. >> -- daniel ellsberg, who leaked the pentagon papers. and obama's used it how many? >> eight times. it's unbelievable, and -- >> the espionage act. >> right, the espionage act. and who would've ever imagined that? this is something obama never talked about in campaigns. he never publicly said he was going to go do this. and like a lot of things in his administration, he's trying to have it both ways. he's supporting a shield law, to some extent, in congress for journalists. but on the other hand, he's criminalizing investigative reporting by going after sources. and so he's throwing a bone, or being accommodating to the national security establishment in washington, which, you know, in just a couple-year period, did 76 million classified documents. far more than any time in u.s. history.

they went to the office of daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist to get his psychiatric files.now, imagine that. the white house sending somebody out, to then and the psychiatric files. there was one problem though. there were no files. they broke into okay. and they had their picture taken. the leaders had their picture taken and they were so proud in front of the doctor's office store. and they were using cia equipment, cameras, voice changers, and so the cia got these pictures and said what's this? this is a violation of the fourth amendment beyond anything that we could imagine. that is what the cover was reading about. they messed up everything they did or we would have been in for deeper trouble. living through what her date was an amazing time. things were coming at you all the time. with all due respect it would have been total chaos. but we had the morning paper, we had the radio with an occasional bulletin coming and we had the evening papers and the evening news and we had the gossip, by god have you heard this, you won't believe what we just heard. and it was like t

has long heard of chelsea manning edward snowden they hear often historical whistleblower names daniel ellsberg of course comes to mind but the way in which these stories have routinely been covered particularly in the corporate media is they're covered in terms of personalities and the corporate media was more interested in the bradley chelsea changed this no narrative has been hero or traitor or better yet and b. c. is certainly led the way to the bottom with not only attacking the journalist glenn greenwald who was breaking the students. dory but also attacked snowden's character in so far as saying that well not just is it here over traitor but is it traitor or criminal so that was the frame you couldn't get better than that so there's a lot of the corporate media misses on these important whistleblower stories and it's interesting too because you'll see a co-optation by u.s. officials that jump into the mix with their symbiotic relationship of corporate media which is nothing more than a propagandistic mouthpiece for the military industrial complex the pentagon the white house and so forth

. >>> the new website has the support of daniel ellsberg who leaked the pentagon papers in 1971. the potential whistleblowers are encouraged to submit their complaints through a secure server. >> this man and his unit played a key role in the war effort in the pacific. >> reporter: it was the beginning of world war ii. u.s. marines visited the nava hoe relation and asked 25 young men to take on a special mission. chester was one of them. >> we developed our own code. >> the code dockers created a spoken language based on nava hoe words, nearly impossible for anyone to mimic. the nava hoe marines used it all over the pacific, on posts and ships and in battle >> we had a small box. one guy cranked up the batteries. and the other used a microphone to send messages. some transmissions were intercepted. the japanese never cracked the code. the first message in the battlefield read like this - japanese machine-gun on the right flank, destroy. and in a code i said [ speaking foreign language ] . >> reporter: the code talkers are credited with saving thousands of intern lives. after they

. >> famed whist le-blower and leaker of the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg disagrees. >> he knows heuld not get a fair trial. he could only inform the public and reporters about the significance of the information he's given to them when he's outside the country. >> interesting, chuck, that views did not change. america seems pretty entrenched on this debate about traitor/patriot, good thing/bad thing that he did. >> on snowden it really has been in threes. there's a third that really do -- are hypertraitor, hyperpatriot. and a third of the country shrug their shoulders. they're disappointed the president didn't have a conversation with the country about this wasn't fully honest, but at the same time seize the upside securitywise of some of the surveillance tactics. that's what bails the administration out here because public opinion i think him personally, if you had 20 million, 30 million, 40 million people viewing him, i think public opinion would flip on him bigger. >> newt gingrich, some people i have talked to this week have -- they've been struggling with this. in other words,

. >> the new site has the support of daniel ellsberg, the man who leaked the pentagon papers. whistle blowers are invited to submit complaints use ago secure server. >> the white house is defending the decision to release army sergeant bowe bergdahl. this meeting comes in the accusation that the release was done illegally without a 30 days notice to congress. marco rubio said it's clear the president bloke the law. >> there's no question the president violated the law by not notifying congress. to me, the most pressing challenge we face is the president has now released five of the most dangerous individuals in guantanamo, if not the five most dangerous. they will soon return to the fight against america and our interests around the world. >> joining us now to discuss the legal aspects of the exchange is alberto gonzalez, former u.s. attorney general under george w. bush, a former judge and dean of belmont law school. i'm not sure before you like to be called dean gonzalez or judge gonzalez. either way, thank you for joining us this morning. let me start with senator rubio's c

. >> famed whistle-blower and leaker of the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg disagrees. >> he knows he not get a fair trial. he could only inform the public and reporters about the significance of the information he's given to them when he's outside the country. >> interesting, chuck, that views did not change. america seems pretty entrenched on this debate about traitor/patriot, good thing/bad thing that he did. >> on snowden it really has been in threes. there's a third that really do -- are hyper traitor, hyper patriot. and a third of the country shrug their shoulders. they're disappointed the president didn't have a conversation with the country about this wasn't fully honest, but at the same time seize the upside securitywise of some of the surveillance tactics. that's what bails the administration out here because public opinion i think him personally, if you had 20 million, 30 million, 40 million people viewing him, i think public opinion would flip on him bigger. >> newt gingrich, some people i have talked to this week have -- they've been struggling with this. in other words,

. >> daniel ellsberg said the only reasonable option for edward snowden to be able to participate in debate -- remember ellsberg was out on bail for two years while his trial was going on. edward snowden because he face as legal regime which doesn't distinguish between sharing information with the public or selling it to an enemy has no choice but to go where he is now. the government needs to meet us halfway. >> you've got the one-year russian rule coming up here for expiration. we'll see what happens with that. i don't know, it seemed to me part of the deal, fair or unfair if you're going to claim whistle-blower status, leak highly classified stuff if you're going 0 bring it out there, part of the deal is you've got to stand and take the consequences. >> do you think people who used the underground railroad should have stayed and faced the consequences of the fugitive slave act? >> that's quite a comparison. >> i'm saying if reverend king had gone to new york instead of going to prison in birmingham. no one would have said he didn't stay in birmingham to face the music. >> part of

my feeling is that after a few years snowden will be greeted as the patriot that he is just as daniel ellsberg took a couple years to get the proper image in the public consciousness and i truly hope that he will be welcomed back home as a person who revealed to us grow successes that our government this was doing against us right will have to wait and see time will tell just one rate act of the government accountability project and ray mcgovern former cia officer as always thank you for joining me thinking about them and still ahead here on r t the crisis and eastern ukraine continues to rage on the nation's troops battle and take yet separatists as the death toll rises more tell you more after the break. i marinate join me. in personal and financial commentary service and much much. only on the bus and. i. i i. and now to ukraine where government forces are battling and take heed of separatists with artillery and automatic weapons this is the second day of fighting in and around slovyansk forcing many residents to flee the area so far over three hundred rebels have reportedly been killed in

my feeling is that after a few years snowden will be greeted as the patriot that he is just as daniel ellsberg took a couple years to get the proper image in the public consciousness and i really hope that he will be welcomed back home as a person who revealed to us grow successes that our government this was doing against us right we'll have to wait and see time will tell doesn't rate ak of the government accountability project and ray mcgovern former cia officer as always thank you for joining me thinking. and now to ukraine where government forces are battling an idea of separate says what artillery and automatic weapons is the second day of fighting in and around slovyansk forcing many residents to flee the area so far over three hundred rebels have reportedly been killed in the past twenty four hours in a government offensive targeting a separatist stronghold and now there's a growing concern that the ongoing conflict has left the area on the brink of a humanitarian crisis our policy clear is an eastern ukraine with more. the. war does not differentiate between young and old fighter and c