glenn greenwald is still on with us.s week is the second anniversary, would be two years ago yesterday that bradley manning, the young u.s. soldier in iraq, was taken into custody. he has been charged with releasing the documents, getting a hold of and releasing the documents -- millions of them -- to wikileaks from iraq, afghanistan. can you talk about the significance of this in light of what we're seeing develop with julian assange today, the wikileaks founder? >> i think it is so important to remember that would bradley manning is alleged to have done, what wikileaks did was an act of incredible mobility, bringing its immense amounts of transparency to the u.s. government and its war actions, ones that are usually shrouded in complete secrecy. in the course of doing so, there is no suggestion they're harming national security, but their callous stories of importance that they enable to be written about what the u.s. government, but other governments are doing. i think it is important to keep in mind there's a lot of

john what do you think about you know glenn greenwald was asked the other day just about will what is the president supposed to do when there are terrorists abroad and when we do need to deal with them and he just said i had i look at myself and say stop stabbing yourself when you're covered in blood and you realize that it's coming from you continuously stabbing yourself and comparing that to how when you continue to drop bombs in the middle east it just perpetuates more terrorism and more anx toward the u.s. so what should we do i mean do you even believe that there is a threat at all and if so how would you suggest that we deal with that without engaging in this warfare there is a threat there are people parts of certain groups that want to kill americans the way that you first of all stop. the way that you reduce the amount of terrorism in the world first of all is to stop participating in it stop doing it yourself stop being a terrorist by bombing civilians in war zones which is usually typically called terrorism the other way you do it is stop creating more terrorism stop. givin

enormous credit goes to judge force are all i can say i mean glenn greenwald cites the concept of the invisible line that there's a chilling effect in the country that you know not to cross this line and when you do that's when you know the government after i mean do you think that with this whole ended indefinite detention provision is it really. stifling dissent and do you think that people are becoming increasingly scared to dissent against the government because of this. right well i think that is the intent of many of these statutes i think that has been occurring judge for us focused like a laser on this in her opinion where she wrote that these plaintiffs have standing even though they haven't been put in detention because their actions have been chilled and their dissent has has been. chilled and their activities have been diminished that is why they have standing to challenge this because of exactly what you said the net effect of this law is to is to brush back like a like a baseball pitch to brushback someone who's at the plate it's a brush back the civilians from exercisin

trying to get that information out there many of them have been guests of this show the names are glenn greenwald amy goodman kevin gusto lead jeremy scahill specifically as well as the nation julian assange and wiki leaks and chase mad are now notice that none of those names are personalities on your cable news channels that supposedly most trusted forward leaning fair and balanced channels these organizations have gone back and forth from either ignoring to demonizing wiki leaks and bradley manning but they've never stood for transparency no matter what your opinion of manning or wiki leaks is we should all have access to what's going on in the court proceedings so that we can see how the justice system works but the mainstream media are not really concerned about all that here they choose to miss. well the congressional budget office gave a pretty dire warning about the economy this week and a report released on tuesday the cvo warn that the combination of budget cuts set to go into effect in january and an expiration of bush tax cuts the payroll tax extended unemployment benefits that all tha

put it he's now the man who decides who lives and who dies the judge jury and executioner or as glenn greenwald put it the unelected death sentence so are all of them and i think that last one really has the best ring to a bit what's really happening here is that apparently they've decided to consolidate the process of choosing who to strike decreasing the role of the pentagon and instead focusing on a small team within the white house and according to the a.p. under this new plan brennan staff compiles the potential target list runs of the names past agencies like the state department and they do this at a white house weekly meeting now the way they're trying to sell it is that it's a sign that al qaeda targets are chosen only after painstaking and exhaustive debate personally i get the exact opposite impression upon hearing this news if there are fewer people involved the decision process that means that there's less debate as in more powers plays into the hands of this one person and here's the kicker to see apparently this policy is already about a month old so because i make it a coinciden

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