failing on the transparency front and who is best equipped to fight it joining me to discuss is josh gerstein reporter for politico josh i want to thank you so much for joining us and i add you know you write a lot about this and there's a lot of extensive documentation out there that shows of the obama administration is doing really bad specifically when it comes to for your requests right whether it be trying to challenge that in court having excessive fees put on there but overall if you look at the way of the government this administration has approached the issue of transparency what do you think is the scariest part the worst part the most dangerous of their moves well i think the most questionable moves are probably issues you may have talked about relating to some of the whistleblower and leak cases there have been i think six filed already against people in the government who are accused of leaking classified information to the media in the entire prior history of the united states there's been something like two or three cases of that sort that have been filed and these are pretty s

unable to view documents filed in the proceeding now what documents you might ask well according to josh gerstein of politico there are approximately forty one thousand documents totaling over four hundred thousand pages which were handed over to defense team from prosecutors like almost everything else involving manning's court martial those documents aren't for the press to see and that level of secrecy also extends to the court docket which is also under wraps the letter went on to request of the government implement reforms when it comes to court martial proceedings before his next trial date which is this coming thursday and the group argues quite reasonably that cases against members of the military should have the same level of transparency that we apply to cases of terrorism here in the united states basic stuff here but this coalition builds on the notion that there simply is too much secrecy surrounding bradley manning period all around that's a point that he made several times on this show over the past few years but he's been detained at quantico in fort leavenworth was extremely hard

executive on his way out and then as we've been highlighting every day it's sunshine week so politicos josh gerstein is going to join us to break down the obama administration's distal record on transparency and the internet has proven to be a tool that can be used for good and for evil so we're going to speak to an author that looks at the power dynamics between governments corporations and the public to figure out how we can keep the internet free so we have all that work tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to me it's. no surprise here the day after more primaries and the mainstream media is just but sad itself but how much there is to discuss about the results. rick santorum it's a double win in the deep south he wins the alabama and mississippi primaries a true for tuesday sweep deep in the american south a rick santorum celebrating twin victories of the super you know the bama so why did santorum come out and talk he over perform he did really well with conservative voters and there are a lot of them and in mississippi alabama white e