and i was jason leopold the lead investigative reporter for truthout because org. right now the the special relationship right the so-called special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. has come under increased scrutiny in light of a number of issues issues like seeker see extraditions torture and so on and so forth now they are the focus of my interview with journalist andy worthington which i'm about to play for you but there's an update in that story so let's watch that interview and then i'll fill you in on what's new. seven nine eleven and the war on terror began so we have a labor prime minister because being the republican president we've got a democratic president cozying up with a conservative prime minister. much different may be able to demonstrate interchangeable these people because they're pretty terrible reasons for a bomb or a cameron to be close buddies you know they're both deeply involved in this horrible war that has gone on longer than any anyone can remember. that should have ended long ago. you know they were the country least. hand in

approach seems to be to stay silent and to make damn sure that others do to as we'll discuss with jason leopold in just a bit those who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing signed off the sire and suffer pardon me dire consequences and of course there is always the fourth estate but you can hear it with c. and lots dogs are often drowned out by the lap dogs now for this journalist themselves are mostly to blame the us does have a squashing of all record i would say on press freedom but it's not in dire crisis yet i mean it's not like journalists are regularly rounded up and thrown behind bars for doing their jobs right it wasn't just a few weeks ago to jay carney reassured us about the president's commitment to quote aggressive journalism now i bring these questions up because they're at the core of the case of a duel in law so he's an independent yemeni journalist who's been languishing behind bars at the personal request of president barack obama he's respected for his coverage of the war on terror he has interviewed al qaeda leaders including ones that the u.s. has been hunting and he w

the question of a quarter native occupy crackdown joining me from our studio in los angeles is jason leopold lead investigative reporter for truthout or jason thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters mean there's nearly four hundred pages of documents that you've got here what the county the most. yeah that's right there are about four hundred pages and what stood out the most was the fact that there was it was unclear within the department of homeland security what they could include not to. there is no question that some officials within the agency sered that what they were doing that some of their actions in terms of monitoring occupy wall street rose to the level of an authorized surveillance and it states that clearly you documents but at the same time we don't have any direct proof you'd say right now these documents tell you for sure that the they did cross the line. that's true they do not state and in fact i want to point out that there's no smoking gun within these documents within these four hundred pages about department of homeland security taking part in a

to freedom of information so is that actually the case well that's the question that i posted jason leopold hearing earlier today and he is the lead investigative reporter actually out dot org here's this take. sure well you know first of all when obama came into office he made these promises you sign an executive order. promising to usher in a new error of open government transparency eric holder the attorney general. issued some new guidelines in march of two thousand and nine. what people seem to forget or may not even be aware of me not even aware of is that immediately after the administration released these memos these memos and the cia and the justice department's office of legal counsel prepared used for interrogation and torture the so-called torture memos and that was it the administration. had clampdown on releasing anything else from that point on that was back in april of two thousand and nine what the administration has done is anything that has to do with national security the so-called war on terror past administration abuses such as you know issues revolving around the patr

how they're reacting to the occupy movement they just last night we had we spoke with truthout jason leopold to discuss the department of homeland security's role in monitoring the movement and truthout was the first organization to file a formal request and they got. almost four hundred pages worth of material all there is no smoking gun from v.h.s. in terms of unconstitutional surveillance i wonder last night whether or not and other local police forces might be the ones that are really doing the heavy lifting aka the dirty work now we haven't seen the results but leopold so that he expected the department suppression of the occupy movement to surface faster than you can say for them in violation if and when those documents are disclosed that is. but you also try to go local to the n.y.p.d. use the freedom of information law in new york and you think of that's where i mean that to me sounds almost more fascinating it remains to be seen what they'll turn over there's no question in my mind that the photographs of studio clearcuts threat assessments. so it's a matter of time before they at l

requests that show how the department of homeland security was monitoring the occupy movement so jason leopold is going to join us and give us all of those details on all that and more fear night putting it as a happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to do this. all right so you're the mainstream media today then you're still obsessing over the elections and because this is just the latest gift given by the gaffe machine that is the romney campaign you're still talking about that whole i just sketch comment . he got the endorsement everyone wanted jim bush but then a top aide seem to suggest that the conservative positions that are leading romney to the nomination changes quickly as a nine hundred fifty s. era toys the other candidates jumping of a chance to take jabs in your sketch comments whoever thought it ed just sketch would get so much attention in a political campaign with romney's political enemies by lunchtime such a sketch was viral rick santorum they say cannot be all that sketch there romney wishes he cleared the race and suspension. now would b

what exactly the apartment of homeland security has on the movements so we're going to talk with jason leopold and i and find out you know what the details are we know that they were monitoring the movement but i guess the question here is to what extent and was there any form of national cordon native crackdown that so many people thought that there was. for a while there and then at the same time if you remember february ninth there was that massive twenty five billion dollar mortgage fraud settlement that was announced by forty nine states by the government it turns out that only about five billion dollars of that is going to be cold hard cash that the banks have to pay out and the other twenty billion looks like investors people with for a one tase looks like they're going to be footing the bill for it so if you want to call that a good deal i would say so i wouldn't said doesn't sound like a good deal to me that's coming up next to me alone to show that up so to do it now for the news for more on the stories we covered you can head over to our you tube channel it's youtube dot com slash o