edward snowden speaking to german tv last month. ell, to discuss the significance and implications of snowden's leaks, we host a debate. in washington, dc, we are joined by stewart baker, former general counsel of the national security agency, and assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security. he is a partner at the law firm steptoe & johnson. baker is the author of "skating on stilts -- why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism" and here in our new york studio, daniel ellsberg is a former pentagon and rand corporation analyst and is perhaps the country's most famous whistleblower. ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers in 1971, exposing the secret history of the u.s. involvement in vietnam, prompting henry kissinger to call him "the most dangerous man in america." the papers were published in several newspapers, including the new york times and the washington post, and were later published as a book. they were only officially declassified and released in 2011. welcome both of you to democracy now! stewart bake

tavis: edward snowden is a hero to some and a traitor to others after leaking secret information aboutovernment surveillance programs at home and around the world. snowden remains in russia, where he refuses to return to this country to stand trial. the intelligence data he revealed just how extensive the nsa's data collection was and continues to be. here to talk about the fallout and where the story goes from here is edwin smith, law professor at usc's school of law and an expert in international law. good to have you on the program. >> thank you. tavis: i want to take the story to where we think it might be headed. there are a number of places. let me start by asking what you make of the statements from attorney general eric holder that he would be open to a conversation with him. how do you read that? back to the initial case that was filed and basically, this is the suggested a kindhe suggestion of of negotiation that anyone who is involved in a criminal charge can pursue. can you make an arrangement? are their discussions he can have with holder to let him think differently about

and i said, edward snowden. this is the most bizarre thing, they said, who is edward snowden?nd i just said matter-of-factly, he is a whistleblower and an asylee. they next asked who is bradley manning? i said, a whistleblower. then they asked, where is bradley manning? and i said, in jail. and he said, so he is a criminal? and i said, he is a political prisoner. then they said, but you represents snowden. and i said, yes, i am a human rights attorney. and i am one of his legal advisers. but i found that entire line of questioning very jarring and very unnerving. i did not know what kind of answer i was supposed to give. it is like asking, who is president obama? they're asking about some of the most famous people on the planet. obviously, i have an attorney/client relationship to protect. i'm not going to get into meetings i've had with clients. and only some of mike clients are public. -- and only some of my clients are public. edward snowden is one of them, that is why can answer that question. i walked away from the interview just shaking. fineg the interview, i was . i ma

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edward snowden speaks to the world whenever he is so moved.g. in that statement yesterday, edward snowden also, of course, criticized the government of the united states for its excessive use of secrecy and the australian government for the same thing. the women of pussy riot pulled those ski masks over their faces in anticipation of the pepper spray that they knew would be coming their way. here is more of what happened to these supremely brave women when they tried to sing a song at vladimir putin's olympics. [ screaming ] >> that's what happens to brave people in russia who speak out against the regime. none of that happened to edward snowden yesterday because he did what vladimir putin wants him to do -- speak out against the united states and australia. it must be so painful for edward snowden to be strapped in russia today and not be able to say a word about that country's human rights violation. he must have decided the ns a's collect collection of phone records and massive surveillance capabilities are a worse threat to human rights an

they say it is another example of why edward snowden should be considered an american hero. cooper,g live, rebecca abc seven news thank you. coming up, doug is checking more winter weather heading this way. what to expect overnight. gets ready to face off in sochi. abc >> the annual democratic retreat. the president said congress needs to raise the minimum wage and pass immigration reform. ourselves to remind that there are people behind the statistics. there are lives being impacted. >> the president get around. tonight he's in california. we are here with would hundred $60 million. before the present lebron california, he had a message for the first lady. >> the president tweeted a picture with a message. here is the truth here at michelle obama is still the best valentine. the first lady also tweeted a picture with the message hey barack, i will always be your valentine. >> there you go. how sweet. you will always be our valentine a matter what the weather. like you are so sweet. i do not deserve that. we have one more little go around tonight. i will tell you what to exp

so again, more hope for edward snowden here.nd mine was the next one, "the puzzle palace", and there they accuse me of putting this to give up documents which i know i did the research with. and they threaten some of my sources, including a one or nsa director with prosecution and jail time and everything. and they had a guy follow me. that is why i wore a costume wherever i went. and actually that was john henry's house. [laughter] >> but they did. they actually had somebody in every audience who gave a talk. and they put a whole file cabinet of papers together on these. and they said that we don't have anything on you. i said that it's impossible. i've been writing about you for three years and you don't have a single visa paper? and then i saw on one paper i thought, oh, that's my codename. so i sent a request for everything on this file and i got a whole drawer. so after about 20 years the agency -- i just made that picture up there, but they actually had a book signing for me and they did have a line going out the door and

whistleblower edward snowden was singled out by a border agent and interview with that attorney from london straight ahead and the sochi winter olympics heat up with another day of competition russia has scored an olympic gold in the two man bobsled race while the u.s. and russia stand neck and neck for total medals the latest on the sochi games coming up. and a mixed verdict in the trial of a florida man who shot and killed an unarmed teen we'll break down the verdict in the case and ask if michael dunn will face a retrial for the death of jordan davis all of that and more later in the show. it's monday february seventeenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching r.t. america. we begin tonight with the news that an attorney who represents former government contractor edward snowden is saying she was detained and questioned by heathrow airport border force in london while going through customs just one raid act was traveling along with former n.s.a. whistleblower thomas drake to meet with julian a songe at the ecuadorian embassy in london yesterday right

glen greenwald is the reporter who broke the edward snowden surveillance story and who helped snowden publish all of the nsa revelations that have shaken u.s. relationships around the world and revealed to all of us just how extensively the government is collecting our personal data. he will be joining me in a moment as he prepares to release material we have not seen yet before on his new website. meanwhile greenwald is preparing to come back to the united states n spite of the fact that he could be arrested as soon as he lands. several lawmakers have said that he may be guilty of aiding and abetting a felon. journalist glen greenwald joins me from rio de janeiro. thank you for being here. i'm not sure if i can hear glen but i think you can hear me. i'm going to try to ask him my first question. it involves your new website. will you be revealing new information about the surveillance stories on the site? >> sure. there's a lot more really significant stories about to reveal as we've said for quite some time that continues to be true, and a big part of why this appeals to us so much,

. >>> edward snowden did help the "new york times" keep the public informed on what i consider to be very important matters. >> i would say it is the most secretive white house that i have ever been involved in covering. >> during the run-up to the iraq war, abramson was the d.c. bureau chief for the paper, which she says ransom seriously flawed stories. >> we were, i think, not diligent enough. >> i talk to her about the future of the paper and about accusations that the paper is too far left. welcome to "talk to al jazeera," jill. >> thanks so much, john. >> tell us what it's like to be the editor of "the new york times" for the last couple of years. did you dream about this? >> it's something i have dreamed about since i've been a professional journalist. i never expected that i would actually have this job, but some part of me always, yes, certainly dreamed of working for "the new york times." i grew up here in manhattan. my family actually had two home delivery subscriptions to ""the times"," because my mother was a passionate puzzler, but she couldn't stand to have the puzzle r

edward snowden the man responsible for leaking the n.s.a. the revelations have found shock waves around the globe as. new job the whistleblower has been elected as honorary rector of love to university in the u.k. find out what it means for him and for the students and our reporters later this hour. our. transit road to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. our. world of. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you're watching our international life from moscow welcome. fugitive whistleblower edward snowden may be in limbo overweighs future lines but one of the u.k.'s most venerable institutions is happy to give him a position of trust students at gloucester universe state and scotland have nominated him as a director as sassy explains former u.s. national security agency contractor edward snowden has been elected as a student rector of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the u.k. the role of issues to senior management at the university bought p

to purvey so if an immoral state intrusion has gone down in the record what is more we showed edward snowden and other brave whistleblowers that we stand in solidarity with them wherever they are we touched base with a spokesperson for snowden's rector election campaign to discuss the symbolism of this vote next. express or disgust this is the surveillance part says a full c n n c c and sure. this is not the first time that support for edward snowden gets this kind of public recognition in january the san francisco based freedom of the press foundation aimed at supporting and defending public interest journalism co-founded by pentagon papers leaker daniel ellsberg who describes snowden as a personal hero announce that snowden is joining its board of directors the whistleblower accused of espionage and theft of government property in the us was nominated for the nobel peace prize will have to wait to find out if he wins this year's laureate will be announced in october the norwegian lawmakers who put him forward for the nomination said what snowden did quote lead to the reintroduction of trus

edward snowden the man responsible for leaking the n.s.a. is revelations that sent shock waves around the globe has been huge. well. the whistle blower has been elected and ornery recto glossed again of us to the u.k. find out what it means for him and for the students and i'll report later this hour . the interview. below. to. choose your language. we can without any financial center say still some of the. choose the news the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that entire lives choose the access to often. this is our senior national welcome back alexander ovechkin and company can now forget about their dreams of an impact gold and the home winter games in fact the russian ice hockey squad won't be able to compete for any medal after a dramatic loss to finland in the quarterfinals correspondent this is such a right now so call all over to russia and ice hockey then. yes i think there's going to be so much soul searching in and around russia this evening the red machine have been eliminated at the q

edward snowden the man responsible for leaking the n.s.a.'s revelations that sent shock waves around the world has a new job it was one of his being elected honorary rector of glasgow university in the u.k. find out what it means for him and for the students in a report a little later this hour. with economic downturns in the final months they belong to the deal and the rest because it's a neat place you will be if we. put it on you will come on in washington d.c. all the face time you know alone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. russian ice hockey star alexander ovechkin and his team mates can forget about their dreams of an impact gold at the home winter games in fact the entire squad won't be able to compete for any medal after a dramatic loss to finland in the quarter finals whenever to our correspondent scott who is in sochi so all over for team russia and the ice hockey then yes i think it's going to be some soul searching in and around sochi and in and around russia this evening the red machine have been elim

contractor edward snowden show it was treated as a third class partner spied on at levels similar to china and saudi arabia to put that in perspective the n.s.a. watched twenty million german phone connections and ten million internet data sets on an average day tapping only two million connections in france during the same time give her all the fury merkel's initiative may have want to do with anger at home her government has been seen as lax on u.s. buying and snowden revealed cooperation between countries may have been closer than german indignation would indicate. america doesn't really. believe a blend. it doesn't seem that the conservative party is concerned with protection of the data of citizens at all it seems to be a point of pressure. put forward to the united states. but it's unclear what the actual purpose of this idea is merkel has been pushing the us for a relationship similar to the so-called five eyes agreement reached after the second world war i deal between english speaking countries not to spy on one another but the white house isn't playing ball there's no count

whistleblower edward snowden has received a vote of support for one of the world's oldest universities snowden was elected to the position over rector by students at scotland's glasgow university details his watch these tests are awesome. former u.s. national security agency edward snowden has been elected as a student rector of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the u.k. now the role of the rector is to represent student issues do senior management at the university bought previous incumbents have been elected as political statements of the group that had nominated edward snowden said that they did so because he stood for democracy and that voting for him would have shown support for his plight as a wanted man after revealing the extent of global surveillance by the n.s.a. as well as other spy agencies and they said that this would also said a message to governments their opposition to the intrusive nature of state security now as far as edward snowden is concerned this isn't his first of ward in october two thousand and thirteen received the. integrity and intellige

i think we should just say that there is no one on the review group who would describe edward snowden as a whistleblower. focus.e civil liberties we did not discuss him, but that is just a fact. whatever you think of that particular person or any particular person, the topic is after snowden. to leak classified material, that is very, gated from a government -- that is very complicated from a government standpoint, how to handle that. prosecution is a very severe act. classified,mally that is presumptively grave. that might not be the right view. jill suggesting that the classification is not sufficient, it would have to also be a great thing to do. we call on our report for lot moreication, a transparency, and we are committed to that. thinking about particular issues , i think it is quite important to have -- not to be like been some -- bensom. it is, gated on both sides. lex very quickly, a question and then we will really have to finish. thanks for a great panel. a question that i have -- it seems here that we will have a big controversy over the next months and years. the counter

fugitive whistleblower edward snowden may be in limbo where his future lies but one of the u.k.'s most vulnerable institutions is happy to give him a position of trust students at glasgow university is called lund had nominated him as a director to explain. former u.s. national security agency edward snowden has been elected as a student rector of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the u.k. carried out the role of the lester is to represent student issues do senior management at the university but previous and convents probably like to ask the logical statements of the group that had nominated edward snowden said that they did so because he stood for democracy and that voted for him he would have showed support for his flight as a wanted man after revealing the extent of global surveillance by the evans say as well as other spy agencies and they said that this would also said a message to governments their opposition to the intrusive nature of state security now as far as edward snowden is concerned this isn't his first award in october two thousand and thirteen

." >> let me dive right into the news, then, and talk a little bit about the nsa and edward snowden. danielle ellsburg was quoted as say he was a hero. do you see him as a hero or traitor? >> i see him as a very good source. we have published many of the nsa and gchq documents that came from snow den, and so i view him as i did julian assaunge and wikileaks. as a good source. >> some things were published and some weren't. how do you make those decisions? >> we make those decisions trying to apply common sense balancing test where we respectively listen to concerns of the u.s. government that publishing a story will harm international security. we balance those concerns against the importance and newsworthiness of the investigation and our primary duty, which is to keep the public informed. >> this was a big story. were you personally involved? >> i was personally involved in the snowden material, and with dean bakai, "the times" fantastic editoring manager. "the guardian" were partners in the reporting off of the nsa material. we personally went and pain-stakingly made preparations

think we should just say that there is no one on the review group who would describe edward snowden as a whistleblower. from the civil liberties focus. we did not discuss him, but that is just a fact. whatever you think of that particular person or any particular person, the topic is after snowden. to leak classified material, that is very complicated from a government standpoint, how to handle that. prosecution is a very severe act. if it is formally classified, that is presumptively grave. that might not be the right view. jill suggesting that the classification is not sufficient, it would have to also be a great thing to do. we call on our report for declassification, a lot more transparency, and we are committed to that. thinking about particular issues, i think it is quite important to have -- not to be like bensom. it is, gated on both sides. lex very quickly, a question and then we will really have to finish. >> thanks for a great panel. a question that i have -- it seems here that we will have a big controversy over the next months and years. the counterpoint to the government

intelligence officials are claiming edward snowden stole internal nsa documents by using cheap and widely available software that still went mostly undetected. "the new york times," investigators looking into the case a snowden deployed a simple web crawler that automatically downloaded some 1.7 million files. in a statement, snowden responded -- in the latest of snowden's disclosures, new information has emerged on the nsa's secret role in u.s. military and cia assassinations overseas. complexis using analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes. the nsa identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell phone tracking technologies, and unreliable tactic that has resulted in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. the disclosures made in the first article by journalists jeremy scahill and glenn greenwald for their new journalism venture, first look media. particularly the intercept, which launched today. we will speak with them after the headlines. tens of thousands of people

first glen greenwalled's partner and now edward snowden's lawyer held. the owner of the washington in business with the c.i.a. and putting the paper in a conflict of interest. high end photography, a couple of russians snapping away above the clouds. ever since the protestor hit the streets in venezuela we have been tracking the media coverage of a that story. what began as the demonstrations is now being characterized by their president and the media that back him. the media outside of the country is seeing the story differently. a 24 hour news channel has the path block dz on the orders of the president. he threatened to kickcnn out of the country. for all of the issues that the predez or had this is the first time of reigning outside of the borders. they are taking to twitter to rage the battle. most of the media is exposed as fakes or old. the opponents accuse the president of muzzling the media and this isn't the first them that the government has accused opposition news out lets . venezuela state run channel had the president looking presidential a

since edward snowden revealed the expansion of the n.s.a. surveillance many have tried to discredit have among them like capitol hill lawmakers attacking both snowden and the reporter that helped him what this could mean for journalists and their sources ahead. and since news broke about the death of actor philip seymour hoffman the dangers of heroin is back in the news in afghanistan the heroin business is booming now lawmakers in washington are trying to figure out how to stop the flow of heroin into the u.s. more on this front on the war on drugs coming up. and we're only two days away now from the start of the sochi winter olympics athletes are gathering from all around the world to compete and represent their countries a preview of the preparations from sochi later in the show. it's a wednesday february fifth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team america. hacking the hackers for the first time a western government has launched an attack on hacktivists at least that we know of according to the document

of his electronic equipment was seized just because of his well rather loose affiliation with edward snowden. says this is a very worrying trend. i feel like lawyers and journalists are now beginning to be targeted at the borders of countries in the western hemisphere in so-called democratic countries and it's a threat to press freedom when journalists are questioned and it's a threat to the integrity of the judicial system when attorneys who are working on someone's case are being harassed or intimidated on the basis of who they represent or online if you are right now what. is the u.s. prepares to pull out of afghanistan the pentagon eye is up another part of central asia. and lethal could soon appear. on its washington considers opening drone bases right along the afghan border has details of a highly controversial plan. right now. both of the story why you're there in qatar the cost of hosting a major sporting event as well as being paid in human lives hundreds of immigrant construction workers have died while building stadiums and infrastructure for the twenty twenty two football world

petition fornew edward snowden launched in the u.s. pharell williams gets the world dancing. and snowboarding around the streets of new york city. former member of the house of representatives ron paul has started a petition drive, calling on his fellow citizens to pressure the u.s. authority to famouslemency whistleblower edward snowden, currently in russia, where he sought asylum, so he can go back to the u.s. without a fear of persecution or prison. the petition is available on paul's website, and comes with a video in which the ex-president of candidate praises edward snowden for what he described as his courageous action in exposing the extent of the nsa's mass surveillance program. he said it is time to bring snowden out of exile and back home. to come home without the pair of persecution or imprisonment. >> there are similar online initiatives already underway in the u.s. another appeal has been launched on petitioning platform "we, the people," demanding charges be dropped. it has 153,000 signatures. but snowden supporters do not seem to be under any illusions. they h

that inspired -- flynn, that inspired the there has been very little focus on the damage that edward snowden has done to our military. i have read the dia assessment, and it is evident to me that most of the documents stolen by mr. snowden have nothing to do with the privacy rights and civil liberties of american citizens, or even the nsa collection programs. indeed, these documents, and we have heard the number 1.7 million documents, are in many cases multi--pages. if you printed them all and stacked them, they would be war then three might -- more than three miles high. i say that to give the public more information about how extraordinarily extensive that the documents he stole were. they do not just pertain to the nsa. they pertain to the entire intelligence community. and include information about military intelligence, our defense capabilities, the defense industry. now, you are the leader of military intelligence. you have also been deployed for extensive periods in iraq. can you share of the committee your assessment of the impact that the damage that edward snowden has done to our m

place it would make sense but conservatives in the european parliament are against it while edward snowden's lawyers say that he's willing to testify via video link then there's the issue of watching m.e.p. he's rejected a proposed amendment that would call on e.u. governments to assure snowden of his safety if he were to come to europe there was also reportedly a line calling on the u.s. not to prosecute edward snowden which also didn't make the cut instead the report will call for international protection for whistleblowers but it won't mention snowden by name asshole well the german green politician who was gunning for the snowden amendments to stay has said that it's ridiculous that he's been left in the lurch considering that edward snowden is the reason that the world knows about global surveillance in the first place that was ordered to use poly boyko. new developments in the so-called loud music case in florida the jury heard closing arguments today in the trial against michael dunn the man you see there accused of shooting seventeen year old jordan davis to death inside an s.u.v. du

cyber security, big topic edward snowden. about everything from snowden to cyber security to the latest security flaw in apple products. take a listen. >> we are trying to encourage them to share only cyber threat information. we said, if you are sharing in good faith cyber threat information, we should encourage that behavior. no different than if you are on the subway system and see something bad happening. we want you to say, stop that. same thing. the government is not on private-sector networks, so they miss a lot of what the chinese are doing, the russians are doing, when they are trying to steal information, what the iranians are doing on your networks. a robust sharing of those threats can allow the private sector to protect itself. that is the endgame. >> edward snowden -- hero or traitor? >> over 95% of what that nsa contractor stole had nothing to do with privacy. it had to do with defense, short-term and long-term strategic threats. the army, the navy, the air force, the marines. had nothing to do with any questio

i am talking about the most massive detest in history of edward snowden. and the avalanche published and broadcasted around the world. i will not dwell on the debate of edward snowden's morals or his irony of the nation he fled to. what i do want to speak to is the nation's senior intelligence officer is the profound damage his disclosures caused and will continue to cause. as a consequence, my view is the nation is less safe and the people are less secure. what he stole has gone way, way beyond domestic surveillance programs. we have lost critical intelligence sources including some shared by valued partners. terr terr terrorists are going to school on the united states trade craft and the insights they are gaining are making our job much harded. and this involves putting the lives of people at risk and the armed forces, diplomats and citizens. edward snowden for his part claims he has won and his mission is accomplished. if that is so, i call in him and his people to return the stolen documents that haven't been exposed to prevent more damage into the un

we know the nsa knew about the program because it was in the edward snowden files. ist we really have to know whether the nsa had access to the system, whether they raised concerns about americans' information being in there, because we know it was, and what else their involvement was because it doesn't look like the nsa -- it does look like the nsa itself could not have legally build a system like this. chris you called yahoo!. -- >> you called yahoo!. >> my colleague, spencer ackerman, called yahoo!. they were alarmed. if they were more secure, they would have encrypted people's chats. they could have prevented this. people were saying at the time that they should do it. it is not just hindsight, but now they have come out strongly come calling for reform of surveillance laws. they have been one of the companies that has pushed for reforms. now! invited yahoo!, but they did send a statement saying we were not aware nor would we condone this reported activity. this report, if true, represents a whole new level of violation of our users privacy and it is completely

that is the endgame. >> edward snowden, hero or traitor?5% of what the nsa contractor still has nothing to do with privacy. it had to do with defense, short-term and long-term strategic threat. the army, navy, air force and marines had nothing to do with anybody's question of privacy. that looks at it in a logical way, it's hard to walk away and think giving that to our emmy was anything less than treasonous. >> you have implied edward snowden may have gotten help from russia to carry this out. the technical capabilities were beyond his own. why do you think that? >> i think of this as a former fbi agent. look at the history starting in 2010, there's a large agree of suspicious behavior leading up to his decision to steal information. do witht had nothing to privacy issues or what the nsa was or wasn't doing and had everything to do with information that protects the united states. that information is something he may not have understood existence, so we are curious how the tool was developed to go after information that he may not have eve

david miranda was carrying documents leaked by nsa whistleblower edward snowden when he was detained for nearly nine hours while acknowledging the detention marked "indirect interference with press freedom." the court upheld its legality. the ruling comes just days after

intelligence officials are claiming edward snowden stole internal nsa documents by using cheap and widely available software that still went mostly undetected. "the new york times," investigators looking into the case a snowden deployed a simple web crawler that automatically downloaded some 1.7 million files. in a statement, snowden responded -- in the latest of snowden's disclosures, new information has emerged on the nsa's secret role