that they began to to seriously contemplate a covert operation directed at overthrowing the government to out of. worse central carried off by the us there were major business interests of the company that was most offended by the reforms that were taking place with united fruit company on the board of united fruit was john foster dulles who happen to be o

edward snowden falls into the camp of julian assange and there will be another one in two years and this discussion about whether or not we trust as americans our government to participate in spying activities of this scale is the bigger question. >> self-interest of the u.s. government is to get under control what he has, and if that involves negotiations and a plea bargain i don't think that's a bad deal, all of the politics aside. >> clemency for snowden -- >> people in the country should be. >> clemency for snowden and you will get more snowdens. >> is it in president obama's character to reverse cause under pressure? >> you know, reverse course, i don't know that he has said absolutely, he hasn't closed the door, and you know, i think he has said that snowden broke the law and should come back and face charges. he can come back and face charges. >> what more do you want, you said he broke the law. >> and then you can have -- again, plea bargains go on every day in courtrooms. >> it is absolutely in president obama's political nature to change course as it is with most politicians an

keynote speaker jacob knows what it means to be prosecuted he's a close friend and supporter of julian assange. to be free from suspicion is one of the first freedoms that is important for being free in the rest of your life when you are followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. routinely intercept american citizens' emails. the. americans. conversations. google searches. text messages. orders. bank records. but there was general alexander some most powerful person in the world probably even more powerful than the president of the united states or any at leader of any other country. first of all because we know for a fact. we know for a fact from our client that the n.s.a. was in fact doing dragnet surveillance of all of those things well i mean i don't really use a mobile phone for anything except security research these days. so i don't really use a mobile phone i choose not to use facebook because i really think it's. just there's systems that make trade offs that are not democratically decided. the icela

well this is exactly what one irish adamic decided to do to draw attention to the fate of julian assange john edward snowden is a new calendar really is the best way to emphasize the integrity of whistle blowing well to discuss that i'm now in joined by dr dobson fuller herself dr fuller thank you very much for your time thank you for inviting me now the reason governments are so unhappy with missile blowers is essentially because they point to the fact that emperor has no clothes but i guess you decided to take this idea literally well yes i mean you are correct and indeed this theme of the calendar ties into whistleblowing in that it's about revealing the truth i worked as a model while i was writing my ph d. mainly as an art nude model for artists but also for photographers and that's why when i began to get very interested in whistleblowing when his revelations came out which were of course highly relevant to my line of work i began to think what can i do to actually have an impact as well on this situation to raise awareness but also to raise money for it and because i had quite a f

numerous protests in support of whistleblowers such as julian assange bradley manning and edward snowden have taken place around the world in recent years our team meets one woman who chose a different way to show her support for the movement. she's a lawyer she's got a ph d. in international law and she was a lecturer but she's also posed for. what some would say would be provocative or racy photos of her age she says is to raise funds and awareness for the works of whistleblowers and other activists like that today we're joined by dr rolls with a fuller thanks very much for joining us today but what i'd like to know is why did you choose this matter of getting awareness why not another way well actually i have written articles on whistleblowers in the military so i have actually written quite a lengthy article is not going to be published but i really thought that. in order to make a difference to. you as we know are in jail or you know at the moment i needed to involve myself in a more material way and i thought well how can i do something that isn't just a matter of talking i think t

or a little bit of humor for all those wow now speaking about the gravity of the situation julian assange have spanned more than a year and they are quite aware and amber see chelsea manning is facing thirty five years in prison edward snowden's face is still pretty much up in the air and while there was some initial public discontent following dire revelations by now it has essentially gone back to normal and people are no longer really excited well at least from my perspective about that so much. is it likely do you think that we will see anyone else blowing the whistle on the government's wrongdoing given that even when you have such substantial revelations such scandalous revelations as for example. made by edward snowden since. but even something like that is still unable to change the way governments are operating yes i do think i do think there is a lot of lethargy in our system and i do think an issue is that our representative system isn't really necessarily that representative we do people every four years to make these decisions however while for and campaign finance plays a ve

ogres ok once again accu in paul krugman says there's deflation we need to print christine legarde assange oh the deflationary ogre's we need to print the e.c.b. there's deflation we need to print mark carney well there's not sure about inflation but got to be careful about deflation we've got to print doesn't doesn't printing money. to feed the zombie banks in fact is that the number one. deflation it will it will exacerbate things much more than the thinking from that perspective because they're basically the way they're doing it is by buying exchanging cash for bombs so instead of the set of bankers that used to make money being the bankers of the government by basically giving a home for the government paper and now the state is basically saying to the people look we'll make you wealthy if you just hold on to government bonds interest rates will go to zero you'll have these huge profits and you know you'll you'll make a fortune like all of the bankers i was given example just b.c. just announce that they've got a seventy billion pound black hole of debt. so seventy billion dollars of t

regulations along with harsh criticism against the protection provisions what he likes founder julian assange describes the section as quote a truth like a toothless public relations exercise and media sugar water the tepee negotiations have been conducted behind closed doors much so you know i meant of transparency advocates since this is described as the most historic international agreement since nafta congressman peter de fazio went on the big picture with host tom hartman last night and explained who has access to the t p p negotiating documents the way it works now is. being shared real time we six hundred corporations were deemed to be special created by czars given access to what is a classified document this document is classified the tremors are congress' cancer i can see it i can see it alone i have to make a specific request for what parts of it i want to look at and i can't take notes and i can't talk about it after i've read it. the last fifteen to go ga sions were held in salt lake city back in november wiki leaks obtained draft documents from that meeting and has been releasin

from a white house appointed panel that gave forty six suggestions where he leaks founder julian assange tweeted that it's clear the president would not be speaking today were not for snowden and whistleblowers before him the debate around edward snowden who leaked american intelligence to the public about six months ago continues to see a wide range of praise and scrutiny for his actions some consider him to be a hero and referred to have as a whistle blower while others say he has put americans and expecting troops and danger within the intelligence committee he is widely seen as an enemy to america a pentagon official who is a former special forces officer told buzz feed i do not take pleasure and taking another human being like human beings life having to do it in uniform but he is singlehandedly the greatest traitor in american history he also said i'd love to put a bullet in this head one thing that everyone agrees the current conversation about surveillance would not be happening without these leaks from snowden are some sacks was at the president's speech and brings us this repor

>> i view him as i do juliana jn julian assange.as a whistle blower. >> we respectfully listen to concerns of the u.s. government that publishing a story is going to actually harm national security and we balance those concerns against the born impore and the newsworthiness of the information and our primary duty which is to keep the public informed. >> and for our entire interview with jill abramson watch "talk to al jazeera". this sunday. >>> just ahead, the republicans plan to win over women voters. and controversy for a summer olympic athlete going through the winter olympic sport. >> new controversy for former nba all-star, dennis rodman. he might have violated sanctions in his visit to kim jong-un earlier this month. violated the law import being luxury goods, into this country. fine crystal, designer clothes, other gifts worth more than $10,000. >>> well, when the winter olympics get underway next month, there will be a famous face on the u.s. winter olympic bobsled. but there -- she is more familiar for the summer olympics.

. >> julian assange, the nomadic founder of the website wikileaks, is under legal and personal attackthe u.s. government for publishing military and diplomatic secrets. when we met him, he was under house arrest in the english countryside, where we conducted the most extensive television interview he's given about his life, his beliefs, and his concern about being charged and extradited to the united states.

. >> julian assange, the nomadic founder of the website wikileaks, is under legal and personal attackshing military and diplomatic secrets. when we met him, he was under house arrest in the english countryside, where we conducted the most extensive television interview he's given about his life, his beliefs, and his concern about being charged and extradited to the united states. >> it is completely outrageous.

. >> julian assange, what is your response to the verdict? symbol.portant bradley manning's incarceration is also important some all. .radley manning is now a martyr you did not choose to be a martyr. i don't think it is a proper way r activists to behave to choose to be martyrs. men, allegedly in the case of bradley manning and clearly in the case of edward snowden, have risked their freedom, risked their of us.or all that makes them heroes. in a statement just released this morning, radley manning thanked supporters and announced lands to live as a woman under the name chelsea manning. manning said -- tens of thousands gathered in washington, d.c. on saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom, originally held on august 28, 1963. democratic congress member john lewis of georgia o'neill the surviving speaker from the 1963 march, said the struggle for racial and economic justice continues today. >> we are one people, one family, one house. we all live in the same house. [applause] so i say to you, my brothers

. >> but establishing that sort of trust with you that when you were on the phone with julian assangewith you fliming. >> how do you get people to come out like that? >> i think it's a -- it takes a a lot of time, i mean you film, i think in this film, we filmed over 300 or 400 hours of footage. >> i remember being very self-conscious about you in the beginning, but a week later, i almost forgot you were there. >> we spent several months after harva harvard, we were at stanford for a very short time. and san jose state university. it was actually in a sense, maybe more difficult because young people, you know, their lives are hectic and we wanted to get into the stream of their life to see what college is doing well for them and what it's not doing so well. >> well, that's all for this televised special edition of "reliable sources" from park cities, utah. we have a lot more coverage, including a big drop in the ratings at the beginning of "american idol" this season. >>> three al jazeera reporters remain in prison in egypt, but there was a glimmer of hope on friday. >> we have got a

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