basically yesterday most significantly judge lindh ruled on bradley manning's article thirteen. basically the torture hearing and found that he was subject to unlawful pretrial confinement conditions but that nobody meant to do it or intended to do it and therefore he got a four month sentencing credit which may seem like a lot and it's probably the most in the history of article thirteen it's like there's going to be nothing compared to what he's facing just thank you so much for coming on breaking it down i really appreciate what you do just an erratic whistleblower and lawyer official john kiriakou thank you. for the last twelve years the u.s. has been embroiled in the global war on terror launching a preemptive invasions of countries form drone assassination campaigns and here at home ramping up the police and surveillance state to seemingly no end much of the news is focused on countries in the middle east and it's no surprise when you consider that the government's perennial blacklist includes countries like iran sudan and syria but there's also one latin american country

themselves this is not honest molly ivins trying to change the government the political analyst john walker lindh says western countries support islamic one hundred geo political interests to do. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's. discomfiture when you put him that question i mean he doesn't have an answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crush islam it's rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why do we support last year the secession of south sudan but we suddenly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political decision we are taking political decisions on the basis of our political vision and our friends and enemies and that's the reason why we do one thing in syria and the other thing in mali and as for encouraging stability i mean that really does take the cookie to say that you know we have practically the whole of the middle east including north africa in turm

pretrial interviews they deem necessary for this trial now this comes a day after army colonel dennis lindh ruled to reduce any sentence the private receives by one hundred twelve days all due to his treatment while being detained now if all proceeds as planned this summer manning will have spent a total of three years in custody while awaiting trial manning faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy if convicted he could face life in prison stay tuned here to r.t. for the latest. let's talk now about taking a closer look at the way the government spends your money a new report out this week found that just last year nearly eighteen billion dollars was spent on enforcing immigration laws the report is called the immigration enforcement in the united states the rise of formidable machinery but i want to put this in perspective for you that's more than the government spends on the f.b.i. the d.a. the u.s. secret service u.s. marshals service and the a.t.f. combined spending has gone up dramatically as well and just in the last decade let's go back to two thousand and five the budget

. >> a judge has taken the side of john walker lindh.dge ruled lind and others had the right to hold a daily group prayer session. lind serving 20 years for aigd taliban during u.s. invasion of afghanistan in twun. and karzai agreed to speed up the process of putting forces in charge of afghan security. president obama said it help accelerate withdrawal of 50,000 forces in afghanistan. >> public memorial will be held tomorrow for the teenager who went missing after a new year's eve music festival. the body found on friday in, a snow bank near the snow globe music festival. the sheriff's department says there are no signs of foul play but they're waiting for results of an autopsy. the memorial will be held tomorrow in petta lum yachl the family is asking those who attend to wear pink. her favorite color. >> a san francisco legend has passed away. more on vivienne brown. >> in the small knob hill cafe, a corner table sits empty two. nights per week was hem to one of the biggest attractions. >> the identical twins who graced countless ads w

people who were in attendance could gather during an hour and a half will that was read by colonel lindh right as you had mentioned today with the big what there's been a long series of pretrial hearings today the focus was whether or not this what manning is accused of leaking these documents to to wiki leaks and a media organization whether or not that could be considered aiding the enemy. do you think that that i mean is that a stretch if if if the colonel in decides that taking taking material that is not classified and handing it to a journalistic organization for perhaps eventual publishing if he says that that is equivalent to actually. essentially taking up arms and supporting al qaeda that is a terrible news for you and surely. you know that's not the case because it wasn't directly handed over and even if the lawyer who did you know the defense are going to try to put this case up that well ok if you did have these things over what's the big deal if they're not that still the state department has not been able to say ok yeah there is a big big damage to all these cables gone an

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john walker lindh is currently serving a 20-year sentence at a maximum facility in indiana.t allow lindh and other muslims to hold daily group prayer. the government is considering an appeal. >>> 19-year-old san pablo man was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his part in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside a richmond high school homecoming dance.  arya abdullah morales was 16 years old at the time of the crime in 2009. he pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to avoid a life in prison sentence. >>> six defendants were charged in connection with the case. one is serving a 32-year prison sentence. four others are still awaiting trial. >>> women rallied in san francisco's mission district lala night, calling for the community to take a stand against sexual assault. >>> the rally comes after a woman reported a man knocked her to the ground last saturday night on 23rd and guerrero and tried to rape her. a couple in a nearby home heard her screams and turned on the lights, scaring off her attacker. demonstrators say the attack is a reminder of the need to get involved,

we're not just talking about states, but counties are pushing back, lindh county, oregon, tim mueller says he won't enforce federal gun regulation and won't allow the feds to do so in his county. listen. >> making criminals now honest citizens, that's not the path to go. if i could ask anything out of this, just get people talking about it. >> reporter: they're talking all right. in fact, we've got sheriffs in two other states, in kentucky and idaho doing exactly what sheriff mueller is doing, to defy the federal government and again, all this have kind of well before the president lays out his strategy. >> megyn: thanks, trace. and a push to completely eliminate the debt ceiling once and for all effectively eliminating any legal checks on federal spending. up next, stu varney, what this could mean and why a whole new class of taxes is also now getting some buzz. and new controversy over reports that federal agents waited to arrest an illegal immigrant and a sex offender who worked for this powerful democratic senator, senator menendez, you saw in that picture there. what, what really