free bradley manning! free bradley manning! >> smith: manning has been charged with 22 counts, including unlawful possession of classified material and aiding the enemy. >> i was the bradley manning of my day! >> smith: daniel ellsberg, who famously leaked the pentagon papers, hoping to end the vietnam war, came to his defense. >> bradley manning is no more of a traitor than i am, and i'm not. ( cheers and applause ) >> smith: and so did his computer science friends from boston. >> i'm a friend of bradley manning's, and i've been visiting him for the last few months in confinement, and i got to tell you-- it's stuff like this that gives bradley hope. >> smith: manning has refused to cooperate with the government's investigation. supporters say the government is trying to turn him. >> bradley manning has not been convicted of anything. he's not formally been indicted of anything. and he's being punished with this solitary confinement. i believe this is an effort to get bradley manning to crack under the pres

bradley manning was arrested in iraq or remind you of how he got to four leavenworth where detained out and we'll speak to one of the most famous whistleblowers in u.s. history daniel ellsberg about how the u.s. government handles those who leak secrets then time is running out for the patriot act that is one senator is working hard to keep key provisions of this bill from being renewed and we'll tell you about a secret interpretation of the bill that the government doesn't want you to know about and it's a problem that will literally affect everyone skyrocketing global food prices but this time around they become permanent but look into the geopolitics of food scarcity what's causing all of that i will make a toast and so it's happy hour but up first our top story. it's a meeting of some of the most powerful leaders in the world the g. eight summit kicks off in deauville france today and as always there's a long list of items on the agenda for the summit but much of the talk is going to circle around the arab spring and the continued uprisings around the world artes and it's now a has

unveiled a new documentary last night looking out the bradley manning case the man suspected of leaking documents to wiki leaks this is more of a hit job than a journalistic look at the truth of the stuff that and more of them for. you that we get in the park. i think. we have a show here for safe get ready because of the freedom. a charmer over here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. a new web site with twenty four seven live streaming news tells us what to do about the ongoing financial hard unlimited high quality videos for download. and still never names. the. most. watched. you guys welcome michel and tell me alone a show we've heard our guests have to say on the topic now we want to hear from our audience just go on to you tube does video respond or the twitter verse part of the question that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show you all responses we let your voice be heard. are the sentiments of the arab spring spreading across the globe today yet another star one stalwart ally of the united states georgia faced trouble

bradley manning the military analyst accused of leaking the classified documents to the organization so did they find something new a link between assigning manning could have publicly funded mainstream media organization given objective and detailed look at the whole story unfortunately we saw none of that we got the picture of a young military analyst who was gay who had been picked on for his small stature who couldn't hold a steady job and was troubled. talked a lot about his personal life about his relationships about his experiences in the military experience at their home. lomo says the person also contacted him the e-mail and they became friends on facebook. it was grandly manning intelligence analyst in iraq. and we also heard from numerous journalists and a former wiki leaks member who talked about joining a songe of someone with no regard for human life and he published the names of collaborators and informants we were told adrian lamo the hacker turned informant who handed over his chats with manning was just trying to do the right thing nothing new a lot of incrimination

trying to do the right thing that was my motivation i think it is war through as it was i mean bradley manning manning's basic motivation was to do good for a very very bad way he did it but clearly that was it so i think that part of the problem with our political process is that people talk good terms of wanting to have whistleblowers but they really don't and this is why we've not been able to successfully set up a process for bringing a whistleblower and letting him get his information out and let that information disclosure become the issue not a person is a saint who walks on water because that person always be able to really come up with a program like i mean how many whistleblowers he said have you heard say that they actually tried to come forward and present is everyone on earth to their superiors and you know they were brushed aside so i guess maybe there isn't a right way to do it he said the bradley manning didn't do it the right way but i don't know what i can only be forty percent of the d.o.d. report about my issues about me trying to discredit me so you know you've got to wond

to bradley manning, he denies it. as you look forward to all the potential twists and turns that await your son, what scares you the most? >> that he's guilty. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to dan tonight. >>> it was last night here we reported on that harrowing landing of the delta jet in atlanta, the tire blowing, the landing gear catching fire. the flight was coming in from pittsburgh when that tire blew as it touched down, causing the brakes to overheat. four people suffered minor injuries and the faa is still looking into the age and the condition of that tire and the landing gear that caught fire. >>> and still ahead as we continue on "world news" this sunday night, the debate so many of you have already weighed in on at our website. is this baby a boy or a girl? and why the parents are determined to keep it a mystery. >>> then later here, a dog's life. the images getting so much attention this evening, as he grows up, right before our eyes. >>> and, later tonight, on this memorial d

bradley manning, a former u.s. rmy intelligence analyst, has been charged with giving the material to the website. much is still unknown about manning's motivations. more important, what was his relationship with julian asaj the founder of wiki-leaks. a new front line documentary called wiki-secrets attempts to answer those questns. he is a look at the documentary. >> the pern also contacted him via email and they became iends on facebook. it was bradley manning. intelligence anyst in arack. and in his profilehere was the chat name. he read more. >> lking at his facebook page i got the sense that bradley was very depressed. >> reporter: then during one of their chats he started dropping hints about a crazy white-haired aussie. >> he mentioned julian assange in the context julian was the individual who he had initially establish contact with. >> reporter: he also mentioned that he had leaked thousands of classified documents including a huge amount of diplomatic cable. >> i asked him ifthere's any way to recover the

secretary of navy and they publicly assert that they can't let congress interfere out of concern for bradley manning's privacy. [laughter] >> this being the young man who's forced to sleep naked and stand at attention naked in a morning. >> by a 6'12" cell. >> we have whistle mores and nonimprisonment of record practice breezy and we have freedom of information act requests. remember all the uproar dick cheney won't show us the visitors logs coming in to meet. well, obama still won't show you the visitor logs of the health insurance corporation heads coming in to meet. he'll show you the visitor logs after a certain point in time that he deems worth showing you. and he sends all his staffers just off the white house property to meet with lobbyists so that the names don't end up on the visitor logs. this is the level of reform of we have of at this point. and when -- when bush established a new abuse such as writing a note on the bottom of a law called a signing statement saying here's the parts i'll violate. it was secret for a long time then it was understood what was happening and he kept doing it.

since bradley mannings' arrest, his father has struggled to understand why he did this.the first time he speaks out. he said he still hasn't had a chance to speak to his son about the charges. >> if he said, dad, it's true. i did it, what would you say back? >> i would say you f'ing stupid idiot. why would you do something like that? probably more words after that. i would be openly embarrassed about the way i have been holding up, thinking he's innocent. >> bradley manning is jailed at ft. leavenworth. if convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. >>> time for our indy 500 highlights. here's adnan virk at espn news. >> good morning. it was the 100th anniversary of the indianapolis 500. the conclusion of this race did not disappoint. danica patrick gearing up for this one. will power's rear tire not fastened securely. he finished 14th, the best showing for penske racing. not a nice image. e.j. viso. slamming into the wall. take a look. he gets spun, hits the grass, goes crashing into the wall. so much for his chances. 13 laps to go. it's bertrand baguett

dictatorships north america's most famous prisoner bradley manning spent more than eight months in isolation suspected not convicted of leaking military secrets to wiki leaks in a letter a former army private tells of being stripped of his clothes his prescription eyeglasses and on the rare occasions he was allowed out his hands and feet were shackled this is not something anybody should be subjected to your except in the most extreme circumstance in which there's no evidence. and also poses not a problem when you can do it if you're going to go and. it is yet another example of solitary being used punitively rather than for safety reasons for more than ten years kendall gibson has also been in solitary he refused to cut his dreadlocks because he says they represent his rusty foreign faith a decision that at the time violated virginia law it stated that inmates must not have beards or wear their hair below their color maybe most disturbing are the hundreds of children in solitary cells have to there to protect them from adult prisoners with little concern for the consequences in the words of

where you see bradley manning i support him astray she's in a mass rallies and now it's in wisconsin michigan and ohio and indiana and i see i see events around the country on almost every issue that's going on and it's our current our u.s. you can see a couple of examples of protests about the bankers not paying or paying taxes this year and some of these protests are large and some are small and i think one reason they're small is because as a lot of confusion about president obama there are a lot of people who hope that president obama would actually be a change agent instead he's been a status quo agent you know keeping corporate power stronger keep the wall street stronger and really holding back where people need would have been the says is that people are and people are confused where there are a lot of peace activists or democrats and a lot of protests the president a lot of worker advocates are unions who allow democratic party i think is a connection of their character is probably the greatest hurdle we face in china and your people active again so what do you do about that

know, personal suffering that he might undergo for leaking it. >> reporter: on may 26, 2010, bradley manningd. it was posted on facebook. >> we got confirmation that manning had been arrested when manning called his aunt from jail. >> and asked her to update his facebook page with a message. >> it would be his final facebook entry. >> brown: "froline" airs on most pbs stations tonight. and you can find a conversation with martin smith on the "rundown blog" on our web site. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: the death toll from sunday's tornado has risen to 122 with more than 750 injured. and new tornadoes struck in oklahoma thievening with reports of extensive dang in the town of elrino. chrysler repaid $7.6 billion to the u.s. and canadian governments. that amounts to most of the bailout money the auto maker received. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed the u.s. congress. he said he was willing to make "painful compromises" for peace, but with conditions that the palestinians again rejected. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari

example is the treatment of the least from here and look at the treatment that they've done to bradley manning over the century torturing this young man who has not been convicted of any crime he's still being held in solitary confinement they moved him from one person to another. for providing information that is very necessary for people to have it we're going to have with that he would consider to be a democratic government. washington may be planning to interfere in china's web space with one hand but it's using others certainly shaking hands with beijing right now that's because it's fun to fix the cracks in a relationship which the well being over the u.s. economy greatly depends on we've got a special report on that up online tonight r.t. job. the european court of human rights is finding giorgio fifteen thousand euros for an unfair investigation into the murder of a banker the government's obliged to pay the compensation to the victim's family but many doubt that will happen in a country that's increasingly branded a police state that is a country to grow children report. the high prof

example is the treatment of the least from her in look at the treatment that they've done to bradley manning you know it is essentially torturing this young man who has not been convicted of anything but i can still being held in solitary confinement they move from one person show another. for providing information that is very necessary for people to have the order to have what they would consider to be a democratic. washington maybe planning to fear in china's web space with one eye and then choose the other to shake hands with beijing that says it's trying to fix the cracks in their relationship with the well being of the u.s. of course we've greatly depends on that we've got a report on that tonight if you're interested online. if. it. was an. european court of human rights is fined georgia fifty thousand euros for an unfair investigation into the murder of a banker the government's obliged to pay their compensation to the victim's family but many doubt this is going to happen in a country that's increasingly branded a police state that is a country which over reports. a high profile mur

may turn into a permanent condition is as you said suicide is a problem you know in the case of bradley manning it was interesting because he was put on suicide watch actually against the recommendations of the psychiatry is that the brig in quantico and as a result of that he was subjected to all kinds of deprivation he was not allowed to sleep with a pillow and a blanket he was forced for a period of time to stand naked in front of the guards in the morning and this by the way is is treatment you would never see in a mental health facility. that would have been absolutely unthinkable and yet he was exposed to it and finally you know it got to the point where there was a public outcry and international outcry and this one person thank goodness has been moved to a different kind of the cillit a but you know again there are so many that are suffering from this kind of treatment whose names we don't know and whose faces we don't know and they're locked away and it's it's it's our shame and online you can catch archie's christine for sauza full feature report on solitary confinement i'll give you

has happened in san francisco where protesters finally confronted obama about the torture of bradley manning i thought was a wonderful thing but that's really the first time people were sort of brazen in his face we have to start doing that we have to start getting americans to disassociate themselves from the head of empire what do you think about that michael it's a very interesting point and i i can see the handlers of obama showing him is a you know east still not george w. bush and selling a very powerful card they still play because you have to admit if you like the man or not he's at least eloquent in some of the things he about his liberal. intervention a humanitarian intervention which is really hogwash if you really look at it carefully if you watched antiwar dot com there you would have known that how do we get away from that i just really addressing michael's question well it's really hard to know what you can do with somebody like obama at a very direct way because i think that the left is very confused about what to do with right now and so really i think you know the oppositio

what the example that the government has made out of wiki leaks out of julian assigned out of bradley manning or does it really kind of put you know a dim light on all of us hope. you know people who don't trust we keep the expert going to trust rupert murdoch anymore you know i think we're going to see if this continue proliferation that we can say all across the internet because the internet is totally designed to share documents it's not something you can shut down by just showing down one web site and so what i'm hoping is an open community will develop will learn these best practices the security things like the ones so you know what i must point out today about how to make sure you're safe and see if we recruited as well as operational security things about how to keep yourself anonymous and how to share documents securely so that instead of relying on one single point of failure one way we newspaper company documents will be spread all over the internet by everybody so you know i think you're out of a good point earlier today when you mentioned the last three journal and obviously how

so what will gradually manning space tell us what you think twenty years from now do you think bradley manning will be looked at as an american hero hero you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. all right it's time for happy hour this thursday and joining me tonight is mike soci editor at reason magazine and reason dot com and are pretty certain lindsay coughing up thanks are going to guys cheers you know yesterday we all got to laugh and schulte because he decided to call or in a slight i just like saying that i think typical radio host t.v. host of fashion he later had to apologize and it was it was pretty funny take a look president obama is going to be visiting joplin missouri on sunday but you don't want to talk about like this right what's your name. yes she's a talk slut on my radio show yesterday i used vile and inappropriate language when talking about talk show host laura ingram i am deeply sorry and i apologize it was wrong uncalled for and i recognize this is verity of what i said i apologize to you laura but as f

this is that is that you know journalists can protect their sources in bradley manning's a great case i mean you look at his case it wasn't as if he was sifting through information and trying to get information out there specific information needed to be out there he was just didn't care about you know you got to go on was this video of american soldiers killing the two reuters journalists this is a crime now you know i mean i guess i don't use it it doesn't matter to know him because we haven't even heard statements yet but but. it is more dollars than again that if somebody knows that their government is committed a crime and and they don't leak it because they're afraid of being prosecuted that that for that saying that you're not you're not connecting dots here you know what his motivation was doesn't matter right and what he did i'm saying it doesn't matter and it's in the nursery trials does matter i think anything you want convention said i mean actually what's your. which isn't it always says how do we so don't want any part of it if i can i say something but i think i actuall

out her camera or her cell phone and records of protest against obama by obama supporters about bradley manning the alleged wakey wakey sleeker who's been mistreated in custody in our media that he was told she'd be cold out of the clueless the next when reporters do get outside of the pack that's when they run into trouble that's when amy goodman gets arrested at the republican convention in two thousand and eight that's when her two producers for democracy now are pretty aggressively arrested and charged with felonies felony riot charges you know there's a great story where amy is talking to a mainstream reporter at the two thousand and eight convention amy goodman a democracy now in the mainstream reporters this gee i didn't get arrested and amy says what were you out there covering the protests and he says no i haven't left the building and amy then quotes woody allen who says ninety five percent of life is just showing up i mean you know if you if you really get harassed in this country or arrested if you're a journalist if you are in the wrong place you're out of line you're out of place

climate change to being foreclosures to loss of jobs to collect their bargaining toward their bradley manning the anniversary by the way the rest is now all these issues i think are bringing people out into active what we saw was a doubling he has ninety thousand to one of the normal arrests in the media we're seeing this this year already we're beyond two thousand and nine and what will be two thousand and ten records so we're going to see more arrests because people are getting more fed up is sort of feel the pain of the economy they're tired of the wars in the utilities of president obama have someone worn off and i think that's maybe people are more encouraging to be out there in protest so that you know as someone who is an activist do yourself then do you see a crack that we see these arrest numbers rise as a good thing to say about more people are out there willing to risk arrest or or could it be that law enforcement is deciding to be tougher on the people as well stephanotis doesn't not want force and needs. in fact we're seeing so many protests leave the u.s. on cloud if you cover y

bradley manning being the most high profile cases but in full this is ministration is using the as you know jack to press criminal charges in five different cases of alleged national security leaks and more prosecutions that all other administrations combined and on june thirteenth of this year the case against thomas age rate is scheduled to begin now we've mentioned before on this program is a former senior executive at the n.s.a. who's accused of retaining classified documents as well as obstructing justice lying to federal law enforcement agencies and if convicted on all those counts he could go to jail for thirty five years but if you look at the details which are excellent reported today by jane mayer of the new yorker and of peace this wasn't a case of national security being put to risk it was a case of a whistleblower trying to ring the alarm on government waste and abuse of power in the post nine eleven surveillance era so if he is convicted what kind of precedent is that going to set you and me to discuss this is just an unrated homeland security and human rights director fo

takes her camera or her cell phone records of protest against obama by obama supporters about bradley manning the alleged the wiki leaks leaker who's been mistreated in custody and army. that man who was told she'd be pulled out of the cool the next time i didn't mind you this comes the day after obama had his town hall on facebook supposedly embracing this new world of social media yeah that's that's a pretty sad and ironic there i just think that when reporters do get outside of the pack that's when they run into trouble that's when amy goodman gets arrested at the republican convention in two thousand and eight that's when her two producers were pretty aggressively arrested and charged with felonies felony riot charges you know there's a great story were amy is talking to a mainstream reporter at the two thousand and eight convention amy goodman a democracy gal of the mainstream reporters this gee i didn't get arrested and amy says were you out there covering the protests and he says no i haven't left the building and they meet and quotes woody allen who says ninety five percent of life is

absolutely this was all within the legal realm a lot of times before we heard it with their treatment bradley manning at quantico to the only that's all according to the military planning military rules don't we just want to quote. those very words by at least coming to you and giving them their investigation let me say something to shock your viewers we do things of the american government are illegal in the international law all the time no way out and i bet that's a harsh crack but that's the truth and the truth is we've highlighted this over to another country so i don't care how many times white the white house spokesman says we do this we're going to let you know we did what we thought was in our best interest of the country and violated their sovereignty just get it get it's one of the situations accept that fact and get over it now the question becomes why did we have to violate their sovereignty that goes back to your original part of your question about what about the pakistanis the pakistanis have not been a good partner and this is what i think most of i spent part of the day on capitol h

as far as i'm concerned where is bradley manning when we need him? let him out for a day.n: maybe not a bad idea. >> i think these pictures will likely come out. we had birthers who wanted to see obama's birth certificate and now they have it still believe he wasn't born -- is there anybody who doesn't think bin laden is dead? >> sean: i think he's dead. i want every other terrorist in the world to see what their future is going to be like. >> the president says he doesn't want the photo of bin laden to become this iconic thing. why not? i don't want the image to be him holding an ak-47. i want the iconic image of him to be with a hole in his head. not because i'm bloodthirsty so people will look and say maybe i shouldn't -- >> sean: did you see the pictures of the others in the house? would it so offend us. you go to the movies and you see more. watch brave heart or glad for and you will see more blood. >> i can't say i was upset by them. >> sean: you said we put a pull let in his brynn and those people who are going to be mad are mad. i don't think -- they've already thr

resigned after having criticized the conditions of confinement of the wikileaks suspect private bradley manning. mr. crowley, pleasure to have you here. >> pleasure, rachel. >> you are intimately familiar with the players involved in the decisions. what do you think the decision making process was like on this issue of the bin laden photos? >> inside the government there's a concept of strategic communication. we know that these photographs or videos as you just detailed have power. the question is what are you communicating for, what purpose? i'm not sure that the doubters out there, there sure are some, are that large a group. what i do know is there are people who aspire to be martyrs out there. in the concept of strategic communication, you don't want to give your opposition something for free. and the idea that releasing an iconic photo might be used as propaganda purposes might validate that martyr dom psyche in some way, i think, tilted towards the decision the president made. >> even taking into account the fact that anybody who is a doubter is not necessarily going to be convinced by f

they were motivated by a recent "front line" episode about bradley manning, a soldier suspected of leakingout of control it seems. >> it is. it's scary when you think people's personal information also was posted online as well. it wasn't just getting into it. >> big companies, they say nothing really essential was, you know, was gotten by the hackers, but, you know, the day is coming. pretty much now. thanks so much, lisa sylvester. >>> a scandal has cost a champion coach his job, sending shockwaves through the world of college football. what's behind the resignation of ohio state's jim tressel? >>> details of a lewd picture sent from a congressman's twitter account. the count on chevy event is here. your ticket to a cruze eco. 42 mpg and over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy cruze eco for around $159 a month. or qualified buyers can get no monthly payments for 3 months. fuel economy based on epa estimates. deferred payments offer ends may 31st. the two trains and a bus r