the us federal court has imposed a gagging order on jailed journalist barrett brown he's facing more than one hundred years. in prison over his work related to exposing on line surveillance was being seen as the latest example in the campaign targeting investigative journalism and whistle blowing by the obama administration i mean martin takes a closer look at breaking the set coming up at eight hundred g.m.t. . that's a good journalist barrett brown has been in prison for nearly a year for shedding light on the dark underbelly of the private intelligence world and now he can't even talk about it federal court order just imposed a gag order on brown is the fence team that her bentham from discussing the details of the case with anyone from the media brown faces up to one hundred five years behind bars for a number of charges including posting a link to information already available on the internet and threatening a federal agent in a you tube video well guess who was the only testifying witness of the gag order hearing none other than robert smith the same f.b.i. agent who raided bro

. >> is that because it includes barrett brown and his lawyers? >> the problem is not picking out barrett brown or the lawyers, but usually there is actually some tangible threat poisoning the jury pool or something like that. alternatively, there might be some threat coming out of this but that is preposterous. i think about a case where an oj type case where it will be impossible to find a neutral jury. we are talking about a case for the most part, .1% of the population has ever heard of them? >> can you walk us through some of the original arrest warrants and walk us up to this point? >> the whole thing started with the project p.m. that was a website and a journalism project that he had running where they would crowd source the investigation of private intelligence company's and what they were up to. and then there was the hack that took place by a kid named jeremy hammond. it yielded something like 5 million e-mails. jeremy put those e-mails up on pirate bay, somebody in anonymous broadcast the location of that data. he took that link, copie

well internet privacy activist barrett brown came on r.t. america numerous times in the past to speak his mind he also worked with hacktivist groups like anonymous he spoke out on issues from the trial of p.f.c. manning to cyber attacks but now a federal court has approved of a media gag order on brown and his attorneys pending his trial the thirty two year old has been in federal custody for about a year now he faces up to one hundred years in prison for a number of charges for his alleged role within anonymous but are gag orders like this common and is this is an attempt to prevent the media from covering this case while i was joined earlier by peter ludlow he's a philosophy professor at the northwestern university and i began by asking him if there was some sort of a precedent for gag orders like this. well i don't know if there's a precedent for gag orders like this the people i've talked to said that this one is a little bit exceptional i'm not an expert in that particular area and how do you know if the how is it exceptional is that ju

that's a good journalist barrett brown has been in prison for nearly a year for shedding light on the dark underbelly of the private intelligence world and now he can't even talk about it federal court order just imposed a gag order on brown is the fence team that her bentham from discussing the details of the case with anyone from the media brown faces up to one hundred five years behind bars for a number of charges including posting a link to information already available on the internet and threatening a federal agent in a you tube video well guess who was the only testifying witness of the gag order hearing none other than robert smith the same f.b.i. agent who raided brown's home last year and brown is charged with threatening to flee a guy with an unbiased opinion on the legality of a gag order now according to the court's decision a gag order is meant to protect brown's right to a fair trial because there's just so much media coverage about the case you know between c.n.n. as miley cyrus twerking updates and amazon receives pounding at the syrian war drums government has been a

what's up guys i'm having martin welcome to breaking the sat so investigative journalist barrett brown has been in prison for nearly a year for shedding light on the dark underbelly of the private intelligence world and now he can't even talk about it federal court order just imposed a gag order on brown is the fence team that prevents them from discussing the details of the case with anyone from the media brown faces up to one hundred five years behind bars for a number of charges including posting a link to information already available on the internet and threatening a federal agent in a you tube video well guess who was the only testifying witness of the gag order hearing none other than robert smith the same f.b.i. agent who raided brown's home last year and brown was charged with threatening yep definitely a guy with an unbiased opinion on the legality of a gag order now according to the court's decision a gag order is meant to protect brown's right to a fair trial because there's just so much media coverage about the case you know between c.n.n. as miley cyrus twerking updates a

what's up guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking the sad so investigative journalist barrett brown has been in prison for nearly a year for shedding light on the dark underbelly of the private intelligence world and now he can't even talk about it federal court orders just imposed a gag order on brown is the fence team that prevents them from discussing the details of the case with anyone from the media brown face that one hundred five years behind bars for a number of charges including posting a link to information already available on the internet and threatening a federal agent and a you tube video well guess who was the only testifying witness at the gag order hearing that none other than robert smith the same f.b.i. agent who raided brown's home last year and after.

twerking updates and amazon receives pounding at the syrian war drums government has been all over barrett brown look at the obvious why they don't want this case to generate attention but i better stop talking before they impose a gag order on me so let's go break the set.

he sees pounding in the syrian war drums government has been all over barrett brown look at the obvious why they don't want this case to generate attention but i better stop talking before they impose a gag order on me so let's go break the set. the please please sir they are very hard to take the target along the line that you ever had sex with her three there's no. such. thing. please. please. please. just a one day after army private manning was sentenced to thirty five years in an all male military prison for exposing war crimes there was an announcement made in a statement manning explained as i transition into this next phase of my life i want everyone to know the real me i'm chelsea manning i'm a female given the way that i feel i have felt since childhood i want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible i hope that you will support me in this transition now of course several times during manning's hearing her sexual identity was brought to the attention of the court and the photo was released of her dressed as a female and although manning has always felt this way she in no w

what's up guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking the sad so investigative journalist barrett brown has been in prison for nearly a year for shedding light on the dark underbelly of the private intelligence world and now he can't even talk about it federal court order just imposed a gag order on brown is the fence team that prevents them from discussing the details of the case with anyone from the media brown faces up to one hundred five years behind bars for a number of charges including posting a link to information already available on the internet and threatening a federal agent in a you tube video well guess who was the only testifying witness at the gag order hearing that none other than robert smith the same f.b.i. agent who raided brown's home last year and brown is charged with threatening definitely a guy.

internet hacktivist barrett brown and his lawyers are barred from speaking to the media about his case brown is in prison for threatening a federal agent and releasing information that was hacked from the defense contractor a threat for well look at the media gag in this case coming up and a battle is brewing between los angeles police and photographers police recently arrested a photographer for taking officers a picture from ninety feet away more on the battle later in today's show.

internet hacktivist barrett brown and his lawyers are barred from speaking to the media about his casebrown has been charged with threatening a federal agent and releasing information that was hacked from a defense contractor a stretch for well look at the media gag on his case coming up. and it's thursday so it's time for our tech reports today we'll tell you how researchers were able to link two minds through the internet that's coming up later in tonight's show.

wayne dyer: well, the whole story about moses, back in the torah, 3,300 years ago, elizabeth barrett browning, in the 1860s, wrote a poem about that encounter with god, with moses, and the words go like this, she said: "earths crammed with heaven." i just love that line. "earths crammed with heaven. and every burning bush, a fire with god. and those, but only he who sees, takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries." and what she's saying is you have to see, with a capital "s," and that's when god said to moses, take off your sandals, this is a holy place. babette davidson: i love that. and it's the people who see and watch pbs and appreciate, are the ones who are gonna be calling, everyone else will be eating blackberries. so we hope that you see, and that you're going to the phone right now to say thank you to this pbs station for bringing you dr. wayne dyer and these beautiful ideas. lina is here to encourage you once more to make that phone call. lina heil: thanks babette. we appreciate your attention to this program. we know you've many calls on your time and when