employment education for adults and you're probably thinking well yes agencies like the cia and n.s.a. need their documents to be classified to protect america's national security but this classification spending is working entirely outside of the agencies that you would think even need it is because the central intelligence agency the defense intelligence agency the national security agency the national reconnaissance office the national geospatial intelligence agency and the office of the director of national intelligence are not even included in the eleven point three six billion dollars you know the part that really puts this on a perspective is the director's statement that accompanies the report about why these costs are so essential he says increasing investment in classification and security measures is both necessary to maintaining the classification system and fundamental to the principles of transparency participation and collaboration so classifying for transparency ha well george orwell would be proud abby martin r.t. washington. well that's going to do it for this hour of the

n.s.a. before resigning to blow the whistle on what he calls the creation of an orwellian state your vote for kerry is that we need to rethink this and. turn the key. at the height of his career then he served as technical. after four n.s.a.'s group a branch that was reportedly responsible for eavesdropping on the world today he estimates that the n.s.a. has secretly compiled and stored more than twenty trillion files of e-mails phone calls and other data belonging to u.s. citizens when it comes to social media he says even users with the strictest security settings are not protected the reality of. private all. the companies don't have the government doesn't have it some of them have it where they share with the unobstructed sharing of information is what's made half of billion people flock to social media sites like twitter but missing from the terms of agreement is the monitoring that can be taking place as citizens are bursting their short messages into the virtual world. r.t. new york and there's plenty more to come this hour including a look at the devastating toll the rich poor divide desperation takes over

big account say funds need to be locked out they need to be reported on a daily basis right now this is not a requirement of these regulators and the n.s.a has failed miserably to do its job it has failed completely to do its job if you can't do something as simple as check the bank account what good is well and even in the wake of m.f. global you would think that there would be that much more scrutiny of segregated funds which makes this all the more alarming and my view at least i appreciate you being on the show to share your story thanks so much christopher that's christopher olsen president and c.e.o. of treasure island coins now also still had do not go away we'll speak to another p.s.g. best customer this one in egypt he's not the u.s. would be a safe place to put his money plus we're experiencing deja vu after the m.f. global theft of customer money when it filed for bankruptcy last october we're not alone you will hear from the man who is helping to get customer money back for m.f. global finance but first their closing market numbers. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break thro

n.s.a. that we have to operate within the boundaries of the constitution or did nine eleven did do a cause people to say you know the ends justify the means we need to be safe yes. better thankfully happened. and it was totally unnecessary. it was well within technology's capability at the time to encrypt or safeguard the identities of american citizens then as it is right now and yet we have no fourth amendment protections built into any of the recent legislation granting the u.s. government unbridled capability to grab people's data whether it be for intelligence purposes or for cyber security now on the one hand there are those who say well you know if you're not doing anything wrong why do you care if somebody's snooping on you on the other hand you have some of the founders of this country talking about the need for anonymity in fact they publish things under the names like rustic us in order to be able to operate in a way that was consistent with small democracy in a small are really. is that debate even being held anymore thomas is that within the n.s.a. where there is an artificial cannard there really it is and it's also a false dichotom

we really need to work on that and the warnings from our national security leaders are across the board. secretary of defense panetta, n.s.a. director and cyber commander general keith alexander, director of national intelligence clapper, janet napolitano, attorney general holder and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey have all expressed the threat. n.s.a. director mike mcconnell says "the united states is fighting a cyber war today. we offer the most targets of significance, yet our cyber defenses are woefully lacking. with cybersecurity, the time to start," he says, "was yesterday." former assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security baker, "we must begin now to protect our critical infrastructure from attack. a great number of national security officials, bipartisan, wrote a letter to us in the senate saying "the threat is only going to get worse. inaction is not an acceptable option." and protection -- "protection of our critical infrastructure is essential." "essential in order to effectively protect our national security from the growing cyber threat." as i said earlier in in