leaks were almost done glenn greenwald has said they are far from over just today a german newspaper revealed new documents regarding the n.s.a.'s top team of hackers an inside look at the agency's growing scope with surveillance coming up. it's monday december thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm in the area david in you're watching our team we begin today with the explosion that ripped through a trolley bus in the russian city of volgograd fourteen people were killed and twenty eight injured marking the second attack in just twenty four hours authorities say a suicide bomber is behind this latest explosion which left mangled bodies on the street and raise fears about more violence in the lead up to the sochi winter olympics which russia is set to host in just six weeks artie's margaret howell was on the scene of the attack and brings us more. i am here in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded this morning at eight thirty in the morning causing massive deaths bodies everywhere a lot of information that is still coming out about the stroller the attack that happened thi

and joining us from brazil is glenn greenwald.she was pre-was the a columnist at "the guardian" and is creating an immediate venture with the ebay founder, to .eschedule, and laura poitras what exactly did the judge rule? >> it is a ruling that is limiting to the bulk surveillance of collecting metadata. there's a program the nsa has in place now and has had in place now for seven years at least that collects information about every single phone call nader received on u.s. telephone network so that means every time you pick up the phone, the nsa is making a note in some sense of who you called, how long you spoke to them, when you call them, every single time you pick up the phone. the nsa is doing that with respect to every single phone in thede in the usa -- united states. we challenge the constitutionality. judge polly appel the program saying first congress had intended to prevent people like us, that is the targets of this surveillance, from challenging the scanner program in court. also the constitution doesn't foreclose the

perhaps greenwald speech was foreshadowing the latest n.s.a. revelation to leak yesterday from german magazine der spiegel artie's perry and bourne has the details. their job is to get the un get a bowl unit of mostly young hackers are helping the n.s.a. break into computers around the world to access some of the toughest targets german news magazine der spiegel published a report over the weekend revealing the tailored access operations for the team of the national security agency's top hacking unit people did not disclose how they obtained the n.s.a. documents but has a history of publishing reports using edward snowden leaks material the n.s.a. is t.a.o.'s housing unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon it began in one nine hundred ninety seven when the internet was in its infancy now it's one of the fastest growing units of the n.s.a. this is one of its central offices in san antonio texas the unit moved into this former sony chip factory in two thousand and five and is expected to have two hundred seventy speci

they are being challenged severely by the glenn greenwald's of the world glenn greenwald has got twenty to thirty million or a million dollars to start his own. online newspaper if you will or whatever you want to call it and. the online types are going to win this battle that say it's an intramural one will who's better the sabs and papers or the new guys because establishment papers as i said a few minutes ago. you know no necessarily have the same courage. that they had x. years ago i can imagine. the washington post doing that in the era of ben bradlee. passing on that story and they certainly didn't pass on water. i certainly did not pass on water and they certainly did not pass on the pentagon papers i mean and washington post. you know reputation and histories is very good with respect to these type of stories because you don't want to get blown away by someone who comes in and says you publish that you're going to damage nasa security because you know it never turns how they should to there you go and see goodell to think carefully that the book is fighting for the press the ins

the most prominently a couple journalists to wiki leaks has gone clean greenwald's for his part was then working with the guardian has left the guardian as a result. of the censorship by the guardian all of that material to date less than zero point zero five percent of the snowden i think documents have been published. the majority of the media are still reluctant to challenge the government like you said and speaking of glenn greenwald recently he reprimanded journalists across the globe for not standing up to the government lets out so have a listen to what going greenwald had to say at a recent conference and hamburg what it is that we were targeting in the behavior of the media over the past six months is just revelations have emerged almost entirely without and despite the role of the us media and their british counterparts is to be voices for those with the greatest power and to protect their interests and serve that your highness i want to ask you is it as bad as greenwald is saying generally speaking if you just understand that the powerful media institutions are part of part of

news greenwald promised more reporting on the n.s.a. noting that only a small fraction of the documents have been published and that there are still very significant stories to come meanwhile in the united states one of the n.s.a.'s top defenders senator dianne feinstein the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee made some surprising comments about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone metadata collection program suggesting she may be open to reforming it after all. this program in conjunction with other programs helps keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable but i'm saying that it is going to work and it is a major tool in ferreting out a potential terrorist attack i'm not saying it's indispensable her words that is a backtrack her comments come after a federal court here in washington d.c. ruled this week that the phone metadata collection may be unconstitutional they also come as tech companies many that have participated in these n.s.a. spying programs lobbied the white house on tuesday for aggressive n.s.a. reforms and of

of the media are still reluctant to challenge the government like you said and speaking of glenn greenwald recently he reprimanded journalists across the globe for not standing up to the government lets out so have a listen to what going greenwald had to say at a recent conference in hamburg what is that we were targeting in the behavior of the media over the past six months is just revelations have emerged almost entirely without them and despite the roll out of the us media and their british counterparts is to be voices for those with the greatest power and to protect their interests and serve that your highness i want to ask you is it as bad as greenwald is saying generally speaking if you just understand that the powerful media institutions are parts part of power rather than being being so to speak mediators of information you just understand the very idea that. you will start looking at media consumption of news or information in a different in a different respect so yes of course there is that bad. and if we look at an institution such as the washington post which was one of the fir

spokespeople journalist glenn greenwald scolds his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in power he addresses an international act is called. the year winds down we look back at some of the most significant stories of twenty thirteen among them the hunger striking detainees in guantanamo force fed in response to the protest against indefinite detention. center at ten pm here in moscow is kevin to be with you this very good to have you company our top story that a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul central square has been violently dispersed by police in the last twenty four hours the rallies were sparked by a high level corruption investigation that's led to a major cabinet reshuffle in the arrests of several top officials demonstrators are now demanding the country's prime minister step down but leave them selves caught in the corruption allegations a smear campaign security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back protesters in istanbul early and r.t. crews there got caught up in the chaos that erupted. into the place at this time when the safety and

your highness i want to ask you is it as bad as greenwald is saying. well i mean generally speaking if you just understand the powerful media institutions are part of power rather than being being so to speak. of information you just understand the very idea obviously you will start looking at the media consumption of news or information in a different in a different respect so yes of course there is that. and if we look at an institution such as the washington post which was one of the first institutions that had access to snowden's and they say documents they decided not to publish anything i mean practically didn't publish anything and what we can understand from that is that there is a direct relationship between between the different power institutions in our societies and media is most definitely one of the most important power institutions that we have in our society. well of course the examples of manning and edward snowden and your example julian of course showed us what revealing the cost of revealing i should say as days go by you still don'

looked a greenwald, erik snowden is not a narcissist.his was a guy who was operating on principles. he's living in exile. his life will never be the same. he'll live out the rest of his years in russia or he'll be abducted or extradited to the united states. i don't feel a need to respond to that. anyone who knows my work as a journalist can look and see what my priorities are. my priorities have been to tell the stories of others. there is a criticism of me being in the film itself but the point was to make it digestible to people in the united states. the experience and stories of people who have had their entire lives destroyed by these wars. >> there is a point in the film where you're on bill maher show and jay leno, who is an nbc talk show host at the time basically asks you why you're still alive? >> why you still alive? are you paranoid? >> everybody laughs except you. >> yeah, well first of all, i was thinking, my mom is watching this show, she's horrified when things like that happen. but i was also--i felt the sense of shame b

i want to turn to glenn greenwald himself -- i want to turn to glenn greenwald who testified by skype testified before the european union, emphasizing the nsa's interest in metadata. >> collecting metadata is the supreme priority of the agency because it enables the nsa to invade people's privacy more effectively than the interception of content. i think sometimes it is difficult to understand that in the abstract, but it is easy to understand when concrete examples are used. so if you can imagine, for example, a woman who decides she wants to get an abortion, if you're listening in on her phone call, what you'll hear is her calling the clinic, the clinical answer with a generic sounding name like eastside clinic or something like that, and you'll hear the woman who you decided to target for surveillance ask for an appointment tuesday at 2:00 and then hang up the phone. you'll have no idea why she called or even what kind of clinic she called or what the purpose was. but if you're collecting her metadata, you will see the phone number she called and then be able to identify it as an a

leaks were almost done glenn greenwald has said they are far from over an hour german newspaper revealed view documents regarding the n.s.a.'s top team of hatteberg an inside look at the agency's growing scope of surveillance coming up and in chicago the u.s. is the biggest jail is also its biggest mental health facility over a third of the prisons inmates have a mental illness but now the question is how did this happen r t has gone into the jail to find out so we'll give you a full breakdown later in the show. it's monday december thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm a mere i david and you're watching our t.v. we begin tonight with the explosion that ripped through a trolley bus in the russian city of volgograd fourteen people were killed and twenty eight injured marking the second attack in just twenty four hours of the would you say a suicide bomber is behind this latest explosion which left mangled bodies on the street and raised fears about more violence in the lead up to the sochi winter olympics which russia is set to host in just six weeks are tees maar margaret howell was

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joining us is glenn greenwald. respond to your critics you retrieved this huge trove of documents and privatizing them by selling home to a rich guy. >> that's completely idiotic. the way journalism works sources come to journalists they trust. you have an agreement how you report it. in order to do adversarial journalism you need editor, technology and other tools that let you do journalism. in order to create a new media organization devoted to adversarial journalism we sought funding from someone who sought independence in journalism. >> are you guaranteed independence? how free will you be to take on anybody maybe even including interest contrary to his? >> the essence of the new organization is that journalism is not journalism if it's not independent. people whose hiring we announced and whose hiring we will continue announce including me have long histories of demanding independence as the central plank in your arrangement with any media outlet. the minute anybody tried to interfere in the journalism that we

their bold is not to be adversaries their role is to be spokespeople journalist glenn greenwald greenwald told his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in power as your dress is an international hackers congress. boss of the year winds down we look back at some of the most significant stories of twenty thirteen among them the hunger striking detainees in guantanamo force fed in response to their protests against indefinite detention. at five pm in moscow you're watching our chief international with me and he said no way straight to our top story this hour a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul central square has been violently dispersed by police the rallies were sparked by a high level corruption investigation that led to a major cabinet reshuffle and arrested several top official demonstrators are now demanding the country's prime minister tayyip everyone down but the leader himself is calling the corruption allegations a smear campaign security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back protesters and. there are two crew was there and got caught up in the

greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without regard to suspicion of evidence of wrongdoing, it regards the core guarantee of rights in the constitution and the court said it does not come close. somebody comes forward and revealed that a federal program that a court says is illegal is a classic whistleblower. on top of the fact that his revelations have sparked a debate in the united states and around the world that -- as evidenced by the hearing that we are participating in today about all sorts of things that i think everybody on all sides of the debate agrees we are better off kno

news greenwald promised a more reporting on the n.s.a. noting that only a small fraction of the documents have been published and that there are still very significant stories to come meanwhile in the united states one of the n.s.a.'s top defenders senator dianne feinstein the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee made some surprising comments about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone metadata collection program suggesting she may be open to reform yet after all. this program in conjunction with other programs helps keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable but i'm saying that it is work and it is a major tool in ferreting out a potential terrorist attack i'm not saying it's indispensable that's what she said that is a backtrack so change may actually be coming to the n.s.a. sooner rather than later. they want to ukraine where the united states is trying to influence the protests that have been seen on the streets in that country of the last month senator john mccain went on one of his famous or infamous diplomatic missions th

more of my conversation with glen n greenwald and what is next for him. plus a million dollar piccaso showed for what, $140. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are the top stories. construction on new houses soared almost 23% last month, the biggest jump in 20 years. home builders broke ground on 1 million homes in november, the most since early 2008. it's a deal of bipartisan budget agreement passing the senate avoiding a government shutdown for up to two years. the bill eases automatic spending cuts caused by the sequester. 48 recommendations on how to reg eye late the n.s.a. a suggestion from the presidential commission - appoint a civilian head instead of a military general running the n.s.a. >> more of our conversation with journalist glenn greenwald. he's been highly critical of the n.s.a. and the secretive green lighted activities. now that the advisory panels and a federal court ruling called the practices into question i asked glenn greenwald if he feels vindicated. >> the first article i wrote was abou

devoted to doing that has profound consequences for we're everybody who communicates electronically greenwald who is in possession of the cache of n.s.a. documents obtained by edward snowden revealed what he believes to be the n.s.a. is all to make goal and also made it clear that the as his activities go far beyond counterterrorism the n.s.a. documents they are here is teaching us with all sorts of references to the fact of the goal of the n.s.a. is captured by the phrase call left at all. in the united states one of those has top defenders senator dianne feinstein the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee made some surprising comments about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone metadata collection program suggesting she may be open to reforming it after all. this program in conjunction with other programs helps keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable but i'm saying that

journalist glenn greenwald has been channeling revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden lashed out meantime the mainstream media for turning a blind eye to the government while ations who made a keynote speech at a hiker's conference in germany has paid all of it was in hamburg to for the international i t gathering. perhaps the most anticipated speech at this year's calles communication conference was the keynote address by journalist and political commentator glenn greenwald he delivered his keynote speech by videophone to a packed out auditorium here in burke and which he praised edward snowden for the work that he's done and also called on those governments that have shown indignation at the revelations of how much their citizens are being spied on by america and its allies to do more than just show that indignation that they should do more to help the man who has sacrificed much in order to bring them the truth and we also address the u.s. and british governments accusing them of team leader lying to their citizens and speaking about the

greenwald? >> i will take those in order. yeah, i would just take those in order. i think mike rogers picked a very bad week to deny that mr. snowden is a whistleblower, given the federal court decision that you reference in the second part of your question, which is that the core program, the first one we revealed and that mr. snowden, when i first met with them, cited as what caused him to come forward, the collection of the metadata of all americans without regard to suspicion of evidence of wrongdoing, it regards the core guarantee of rights in the constitution and the court said it does not come close. somebody comes forward and revealed that a federal program that a court says is illegal is a classic whistleblower. on top of the fact that his revelations have sparked a debate in the united states and around the world that -- as evidenced by the hearing that we are participating in today about all sorts of things that i think everybody on all sides of the debate agrees we are better off kno

greenwald. his cough was then working with italian has with god. as a result of all the censorship by the guardian or the eternal. today less than two point five percent of the spirit and i think the chances of being published. the men started the media are still reluctant to challenge the government like you said in speaking of glenn greenwald recently he reprimanded journalists across the globe for not standing up to the government websites i have a listen to what the angry mob had to say at a recent ninety conference in hamburg. what is that we were targeting isn't that the leader of the media over the past six months the revelations have emerged almost entirely with now and despite the wall of the us media and their british counterparts is to be voices for those with the greatest power and to protect their interests and serve them what i ask you isn't as bad as greenwald is saying generally speaking if you just understand that in that powerful media institutions are parts that aren't of power rather than being there and being so to speak to me

i knew what i ask you isn't as bad as greenwald is saying that generally speaking if you just understand that in the powerful need institutions are parts that aren't of power rather than being there and being so to speak to me the tears off information. it gives us understand the very idea then obviously you're toast medan consumption of news information different in different respects. yes of course and as it is not bad and in between. look it's an institution such as the washington post which was one of the first institutions that have access to an end to militants in the missing documents. they decided not to publish anything. and i'm practically didn't publish any favors. and do what we can understand and that is that there is a rich relationship between words between the different power institutions in our societies and it is is most definitely one of the most important our institutions that we have in our society. the trip. recap now our breaking news has been confirmed that fifteen people died in a bomb blast in russia's southern city of photographs. i don't think we'd all sweaty

all is not to be adversary their role is to be spokespeople all journalist glenn greenwald scolds his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in as he addresses an international company. and this year winds down with a packet some of the most significant stories of twenty thirty eight among them the hunger striking detainees in guantanamo force fed in response to their protest against indefinite detention. hello good evening for me kevin owen here in moscow very please you can join me there for a latest news update here about the international a top story the note eight pm here a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul central square has been violently dispersed by the police the rallies were sparked by a high level corruption investigation has led to a major company reshuffling the arrests of several top officials demonstrations now demanding the country's prime minister tayyip bedouins step down but the leader of the corruption allegations a smear campaign against the security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back to protest as in istanbul last night no

glenn greenwald shared what he believes it is his ultimate goal. we'll tell you what he said. just ahead then senator john mccain goes ruled that the overseas this trip to ukraine is the latest. the senator traveling the troubled nation is to exert more influence more on the maverick that his thirst for war coming up the past decade newspaper circulation to have faults or pellet doll a poll shows that only twenty three percent of americans have any confidence in newspapers this fall the current owner of the washington post offers his cloud services to the c i a for these developments later the show. i am it's wednesday december eighteen five minute walking distance their stocks in your walk that are too. we begin with breaking news the white house has released the report written by a review board set up to investigate possible and if they abuse this. it included forty six specific recommendations to reform the nsa. condition one was to limit section two fifteen the patriot act forcing the government to submit focused requests for data rather than bulk collection port. the revu

parliament committee glenn greenwald shared what he believes to be the n.s.a.'s ultimate goal we'll tell you what he said just ahead and senator john mccain goes rogue again overseas his trip to ukraine is the latest senator traveling to troubled nation is to exert foreign influence more on the maverick and his thirst for war coming up. and a u.s. senator releases a report on wasteful federal spending the waste book two thousand and thirteen covers everything from military spending to tax breaks brothels and an in-depth look at government wasteful spending is coming up later in the show. it's wednesday december eighteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our team and we begin with the man who brought edward snowden's n.s.a. documents to the world glenn greenwald he testified today in front of a european union parliament committee looking into n.s.a. surveillance on e.u. citizens and he had some harsh words for the european governments working with the n.s.a. . and governments are devoted to the elimination of privacy worldwide is the u.

through greenwald, snowden has been able to get his message out continuously and has been able to share more and more about what's happening and i think if he didn't have such a personality, we wouldn't care as much if he was more of a mark zuckerberg time but because he's boisterous and as interview we're seeing maybe sureen, it becomes more interesting. >> it's journalism hybrid we see with greenwald. >> from bradley manning to snowden, leaks are more a part of the landscape. whistle blowers choose to take those to journalists to share their views. the question is the rise of this journalist keeps on going and how we get back to a more balanced approach. >> i think it's interesting that people like greenwald had to figure out how to encrypt their communications and change the way they work with sources. is that something that's a big shift this year? >> i think so. i would love to see a survey on how many journalists this year got encryption for e-mail. i bet it was a lot. the example of how he worked with edward snowden drove home the point that -- and nsa revolutions themselves drov