our guest is glenn greenwald, author of, "with libery and justice for some: how the law is used to destroyality and protect the powerful." glenn, bradley manning read the latest news is he would be willing to plead guilty to some charges. >> bradley manning is the 23- year-old army sergeant who has been held for 2.5 years by the u.s. military without having been convicted of anything yet. he was held in solitary confinement that an investigation found was cruel and inhumane. he is not only been charged with leaking classified information, but with a much more serious capital offense for which the death penalty is possible of aiding and abetting the enemy. it is based on this pernicious theory that although he did not intend to aid al qaeda, by publicizing classified affirmation, al qaeda could receive that information and use it to its advantage. the theory that means anyone who releases classified information, including newspapers or anyone in government, can essentially be accused of treason and executed. it is an extremely radical theory. he is at the age of 23 worried about spending hi

yeah i mean glenn greenwald i know argues that this swooning by the media over the general for the last several years illustrates a larger problem and that is military worship i know in his article greenwald refers to michael hastings work and writes betrayers has left a string of failures and even scandals behind him a disastrous iraq a training program a worsening of the war in afghanistan the attempt to convert the cia into a paramilitary force a series of misleading statements about the benghazi attack and the constant killing of innocent people in the muslim world without a whiff of due process transparency or oversight so colonel davis i mean i guess i want to get your take i know you're an attorney and you have a long military history you're not a media expert but you know the media likes to refer to itself as the fourth estate as another check and balance to the system of fairness and making sure things that happen in this country are right and just talk a little bit about that military worship and the history of it. well we've always had a relationship going back to you know th