tactics is certainly a divisive figure but now john kiriakou is being honored by the government accountability project ahead we'll tell you how. and the u.s. might be looking to end its presence in the middle east but while the troops a drawdown drone strikes remain that counterterrorism tactic is your for the u.s. military this fact has yemen's human rights minister loudly criticizing the pentagon is it time to change the antiterrorism strategy or question more. it's thursday january twenty fourth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . we begin today with news from capitol hill where secretary of state nominee john kerry faced a panel of his peers on the senate foreign relations committee where he is currently chair take a listen to how his colleagues reacted to him sitting on the other side of the table. my sense is your confirmation will go through very very quickly i do look for your testimony. pretty cozy reception we also have some footage of kerry's response to his colleagues i've never seen a more distinguished and better looking group over this is my life i wi

kerry aco and also jasmine radek director of national security and human rights at the government accountability project. well president obama is kicking off a second term after his inauguration last week and he was reelected despite a less than stellar state of the economy but if you can recall the days that led up to the election third quarter data came out that reflected an economy in much better shape take a look you're looking at the quarter to quarter growth in the year two thousand and twelve and you see the third quarter growth rises substantially these figures came out in those critical days before the election than in the fourth quarter post-election there is no growth in fact it's the first time the economy shrank since two thousand and nine well for some this is all too much of a coincidence and believe the bureau of labor statistics manipulated the data to keep president obama in the white house because this really be the case to discuss i'm joined now by peter schiff president of euro pacific capital a great to see there peter so this is a very strong accusation that the president manipula

after he admitted to violating the international identities protection act well the government accountability project is now on during mr kerry aku by unveiling a portrait as part of artist robert shell shell trees a collection called the americans who tell the truth project next week we'll take you there those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned in right here. and that's going to do it for me for tonight for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america r r t dot com slash u.s.a. follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez. none duration days though much more than a point consulting a closer look at president obama's second term dirty even more and more troops and even more invasions of our privacy can end monday january twenty third.

attorneys, jesselyn radack, the director of national security and human rights of the government accountability projectshias a former ethics adviser to the u.s. department of justice. we reached out to the u.s. attorney's office for the eastern district of virginia, but they declined our request for an interview. john kiriakou, what are you going to jail? explain the peace deaplea did ye with the government. >> first of all, thank you for the opportunity to explain. i am going to prison ostensibly for violating the intelligence identities protection act of 1982. i believe and my supporters believe this was not a case about leaking, but torture. i believe i'm going to prison because i blew the whistle on torture. i have been a thorn in the side of cia since that interview in 2007, in which i said waterboarding was torture and was official u.s. government policy. i think finally the justice department caught up with me. >> jesselyn radack, let me bring you into the conversation to explain what the intelligence attendees protection act is. your client, john kiriakou, it has been invoked in his case for th

account, there is no hyper inflation. that money isn't going anywhere. where you get a constraint is if the government said let's spend $10 trillion on infrastructure projectsthen you have a real problem. you have $10 trillion worth of real resources in the economy. so you're trying to push this money into the real economy. then you would get inflation. and then wage was surge. the price of commodities would surge. there is your constraint. just found it. you hit the point where you're putting too much money into real resources then you get the push back against what government does. it's not about money running out. fwz too few goods being in there to absorb that money. let's get back to something resembling reality. let's say the white house does start to make noises about doing. this again, it seems incredibly unlikely. let's say they did. or let's say this time around they don't. but it's another disastrous debt ceiling showdown and the next time, you know, jn boehner gives them a monday, right? this is grover norquist's idea. that clip where he says the leverage will have this. there are debt ceilings for a little bit. so let's say we get to a point wh

expending these and accountable for these 318 month contract, a contracting arm of the haitian government and we are pleased to be working with the haitian government to have this project and packing 6000 families, 30,000 people under contract with this government. actually the plans for the project include taking what we've learned, lessons learned in taking it immediately south and west to sit in military. the work we've done so far has included community engagement, included job training at more than 8000 midi synth incised engineers they're able to were the standard. please let us call to to pass the approach, participatory approach to save shelter awareness. that is the standard that the red cross puts in for reselling in the reconstruction. the dense safety training. we have also done financial bloodthirsty training victim to need a training, basically taking entrepreneurs working in the community that we trained in teaching them how to be small-business owners. we've done it through those three little words on the bottom, habitat research centers. we think were doing a strategic plan and starting 2014, for its july 1, habitat beast or centers of the poor of how

government a county does not tell the whole story. -- accounting and does not tell the whole story. the programs already exceed $86 trillion. by 2004 the entitlement obligations will consume all of the average post-war projected revenue. we have to come to grips. that means every dollar collected by the irs would go to pay social security or medicated the reforms. it is unfortunate that the president was not willing to engage on this front. it is unfortunate that the senate leader continues to deny the crisis. on the day of the new year's resolutions let's hope senator reid and president obama resolve to be honest about the crisis our nation faces with a coming wave of entitlement obligations. making these programs solvents, which every economist will tell you is unsustainable. this must be done in 2013. without the legislation before us, millions of americans would see their tax rate go up. that would provide a systemic shock to our already weak economy. this plan that we are about to vote on walks and a reduced tax rate for middle-class families that otherwise would have seen $3,000 from go higher taxes on average. it firmly hold down the death tax which impacts so many small businesses. it permanently prot