them unfortunately we can't necessarily boyett that so i don't know why don't you make a freedom of information act request i guess to the government we have no idea it seems like it's not a well tailored program it doesn't actually forward any legitimate national security goals it just seems like it's the agency protecting itself playing a public relations role instead of a role that will actually protect people it's protecting itself do you think it's almost to administer a chilling effect on dissent you know i really can't speculate but i mean certainly it seems like it's a public relations public relations tactic to see what it is that people are saying about the agency that is critical which is not what the department of homeland security in this particular component is supposed to be doing. just seems like. privacy is so devalued especially in a post nine eleven world people are getting their privacy eroded day after day it seems like there's another element of the surveillance state that's being ratcheted up what is your opinion on the drone surveillance that's going to be unstated in a

state secret structure and they continue to make very wide use of the exemptions under the freedom of information act that allow them to withhold documents they continue to operate without oversight or transparency especially on national security issues. talk a little bit about there was just a foyer request done and there was a list of words that you couldn't say or that you you say online and it subjects you to n.s.a. spying one of them was cloud another one was mexico and pork it was a request that we made to the department of homeland security for their social media monitoring program contracts and documents associated with that and what we got back we got back a contract on eleven million dollar contract with general dynamics and we also got back some specifics about what they were monitoring and that list of words including cops including sick including cloud including exercise that list of words are the list of words that are being monitored by these these contractors paid by the department of homeland security i was ginger mccall director with ethics open government program. you imagine b

>> uh-huh. >> i think -- yeah -- wikipedia, freedom of information, human rights, global freedom kindsd this -- the ozwell freedom form where lots of human rights activists around the world get together and award prizes. i think it's an amazing time in terms of some freedom around the world. we just had the arab spring. the egyptian presidential elections going on as we speak or something. >> yeah. >> and i -- i do think that -- you know, i kind of talk before about how the internet is going to spread information, and be free and happy, but i think that's actually true. we are starting to see that because you can't really suppress information in today's day and age. >> [ inaudible ] was a good example for google. and the reality is there. and suppressing information and security issues, right? >> uh-huh. >> ultimately the power of the technology ultimately prevails. is that it? >> look there are many nuances in different countries and many different situations but i have become convinced kinding of over -- especially the last two years, seeing the formed societies and the benefits of t

can this power -- the very basic values -- human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of information and communication -- do they understand this? i really cannot see any sign that they want to change. there is no sign of that. >> that was the chinese artists, ai weiwei. >> new guinea is about to go to the polls tomorrow. the country has been in political deadlock since last year with two men claiming the role of prime minister. the two-week long election will see the candidates competing for over 100 parliamentary seats pretty massive police operation has been launched to prevent the violence that has marred previous elections -- parliamentary seats. a massive police operation has been launched to prevent the violence that has marred previous election. coming up, greece hopes to turn the table on germany in the euro 2012 football final. the authorities in mexico have detained the son of the world's most-wanted drug lord. the following report in mexico city does contain some flash photography. >> it is a traditional triumph for the mexican authorities. in this case, it was the 26- year-o

in a unique position, part of the appraisal industry and a long-term tenant, through the freedom of information act i have gotten the operating contract that was entered into. as part of the contract and your special provisions, it is for all boating and waterways loans that the agency shall review charges of public and privately owned facilities in the general area and shall set rates that are sufficient and reduce gross income payment and other evidence of indebtedness as described. by contract, they are required by contract to do this a minimum of once per year to set their rates to in essence balance the budget. under market rate, they have been raised sufficiently. on the record, david paterson is an excellent appraiser with an excellent reputation when it comes to real estate appraisals. i would suggest that this is probably his first on slip rental fees. i would like in it to rent for apartments. south beach lists the current rent at about one and a half months old. 15 of these arenas are public. one of the reasons that i find mr. tattersall's reports flawed, in his analysis statement, h

for unforseen maintenance, but according to documents obtained by 9 wants to know under the freedom of information act, the closure was actually ordered by the d.c. health department alleging staff was unable to provide certification of lifeguarding and cpr training, that the water system was in disrepair and conditions created a hazard to the public. marriott wardman park was also cited for ignoring the citation and reopening despite the closure order. marriott declined an on camera interview saying in a statement, "we take matters of safety and security very seriously. we contract with an outside pool management. the pool is closed until further notice as we look into this situation." at noon today we tried to ask the district health department how often this sort of thing happens, how often does a pool ignore a closure order? they said it would take them until noon tomorrow to answer any of our questions about this particular closure situation or closure rules in particular. a pool safety consultant tells me it's a very big deal that puts the public at risk and could make a hotel really liable

branches such as the inspector genre scream created by congress in the executive, such as the freedom of information act available for people like david cole and other private actors to produce a kind of transparency. and what the book demonstrates is that both in the process and in the results this combination of new activities in old branches and new kinds of uses of instruments has actually produced enormous transformation of the substantive policies and of the dynamic among the branches. a question that i have is whether, in fact, the declining resources that are existing, for example, for investigative journalism bode ill for the dynamic that the book so well describes. so, for example, media is a critical player in this story. and the effective investigative journalism that disclosed everything from the absolutely horrific behavior in abu ghraib to the existence of secret surveillance depended on a kind of financing of investigative journalism that i'm not sure will exist going forward. the disruptive activities from the digital and other kinds of development on the field of journalism are qui

freedom of information is the rules of war because we are basically. by people with information. this is a video and i listen i'm the biggest beneficiary there's going to be these look fields would have just. like you would never have i just. love coming to the bar so do you think the little bits thank you good luck. six click. click click click. click up. wealthy british style sign. right on. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our t. v p.

documents we obtained under the freedom of information act indicated the gsa paid out over a half million dollars in fiscal year 2012 bonus money to high ranking executives. the bonuses, about $10,000 apiece, included bonuses to five executives placed on leave in connection with that nearly $823,000 las vegas conference including a payout to jeffrey kneel lee, now infamous for that bathtub photo and 2400- square-feet hotel suites. now there's a new report of even more bonus going to gsa officials while under investigation for misconduct. the kansas city star obtained a senate analysis identifying $1 million inbonuses since 2008 going to officials suspected of wrong doing. the report identified bonuses going to 84 employees under investigation receiving as much as $40,000 apiece over five years. those numbers don't include the bonuses our investigation uncovered last week of payouts to the officials linked to that las vegas scandal. we got a response tonight from the gsa saying that this bonus situation, specifically bonus money going to people under suspicion of wrong doing, is part of th

but according to documents obtained by 9 wants to know under the freedom of information act, the closure was actually ordered by the d.c. health department alleging staff was unable to provide certification of lifeguarding and cpr training, that the water system was in disrepair and conditions created a hazard to the public. marriott wardman park was also cited for ignoring the citation and reopening. they declined an on camera interview saying in a statement we take matters of safety and security. the pool is closed until further notice. >> we asked a spokeswoman about the incident and she said it would take 25 hours for them to give us information about a what happened. a pool safety consultant said this sort of incident is a really big deal that could make the hotel vulnerable to an accident and even more vulnerable to a potential lawsuit. i'm investigating reporter russ potosak. 9 news now. >>> the u.s. coast guard thinks today's report of a yacht explosion off the coast of new jersey just may have been a hoax. a distress call this afternoon indicated the vessel blind date hat gone d

. >> reporter: as a result of a aaa mid-atlantic freedom of information request, the automated traffic generated more than $55 million last year and near on track for another record year in profits. >> it's unbelievable. >> definitely. they definitely need to go. >> reporter: what would it take to get rid of these for good? a voter referendum for starters. you'd have to submit a question to the board of elections to get it on the ballot and then circulate a petition to get tens of thousands of signatures. would you be up for a referendum on these speed cameras? >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: the city of says the cameras are for safety and david schulen berger says he feels safe we are them around. >> i think they're trying to save lives. >> there is this growing movement to do something about these cameras because this whole notion that it's about traffic safety is only a pretense and only a fig leaf. it's really about generating revenue. >> reporter: a referendum would be too late for july's deadline for the november ballot. for now the only way to guarantee not getting a ticket is

scrubbing steps, so we would appreciate the opportunity for that to be exempted from the freedom of information act. we would like some work done in the telecommunications industry, currently carriers are required to deliver everything to the end user, the government knows that some of the traffic on our networks is malicious and if they could give that to the telecommunications carriers and they are allowed to dump that traffic before it gets to the end point, that would be great and working on legal and diplomatic levels, when we say that person is a criminal, that person is arrested and tried and appropriately sentenced. >> thank you. thank the gentlelady from all of that. gentleman from arizona is now recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman, this is an occasion where it's a area of great interest. first, let's say city, or a major institution of region alimony center bank is finding its systems under attack. you know, someone is trying to somehow go up and down. how quickly does that get shared with others? do you share it through government? do you share it through the industry? do you shar

of office according to the better government association. in a story in the sun-times, the bga says it received the information under the illinois freedom of information act. the group says it is trying to get more information -- based on changes made to the plan by mayor rahm emanuel. but police officials say it would burden the operations of the department to calculate the cost of the current plan. someone is stealing chicago's city property... and like the johnny cash song... are doing it one piece at a time. this maintenance garage for city trucks is just one of four places that have been hit ... for thousands of dollars in losses. thieves have been stealing giant truck tires, batteries copper wire and a welding system -- even though the facilities have security cameras, locks and fences. police reports have been filed and the city inspector general will look into the thefts. they are celebrating in south florida after the heat win the nba championship. that story ahead in sports. and one band is going to be celebrating soon in barrington. that's because we will be crowning our breakthrough band contest winner in just a bit. ana belaval is that th

the freedom of information act is perhaps the most powerful instrument we have for making our government honest and transparent and holding it accountable and i expect members of my administration not simply to live up to the letter but the spirit of the law. the president then issued a memorandum to the heads of the executive departments on january 1, 2009. quote, the government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure because errors or failures might be revealed or because of speculative or abstract fears. en quote. the president on march of 2011 in talking about fast and furious said there may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made and if that's the case we'll find out and hold somebody accountable. ladies and gentlemen, that has not happened. on february 4th of last year, 2011, the congress was sent a letter that was false. it took ten months for that information to be provided, to be withdrawn. the subpoena that we're talking about today was issued in october of last year. now it is june 20th and the

i don't agree what you did with weekly freedom of information system was toward the thing because we always did get controlled by people with information and this is a video of war and as i said i'm the biggest menace issue this is going to be these last years would have just been during the mission and we would never and i would just sort of coming to the bar i was so there you think a little bit thank you there and good luck. to cut cut. cut. cut cut cut cut . emission and free accreditation free transport charges free arrangements free. free studio time free. download free blog counseling videos for your media projects and a free media dog r t v dot com. me it is easy to. see.

what to do with what we could be freedom of information is the most important thing because we are always to be controlled. by people with information this is video and as i said i'm the biggest beneficiary there's going to be these look feels would have just been to the mission. we would never amount to johnson of coming. so do you think the little bits thank you good luck. please please please please please please please. please please please please please accept such and such. lines in russia would be so much brighter if you knew all about sound from files to question inside. means fun stuff.

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what you did with weekly freedom of information system was toward the thing because we'll basically controlled by people with holding information this is really a boil and as i said i'm the biggest beneficiary there's going to be these lawyers would have just been through the mission and people like me would never and i was just sort of coming to the bar i was so there you think oh well that's thank you good luck. keeps. putting. download the official ante up location to go on the phone or i pod touch from the i.q. stops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand ati's mind old costs and says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t. dot com. if. he. believes. it's.

interesting, that this president is called or this administration has called for changing foia, the freedom of information act. now when you apply for information, they can reject it, give a reason. you go to court and litigate it. the administration wanted to -- for example, they could say we don't have anything instead of we have something but we're applying privilege. there's been a series of cases the last several years of abuse of prosecutorial discretion. i don't think it's democrat or republican. just prosecutors have been abusive. there's a judge in boston that threw out a case and said he investigated about once every year or two, abuse of discretion requiring overturning of a conviction, another one in miami. the ted stevens conviction, all kinds of things came to light afterwards that didn't hem him all that much. but it was shocking to me that it happened at all. the answer is we always have to be vigilant. i don't think there is -- you talk about government being -- dictatorships have sufficient governments. last thing we want is an efficient government. we can have an efficient post office.

freedom of information is the rules to order because we are basically drove. by people who live information this is video and that's it i'm the biggest beneficiary there's going to be these look seals would have just been through vision. like we would never have i just of going to borrow books so do you think the little bits thank you good luck. six. weeks such a. culture is that so much going on there's a huge musician trying to market kicking the can down the road this is how many see the recent negotiations in moscow regarding iran's nuclear program are the western powers local. business meeting on the global scale. hundreds of deals billions in investment. the international economic forum in st petersburg on party. wealthy british style said it's not surprising. markets.

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markets of course we know that through the freedom of information act requests by bloomberg but they also have been propping up of others to sions dexia in belgium or the south korean central bank i think however given where we are in the story with with each nation whether it's the european union or it's japan or the united states needing their own currencies to maintain some sort of parity you know the last thing japan go for right now is an even stronger yen so i think that in order to maintain the larger system we're going to have to see something a little bit more coordinated this time by and dissipating is that instead of the fed coming out announcing all of its own another trillion dollar liquidity program i think we're going to be seen instead is a coordinated action bank of japan the bank of england e.c.b. all getting together and coming out with some giant announcement saying that we're going to throw in some really meaningful an amount pick a number of three trillion five trillion something and that money has to be dedicated towards absorbing a lot of the dodgy debts that a

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. >>> new allegations of inappropriate, even criminal behavior, are rocking the secret service tonight. the new information released under the freedominformation act, involves prostitutes, leaks of sensitive information and illegal wire taps. in all, there are 229 pages, much of it censured. the white house is investigating. all of it dates back to 1974. >>> big crowds enjoying ships from around the globe at baltimore's inner harbor. as part of the sailabration. but another big part is in disguise. in complete coverage, live with rochelle ritchie who has more on the spectacular blue angels. rochelle? >> reporter: well, denise, it was a thrilling and much appreciated experience. and i can tell you that the blue angels are very excited to be here in baltimore. and while i didn't get an opportunity to see their show just yet, i definitely felt it. >> reporter: with cell phone cameras snapping away, spectators like kyle think blue angels is an honor. >> 1959. kind of cool seeing here. >> even more of an honor, flying with the men and women who defend our country. captain don hecker. 130 aircraft. intense speeds. oh. and motion sickness.

to put it all out but so this happened from the national security council as they filed a freedom of information act request and they want to see the declassification procedures at the cia had and so the cia basically just gave them a response to their freedom information act that said did not locate any records responsive to your request for published cia regulations about you classification so that's says we did not locate any records responsive to your request although our searches were thorough and diligent and it is highly unlikely that repeating those searches would change the result so they can even find their declassification procedures within any of their documents really i mean that looks like a form letter to me about looks like something that they probably use and anyone who sends a request there the cia so they get to use that you know national security as a as an excuse for anything probably but it's your own goddamn procedures you guys killed by now you've got to be written somewhere your employees have to read a handbook or something i don't know i kind of feel like there's a gov

video has checkpoint footage security cameras at the airport actually used that i got by freedom of information act request in cleveland ohio and i went through quite a process to get that because the t.s.a. is actually telling any airport that i request footage from that they're not allowed to disclose the footage for security reasons this despite the fact that the t.s.a. frequently releases videos of security checkpoints for example when they recently detained us senator rand paul they released that when they arrested the woman for telling them that they couldn't grow for daughter they released that but any time i requested security sensitive but eventually cleared them back down i got the video that can pretty clearly show me take a metal object that that's in the side pocket straight through the new body scanners and be allowed on my way and what's the worst case scenario that could happen and just kind of elaborate on a hypothetical scenario of what this actually means. sure so the exploit that i found in the body scanners essentially allows any metallic object through so that that could b

that new information not only shows more wasted tax payer money it took a freedom of information act the citizen labor department to disclose these numbers also doesn't look so great. turns out the information was uncovered nearly a year ago when fbi agents raided solyndra to investigate whether it lied to get the infamous government loan. they are still investigating whether the obama administration tried to cover up how badly the company was really doing. we the tax mayors may be on the hook for even more money in this mess. the labor department ruled solyndra shut down because of pressure from foreign markets making workers eligible for additional aid like extended unemployment benefits job training and relocation subsidies. 52 workers received that aid at a total cost of 450,000 dollars. you can image if the remaining 1800 cashed in that's a good amount of money coming from the american taxpayers. >> diane macedo, thank you. >> thanks, ladies. >> make a right turn. >> no, no, it means their right. >> no. it said right. it said take a right. >> no, no, look t. means go up to the r

leak of classified information should be a crime no matter the weakness and tensions motivations for whether or not it it harm national security now what it was proposing became law was cited the freedom of the press considerations and the public's right to know every almost every single administration official the last thirty five years would be in jail you know we have a classification system which is. loaded in and we're going to the point where there's seventy seven million documents classify and. foreign policy is some is some class fied and. without being able to tell. remember to get its message out and the public would never know what the government's doing so what you. use and surely most all governments just. coming out with information that could be helpful to see how it works and will prevent the press doing its job yeah i think that's a really important point that you bring up when we talk about what senator lieberman wants to do he wants to take this past just people who leak classified information he wants to take it to people who also leak anything considered harmful to national security but i think it's an important you bring up classified information you know usually

computer and it's hard for you to really keep up on the trial when you talk about why why the freedom of information act is not on the side of the defendant here so that statement that i made was about whether we're going to release court filings that are happening in this case and so i just would like to make clear to people who are watching this segment that when i sit there and the judge talks about what you know when they read the orders and when they read the filings i don't get to see this document at the end of the day to confirm that what i heard was exactly what i heard so when i hear things in court it's you know it's one and done and what's ridiculous is that . in the military commissions for nine eleven terror suspects we can see these documents and the press and public has access to the database but in the case of bradley manning i don't get to have this in practically it's very difficult for me as a reporter because i have to rely on that real time hearing and i expect better . sort of a let's get to the core of what this is really about i mean in the last two years they put bradley ma

in the 1960s, at a time of great national turmoil, congress passed the freedom of information act. nsparency and depoit republican debate. >> when the government told half truths. distortions. at that time, the congressman who came up earlier said that the freedom of information act was intended to against the government and promoting its successes. we have a debate taking place right now because the administration is choosings to max effective disclosures. >> jack and josh, i want you to get a response out right after a break. follow the wings. hey, it's me -- water. i was trying to figure out how i could get rid of 99% of the lead i can pick up traveling through your pipes, and then... [ click ] it just clicked. get it? it clicked... why? i thought jill was your soul mate. no, no it's her dad. the general's your soul mate? dude what? no, no, no. he's, he's on my back about providing for his little girl. hey don't worry. e-trade's got a totally new investing dashboard. everything is on one page, your investments, quotes, research... it's like the buffet last night. whatever helps y

isn't there a freedom of information act that we can find this out. >> i don't think so for tax returns'm guessing he probably paid a really low rate. legally. >> joy: 15%. >> right, but there were some years-- >> joy: 5% maybe. >> yeah, you know-- >> maybe he got a refund. [laughter] >> joy: the other thing about the hispanic vote, now they're thinking, they're back to saying they've got marco rubio. if he puts rubio--the hispanics are voting 73% to 26% in obama's favor, and that was before this partial dream act thing that obama is just did. is he going to get the hispanic vote because he puts marco rubio on the ticket? >> first of all he's not going to put him on the ticket. but if he did no. it never working that way. when jerry farrell women did not go to them. >> joy: and remember what they did, everything that they did and that was the end of that ticket. >> exactly. but rubio, he's of cuban heritage not mexican. the idea that all hispanic think alike or vote alike and polling shows that rubio does fought even necessarily help in florida. i think the only reason why he's suddenly