cnn's barbara starr following developments and joins us live at the pentagon and join us via skype is steven razor, a judge advocate in the army. thank you both for joining us. barbara, first, why don't you give us the key details of this new plan. >> well, it is sort of a sex offender's list, michla. what the navy and marines are going to do, start publishing a list of court-martials. including sex offenders, people up on sexual assault charges. they will publish the charges. the details. the disposition of the cases, whether they are convicted, acquitted, what the punishment was. one key difference from civilian sex offenders' lists, the names will not be published. those could be gotten perhaps through a freedom of information act. why are they doing this? the military is under tremendous pressure from congress to show that it's taking action against the sexual assault crisis. the feeling in the navy is this will bring more public attention to it, it's one of several

. >> here is barbara starr. >> reporter: a new conclusion about edward snowden.t could have been worse. one u.s. officials tells cnn snowden did not get the quote, crown jewels of the national security agencies secretive surveillance programs. he did not get access to the most sensitive information. contests of intercepts of communication of terrorists and other countries. the u.s. intelligence community has been reviewing what the computer programmer stole according to a u.s. official. that's not to say it wasn't damaging. >> our adversaries have noticed these revelations. it's too early to tell if it will have impact. >> reporter: since the leaks the u.s. has seen signs of terrorists changing passwords and ensuring their communications are encrypted. >> we have concrete proof that terrorists are making changes, taking action and it will make our job tougher. >> reporter: officials insist they are not suddenly down playing snowden's revelations. it will now take two people to down load some classified information. information will be more segmented making it har

. >> let's bring in barbara starr. always a pleasure to see you. 22 charges he initially faced. he plead guilty to a dozen of them. the big one yet to come. >> that is right, michael. it's the whole issue now aiding the enemy. that's the crucial charge. about one hour from now we'll find out what the judge has ruled. if he is convicted of aiding the enemy, this 25-year-old private first class could spend the rest of his life in jail. he's plead guilty to some lesser charges that could net him a 20-year sentence. about an hour from now we'll find out her final ruling. there's no military jury in this case. it's all being decided by the judge. this is really underscoring this fundamental debate going on in the united states and so many places around the globe. personal privacy, keeping the government's secrets. request a whistle blower leak classify information or is this a case of a member of the united states military basically betraying this country. michael. >> appreciate that. barbara starr there at the pentagon and edward snowden will probably be watching that closely althou

barbara starr joins us. what is the latest? >> the judge is going to hear both sides on how much damage did bradley manning's leaks really hurt national security? was it damaged to national security? the prosecution, the government, says yes. the defense says look at things like that video. it's all about embarrassing the government. manning was disillusioned with the war, he was troubled by what he saw like the matter in that video, and he wanted the public to know what was going on. that's the defense's case. the prosecution sees it very differently. >> is manning really looking at 136 years in prison, or in the end, could it really be a much shorter time? >> reporter: well, that would be the maximum. you know, there is an interesting wrinkle in that question, because the judge has already said she will knock off about 112 days off any sentence he gets because of the time he served at a military prison here in the washington area in which he was held in solitary confinement, stripped naked. the government again said that was

korean ship in panama and what was on boards that ship may have international implications our barbara starr the latest. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence had been tracking the ship for days and knew that the panamanians would stop it a senior u.s. official tells cnn. officials believe it was a radar used to help cuba sa-2 surface to air missiles hit the targets and that cuba was possibly sending it back to north korea for an upgrade. >> it's going to take some time to confirm the details of this case but that kind of expert will be on the u.s. security council. >> reporter: according to a james on may 31st, the north korean ship first entered the panama from cuba at its stated destination. and next reappeared on the northern end of the candle on july 11th. the ship was riding differently in the water, a strong suggestion of a new cargo load. bags of sugar marked "cuba" now visible in the cargo, laid on top of the weapons material. >> what's provocative is it wasn't declared. it had to be discovered. it had to be uncovered. so the north koreans clearly were trying to get away with something. >>

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cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr is here with the very latest. barbara, both prosecution and defense have presented their cases. what is next in the court-martial of bradley manning? >> reporter: well, good morning, michaela. bradley manning back in court later today. and the judge will start hearing the argument from the prosecution as the defense over this whole issue of dropping some of the most contentious charges. the one of course the defense wants to see either dropped or get a summary judgment on, in other words, the judge simply says you're not guilty, is the charge of aiding the enemy because that could put bradley manning in a military jail for the rest of his life. he's already pled guilty to some lesser charges that could get him the maximum of 20 years in prison. so this will be very key. both sides have rested their initial cases. the judge, there is no jury in this matter, will hear the motions today for dismissal of some charges, summary judgment, a finding of not guilty on other charges, and then we could see the prosecution come

barbara starr, thank you very much. i want to bring in gordon chang right now, the author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world" and tim clemente. let me start with you, gordon. you hear barbara talking about what was on the ship, the cargo, the missile radar intercepter. what does this tell you? >> well, it tells us that the north koreans are not only prelif rating to asia and the middle east but also into our hemisphere. this is a country which is just 90 miles away from american shores. now, if they can smuggle missile radar into cuba, you know god knows what else they can put there, because we do not need a replay of the cuban missile crisis. this time with the north koreans with their finger on the triggers rather than the soviets. >> tim, how worried should this country be, should the united states be about these ties between north korea and cuba. gordon laid out a possibly frightening scenario. >> obviously the more that the western world extricates the north koreans and the cubans into a little co

. >> sources have told cnn's barbara starr that snowden doesn't have the crown jewels of the nsa.xtremely compartmentalized information. it seems that you guys differ on this. why is that? >> well, you know, barbara starr is very good at going to government officials and having them whisper in her ear and repeating what they say and calling that reporting. the way i like to do reporting is by going and looking at actual documents, not listening to what government officials tell me in secret and then passing it on. i've seen the documents. what i know about these documents is that some of them, by necessity, are very sensitive because he needed to have documents to prove that what he was saying was true, and some of the documents that he took to show that what he was saying was true contain sensitive material. very technical information and the like, and he, when he came to us said, i do not want any of this sensitive information revealed. i don't want to harm the united states. i simply want to shine light on what government officials are doing in the dark that american citizens s

barbara starr is at the pentagon with the latest. barbara?s the actual content of nsa communications intercepts, the actually conversations between terrorists, for example. he didn't get that far into the system, but, you know, skeptics may wonder if they are now downplaying him because he's still at large. government officials say absolutely not, he caused real damage. terrorists are taking notice of what has been released and they are now trying to reconstruct some of the government intercept networks, move things around, get back fully into business. there are some fixes under way post snowden, if you will. more passwords, two-man download systems, and very interestingly, they believe now they know how he did get to everything, that there was simply too much data, too much information in one place in the nsa computer systems. snowden knew it and he got into that. michaela? >> barbara starr, thank you. >>> here's to other things we need to know. investigation under way into what caused the nose gear to collapse on a flight into laguardia ai

let's bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr and also the military analyst at yale law school. this leak involved 750,000 classified pages of documents and videos. barbara, walk us through, when will we precisely learn what manning is facing? >> the court has been called back into session at this hour. we expect it at any minute. cnn has people in the courtroom. as soon as it's read and military security allows them to leave the courtroom we'll get the information and we'll bring it to our viewers immediately. as you say on the table bradley manning 25 years old, private first class in the army. this young man could be facing in the next few minutes learning he will spend the rest of his life in jail if he's convicted of aiding the enemy. he's already pled guilty to some lesser charges that could get him a sentence of 20 years. the judge swrouwould have to ac that. all of us are waiting to hear the latest details. >> he's 25 years old. professor, the most serious charge, charge number one that he gave intelligence to the enemy through indirect means and that carries life in pr

barbara starr joins me from the pentagon to explain. what's the story here, barbara?ternational intrigue. ten years old. spanning several continents. now back in the headlines today. the man, robert felden lady. we do not have a picture of him. he was the cia chief in milan, italy, ten years ago. very much part of secret operations. now the italians confirming he was arrested in panama. he is wanted back in italy. he was convicted in absentia for his role in what was said to be, several years ago, a cia covert operation to seize and arrest a muslim cleric off the streets of milan, send that man to egypt where the man says he was tortured, all for what is said to be the cleric's role in trying to recruit fighters for the wars in afghanistan and iraq. the man, robert selden lady, was suspected and convicted of being part of that operation, you know, back ten years ago. it was all very much something the cia participated in under cover with other intelligence services around the world. seizing and arresting suspected terrorists, sending them to secret prisons in various

barbara starr has the latest from the pentagon, good morning, barbara. >> good morning, kate.this ship, the crew not only resisted arrest, but the captain tried to fake a heart attack, and when that didn't work, then committed suicide. the panamanians are furious about this. they thought there were drugs on board, they stopped it, they started searching, and they found what they believe are missile parts. the president of panama tweeting this photo coming right out in public and showing what his people found onboard this ship. it appears to be missile parts, at least in shipping containers. he is now asking for an international team of inspectors to go aboard this ship and find out exactly what is hidden on this ship. why is this so important? of course, the panama canal, a major transit zone for the international economy for shipping. the panamanians take great pride in controlling it. they are not happy about this alleged smuggling attempt by the north koreans. >> a lot of people aren't happy about this alleged smuggling attempt. great to see you, barbara, thank you so much.

>> barbara starr. we know you'll stay on it for us, barbara.. >>> the late actor paul newman created a summer camp for sick children to escape reality, naming after the hole in the wall gang from his blockbuster film "butch cassidy and the sundance kid." now newman's friend alec baldwin is carrying on in his mission in making an impact for these kids. >> hi. i'm alec baldwin. and we can make an impact on children's cancer. i've been involved with the hole in the wall gang camp in connecticut around 20 years now. and the reason i got involved was a friend of mine introduced me to paul newman. >> i got a fish! >> when you come to the camp, what's interesting is you see the joy on the kids' faces. they're having an experience here that they would likely only have here. the parents that you spend most of the time talking to discuss what they've been going through. and they've been going through a lot. because there's just nothing more vexing, i think, than to have a child who has a grave illness. and you're powerful to do something about that. thes

. >> barbara starr, thank you very much. tonight in washington the white house sending a huge message and one that a lot of you wondered if they would send. the obama administration taking its first direct action against egypt's military for the ouster which many call a coup. the pentagon says it is going to delay the delivery of four f-16 fighter jets to egypt. the white house also said that today's decision isn't going to affect the aid that america sends to egypt. jessica yellin is at the white house. morsi's ouster was three weeks ago. this administration has been very quiet in terms of taking action. >> reporter: in part because they have been unhappy with the pace of transition to civilian rule and also because they don't like the treatment of the opposition which they think is continuing and they are increasingly unhappy with what they are seeing on the street. they also decided now they just want to send a warning. this is a signal that things could get worse if they don't see some improvement quickly. they decided n

barbara starr is working this part of the story for us. i know it was a serious breach.the breach? what did snowden get, what didn't he get? we're getting new information. >> reporter: indeed, wolf. what are the crown jewels of the nsa? well, an official explains to us that would be the content of the international intercepts that they collect. the recordings, the conversations that terrorists might have amongst themselves about planning an attack. they now believe, and this is their belief, that edward snowden did not get access when he downloaded thousands of documents from the nsa. there that as a contractor, he did not get access to that most sensitive information. they call it eci, extremely compartmented information. they say they are not down playing what snowden got, that he had plenty of information about some programs, how they worked, how they ran. they don't believe he has full understanding of some of the documents he has. now, we cannot independently confirm this. we don't really know. we know what we are told. officials say they are not down playing it and

barbara starr investigates for "outfront." >> reporter: in the latest war of words drama, glen greenwald snowden story, said snowden still has highly classified documents that could threaten the u.s. >> they also contain the blue prints of how the nsa is doing these things. >> reporter: blueprints that could leak -- [ inaudible ] how it actually works. greenwald told cnn, snowden is not out to harm the u.s. >> what i am saying is that the claim that he's trying to harm the u.s. government is ludicrous. he's done the opposite. he has been incredibly responsible in asking us to report on this story as judiciously as we can. >> reporter: but then there is this. >> if i were the u.s. government, i would be hoping and praying that he stays in control of how these stories are being reported because of how responsible he's been. >> reporter: it is just part of the reason official washington says snowden is a criminal. >> every day this man is a fugitive on the run. he puts the united states and national security more at risk. >> he riveminds everyone what h could have done. >> i had the capabil

barbara starr joins us now with the latest. hi, barbara. nice to see you. >> hi, pamela. yes.ng arguments under way in private first class bradley manning's court-martial and everybody is watching to see what will happen. this is not a military jury trial. there is only a military judge. and she will be weighing the arguments. was bradley manning a traitor? did he betray his country? was he a principled advocate and see things going on in the war that he did not like? downloaded documents and brought them to the public eye. it is this fundamental debate going is on right now about the government's right to keep information classified. the public's right to know. and personal issues of privacy. lot of comparisons being made to snowden, of course. but a lot of people will tell you bradley manning's quite different. he disclosed intelligence about certain activities in the field. intelligence at a point in time. know den disclosed how the government tries to collect intelligence. >> considering a military judge is deciding here, do we know how soon a verdict will come down? >> we

barbara starr is out front. >> reporter: when you think of panama, you think of the panama canal. suddenly this week panama is at the center of two international intrigues. panamanian security forces stand guard as cuban weapons are unloaded from a north korean freighter. weapons hidden under bags of cuban sugar. >> translator: honestly, this kind of military equipment can't go through the country while declaring it is something else. >> reporter: then, an international manhunt lands in panama's lap. a former cia operative wanted by italian authorities is arrested, robert lady faced a prison term in an italian jail for cia kidnapping of a muslim cleric. just as suddenly, he was husbandled out of panama. >> it is my understanding that he is in fact either en route or back in the united states. >> reporter: they appear unrelated, but it highlights panama's role as a key u.s. ally. for panama, nothing is more important than the canal. 14,000 ships a year carry more than $100 billion in cargo, 60% comes through u.s. ports. steve atkiss consults for panama security services. >> they ha

extorted notorious affairs makingber senate headlines and barbara starr is following this. >> reporteras one of 23 americans convicted in an italian a years ago, innocent of his role in kiz npg a muslim cleric, abu amar'e taken off the streets ofry man sent to egypt and tortured in a secret pridson part of america's ken tigs program send people in the early years of the war on prism. robert said to be in the hands of the panamanians. will the cia try to keep him from being sent back to italy and possibility serving the eight-year prison term in italy that he is facing. >> barbara starr thank you. >>> for the 130 million americans suffering under this intense heat relief is on the way. the sprowling heat dome that smuggled the northeast and midwest is on its way out, it placed a cooler front on the edge which should take the edge off of the weather. >>> hold on, that's what the department of justice is asking the police in sanford, flrks, to do with george zimmerman's gun andert evidence from the murder trial. the doj is investigating whether trayvon martin's fatal rights were violated.

barbara starr is live from the pentagon for more.rt marshall you've been following from the beginning and gone on for a long time and now we move on to sentencing. >> good morning, kate, as the judge moves to the sentencing phase later today, one of the key questions for her will be how many years should bradley manning spend in jail based on the damage that he caused to national security, and damage to national security is also a question facing the other leaker, edward snowden. private first class bradley manning technically was spared a life sentence when the judge ruled he was not guilty of aiding the enemy. manning gave three-quarters of a million pages of classified documents about the wars in iraq and afghanistan to wikileaks, the anti-secrecy website. the military accused him of putting lives in danger, saying some of the material was found in osama bin laden's compound. manning said he just wanted the public to know what the government was doing. supporters say it's a partial victory. >> the only reason why the government pr

barbara starr has the very latest for us live at the pentagon, barbara?ds the rest of his life in jail for leaking documents to wikileaks. aiding the enemy, first up, that is the one if convicted that could get him life in prison. also wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, transmitting national defense information, theft of public property or records. manning has already pled guilty to some lesser charges that could get him 20 years in jail, but about five hours from now, we will find out exactly what the military judge has in mind. michaela? >> of course, something we'll be following here on cnn. barbara starr, thanks so much for that. >>> a 58-year-old woman charged with vandalizing the washington national cathedral. she was found holding cans of green paint after they discovered green paint splattered in two of the church's chapels. police aren't saying if the case is maybe connected. >>> a pennsylvania teenager trapped in her wrecked suv right there for over 18 hours. police say brooke spence's vehicle tumbled into a culvert

don't forget that barbara starr was reporting u.s. marines stationed in southern europe are on alert as a precaution. they could go in very quickly if the situation turned into that. >> are official at the state department yet defining whether or not this was a coup. as you know, there is legislation that was passed by congress, signed into law by the president if there is a military coup that could end u.s. military and economic assistance, which totals about a -- >> right, and other money for other purposes, but they are not. i asked that question it's a crucial question, you're right, is it a coup, because that would define whether or not the u.s. would have to pull the aid. however they're saying that it could have a waiver if they decided it was in the national security interest in the united states, or there might be another reason. so they'll be looking for that definition if they give it very soon. it actually has a lot of implications to say it's a coup, so i'm sure they won't do it lightly or very quickly. >> jill dougherty,

our pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports. two.owden found themselves in jobs with access to critical national security secrets of the u.s. government. both would leak classified documents, both accused of harming national security. after maning's leaks. >> it puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >> reporter: the same dire warnings when snowden went public. >> people may die as a consequence of what this man did. >> reporter: they seem to be too similar cases with the same question, how often damage was really caused? private first class bradley maning downloaded thousands of classified do you means with battlefield details about the wars in iraq and afghanistan and state department activities around the world. all of it ending up on wikileaks. they are raising money for manning's defense. he says the government hiked the threats maning's leaks posed. >> they would not have gone recorded with great impact. it's more embarrass

barbara starr says the military -- the justice department wants to try to build the case. it prefers to do it through the federal court system. >> and a lot of democrats saying this is just a political witchhunt, if you will, but the commotion is going to continue. >> the commotion will continue. there's been a key shift, and this is part of the key shift, a lot of republicans, about two at the state department said what. and a cover-up involving the president, the leadership in the republican party and some of the more moderating forces, i will say, will urged republicans to keep the focus on benghazi. but to keep the focus on two things. one, why were all the security warnings before the attack ignored? why were the americans left? they believe that's a legitimate inquiry in which the american people broadly support, and now here, as we approach the one-year anniversary, it says it's a damn good question. >> john king, with his reporting, thank you. let's bring in one of the republican lawmakers who signed that her to the new fbi director, he's a member of the judiciary

barbara starr reports. >> reporter: high drama when the panamanian president detailed what happened next captain and the crew members. the captain initially suffered what seemed to be a heart attack, then he tried to commit suicide. >> reporter: panama showed the smuggled material including what the u.s. believes is a surface to air missile radar hidden under bags of sugar from cuba. >> translator: honestly this kind of military equipment can't go through the country while declaring it is something else. especially hiding it as you can see for yourselves. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence had been watching the ship for days and knew in advance that panama would stop the freighter, a senior u.s. official tells cnn. the north korean ship is believed to have first gone to cuba, picked up the missile radar, and was headed back through the panama canal. u.s. officials are looking at the possibility that cuba was sending the equipment to north korea for an upgrade. >> it's going to take some time to confirm the details of this case, but that would be a violation of the security council resolution

cnn's barbara starr is at the pentagon with the latest. ood morning, chris. now, cuba is giving their side of the story. north korea is not talking and the u.s. wants to know exactly what was on that ship. u.s. intelligence had been tracking the ship for days and knew that the panamanians would stop it, a u.s. senior official tells cnn. they believe the cargo on board was a radar used to help cuba's surface to air missiles hit their targets and that cuba was possibly sending it back to north korea for an upgrade. according to a statement by cuba's foreign ministry, the equipment found by panamanian authorities included 240 tons of obsolete defensive weapons being sent to north korea for a repair. >> take some time to confirm the case. >> reporter: according to the british military publisher, on may 31st the north korean ship first entered the panama canal from the southern end with cuba as its stated destination. went through the canal on june 1 and then next reappeared at the northern end of the canal on july 11th. jane says the ship was r