he too is now a resident of guantanamo bay. abu faraj al libi was captured in 2005, he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza rabia was killed six months in pakistan, then came the longest-running al qaeda number three, abu laith al-libi. he was killed in january 2008. that gave sheikh al-masri his lead, after being killed, followed by, as we said, rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states, plenty to wonder there, but what is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting

david hicks was held for five years at guantanamo bay. he should not be allowed to profit from a book. in australia, that infringes a law which prohibits convicted criminals profiting from their crimes. what the defense will be arguing is that the conviction where he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism is invalid because the military commission he appeared before at guantanamo bay is invalid. it is an interesting global test case. if the australian courts were to favor, itavid hicks' would cast legal doubt on the military commission process at guantanamo bay. >> is there much public support for mr. hicks in australia? >> there is some support for david hicks in australia. he is a shy man. he does not appear in public often. he did appear at a festival a few months ago to talk about his book. at the end of his talk, he received a standing ovation. that was criticized, especially by right-wing commentators. they think that rather than concentrating on the five years he spent at guantanamo bay, where he claims he was t

stock markets we could fall today also look into a new report about waterboarding still torture guantanamo bay apparently our officials think that if you just give a different name doesn't count as torture and web sites for sugar babies and sugar daddies are seeing an uptick in members especially students looking for a helping hand to pay off their debts we're going to speak to one writer who actually tried it herself we're going have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. this weekend we saw a horrible tragedy unfold in afghanistan and in fact it was the deadliest loss of life in a single incident for u.s. troops and all ten years of this war transport helicopter went down killing the thirty eight people now thirty of them were american forces and most of them elite navy seals on their way to help fellow troops witnesses say taliban fighters shot down the aircraft carrying thirty american troops seven afghans and one translator we've actually heard this story before from the taliban they're

when obama said he would close guantanamo bay within a year, still open.s reluctant to use the term, war on terrorism. he called them overseas contingency operations, man caused disasters. how are we to interpret that? is there a fear our enemies may not like us? or a belief system if we are nicer to them, they will be nicer to us? where does that come from? >> i think some people, there were some in our administration who felt this way, i wasn't one. this notion that somehow global warming was a major cause of recruitment -- that guantanamo bay was a major cause of a recruitment tool for al-qaeda. i don't think that is true. my experience in that part of the world is people are more likely to respond if they respect and/or fear the power of the united states. and the notion that somehow operating guantanamo, which is, as you mentioned, probably a much more friendly environment and comfortable situation for most of those prisoners than would be any facility in their home country. >> sean: is it fair to say that president obama has a pre9/11 mentality? >> t

there is among the leadership of former guantanamo bay detainee, and many have street credit that they didn't have before and they are now rock starrish. there's the american who doesn't resinate in the arab world, but has this draw in the west, and then there's nashir a personal aid to bin laden so he is the line into traditional al-qaeda. this is a leadership that we don't see anywhere else within these al-qaeda franchises in the world. >> host: independent line from tennessee. >> caller: good morning. this is so overblown. as pointed out, and there's a quote from james madison, "a stand in military force with a long executive will not be companions to liberty. the born danger has been always the instruments of tyranny at home. for example, number of american soldiers died in combat last year, 455, minimum number committed suicide, 407 #. listen to this one -- number of american civilians die dying worldwide in terrorist attacks last year, eight. more have died struck by lighting. tobacco kills 550 million people per year around the globe. i wish every time c-span has one of these qu

locking them up indefintely at guantanamo bay.terrogation techniques to make them talk. it add up -- it added to an extraordinary an of presidential powers, aggressively pushed by cheney and his staff. >> the power to win a war, was not and is not an unusual view, cheney's view of the president. is it traditional view. >> it certainly has it limits. >> bret: one of the first major decisions to try foreign terror suspects in special military tribunals. a decision pushed by cheney, shared with few in the administration itch >> the military tribune thats were authorized by the president in an order -- in an order that i have not seen. went to the president and i said mr. president, if that happens again, somebody is going to have to resign. >> bret: nobody resigned. cheney's critics depicted him as a4ia÷ secretive schemer, usig the war as an excuse to shred the constitution. to them his secret service code name, angler, was all too apt. you love fishing. they say you are the angler in more ways than one. is there some truth to that?

he's kept the detention facility at guantanamo bay open.e number of targeted assassinations of terrorists with predator drones. he has largely followed bush's post-surge strategy in iraq. and he ordered a surge in afghanistan, though he did set a date for a troop draw-down in the same speech. but cheney remains no big fan of president obama, as he toldinous february of 20 -- told us in february of 2010. >> i believe based on what has happened in the last few months that there is a good chance that barack obama will be a one-term president. >> five days after this interview, cheney suffered his fifth heart attack. cheney had emergency surgery to install an artificial heart pump. it left him technically with no pulse. nine months later, a skinnier and frail cheney re-emerged. he and his doctors are considering a heart transplant. now 70 years old, cheney is in a period of reflection, as he finishes his memoir on his decades of public service. >> i have had a great tour. it's been 40 years, vispent most of them in government and politics. i ha

soil, then why isn't that same standard applied to al qaeda terrorists sitting in guantanamo bay in thisort of extra judicial world there off the shores of the united states? >> well, i have to leave it there. let me say this, alex, before i go. just for the record, i want to say, president obama also shook hands once with gadhafi. my point is not shaking hands, my point is taking opposite positions and being to vehement about it. so before the right wing bloggers bring this up, i just want, for the record, mr. obama did shake his hand. it is just that position is different. he did it at the g 8 summit with that appropriate for heads 6 state. i don't want to give them, that, oh, my god, i messed up the night, i don't want to give them something to write about. maybe i will mess up on the teleprompter. thanks for being with me. >> thanks. >> up ahead, rick perry is tearing up the 2012 field. but he is not exactly sitting well the gop establishment. i guess that's what happens when you called the fed chair treasonist. stay with us. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets

for human rights to discuss his new role constantine dolgoff shares his views on the tourist guantanamo bay prison camp and also nato presence in libya and that's coming up in our interview next on r.t. . well thank you very much for being with us today thank you for your russian foreign ministry's first ever envoy for a human rights why was this position create now will you also the road this is a new position. has been established a few months ago to be rigs three and a half months. i am in dispositional now has been established to. be direction of the president of the russian for the federation mr madrid if. decision was taken by what the minister said your lover of the basic idea here is to. probably even more actively. profile our country or russia in the field of human rights democracy and rule of law there was a very important issues and there mentions or international relations as you know and of course an extremely important part of my job part of my job description i am a c. used to morning to this issue we've shown the with the implementation of human races . in the world and acr

during an april 22nd, 2009 meeting in my office with members of the guantanamo bay detainee review task force including mr. olsen, i inquired about the status of the potential transfer of uighurs detainee's to the united states. mr. olsen indicated that the decision had not yet been reached on the transfer of the detainees. none of the other carrier or political officials in the meeting countered mr. olsen's assertion. i was deeply concerned to learn in an april 2011 "washington post" article that the final decision on the transfer of the uighurs detainees had been made during a white house meeting eight days before my meeting with mr. olsen. according to "the washington post" article, the first concrete step towards closing of a detention center was agreed upon during an april 14, 2000 - session at the white house. it was to be ase dolph moved. they were going to show up here and we were going to announce this said one senior official describing the swift secretive operation that was designed by the administration to putting up any political outcry that could prevent the transfer. mr.

for human rights to discuss his new role constantino the gulf shares his views on the notorious guantanamo bay prison camp and nato's presence in libya that's coming up right now . thank you. think i. think. because that's in the last thank you very much for being with us today thank you for your russian foreign ministry's first ever envoy for a human rights why was this position create now while you're also of the road this is a new position on the youth has been established a few months ago actually to be exact words three and a half months. i am in this position. has been established the. direction of the president of the russian for the federation mr unlimited if. decision was taken by from the minister so your level of the basic idea here is to . probably even more actively. profile our country russia in the field of human rights and democracy and rule of law good was a very important issues and dimensional sort of international relations as you know and of course an extremely important part of my job part of my job description i might say used to morning service in treason will be implem

the nsa, matthew olsen directed the task force overseeing the administration's detainees at the guantanamo bay. a vote is not expected until the senate returns from its august recess. this is an hour and 35 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. the process will be as follows. i'll make remarks, the vice chairman makes remarks, and then we'll call on the distinguished senator from south dakota for remarks, and then we will proceed. i trust that is agreeable with everybody. the committee meets today to consider the president's nomination of matt olsen to be the director of the national counterterrorism center. here's currently in the security agency holding a number of senior positions in the department of justice including the national security division and the federal bureau of investigation. mr. olsen appeared as a witness before this committee previously and briefed members and staff over the last several years. i'd like to welcome him back to this committee. i'd like to begin today by discussing the current terrorist threat and the role of what we call nctc, which mr. olsen will be le

held ground in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand and five he says he was tortured and accuses the u.k. of being complicit in that torture only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed i am completely one hundred percent sure but i would not have gone to guantanamo autoblog wrong headed papin could be involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence offices quite regularly. but only one kind they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my . lecture. me they saw my according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior m i five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might have tain with the level of mistreatment of prisoners would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty international says there's a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture as yet another document that's been hidden for a very long time that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circums

loss of america's more reality with the actions of the bush administration the black sites in guantanamo bay those are all things that they choose to miss. over what's now the fourth night london continues to burn what started off as a peaceful vigil on saturday in tottenham for the death of mark dougan who would now turns out to have been killed with one shot by police and had not fired first according to ballistic test results but has turned into days of riots random violence looting burning keep spreading from one borough within london to another and even cities outside of london the last night the first fatality was reported as a twenty six year old man was shot in his car social media is already becoming a central issue here as riders first organized through black berry messenger were encouraged on twitter and now even a google facial recognition technology is going to be used to identify those whose pictures have been posted online it makes a question when social media is used for good as the mainstream media jumped on egypt in tunisia as twitter revolutions and what makes this differe