support network or network at bradley manning dot org we made a lot of progress in getting our message out and the visit ever by the military responded that i'm very hopeful that now that we've replaced the commander of the quantico brig with a new commander that there's will be a change in his status we hope he gets downgraded medium we're giving her time to evaluate the case but this thursday we're doing a national call and a barely million dollar or to the white house so that the commander in chief knows he is responsible for what the marines are doing to bradley manning this kind of pretrial punishment is not acceptable it's not not legal pretrial confinement fine there's no reason for bradley manning to be treated worse than people have been convicted of crimes so we will join urge president obama to take a look at this case and take responsibility by going to bradley manning there already and getting involved our kevin i thank you very much for joining us on of course the range of issues related to wiki leaks thanks so much thank you very much . now the conservative polit

that they didn't have a case against julian assange for espionage for colluding with bradley manning so you know it's a matter of the people who are out there following the story not the one that is being force fed to them by the government through channels who are actually looking at what's really happening and making it very difficult for them to smear julius anjan other people that are in danger so i would agree not so much that glenn greenwald is you know julia songes lifeline so much as he's one of the people who is really out there trying to figure out what really went on and has a lot of credibility and it's keeping you know the government bank of america everybody else from successfully being able to get well which is very important because they're clearly doing everything within their power to try to smear sancerre bradley manning to build criminal cases against them did you ever think that when we first popped up a couple of years ago even if we talk about april of last year when they released the collateral damage video and there was barely any media attention to it that y

when you consider the terrible conditions under which bradley manning is held. really locked down the isolation in solitary confinement to form of torture but many many it's very much a threat against chile. songe also but many people will argue that june in the sun she leaked a lot of information that could potentially put u.s. national security in danger therefore shouldn't be held accountable for that. absolutely absolutely not this is information that people of the world's people of the u.s. people in every country have a right to know and all of this material should be in the public domain it is the secrecy. and the way in which political struggle is political conduct is carried with threat of arms with threat of invasions with all sorts of maneuvers and economic pressure and revealing this also the records the logs on afghanistan and on iraq you could see the criminal criminal conduct all of these wars some massacre sort of taken place the impact of the drone attacks the helicopter gunships where reporters reuters journalists were really assassinated this

by the way you mentioned the bradley manning support network was shut down by pay pal again to the short term appeal but we still can make donations to visa master card etc but so it's not we can still raise money at least we raise a lot money for his defense but he's the guy who really is. in the difficult spot and what's interesting is that even by putting him under such strict conditions they have not broken him to tell lies they would enable link manning to wiki leaks manning to his signage and so where they can post social prosecution over not i don't know it's a very important for people who supported science to get active running it we have a project called wiki leaks is democracy i described how he's democratizing media we can he says democracy dot org is trying to convince the federal government to stop this idea of prosecution if they prosecutor songe it will be the john peters in your case of the twenty first century will define media and it's too late for the government have lost the war there are so many new anonymous ways to give information al-jazeera has one they released

>> i have no idea what the transaction between bradley manning and wikileaks was. >> charlie: this is a good thing or bad thing that we have wikileaks? >> well, i'm tempted to say it is what it is. >> charlie: that's an expression that's overused. >> it has had some good effects and it may have some bad effects. i still you know live in some dread of learning that you know that ordinary afghans have been killed as a result of these documents that reside, still reside on the wikileaks website and that would be demonstrably bad thing. on the other hand these documents have provided us with a deeper richer understanding of what our country is doing on our behalf and in our name and with our tax dollars and not just in afghanistan and iraq but worldwide. >> charlie: some people say it's caused more embarrassment to our friends than it's caused to us. >> well maybe although there are some tangibles and to the extent that what's happening in the streets of egypt, as to what happened in tunisia it's had a secondary effect. >> charlie: it's an extra story. the boy who kicked the hornet's nest

legislation julian sanchez will join me in the studio to speak about it then we'll talk to a friend of bradley manning who's been able to visit him while he's being held in solitary confinement quantico david house will be here to discuss manning's current conditions and the effects that it's had on his health and we regularly speak about the ways that the economic crisis hurts people individuals but what about entire cities they are going broke too and the effects of a city without money could hurt even worse artie's lauren lyster will join me at the end of the program to discuss the growing risk of municipalities defaulting on their debt but now let's move on to the top story the protests in egypt continue today as did the violence egypt's military stepped in to separate pro and anti mubarak protesters journalists are being rounded up and arrested and hosni mubarak said in an interview with christiane amanpour that he's fed up with being president that he would step down immediately but fears that that might cause his country to descend further into chaos but it seems like things are also getting vo

it voted to call for the humane treatment of bradley manning. council didn't go as far as to declare manning a hero, though. >>> cbs news reporter lara logan is in the hospital recovering after a mob of egyptians assaulted her. this photo was taken in tahrir square on friday just moments before the attack in cairo. logan was reporting on president hosni mubarak's resignation when she became separated from her crew. cbs news says a mob of 200 people surrounded her and logan suffered, quote, a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating. last year, logan talked with cnn about the dangers of reporting from war zones. >> i see this as my responsibility, that if you are going to send soldiers to war in other people's lands, you have a responsibility for the people of this country and for the people around the world. >> cbs says logan was saved by a group of egyptian women and soldiers. logan is back in the u.s. she is expected to be released from the hospital soon. >>> 5:40 now. no man wants to go bald in their 20s or go bald at any time for that

last night that calls for the immediate end to the cruel inhumane and degrading treatment of bradley manning. the army private accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks. manny has been held in confinement since back in may. >>> this morning police are calling the disappearance of a vallejo man suspicious. 45-year-old robert mass has been missing since february 8th. he was last seen leaving his home on santa clara avenue to take his dog for a walk. the dog later returned that -- thattive thing -- that've thing dragging her leash. >>> the biggest one is northbound to 280 is shut down because of road repair. we will follow that all morning long. let's take a look at the freeways. as you can see it's wet here. on the east shore freeway traffic is moving well. also this mornings commute at the toll plaza is light. traffic coming into san francisco is good. if you're in the southbound it's already. again, it's wet everywhere. 4:38 let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. we do have a system moving through right now. northbound is on the north edge of it. the rest will move through the mor

suspected of pilfering classified information and passing it on to wikileaks is private first-class bradley manning, who has been held apparently in solitary confinement for several months in pre-trial detention. >> at the end of the day, when the hysteria calms down, they must apply the first amendment to their investigation or prosecution of mr. manning or their investigation and prosecution of wikileaks itself. >> many agree it will be very difficult to prosecute wikileaks if it acted only as a publisher. few expect that organizations like wikileaks are going away. >> there is a void that has formed as a result of the downsizing, so to speak, of journalism. where there were relationships between government officials and beat reporters, there is now a vacuum. wikileaks is one of the things that has stepped in to fill that vacuum. >> the person who founded wikileaks, julian assange, says his goal is to expose unethical behavior by governments and organizations. others question his motives. >> he believed that the publication of this material wou embarrass the uted states and make public a huge gap

certainly don't want anyone revealing our own criminal actions or our holy war crimes the way bradley manning did and and so the united states government is trying to terrify. the sort of new breed of journalism that operates on the internet and particularly julia songe and with wiki leaks trying to shut them up with fear because the united states government has this much to hide is any government and probably more so i think in some sense hillary's speech together with the action by the by the attorney general against wiki leaks against twitter and. this should show the world what are hypocrites the united states is and i don't really know why anyone pays any attention to the pentagon says it's not decided when the top u.s. commander in afghanistan will leave his post to have been a newspaper reports that general petraeus could step down this year he was appointed about eight months ago as part of a senior u.s. stock realisation in the country but as our military contributor says that despite all america's efforts the number of mistakes and afghanistan an increasing. american occupation of a

it voted to call for the humane treatment of bradley manning. the council did not go as far as declaring manning a hero. >>> time now 4:36. a concord woman is now going public about why she hit a 15- year-old girl who had been reported missing by her parents. stephanie cudd of pacheco was reported missing just after thanksgiving. her boyfriend's mother eva nichols was among those consoling girl's parents and helping with the search efforts. the girl's father hired a private detective who eventually tracked the girl down at nichols' home. nichols said the girl accused her father of abuse and neglect. >> it seems absurd. >> i did yell at stewart and stephanie. they cut school for a week. >> i believe that she was in danger. i believe that i was protecting her at the time? >> the teen was returned to her family. nichols hasn't been arrested but she could face charges including providing false information. >>> a judge set to start a hearing evidence today on whether the city of oakland can restrict the activities of 40 suspected gang members. the ci

julian assad could be brought to the us when you consider the terrible conditions under which bradley manning is held of really locked down the isolation of solitary confinement it's a form of torture intimidation and repression is always an effort to stop what already exists and will continue because people all over the world have a drive to know there is a technology technological ability today to reveal this and so the threat of imprisonment in the u.s. is the one specter that they raise just as around the world they raise secret rendition kidnappings and torture such as has been used from grave to. air force space to guantanamo. there has been more bloodshed as colonel gadhafi is clinging to the last vestige of a country which only a matter of days ago he presided over entirely the capital tripoli now reportedly the only part still under his control could out he has called thousands of masteries to defend his bastin and he's faced with more defections from his. death toll from the ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine conflicting reports put the number between two three hundr

how many of you know who bradley manning is?bradley manning is the gentleman who is charged with the crime of leaking the 250,000 cables to wikileaks and also a previous video of two reuters reporters being killed by a helicopter gunship that was shown on abc television that was the first major wikileaks release. what many people don't know is the reason why bradley manning did that act was that he was charged with reviewing the security of individuals who were arrested in iraq for protesting and for trying to undermine the government of iraq, the government of iraq. as he was reviewing their files, these 15 or stew -- so insurgency discovered what they were doing was actually leafleting on the streets asking for more government transparency. and when he realized they were really just items for democracy and not insurgents trying to take the government down he went to his superiors that these people really shouldn't be in jail. they should be out on the street promoting democracy and his boss told him to shut up and go back to t

danger this is a very courageous man and i want to make a quick reference to if it's true that bradley manning is the one who gave these documents or some of them whatever he has given to us in the world we must applaud this man greatly and support him with everything we can he is our days most important hero at least in the west he is he is in dangerous situation in that prison where he is and he will he will be in prison for many years because it will be a military court martial without any justice at all. right now and live from coming back thank you very much. and to egypt now where the anti-government protesters show no sign of giving up after two weeks of revolt the country's new cabinet is set to have its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo's central square demanding president hosni mubarak step down but artie's paula slayer who is in the egyptian capital says parts of the city are trying to return to normal life life here in downtown cairo is slowly returning to some kind of normality a short time ago i got caught in my first traffic jam and a policeman helped me

the salon dot com writer and blogger has continuously spoken out in support of wiki leaks son bradley manning so he's not become one of their main targets they label greenwald as a liberal bent who played a critical role in the transition of wiki leaks away from amazon where the site first accepted donations for its efforts but the response plan also says the greenwald is such a key player that if he's taken out of the picture the site would fold wow who knew that one outspoken activist journalist could be the downfall of this entire site and what exactly do they mean by taken out i think glenn has done some very fabulous reporting on these issues he'll probably take it as a compliment that they see him as such a threat but moving on they list where the current servers are located and the ip address where fresh information comes to the website and here's the part that we just find hilarious this next flight slide they have this picture this is a top secret bunker located somewhere in sweden it's the hope of the that's the i a speech that hosts wiki leaks but they would all think of this looks

bradley manning has been visiting manning over the past few months and just saw him over the past weekend so we'll get the latest on manning's treatment and his condition and the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the lower show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's show or any other night you can always catch it all you tube dot com slash the lower show post the interviews as well as the show in its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. and around the world. this is not a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind us. could transform a criminal into a law abiding citizen. and can performance really revolutionized the penitentiary system. prison. observed nature and discover in. the communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you not see. it. and raced on egypt streets join me in a few moments for more. also ripples from the turmoil in cairo are felt and you are up whether you care becoming a stage for radical groups ban even in

do more reporting on bradley manning? [applause] and the point of his restraint is -- that is actually a good point to end on. >> his is the one voice so far that we have not heard. we all ought to suspend judgment -- to the extent that he will be called to account this, it is important we hear what he thought he was doing. >> [inaudible] >> and the conditions in which he is being held. >> ok, i just want to thank our panelists for being so frank and open. the audience for being so open and interactive thank you very much, indeed [applause] . [applause] "the new york times" has been generous enough to host a reception in the back. if anyone is thirsty enough -- i know i am -- please join us. and you may even get a glimpse of the books that allen promised. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> we will have more on wikileaks in a moment and their effects on foreign policy and diplomacy. an update on the unrest in libya. the u.s. is condemning the

information and at the same time oppose you by that well look i mean the problem is that you can say bradley manning you know signed a note saying he would respect lies about information he broke the law he can be prosecuted for that legally that's true but they've been trying their damndest to prove the case that somehow julian of songs was involved not just in the publication of these documents but in the theft itself and they've been coming up empty so the question now is are they going to try and prosecute a song not as coconspirator in the theft which under the law would be fine but as the near publisher which the congressional research service in a report they put out a couple months back said would raise grave constitutional questions after the precedent set by the pentagon papers case that said. it's a really incredibly high bar to going after a publisher even one who publishes a class of properly classified information i want to thank you very much for joining us well we didn't get to it unfortunately but the house did approve the patriot act last night last week and it is voting as we spea

profile we wrote on bradley manning. on those occasions, i proposed to meet with him, sit down and have dinner. there is something known in the trade as source maintenance. it is a certain amount of -- >> dinner. [laughter] >> dinner and beverages and conversation. you try to explain why you do what you do and they explain why they do things the way they do things. >> alan, just to bring you in, because he maintained a relationship with wikileaks after "the times" had been cut. you enraged them somehat insisting to continue to supply information to "the new york times." how did your collaboration happen? problems.were two one is about the nature of what julian assange was. he's a source. questionable. is he a source? it seems to me, he is probably not a source. he is a new breed of intermediary or activist. >> or journalist. >> he calls himself editor in chief, which is probably a smart thing to do. he's many things. and he wears different hat at different times. and he is also building a brand, and good luck to him. "le

profile we wrote on bradley manning.e occasions, i proposed to meet with him, sit down and have dinner. there is something known in the trade as source maintenance. it is a certain amount of -- >> dinner. [laughter] >> dinner and beverages and conversation. you try to explain why you do what you do and they explain why they do things the way they do things. >> alan, just to bring you in, because he maintained a relationship with wikileaks after "the times" had been cut. you enraged them somehat insisting to continue to supply information to "the new york times." how did your collaboration happen? problems.were two one is about the nature of what julian assange was. he's a source. questionable. is he a source? it seems to me, he is probably not a source. he is a new breed of intermediary or activist. >> or journalist. >> he calls himself editor in chief, which is probably a smart thing to do. he's many things. and he wears different hat at different times. and he is also building a brand, and good luck to him. "leak stuff

how many of you know who bradley manning is? for those of you who did not raise your hands, he was charged with the crime of leaking the 250,000 cables to wikileaks and to a previous video of two reuters reporters. it was the first major wikileaks release. the reason why bradley manning did that at was that he was charged with reviewing the security of individuals who were arrested in iraq for protesting and for trying to undermine the government of iraq. as he was reviewing their files, the 16 or so insurgents, he discovered they were asking for more government transparency on the street. when he realized they were just freedom fighters for democracy and not insurgents trying to take the government down, he went to his superior and said the people should not be in jail, they should be on the streets supporting democracy. his boss told him to shut up and keep researching insurgents. he was so angry he decided he would take some action. he said the system was unfair. he also leaked the reuters of video. when he saw the video of t

>> well, with us it start with a reporter on "the guardian" to read the story of bradley manning, and hat julian assange was essentially on the run -- i don't think that was too dramatic way of putting it. he was a man who is a treasure trove of documents, and nick thought it'd be an interesting man to seek out. and eventually made contact. they met in brussels. and nick persuade him that it would be better rather than crudely dumping the stuff on the internet, if he worked with "the guardian" and the mainstream media. and early on in the conversation he introduced the "new york times" as a way of gaining more impact, of making sense of the documents. and so on. and i think, and julian assange agreed, and we took it from there. i think nick is a judgment call has been borne out by events. i think we have three, won was because of the british, the british media laws are not as robust as the american media laws so we thought that would give a joint enterprise a kind of legal robustness. secondly, we thought it would give us a kind of -- any anybody was going to try to bring down this en

. >>> bradley manning has been held in solitary confinement since being arrested in may. the pentagon denies any mistreatment. >>> officers seized 200 ounces of heroin with an estimated street value of $300,000. the bust happened last saturday at a home on 61st avenue. officers arrested 35-year-old isaac perez. police say he was the ringleader of heroin trafficking operations from mexico. >>> in mexico, an american immigration agent was killed. a second agent was wounded. the two i.c.e. agents were traveling from mexico city to monterrey, they apparently were ambushed by gunmen. attacks on american officials in mexico are rare. >>> some inmates in california prison have been using their time behind bars to try to cheat the irs. the irs says california, florida, georgia lead the nation in fake tax rushes followed by prison inmates. prisoners in those states received nearly $19 million in royce refunds in 2009. that's after filing tax rushes. >>> two u.s. senators are taking a swing at the smokeless tobacco habit. they want the league and players union to ban chewing tobacc

. >> jimmy: bradley's the man. all right, ready? met my wife. remember i met nancy on the -- >> yeah. ow! [ audience ohs ] ♪ >> jimmy: sorry, buddy. [ applause ] the best thing about these guys -- that they not only love the pranks -- but the thing i love about you guys, and makes you genius, you love the set-up and you love the follow-through of the joke even more than the punch line. bobby, i remember you did this to me. we were leaving fenway park. and we were sitting and you had a giant cigar in your mouth. and i don't know if you smoke cigars or whatever, but it was weird to see you. and i go, "hey, bobby, we had a good day of shooting. it was really fun." then you go, "it was okay." and i go, "that's a cool cigar. what's wrong?" and you go, "oh, i just -- i don't know. i've just got this great cigar and they told me i can't light it in fenway park. whatever. it's whatever. their rules." i go, "oh." you go, "but, technically, if you light it for me, i guess i'm not lighting it." and i go, "i'll light your cigar. i don't care."

what many people do not know is that the reason why bradley's manning did that act was that he was charged with reviewing the security of individuals who were arrested in iraq for protesting and for trying to undermine the government of iraq. and as he was reviewing their final, the 16 or so suppose it insurgents, he realized they were asking for more government transparency on the street. when he realized they were just read and butter for democracy and not in surgeons, he went to his superior and said these people should not be in jail. they should be out on the street promoting democracy. his boss told him to shut up and research more insurgents. he was so angry he decided he was going to take some action because he felt the system he was in was unfair. he also leaked to reuters the deal. when he saw the video that showed the reuters reporters being killed -- when he saw that video, he saw the date stamp on the video and went back and googled the date and discovered a report in the n.y. times that two reporters were killed in a fire fight in iraq. he realized that, with a second, it was

he often was asked to attend banquets and dinners and give interviews that bradley was a quiet man who operated the bradley funeral home. he declined. ." she writes, the article and "his silence has been honorable and now it is eternal." allison is now writing i wrote this letter cusack the 52 years to this day since the flagraising on iwo jima. i sat for about an hour before he started writing to you and try to picture exactly how you felt and what it was like being on that little island thousands of miles from home. to you there was no glory in an operation that caused two nations so dearly. every year on your birthday grandpa, we all go out to your grave and tell stories about how it was when you were alive. we all always sing your favorite songs. can you hear us, grandpa? my questions are pointless seeing as i will never know the answer. i just needed to ask them. i cannot send this to you so it will go into my drawer but wherever you are, heaven or otherwise, i do hope you receive my letter. we are all healthy and their lives are going well. signed, your loving granddaughter, alli

bradley was not present. general george crook was present. he was commander of the department of the black, and he was the man in charge of all military activities, a big chunk of the west which included nebraska or fort robinson is, and crook and a lieutenant named william philo clark, and 13 13 chiefs plan to kill crazy horse that night. summit in the room heard the conversation, and recorded it for history. it was a startling, startling document. and when i read that, my interest was piqued and that's roughly how i got involved in doing this particular, this particular project. it always takes me a long time to decide what i'm going to do because once i do decide, then i spend a lot of time working on it. you have to live with it. i can tell you the worst nightmare of any author is the possibility that you wake up one morning and you don't care anymore. [laughter] you don't want to look at it. i've known a couple of guys that's happened to. it's a terrible thing to witness, and is a source of fear in the middle of the night for any author. so you've got to be sure you're really interested. it took me a long time to decide i was interested in