the report was written by laura poitras and james rison.secretary of state john kerry is in indonesia where he has sought to downplay the reports of spying on officials. indonesians to take action against climate change, calling it perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass distraction. >> president obama and i believe deeply that we do not have time for a meeting anywhere of the flat earth society. indonesia is the third-largest inventor of greenhouse gases after china and the united dates. there has been a spate of u.s.,e weather across the and wear a winter storm killed 20 people. journalist who was abducted from his home earlier this month said he was tortured. went missing just before he was due to travel to europe to speak out against u.s. drone strikes, one of which killed his brother and son. he was taken captive by up to 20 men. he told al jazeera his captors hung him upside down, hit his feet with a leather strap, and beat him, but he vowed to continue to speak out against drones tracks. mission, i will continue and i will n

they cofounded the intercept the film maker laura poitras. glenn greenwald first broke the story about edward snowden and was previously a columnist at "the guardian." he is joining us via video stream from his home in brazil. germany scahill is producer and writer of the documentary film" ."rty wars he is also author of the book by the same name. he joins us from los angeles. we welcome you both to democracy now! jeremy, lay out the significance of this explosive story. ofwe're living in the era pre-crime or president obama is continuing many of the same policies of his predecessor george bush and vice president dick cheney. there's this incredible reliance on technology to kill people who the united states thinks may one day pose some sort of a threat of committing an act of terrorism or impacting u.s. interests. the u.s. wants to shy away from having its own personnel on the ground in countries like yemen or pakistan or somalia, eventually afghanistan, and so what has happened is there's this incredible reliance on the use of remotely pilo

before him, jacob appelbaum and journalist laura poitras. u can see our interview with jacob and laura at democracynow.org. all of them interrogated at airports as most recently has jesselyn raddack, the attorney representing edward snowden, joining us from london. she is a former ethics advisor to the u.s. department of justice. she is currently director of national security and human rights that the government accountability project, the nations leading whistleblower organization. jesselyn raddack, welcome back to democracy now! describe what happened on sunday at heathrow. >> i was trying to enter through customs, which at heathrow is called the border course. i was directed to a very specific station, rather than the regular line. after the first question, which ?, which is you here a normal question, things got more bizarre. i said i was here to see friends. they wanted me to be more specific. i said the sam adams association, the group that awarded edward snowden the award last year. i did not add that part. then they asked for the name

we explained this was pointless inause glenn had this cap brazil, laura poitras had stuff in berlin.ut the british government was not listening. a saturdayated in morning last summer where three of my colleagues were forced to smash our computers in the , watchednd car parks by two spies from the british spy agency, who took photos to record the event, brought along a special machine called a gig de-gausser, which we put our computers through, which the magnetized them. these spies based in the english countryside to not get to london very often, and they left carrying bags of shopping, presents for their families. it was really a bizarre thing. for anyone that cares about press freedom, pretty chilling. work,le you are doing the while greg -- glenn greenwald was putting out the pieces based on what edward released from the national security agency, you write about being a part of the small team hold up in a room at "the guardian." experience, your computer is not being linked to the internet. we knew this was serious, the material that snowden had entrusted to us, that this was a se

monday, i spoke with glenn greenwald recently launched the intercept.org with jimmy scahill and laura poitras asked him about the initial associated press article that broke the story. you can go to democracynow.org to hear what glenn responded. i think actually we have it for you now. >> the very idea that the u.s. government suspects an american citizen, not having already engaged in crimes, but of planning to do so -- it is like a pre-crime framework for the u.s. government tries to guess at who will engage in crimes in the future and then treat them as a criminal. not just treat them as a criminal, but declare them guilty in secret proceedings not involving any court, but by the decree of the president of the united states to literally declare the person guilty and oppose the death penalty, and then go out and carry out the execution. just like they did with anwar khan.aki and samir no american should accept the ideas the president of the united states has the power to order american citizens killed, not on the battlefield or anywhere else that is in a war zone, but simply on the suspicio