he wrote a piece about him, "the strange case of barrett brown."bi raid his home in the ultimately is arrested. he faces 100 years in prison? >> yes, if you add up all of the charges and he serves them sequentially, it will be 105 years in prison. >> and the decision for no bail? >> that is a mystery to me. he has been in jail for over 300 days with no bail. thea while they had frozen contributions to his legal fund. >> that sounds like wikileaks, meaning that is what happened -- well, wikileaks they had these different corporations like paypal refuse to allow money. >> right. >> let's go to an interview bear brown did. >> our people break laws, just like all people break laws. when we break laws, we do so in civil disobedience, ethically, against targets -- >> targets that have asked for it. what do you been? >> targets that have engaged that it is either unethical, like contrary to the values of this age like information freedom. >> sometimes just plain common sense in the case of them going after journalists, like wikileaks. >> but you can attac

of over one hundred years in federal prison earlier i spoke to kevin gallagher director freeh barrett brown about his disproportionate prosecution i first asked him to break down the charges barrett is facing and here's be had to say. he's been indicted three times on a total of seventy two counts of the first charges are related to alleged allegedly threatening you tube videos treats the second indictment relates to having a student link into a chat room and charging him with access device fraud and identity theft multiple counts and a certain date maybe is on obstruction for allegedly stealing a laptop during the march creative's is in its mother's. and are they stacked to equate to the. over one hundred years in prison or is there one that carries. time . all told altogether the maximum. he's facing up to one hundred five years in prison i think it's really are a just see what they're doing with transforming these trivial things into multi-county felony indictment it's amazing for people that don't know about his case about what he did can you can you talk about what the stratfor leaks r

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monitoring and surveillance and arresting anyone not to be involved in the group one such person is barrett brown he's a thirty one year old activist and freelance journalist who was arrested by the f.b.i. last september after the agency ransacked us home.

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wheatley's founder julian assange and barrett brown who started this project at the national securitycomplex and the private public workings of that has been set up in a really bad situation by the fbi, facing 100 years worth of charges, and denied bail in a jail in texas right now. so we see leakers, the nfa leaker, bradley manning. these are all people who exposed government illegality, government wrongdoing. you know, the torture program. the nfa people, millions of dollars wasted on these private partnerships that really just funneled money into private hands for useless projects, exposing war crimes. they have been treated accordingly, serving jail time. bradley manning facing a death sentence but the protesters say they will not pursue a death sentence. and the nsa whistleblowers all lifelong career nsa people fired and held at gunpoint, their homes rated, their careers ruined. here's another category of activists that will is an expert on. these are all animal rights and environmental rights activists who have been, who have been actually very effective at the work. the shack s

. >> sreenivasan: paul barrett, bloomberg business week, thanks very much. >> my pleasure. >> brown: next to japan, where the ruined fukushima dai-ichi nuclear plant has been leaking contaminated underground water into the sea, more than two years after the earthquake and tsunami. today, officials at tokyo electric power admitted they delayed releasing that information, saying they didn't want to worry the public. meanwhile, the area around the plant remains deserted. but alex thomson of "independent television news" got brief and rare access. >> reporter: few people ever get in to the fukushima exclusion zone. nobody gets in without protective equipment and screening. "here's the radio to keep in contact" she's telling us. monitoring equipment for radioactivity comes next. then off, out, to the final police checkpoint. we pull in just inside the exclusion zone to suit up. it's becoming a way of life around here. the company that runs the stricken plant have given us five hours in the zone with a radio to keep in contact with us, let us know when our time's up. the regalia in which i