legal expert and commentator glenn greenwald recently noted were assigned to be charged in sweden he would be imprisoned under very oppressive conditions where he would be held incommunicado rather than released on bail just briefly having because we're almost at a time why do you think that ecuador should in fact take a stand. well i think the key here is that people are suggesting there is a lot of paranoia on the part of the sign supporters to another just beating the narcissism of julius and i think the response to this sort of petulant argument is that there is this why grand jury investigation that is being carried out the f.b.i. has been involved it's impaneled in alexandria virginia they're in besta gating out at least seven to ten civilians from our all over the world including the united states who are founders managers past staff members have ties they're seeking communications they're filing subpoena as they're calling people to testify and i think that julian assange has a lot of valid reasons to fear being moved from the u.k. to sweden and then possibly being extradited

we'll bring on glenn greenwald. tell me why the koch brothers cared about wisconsin. >> they cared about it on a couple of levels. as you pointed out they cut off funding and it's a relatively inexpensive buy for them. this is what is incredible for them. this is a little bit of money that gives them tremendous rewards in terms of. >> they'll spend $390 million on the presidential race. maybe even higher. >> we'll never know how much they're going to spend because they work to get the laws changed so we don't know how much they spend. >> cenk: literally. here walker raised $31 million. that's a relative bargain. right? >> yep. >> cenk: the reason is they want to send a message. not just for wisconsin but other governors, go ahead and shred the unions. there will be no consequence. >> we couldn't disagree with them more on what they stand for but they're very smart. there are things we can learn about their strategy and tactics and they're always on offense. they don't wait. this go out on offense. they go after mone

i would be happy if necessary to put a face greenwald. -- a screen wall. olive i would have to modify and played -- pay for the plans to do that -- although i would have to modify and paid for the plans to do that. >> thank you. >> good evening. dan sider with the planning department. i am uncertain on where to start with this one. the history is monday. a little cloudy. maybe that is a result of things beginning here with work without a permit. what i would like to do is run through the sequence of events as we believe them to be and hope that leads us to a conclusion. we didn't know the work was done without a permit -- we did know the work was done without a permit. we also know that work included probably a doubling of the area of this platform or balcony or whatever it is at the rear of the property. dbi , this work and a notice of violation was issued. and a permit was sought and obtained to trim back the deck to the previous as-built

just the center for constitutional rights that took part the petitioners included amy goodman glenn greenwald joined us on having got stolen and jeremy scahill those people that i would argue fight for more transparency and more honesty in our political culture and our criminal justice proceedings on a daily basis but this week however the petitioners got an answer from the court of appeals and the answer was a simple no no explanation as to why just a one line answer considering the way the government the military been handling manning's case thus far can really say it's a surprise but that does not mean that it isn't a huge blow and i've said this many times but after looking at so many of the arguments out there in the media just reading comments from people on you tube and on twitter it's pretty clear that i need to explain it again this petition has nothing to do with how you feel about bradley manning or wiki leaks or the leaking of documents in general i have seen so many responses from those that are in a blind fit of rage and want to call me a traitor and therefore have no problem tu

group therapy is certainly naive enough to work for the nobel peace prize committee i was going greenwald pointed out today this tried and true tactic of labeling anybody who questions those who want to look tough on terrorism as a terrorist sympathizer is something we saw a lot of during the bush administration but then it was a right wing attack so why have those on the left embrace it now why are they apologizing for a president who's chosen to circumvent the constitution and the courts and decide on his own to execute us citizens alliance even calls the critics feeble right because it's a sign of weakness to actually try to hold a politician who promised to bring back the rule of law and not abuse executive power to his word now luckily it's not everybody out there as i mentioned on yesterday's show there is a letter out there signed by at this point twenty six members of the house asking for transparency accountability oversight into the drone program and criticizing the policy of signature strikes for all you need is a pattern of suspicious behavior and not knowledge of who we are a

have spin because it's funded by the government of russia let's examine the premise at work here greenwald wrote an article that sums it up pretty nicely shining a light on the people and money behind the scenes he asks is there a rule that says it's perfectly ok for a journalist to work for a media outlet own and controlled by a weapons manufacture like and that's n.b.c. and n.b.c. are owned by the u.s. and british governments like the b.b.c. stars and stripes as well as the voice of america or what owned by rupert murdoch and a saudi prince benefactors of the wall street journal and the so-called fair and balanced journalistic stylings of fox news or what about the banking corporation with longstanding ties to right wing governments that fund politico how about for profit corporations whose profits depend on staying in the good graces of the us government or by loyalist to one of the two major political parties in the us. but it's apparently a violation of journalistic integrity to run a media outlet owned by the russian government so where did that will come from remember it's not that

united states getting a hold of inside of a songe and holding him as a political prisoner as glenn greenwald points out in the guardian the primary fear is being turned over to the u.s. that is the crucial context for understanding julian songes sixteen month fight to avoid extradition to sweden a fight to lead him to seek asylum tuesday in the london embassy of ecuador. obama's department of justice has convened a grand jury to investigate a songe there are accusations that the son violated the espionage act of one nine hundred seventeen which is punishable by death the signs highlighted that point in his letter to ecuador's president seeking asylum both democrats and republicans in congress have called for prosecution of his songe in the mainstream media has been piling on the signage too with some commentators calling for his death so we know has a long history of doing the bidding of the united states for less than noble reasons in two thousand and six for example the un ruled that sweden violated the global torture ban by helping the cia extradite two suspected terrorist to egypt where

signed onto a petition with the center for constitutional rights and others are signed on are going greenwald jeremy scahill amy goodman of democracy now chase made our who wrote a book called the passion of bradley manning and there are others julian simon wiki leaks are also signed on and we've decided that we want to be able to see everything that is a legal document in this case that would be in a database that would give us access and we could see why the government is arguing what it does we see plainly what they are doing to convict bradley manning. what you know right now about the case and about bradley manning do you think that he compromise national security with the leaks well so far they haven't produced a single piece of evidence that shows that there's been any damage or impact and in fact what was shared today in the hearing is that the files that have been turned over there has been some evidence that has been turned over to the defense and these materials from twenty agencies are usually one to two pages and they say no damage or no impact or there was some damage and there

michael greenwald is writing a book about the stimulus. he wrote about this turn in the mitt romney campaign today. but it hasn't really been picked up anywhere else. i'm surprised this is not a bigger story. no real reporter who's ever followed this solyndra story as republicans have tried to make it a big deal would have missed that damning detail. had there been an i.d. investigation that concluded there was corruption here, that would be a big deal. but that didn't happen. when the romney campaign started claiming this in an ad this week, their ad this week said the inspector general concluded that there had been this steering of money to friends and family, they started asking questions of the campaign. he said, i asked the romney campaign for documentation, and it produced a "newsweek" article asserting that energy department gregory friedman testified that contracts have been steered to friends and family. except that "newsweek" article was an excerpt from the book "throw them all out." he served as an adviser to sarah palin's pack.

you have different outlets of course i forgot to mention glen greenwald on slate is indispensable.e for progressive, you know. >> yeah, i wanted to kind of run down that list because i think that, you know, some of us have really been fighting to get more and more outlets on probationive talk radio. and now, we finally have a progressive talk network which is current tv? >>. >>. >> yeah. >> and, you know, we are growing and growing and getting word out there about current tv. you have six new hours of programming with current tv in the morning with my show and stephi miller's show but the online presence is huge and has been huge for a while. mention again daily kos, fire-dog lake, talking points memo media matters and slate and i am sure there are some we are going to kick ourselves we haven't mentioned there. and on the other side, you have drudge, daily caller. >> red state. >> of course. i think progressives have a huge, huge power and presence online. >> yeah. i think we for reasons i don't understand, it seems like the right sort of goes toward radio and the left goes toward