and that really kind of margins what's happened with bradley manning i mean really manning was arrested over a thousand days ago he's still not had a trial he's been tortured in solitary confinement for at least a year of that time while going home or present. obama said on tape that he was guilty he broke the law i think what he did was. you point out even the judge behaves like the queen if the government even needs proof . comes to prove he didn't. get my judgment we called this is couldn't we should and he wanted to maybe all very well with a hearing process or. thousands of pages or e-mails and expect me here in new york for cherice review that comes up and says alice in wonderland he now will. be. sent to do you also heard. least the pentagon papers during the vietnam war which showed the underlying reasons for the vietnam war that we're not we're being told what he was facing the same kind of sense that meaningless they swell around years in jail. for thirty or. forty i think i was there are. a whole series of outrageous actions probably led to charges were dismissed the case wer

and that really kind of margins what's happened with bradley manning i mean really manning was arrested over a thousand days ago he's still not had a trial he's been tortured in solitary confinement for at least a year of that time while going home or present. obama said on tape that he was guilty he broke the law. but it was a. few points even the judge behaves like the queen if the government even needs proof. just coming up to prove how he did in. this game i didn't we called this is couldn't we and he wanted to be all very well hearing processors will thousands of pages or e-mails and expect me here in new york for chairs review that kind of stuff and says alice in wonderland he now will. be. sent to sleep daniel ellsberg. least the pentagon papers during the vietnam war which showed on the line our reasons for the vietnam war that we're now we're being told the public . he was facing the same kind of sense that meaning was they swung around for years in jail. everything they're going to. order a lot of things that are your. whole series of outrageous actions probably led to charges

do you believe that leakers such as bradley manning should be subject to some discipline yes i do and i would think that if you work for this organization you used leaking their secrets you probably ought to be fired i think every organization or have a control over its employees and therefore i think that bradley manning should be disciplined and i think that the twenty years to which he's agreed probably probably is a good good sentence i think the question with bradley manning right now is these agreed to twenty and the government wants to give them life and i just wonder whether that's appropriate but i do believe every organization should be able to discipline its employees ok then then do you fault the u.s. department of justice of trying to find out who the leakers are because as you well now there's been a scandal with the d.o.j. . secretly uptake into the phone records from associate press journalists and also up to a warrant to search the e-mail account of a fox news reporter so do you defend the u.s. government in trying to find out who the leaker sorrow i think is there's

bradley manning, and my name. those are the only two people named in those opinions. the manning court case, say, cross-itnesses examined, under oath, that the targets of the grand jury investigation are the founders and managers of wikileaks, among others. whetherrelation to sweden it extradites, there are a number of issues here. carr says thebob u.s. could ever extradited any time they like. well, just look at .usticeforassange.com it is normal for a grand jury to go for two to three years. the doj admits that the grand jury, in relation to us, is still going. furthermore, it is unlawful for any u.s. official to admit to the existence of a sealed indictment, even to other u.s. until the person has been arrested will it be ok. what he does not say is that i have never been charged for an offense in sweden. there is a good chance for secret indictment in the u.s., and my lawyers do believe there is a secret indictment, that records from stratfor, obtained by jeremy hammond, revealed the existence of a secret indictment. there is no charge against me in relation to swe

the story of bradley manning is more than the story of this one young man. it is a message to all whistle blowers understand particularly young people in the military who have went and come back and seen atrocities terrified to speak out because they are afraid could they face the same fate. it is our job at journalist to bring you this information. and so for all the bloggers and journalist who are listening and watching and will see this on c- span and other global and national outlets. we have a responsibility. it is extremely serious. [applause] >> you know the efforts to silence bradley manning for the good of quote national security, are metaphorically both not allowing as much as possible as the government would have it his voice to be heard, but also of course his crime quote unquote was to inform the american public and the world about information that is supposed to be available to the consent of the governed. we're supposed to know what our government is doing in our names with our tax dollars. when it comes to media coverage it is very dismissive

>> i think bradley manning is the forgotten character. e has become famous over this, but manning was the leaker. the focus of the government is on manning. the way he was treated was abysmal. it was tantamount to torture, in fact p.j. crowley raised a big ruckus and had to resign as a result. >> for basically criticizing the way he was treated. >> correct. >> and, you know, he's supposed to be a trial one 90 days. now it will -- i think it will be interesting when bradley manning goes on trial to see just how people react to him. he's been the invisible person, but he's a fulcrum, kind of an interesting character from whom we can learn about this tension from national security and the need to know. i think he'll end up being a much more simp they sick character. >> and one connotes a certain amount of heroism, the other seems to be a violation of some sort of privilege. it would be interesting to see how bradley manning is treated. >> it's interesting to reflect that the degree of clearance was much higher when daniel e. lsburg. and now w

off the sour whistle blowers earlier today pretrial hearings continued in the case of private bradley manning now manning stands accused of leaking more than seven hundred thousand classified files and diplomatic cables to transparency organization wiki leaks now since his arrest manning has spent more than a thousand days in the literary prison much of it in solitary confinement without a trial now today's pretrial hearing was closed to the public and to the media and unprecedented move made in the name of national security now manning's treatment senses arrest is part of what some are calling the war on whistleblowers which has punished government workers who speak out against waste fraud and abuse now under the obama administration seven people so far have been prosecuted under this espionage act more so than any other presidents in history combined so that's what makes a whistleblower anyway and what are the rights and provisions in place to protect those who come forward well our chief political commentator sam sacks brings us more today so-called whistleblowers took center stage in the

there is eds cal integrity as opposed to what bradley manning did.oorstep of wikileaks. and then with no real consideration for the countless number of lives that he may not have endangered in the process. do you get sense that julian assange or bradley manning, i know you didn't get to speak with him. did you get sense that was collateral to them? do they take into consideration the lives that they put in danger by doing what they did in. >> you can't bunch the two. let's remember that bradley manning is the leaker. julian assange is the publisher. as the publisher, julian assange is a transparency radical. and that did set him apart from the news organizations. but they were working in tandem. i think julian did not give nearly enough weight to the dang that might be done if sources were revealed in the course of leaking these documents. let's also say that nobody was in fact harmed. >> that we know of. >> yeah. that we know of to date. and believe me, the pentagon and the state department looked hard to see if they could find anyone who was harmed

the story of bradley manning is more than the story of this one young man. it is a message to all whistle blowers understand particularly young people in the military who have went and come back and seen atrocities terrified to speak out because they are afraid could they face the same fate. it is our job at journalist to bring you this information. and so for all the bloggers and journalist who are listening and watching and will see this on c- span and other global and national outlets. we have a responsibility. it is extremely serious. [applause] >> you know the efforts to silence bradley manning for the good of quote national security, are metaphorically both not allowing as much as possible as the government would have it his voice to be heard, but also of course his crime quote unquote was to inform the american public and the world about information that is supposed to be available to the consent of the governed. we're supposed to know what our government is doing in our names with our tax dollars. when it comes to media coverage it is very dismissive

. >>> military whistle blower or trader, bradley manning released thousands of confidential military documents to wiki leaks. he's the center of a heated debate. nbc bay area live in san francisco with more on this budding controversy. >> jessica, the san francisco board of directors wants to table the debate about bradley manning until after the pride parade in june, but activists aren't giving up their staging discriminations and filing a discrimination complaint. [ cheers and applause ] >> bradley manning supporters hold a fake san francisco pride board meeting on the street. san francisco pride cancelled the real meeting in the midst of community grand marshall of the pride parade. >> to me, he put his whole life at risk to help save lives. >> he leaked thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks. hours later, released a statement saying they made a mistake. and while they regret the error, manning would not be a grand marshall. virginia says the board is out of line. >> i think they schochose to prt their opinion on a political process. >> in a statement, says the c

the story of bradley manning is more than the story of this one young man. message to all whistle blowers understand particularly young people in the military who have went and come back and seen atrocities terrified to speak out because they are afraid could they face the same fate. it is our job at journalist to bring you this information. and so for all the bloggers and jirnlist who are listening and watching and will see this on c-span and other global and national outlets. we have a responsibility. it is extremely serious. [applause] >> you know the efforts to silence bradley manning for the good of quote national security, are metaphorically both not allowing as much as possible as the government would have it his voice to be heard, but also of course his crime quote unquote was to inform the american public and the world about information that is supposed to be available to the consent of the governed. we're supposed to know what our government is doing in our names with our tax dollars. when it comes to media coverage it is very dismissive in main li

with the case against bradley manning somewhat veiled in secrecy a question comes to mind what exactly makes someone a whistleblower and are there really protections in place to help them all explore the case of who would remain silent just ahead. and debate continues over the merits of forceful back the nation's a recent court decision in oregon has decided that doctors have the right to make medical decisions for children without parents consent is this a case of protecting the child or wrongfully overstepping grounds were right. and in ohio if you can't pay your bills you just make it the book thrown at you people in the state are being imprisoned for not paying fines and tickets without even a hearing is this possible violation of the constitution also take a look at ohio's debt or prisons later in the show. well it's wednesday may eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret hell you're watching r t. and starting off this hour whistleblowers earlier today pretrial hearings continued for the case against private bradley. book stands accused of leaking more than seven hundred thou

trying to protect its bruised reputation so when will these secrets come to light that's ahead the bradley manning case has entered a new a level of secrecy a military judge has ordered a closed hearing to decide how much of the trial will remain secret in order to protect national security a look at this unprecedented move ahead. it's tuesday may seventh five pm in washington d.c. i make a lopez and you are watching our t.v. now before we get to today's top stories let me explain about the ribbon that i am wearing today along with all of my other colleagues this week marks the anniversary of nazi germany surrendering to the soviet union officially marking the end of world war two in europe so that is why we wear it to commemorate the enormous sacrifices humanity made to overcome oppression to mind ourselves about the millions of people and how they stared at genocide in the face and to celebrate the fact that nations around the world came together to triumph over tyranny now let's get to the news. we begin this afternoon with the latest information coming out of syria president bashar al assad no

. >> bradley manning value speaking the truth about our country are completely in alignment about speaking the truth about ourselves. >> our bylaws state it has to be a local hero. and since mr. manning is incarnated and not local, he should have not even been eligible for the original ballot. we certainly apologize for that. >> police were called in and last night's meeting was called off. no idea when or where the meeting will be held next week. >>> united airlines will resume flights with its streamliners with a trip from houston to chicago. >>> this is one of the busiest times of the year for limo services. there is a huge demand for limos to take people to springtime weddings, graduations, and high school proms. but the deadly limo fire is raising safety concerns among many high school students and their parents in the bay area. grip called the company -- >> i called the company to make sure they had better safety guidelines. they said their maintenance was up to date. >> the u.s. department of transportation reports that in 2010 five people died in limo accidents. next year there was

do you believe that leakers such as bradley manning should be subject to some discipline yes i do and i would think that if you work for this organization you started leaking your secrets you probably ought to be fired i think every organization or have a control over its employees and therefore i think the bradley manning should be disciplined and i think that the twenty years to which he's agreed probably probably is a good good sentence i think the question with bradley manning right now is these agreed to twenty and the government wants to give them life and i just wonder whether that's appropriate but i do believe every organization should be able to discipline its employees ok then then do you fault the u.s. department of justice of trying to find out who the leakers are because as you well now there's been a scandal with the d.o.j. . secretly uptake into the phone records from associate press journalists and also up to a warrant to search the e-mail account of a fox news reporter so do you defend the u.s. government in trying to find out who the leaker is are i think if there's

do you believe that leakers such as bradley manning should be subject to some discipline yes i do and i would think that if you work for this organization you start leaking their secrets you probably ought to be fired i think every organization ought to have a control over its employees and therefore i think that bradley manning should be disciplined and i think that the twenty years to which he's agreed probably probably is a good good sentence i think the question with bradley manning right now is easy agreed to twenty and the government wants to give him life and i just wonder whether that's appropriate but i do believe every organization should be able to discipline its employees ok then.

people see starting with wiki leaks a couple of years ago with the prosecution of mr manning bradley manning but also the prosecution and the attack on wiki leaks is now seeping through people are calling the main stream media and the media that previously would have regarded manning as an out or salvage as an outlier is now finding itself suffering the same kind of attacks that have suffered from the american government it's also interesting where you actually draw this line you know because now we're seeing the journalists being called whistleblowers yeah well i guess the most important thing to point out to her here though maria is that whistle blowing is not illegal in fact whistle blowing is a venerated position under law whereby a person privy to information will release that information in the public interest . the most notorious whistle blowing case of recent years is the wiki leaks case and julian assange is seen as a whistleblower whereas in fact i think for the purpose the purpose of this is question we should probably regard him as a publisher of information. as a journalist yeah

has never been asserted before as far as we know in the united states wiki leaks a songe and bradley manning were outliers that there is a limit to disclosing government information but the reality is that the government often leaks information and if it leaks classified information and of course it doesn't prosecuted itself this is the nature of investigative reporting that the obama administration is going after obama ran in two thousand and eight and to a certain degree in two thousand and twelve on him playing at form that he would make government more transparent but instead he is making government more opaque meanwhile that the u.s. government's apparent war on whistleblowers gathers pace from iraq that some taking steps to shield the sources new york has millar's the system that allows people to not to mislead have leaked documents missed the legacy of the report not have details. one of america's oldest and most prestigious news publications is pulling up page from wiki leaks and creating a platform for whistleblowers and sources to anonymously leak information the new yorker magazin

allegedly came from bradley manning bradley manning is the whistleblower in this case is the is the media platform the publisher of this information now what the f.b.i. are trying to do with the science and what they're trying trying to do in the case of mr rosen the fox news correspondent is to attribute to that journalist and attempt to solicit that information and this would make them a coconspirator. in spying and espionage would just quote the question extraordinary accusation to make to somebody who goes about their daily job and of course a scientist one hundred in the ecuadorian embassy at americans need this guy said that he's been sitting there for six i mean the media has always shielded its sources but only now saying that the media itself the journalists themselves are going to have to shield themselves from trouble yes so i think that's that's what we're seeing right now i mean if if this is a matter of policy and it's widely noted that the obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than every other president previous american presidential administration combine

the story of bradley manning is more than the story of the one young man. it is a message to all whistle-blowerrings, and particularly, i think, young people in the military who went, km back, and saw atrocities, terrified to speak out because they are afraid, could they face the same fate? it is our job as journalists to bring you this information, and so for all the bloggers, the journalists who are listening, watching, who are seeing us on c-span and other global and national outlets, we have a responsibility. it is extremely serious. [applause] just -- [applause] >> you know, the effort to silence bradley manning effectively for the good of, quote, national security, are metaphorically both not allowing as much as possible as the government would have it his voice to be heard, but also, of course, his crime, quote-on-quote, was to inform the american public and the world about information that's supposed to be available to the consent of the governed; right? we're supposed to know what our government's doing in our name with a tax dollars. when it comes

now pretrial hearings for private first class bradley manning the accused wiki leaks are responsible for the biggest document drop in american history continue this week and in a new president and move defense attorney david coombs requested a closed hearing a dry run of sorts the points that is to trying to decide how to approach classified information during the trial supporters of this decision say it will make for fewer delays when the official trial actually begins but opponents claim that this is a dress rehearsal for a secret trial actually shrouded in a lot of secrecy one of those opponents is just right act she works with the government accountability project and she joins me now for more heather just on thank you for joining me now this has been described as an precedented private hearing what makes it so groundbreaking well normally in the military you can have closed hearings in a court martial but normally there is limited there have been the extraordinary number of clues proceedings here i am not personally against the fact that they want to have a closed hearing tomorr

court of appeals of the armed forces bradley manning's trial is slated to begin on june third he faces a possible life sentence for allegedly leaking seven hundred thousand sensitive military documents to wiki leaks and that's going to do it for now for more on the story as we cover go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website r t dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter underscore lopez see that. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harmon welcome to the big picture. with. out of sight but still on our minds. the norm let's try to live smarter with smartphones you know or know what some people are hiding and can't be sure to you prove down to the molecular level learned that what the doctor ordered is often based on secrets under our skin let us shine the light on a kid in a world. we've got the future covered.

free bradley manning. hurd.name is jason i spent 10 years in the united states army as a combat medic, deployed to baghdad in 2004. i am here to report -- to return my global war on terrorism service medal. i am deeply sorry for the destruction we have caused in those countries and around the globe. i am proud to stand on the stage with my fellow veterans and my afghan sisters. these were lies. i am giving them back. chris.ame is i was part of the invasion of iraq in 2003. out of love and respect for the iraqi people and the people in afghanistan, i want to return these representations of hate and instruction back where they came from. -- hate and distraction back where they confront. >> i was in the air force from 2003 to 2007. i joined the military to joy -- to go to college. for not fighting imperialism anymore, i am fighting against imperialism, and this is dedicated to all the courageous people under attack by the fbi. my name is raymond. i am here to return my medals, and the usa and israel governmen

i also noticed that lieutenant governor news son with bradley manning also u.s. army supporting the inclusion of manning in the pride marshall. i am right now spent almost an entire day california pacific trying to get medical support since i have been convicted of child molestation and i have been followed. these are the effect of your legislation and i suggest that also california pacific should not benefit from this. they do the least amount of charitable work in the city and i have not been able to get proper medical care from them. thank you. >> next speaker. before we get to the next speaker let me call a few more cards. meg heart, peter straus, dennis richards. go ahead. thank you for your patience. >> i have lived with my husband in this district since 1977 and we support the resolution. >> i have a degree in architectural. neighborhoods like this are very very rare. they come to us through very bizarre circumstances. this area was not developed when the rest of the city was and it was developed in a matter of a few years with very good architects with ver

over the selection of one of the parade grand marshalls bradley manning the gay army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to wick leak. >> i think bradley manning most courageous people for exposing international war crimes perpetrated by the united states. >>reporter: gary virginia is a member of sf pride so-called electoral college. former parade grand marshall himself who voted for manning. but the pride board president has revoked the selection saying it was an error by a staff person. manning nomination was a mistake and should never have been allowed to happen. that move is being applauded by fred shine of the republicans gay republicans who considers ma manning a traitor. >> he took actions that we believe deeply put american lives in risk and quite possibly americans died because of what he did. >>reporter: manning is in federal prison preparing for trial next month. would not have been able to ride in the parade. controversy now focuses on the credibility of the organizers. who rescinded the vote today. group of protestors file

11:00, more fallout, san francisco pride has reportedly fired a staffer in the midst of that bradley manning controversy. manning is a gay soldier facing treason charges for releasing thousands of controversial military documents to wikileaks. he had been elected as community grand marshall for the pride parade. hours later, the board denied that vote saying no such decision had ever been made. >> disgraced football star o.j. simpson was back in the spotlight. he's trying to get a new trial claiming his attorney gave him bad advice during his 2008 trial for armed robbery and kidnapping. >> he gave me an example, that if you were walking down the street, and you saw your laptop with your name on it in a car, you can use force to break the window of the car to get the laptop. >> simpson is referring to his former attorney during that trial in las vegas. he was arrested after he stormed into a hotel room to retrieve memorabilia he claims was stolen from him. >> walked in and i was kind of stunned. i was looking at stuff that i had seen. >> the san francisco native is . if his bid for a new tria

. >> rose: bradley manning. >> yes, sir. >> rose: faims because of the wikileaks. now he's in prison somewhere. you had something to do with where he is prison, as i understand. where is that story-- where does that case stand? >> well, it's a military justice prosecution. that's bumping along. he has or intends to plead guilty to some but not all the counts, which is rather unusual. in a civilian context you don't do that. you make a deal. he wants to plead guilty to some but not all the more serious counts. national initially, he was in pretrial confine independent quantico, a marine detension facility. one of the interesting things i did not appreciate becau of our downsizing, our base closures, quantico, which is in northern virginia, was like the only-- or one of the few pretrial detention facilities we had on the whole east coast. so here's a soldier in a marine detention facility. and there were issues about his confinement. and the issues in the public view began to snowball to the point where, you know, chants of "free bradley manning," and so i and others