jeremy scahill, welcome to democracy now! let's talk about this latest news out in france. >> first of all, what we saw yesterday on display on the one hand was very heartening to see so many people come to the streets. one of the core issues of oppressed freedom, if this is a moment where the whole world is saying we have to have a free press, and no matter how controversial were hateful some of the speech is or may be interpreted in some communities we judge a free press by how we treat the journalists or the stories that we don't like or are offended by. but on the other hand, this is sort of circus of hypocrisy when it comes to all of those world leaders who were marching at the front of it. i mean, every single one of those heads of state or representatives of government there have waged their own wars against journalists. david cameron ordered "the guardian" to smash with a hammer the hard drives that stored the files of nsa whistleblower edward snowden. blasphemy is considered a crime in ireland. you had multiple afric

we will speak to journalists iona craig and jeremy scahill. then to guatemala. in a major victory for human righ activists, a former guatemalan police chief has been found guilty for ordering the spanish embassy to be set on fire in 1980. 37 peasant activists and student organizers died in the fire. we will speak to nobel peace prize-winner rigoberta menchÚ. her father died in the massacre. >> we have been denied the truth for 35 years and today, the responsibility for mr. garcia is clear and also that of all of the people that remained in the hearing, many of whom have already died, but also responsibility of the state. i think this is what makes us the most happy and due process makes us happy, too, because we have the patience to reach this moment and we are really excited. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. islamic state militants have posted a new video threatening to execute two japanese hostages. the militants demanded japan pay a $200 million ransom without 72 -- within 72

speaking to cnn, the intercept's jeremy scahill was asked about his comments during a democracy now!interview on monday in which he criticized corporate media coverage of the attack's aftermath. scahill called out cnn and other networks for using pundits he said have no right to call themselves terrorism "experts." >> cnn and msnbc and fox are engaging in the terrorism expert industrial complex where you have people on as paid analysts are largely frauds have made a lot of money off for train themselves as terror experts and have no actual on the ground experience. some of your paid analysts you have on this network or other networks, basically, just making money off the claim they are experts on terrorism and really don't have the scholarly background or on the ground experience to justify being on your network or any other network. >> go to our website democracynow.org for our interview with jeremy scahill from monday's broadcast, and our follow-up interview with the intercept's glenn greenwald from tuesday on so-called "terrorism experts." and those are some of the headlines, this

has been claiming responsibility in some form for this operation since last week when they told jeremy scahillfor "the intercept" how seriously a role -- what exact role does the intelligence community in this country think aqap played? did they come up with the whole plan, was this the exact idea attack these offices at this time or was it more they trained these guys sent them out there to the west and things just happened? >> the short answer is we don't know yet. it's certainly very plausible that at least one of the brothers was in yemen, had an association with aqap. we are still trying to verify that. but it's also very possible that the instructions the support, the training they got wasn't directed in a time place and manner in other words, you're going to wait for four years or five years and then you're going to attack this location here's how you're going to do it. it may very well be the case that aqap has tried to recruit westerners which they have given them financing, which they have and sent them back with general targets or maybe told them to read "inspire" magazine to get cu

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. >> joining me now is jeremy ska scahil. >> we know in recent history, the behavior of states afters to reduce our civil liberties. give us a sense of how use and european nations respond after the jubilation is over. >> you know as we're watching this huge outpouring of support. many of the world leaders there are enmys of press freedom. people hocking up journalists. the irish reader blasphemy is not allowed. hypocrisy is on display. but there is also a real debate about would there be this outpouring of support if it was a different religion whose leader was under attack. my concern is this would result in an even further reduction and restriction. >> i plaintiffly want to think about the u.s. sense. they're claiming a summit for next month. . they want to prevent violent extremism. . is this now a reason to remilitarize these local police forces when we just had a conversation about removing that militri aization. they take advantage of people with serious issues and mental illness that need psychiatric help. the fbi will encourage them along and they say we broke up this huge l