the attorney general sought an indictment of a reporter which has not been done since the nixon administrationnd even nixon gave up on the prosecution. so it has never happened. and then he's tells congress he withothing to do criminalizing good journalist, which of course he did. he is looking at a perjury charge. it is not a good week to raise the issue of the rule of law. >> i want to go to hold her in a minute but i want to ask you about the democratic candidate for governor of new jersey. you do not even give her a shout out? >> we barely know her name. barbara hill? should do a search about the number of times bromance was used in the stories. you can't get better visuals than the president and the governor at the arcade and president obama trying to throw the football and there is a teddy bear in the picture. been talking about the scandals. it was a good moment for president obama. he got out of washington, dealing with benghazi and the irs and the justice department and he got to hold a teddy bear. >> that is why you lead with it. >> not a good moment for barbara. holder. of >> with r

the nixon administration tried to prosecute ellsberg, and the watergate tapes caught president nixon leaker. >> we've got to keep our eye on the main ball. the main ball's ellsberg. we've got to get this son of a bitch. we can't be in a position of -- of ever allowing just because some guy's going to be a martyr, of allowing the fellow to get away with this kind of wholesale thievery or otherwise it's going to happen all over the government. >> reporter: but the prosecution of ellsberg was dropped because of government misconduct. and now 82 years old, ellsberg calls snowden an american hero. >> i've been waiting for 40 years really to see a high official who really knew the workings of our system as it has evolved and was willing to tell the truth about it. at the cost of his career, at the cost very probably of his freedom. possibly even his life. i'm very impressed by the civil courage that edward snowden has shown, and i think that he gives me hope that we may actually regain our bill of rights. we may actually regain our constitutional democracy. that was something i wasn't so s

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there was a public debate in 1978 about setting up a lot to correct some of the abuses of the nixon administration. along passed and then with fisa, the intelligence committees were set up in congress. then the bush 43 administration conducts some foreign intelligence outside of fisa. when that was cleared, congress insisted on getting back in the game. there were public conversations and it was amended to accommodate modern communications in 2007. there was a public debate. certain provisions would have to be reauthorized because of the need for the public and congress to be in the conversation. >> obviously, you knew what was going on. is it time to move beyond the 9/11 mindset on security? >> absolutely. in the second decade after 9/11, it is time to have a debate in the public square about the kinds of laws we need. to kinds of tools we need keep our country safe. the public should have by end, -- buy-ins. the narrative about what america stands for is our best defense against millions of more kids deciding to strack on -- strap on suicide vests. >> the united nations launched its largest ever

for charges under the espionage act but they were dismissed when the judge discovered the nixon administration tried to break-in to the office of his psychiatrist to discredit him. >> in fremont a suspect accused kidnapping with the intent to commit a sexual assault will be in court and is being held without bail. he hid in the back of a 16-year-old car after she shopped. he forced her at knife point to drive to a remote location. she managed to escape unharmed. police identified him frommest found in the vehicle. >> the giants fan would was nearly beaten to death is out of the rehab and back at home in santa cruz county but not by choice. his family says the insurance stopping bayed for the rehab center where he has been treated for the past two years. he suffered a severe brain injuries from a beating after a giants and dodgers game opening day 2011 and the family says they are happy he is home but they wished he could have stayed longer saying it will be difficult providing 24-hour-a-day care he requires. >> you may notice the smell of gas in san francisco today. pg&e will vent natural gas

sort of irregular in these hearings back in the seventy's looking at the at the abuses in the nixon administration nobody is calling these people to the carpet and demanding that they tell the truth so that the idea of a church committee is almost ludicrous because we have such you know one one real risk i think is that the security state has gone so far that even if they don't do this i think that the members of congress have to be thinking gee they know all my phone calls and they're going to dig up all my skeletons if i get to you if i get too rough on them and that's you know you can laugh but. it's true catherine go ahead i mean it's such a thing as perjury any miers is going to say is there any concept of perjury anymore in congress have been away for a while. for me i mean i love the fact that freedom works which is a right leaning political action group called for lindsey graham if he said ok in secrecy could he just release his bank they tell us all the past for instance e-mail that the campaign that they're running currently and i think if it is really a fascinating what you've seen is i

justice departmentin moments of honesty we would say in the unprecedented fashion from the nixon administrations turn to the zimmerman trial are you kidding me? they start the case with profanity and and a knock knock joke? >> i have never seen a defense attorney and a cond deeree murder case where his clients looking at life in prison and he starts off with a knock knock jke? lou: a peculiar sounding fellow from jump street by your thoughts? >> the entire case is amazing because lead is a cornucopia of everything. law school examinations and questis whether or not you can go from being the hunter to the hunted because of the pursuit of trayvon martin does that mean he cannot use self defense? we he the race word is an issue? cially profiling or neighborhood watch? si. >> that is where all the 911 callsome in. >> keeping the parents out of the court room? >> that does makk sense because they will be witnesses later in if you are a witness, and no no no that is fundamental law if you were going to be a witness you cannot be in the court room until you h i am fine with that. >> but the l thing th

everybody that follows this understood that the fisa law, written in response to the abuses in the nixon administration, created a secret court but it was authorized to give search warrantses to listen to the conversations or monitor the communications of foreign agents in the united states. somehow from that era in 199, -- 1979 to post-9/11 era that went from foreign agents to anybody communicating with a foreigner, and that went to, everybody with a telephone, so if anybody calls a foreigner, we would know. now we gettary verizon customer, 113 million of them, participating in a billion phone calls a day, are potential suspects in the minds of the intelligence community of the united states, because they might be speaking to someone overseas. they're looking for a needle in a haystack and have eviscerated the privacy rights of every piece of straw in the haystack, and that doesn't trouble. the guess what? the fourth amendment was written to prevent this very behavior. the concept of a fishing expedition or dragnet. the white the fourth amendment requires specific articulable suspicion about a specifi

this is why james good all who is the general counsel during the fights with the nixon administration over the pentagon papers says obama is worse than nixon, john mayer the great journalist for the new yorkers said these prosecutions have brought investigative journal list tom a standstill in the united states and it's a true threat to press freedom, and i think it's one thing to charge snowden with crimes but to charge him with espionage when somebody works for a foreign government or sells secrets, given what he did is the kind of extreme excess that the obama administration is guilty of for years now. >> jeff toobin, can you talk about these charges and explain them, the severity of them? >> the espionage act is a long and complicated statute that most people think of as espionage whether in a cartoon or, you know, people -- you know, julia and rosenburg in the '50s. under the words of the espionage act, it doesn't have to be that espionage where you give the material to a foreign power. all it has to be is information given to an unauthorized person that could be used to the inju

the nixon administration failed.me court ruled that the newspapers had the right to publish top-secret reports and the case against elseberg fell apart. what would dan elseberg think of this trial of bradley manning? he told us on the show on monday. >> he realized what he ought to do at 22, which took me, i was 40 when i did it. there are of course differences. the material i put out was top secret, rather than the secret and unclassified that he put out. >> as for those secret documents, manning has pled guilty to leaking, charges that carry 20 years in jail. but he's facing a much more aggressive prosecution than elseberg. prosecutors say manning should not be treated as a leaker. he should be treated as a traitor. on monday they accused him of aiding the enemy. an offense that can carry life imprisonment or the death penalty. prosecutors say they're only pursuing a life sentence. in the modern era, no one has been convicted of that charge just for leaking. but prosecutors say leaking to the press is now as traito

it sounds so much like what the nixon administration said. it's what these guys said. when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, doing something they shouldn't, it's national security. we had to lie, like brennan saying, you know, i just -- i lied as little as possible. when you have those kind of things said by an administration, it's a threat to the ongoing government of the people by the people, for the people. >> eric: do you expect to call mr. holder up to the hill again? >> i certainly hope we get him back under oath. it is nothing to have him come privately, like he tried to do. let's get to the bottom of this, you should oath. >> eric: thank you for giving us your insight, representative gohmert. >> jamie: the first week of the george zimmerman trial is done. stunning testimony. we are hearing for the first time. but what impact did it really have on the jury? we'll debate that. >> eric: secretary of state john kerry declares progress in the middle-east. so... [ gasps ] these are sandra's "homemade" yummy, scrumptious bars. hmm? i just wanted you t

ellsberg was brought to trial but the charges were dismissed when the judge discovered that the nixon administration officials had tried to break-in to the office of daniel ellsbergs psychiatrist to discredit him. >> how about the weather for the bailey game? >> temperatures are much cooler than this time yesterday. especially around santa rosa at 45 and same in half moon bay and 46 in novato and napa at 50. 52 in oak and everyone else in the mid-to-upper 50's and san francisco 53 and antioch at 59. right now, 55 in fremont. pretty in pink this morning and impending sunrise looks cool. now, the day planner, the next 12 hours, 53 to 58 is where we hang out with sunshine at the beaches, upper 50's and low-to-mid 70's inland. at 4:00, close to average and 58 at the coast to 82 and it will be breezy at the coast bringing us cooler weather for the evening and 55 to 69. moving forward, the two warmest days are tomorrow and friday but not too out of hand in the mid to upper 80's and near 60 at the coast. the first of two cool waves hit saturday and i will show you the next one next week because it is comin

this is why james goodall who is the general counsel during the fights with the nixon administration er the pentagon papers says obama is worse than nixon, john mayer the great journalist for the new yorkers said these prosecutions have brought investigative journal list tom a standstill in the united states and it's a true threat to press freedom, and i think it's one thing to charge snowden with crimes but to charge him with espionage when somebody works for a foreign government or sells secrets, given what he did is the kind of extreme excess that the obama administration is guilty of for years now. >> jeff toobin, can you talk about these charges and explain them, the severity of them? >> the espionage act is a long and complicated statute that most people think of as espionage whether in a cartoon or, you know, people -- you know, julia and rosenburg in the '50s. under the words of the espionage act, it doesn't have to be that espionage where you give the material to a foreign power. all it has to be is information given to an unauthorized person that could be used to the injury

we had the war on drugs and i remember in the nixon administration, we were worried rightly about the damage that drugs due to an individual and to a society. so i'm very much of the view that we need to figure out how to deal with that. there was the idea and pat moynihan was the counselor in the white house, one of the things to do would be to fix it so drugs are just not here. so he had a program of denial and the two of us are riding up to camp david and i had a presentation to make so i'm studying my notes and he's in a state of euphoria. he says to me don't you realize we just had the biggest drug bust in history? congratulations. as long as there is a demand for drugs in this country there is going to be a supply. i looked at him and i said there is hope for you. but this effort to keep drugs out of here is a complete failure. the problem with drugs in the united states is relatively great compared with many other like-minded countries. so, we ought to at least discuss this and see what other people are doing. i think that there is a lot to be said for decriminalizing deutsch a

or is it the possible use or misuse of it, as we sawers for example in the nixon administration? >> the collection itself is benign. it is voluming up information and having it in files. it is use of the information and the controls of the information that are really at question. >> do we have controls on the use of the information? >> we have theoretically a congressional oversight and judicial oversight. how much of that is only in principle and how much of that is operational overtime oversite is one of the things -- . >> and what is your opinion on snowden and blowing the whistle on this. does it jeopardize national security or is it something out there now and everybody knew it was going on anyway. >> i can't condone revelation of secret that is may harm national security. i won't comment on mr. snowden inparticular, but it has broaden a broader debate when i think is a useful debate. >> is it possible for terrorism, technology and control on the search for information to become law? i mean, or does one outpace the other? >> well, a number of these programs are clearly capac

we have had the war on drugs and i remember in the nixon administration we were worried rightfully about the damage that drugs do to an individual and to a society. so i'm very much of the view that we need to figure out how to deal with that problem. there was the idea for a counselor in the white house. one of the things to do would be to fix fix it so drugs are justt here. soviet this program of him in the two of russia ready to camp david and i have a presentation to make so i'm studying my notes. he says to me shultz, don't you realize we just had the biggest drug bust in history? i said congratulations. but we have broken the french connection and that was the problem at the time. he pulls them off -- -- himself up and he says shultz as long as they're sick big demand for drugs in this country there will be a supply. i looked at him and i said moynihan there is hope for you. this effort to keep drugs out is a complete failure. and the problem of drugs in the united states is relatively great compared to many other like-minded countries. so we ought to at least discuss this and see

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administration has set out to try to find out what its political opponents are trying to do the way the nixon administrationid during watergate. >> very trusting, alan. >> i'm not trusting. i strongly oppose this system. i think it should be stopped. and the big problem is we don't know what we don't know. but to overstate it the way greenwald overstates it and overstates everything, he has a long history of exaggeration because he represents a radical ideology, doesn't help the problem. we have to resolve it by nuanced debate, by giving appropriate weight to the need to have some secrets, the need to do some investigation and let's balance. >> let me bring in tom. there is obviously an argument, of course there is, a government has to do what it can to try and thwart future terror attacks. they have already indicated today that they thwarted one through this process, maybe they thwarted others. we don't know about that. but at what point do you draw the line, do you think? >> well, i think, piers, one of the big problems here has been that our society, the american people, and the congress, and the media,

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legislation that we have was passed -- either passed or tried to be passed and didn't during the nixon administration. i mean, the epa, the eeoc, the -- you name these alphabet agencies, and, in fact, he and daniel tried to put in a negative income tax, and they couldn't get it through congress, but they tried, and i remember a few days -- few years ago, bob dole made a tv series for public television in which he comments there's stlowtly no way richard nixon could get the republican nomination today because he was far too progressive. in fact, in many ways, his economics was to the left of barack obama's. of course, he opened up china, made the first -- was it salt treaty with the russians, so it was a very exciting time to be there, and it was with great regret that i left, but as i say, it increasingly dawned on me he could not have been unaware of what was going on. >> well, you make that point in the book that you felt just as a matter of principle after watergate and all the revelations afterwards you couldn't stay. >> that's right. i tried to tell this to herb stein who was then chairman of th

and this case, the judge dropped the charges against him because the nixon administration searched hissychiatrist's office in violation of the constitution, and the judge concluded that was prosecutorial misconduct and therefore dismissed the prosecution. if the government does something similar in snowden's case and the court finds it is a violation of his constitutional rights in the course of investigation and dismisses the charges, that would be something as his lawyer i would want to know. but on the merits of the charges as they presently stand, i think is a sentencing question, not a criminality question reque. >> if you could respond? snowdenut figures like or julian assange or bradley manning, essentially, the blinds are drawn. we have no window into what is being done in our name, including the crimes being done in our name. the life blood of my work our figures like these who had the moral courage to stand up and name the crimes that they witnessed. and these people are always at the moment that they stand up, and even king was% -- if announced, handled by j. edgar hoover wh

remember the first instinct of the nixon administration when they published the pentagon papers was to break into a psychoanalyst's office to get his sexual secrets. richard cohen in the "washington post" did the same thing. it's the tactic of the establishment to demean the psyche and personality as a way of discrediting their revelations to the public and distracting attention away from it and that's what you're seeing and that's what i think is illegitimate. >> you have also come under attack for your reporting in the last ten days and since we had you on last week, for example, in london's telegraph, a columnist writes this. he says maybe it's the things that suggest he's a little odd, like self searching his own name so he can pounce on people criticizing him. you can be a great activist or a great journalist, but not both. i think mr. greenwald should pick before something goes wrong. what do you make of that argument between your blurring the lines of having a strong point of view and being a reporter. >> i think there's this mythology in journalism that has subsisted too long a

uses the ira's for political purposes, this is part of the articles of impeachment in the nixon administration before he resigned. it is serious and clearly illegal to single us out for disparate treatment based on our political views. >> i agree with what he said. it makesr and verse, it a felony to disclose confidential tax returns. >> i agree with everyone here. illegal, immoral, and it was very american. . un-american. >> i think it is very illegal. >> i agree. back on my record, i was a fighter and believe in fighting for my clients so i appreciate you being here and fighting. don't ever quit and if you need anybody to stand beside you, give me a call. i yield back. >> last but not least, mr. reid. >> thank you, mr. chairman and a panelist. i just wanted to express my sincere thoughts that we stand with you. i have heard a bunch of my colleagues talk about how with certain individuals having been fired as a result of this. mr. miller sat right where you were and when i estimate question, he had not been fired. he had been allowed to retire. with full benefits. he was drawing a paycheck pa

my father represented john lennon in the '70s when the nixon administration was trying to use immigratione him deported for political gain. democrat or republican, right or left, we need to make sure whether it's the irs, whether it's the attorney general's office, and even the president, that they act beyond reproach and that they are not only representative of a nation of laws, but they are tender in the way they execute justice. >> harris: all right. right down the middle you were with that answer. so my next question is, is our best way to get information, whether it's this scandal or any other, in a bipartisan hearing like what we've been seeing on congress on capitol hill with congress, or is it a better plan that some are calling for a special prosecutor, which then you would say, wouldn't than the attorney general investigating himself? >> i think both, to be honest with you. right down the middle again, harris. no doubt, when you have a special prosecutor, you're pulling the lawyers out of the office in a separate hall or chamber where they can investigate something and keep it s

yet officials in the nixon administration insisted on putting it in the district's anti-crime legislation of 1970. months later the same authority appeared in nixon's overhaul of the country's drug regime, the controlled substances act of 1970, the legislative foundation of the modern drug war. as it proved somewhat controversial, proponents were quick to cite the precedent set in the district bill. congressman springer dismissed opposition to no-knock by reminding his colleagues that they had already consented to it. we had it in the district of columbia crime bill, he prompted his colleagues. we voted for it then. d.c. served as more than the legislative proving grounds for the modern drug war. the city's evolution in the culture and practices of modern policing was emblematic and in many ways constructive. as commissioner anslinger ratcheted up the punishment, powerful forces changed the metropolitan police department to an agency which largely defined its policing mission through narcotics enforcement. i argue that this transformation enabled police to retain vestiges of traditional l

this is the first time, really since richard nixon's administration and the -- neil sheehan of the "new york times," the reporter who published and reported on the elseburg case, the elseburg paped states deep t in background on vietnam which the administration then did not want published. it's the first time they've invoked a member of the press, a reporter, as a co coconspirator under the espionage act and this was what was done to jim rose of fox news and the investigation. so there has been an understandable and predictable and very loud and vocal cry on the part of the press that -- i mean, this is more than chilling, it's really punitive. >> woodruff: where is this heading, david? >> they're trying to rewrite the rules but they're handling it very ineptly, i would say. there was testimony from holder that they were not doing prosecuting of peres people at the same time they were at least walking up close to that so there's some problem with the testimony and then they've clearly signaled this week that they're uncomfortable with the rules as they exist and to me that's not close t

it was passed in response to the abuses in the nixon administration and pursuant to the church commission which investigatedded a lot of intelligence abuses in the mid '70s. it was passed by overwhelming bipartisan margins and it set up the senate intelligence and house intelligence committees in addition to the court to review individual actions against u.s. persons. it continued that way through 2011 when it was clear the authorities were outdated. then we amended it after a public debate in the united states congress. it works well. >> ifill: senator udall, we just heard, talks about the scale of this program. is it possible to share this kind of information as edward snowden did and not share it at such a scale. is that the problem? >> have him share the information about what he picked up? >> ifill: so much of it. well, we've yet to see what else he has out there. right now he released basically two big programs. the one about the telephones and the one about prison which is intercepting the internet traffic. i don't think that was a big release. i mean, people should know this is go

the nixon administration said he, like mr. ellsberg, were bad for national security.ot to use a better standard than what the government says to us about the leakers it doesn't like while it lets all sorts of other leaks go on. i think that selectivity is a real problem. the idea that we should focus only on mr. snowden and his personality, i think, risks us missing the larger issue. >> what jumps out to me about this particularly is the fact that he's a guy like snowden that has -- has damaged our relationships with russia, china. we do not know to what degree. he's made the u.s. seem very hypocritical. when the president meets with the president of china and says, hey, stop hacking into our stuff and then it's disclosed we do hack into them to an alarming degree. what i also find interesting here, though, is this sort of emergence of ecuador. here's this country where he has been -- he's asked asylum to go to. it's a country that's had peace corps volunteers in it since 1962. it gets over $26 million in aid from the u.s. every year. but this president of ecuador has

back back when frank church went after this kind of behavior in the nixon administration congress was basically not bought out at least like they are now do you think there's any hope for another church commission no i don't know if it does if it does develop it'll be fairly meaningless because it will there's a lot of reasons but one of them is this is now become an industry and we have to treat it like an industry corporate america always trumps issues like this and so in the american public is brain dead at this point that you know it during during the church hearings you had watergate that made the public aware of these dangers this i don't know where this is a dumbed down public they don't take civics anymore they don't give a damn they care more about what kim carr dashin wore to the beach yesterday so that's part of the problem we have here sadly my pap attorney oh thanks so much for being with us tonight thank you. coming up darrell isis says he has definitive proof that the white house was behind the i.r.s. investigation of the tea party groups but it feeds so confident in hi

obviously, during the nixon administration, there were attempts to use the internal revenue service in manners that might be comparable in terms of misusing it. i am not saying the actions that were taken are comparable, but i am just saying the misuse of the distrust of the system occurred sometime ago. this is unprecedented. >> thank you. i don't know whether to admire you or pity you. you have the weight of the united states constitution on your shoulders. literally. and figuratively. you said in your conversation with the white house that job one was -- i think in your words, restore the public trust. >> correct. >> how do you do that? >> it is going to be a difficult process, but the best thing i know how to do right now is articulate a roadmap, and that includes several key principles and ingredients. the principles revolve around openness, fairness, expediency, cooperation. >> all of the things of the people of this country, citizens of the united states have always expected -- not just demanded, but generally an expectation of their government. mr. graves a few minutes ago aske