. >> john: for more, i'm joined by robert greenwald the latest, his "war on whistle blowers:: free press and the national security state" "p" thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> john: naming james rosen a coconspirator part of what you would call a war on whistle blowers. >> i don't think there is any doubt about it. we've been working on this film for nine months, but the timing of it could not be more relevant but also more troubling. from fox news and ap in between this is a systemic effort to silence critics to stop whistle blowers, and most dangerously as you just heard go after the press. try to get people afraid of talking, afraid of cooperating and one thing we know for sure, the only time we find about about the military complex is when there is an investigation by a report or whistle plower. >> john: i give you a lot of credit you've been consistent on this issue regardless of who is in the oval office, can you explain what would be the difference between a reporter getting a big scoop and an actual whistle blower? >> well, an actual national whistle blower is somebod

. >> john: joining me now arc man who has become one of america's most important filmmakers robert greenwaldlcome. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the espionage problems with dropped against tamm and drake but are they still facing other problems. >> there is legal financial family disruptions and their honor and integrity has tragically been attacked when what they're doing is almost a classic case definition of being a patriot, standing up, and calling out something not because they have anything at all to gain, but because their values demand that they speak up. >> john: all too often whistle blowers are people who are punished for putting morality above loyalty and your film says that president obama is coming down much harder on whistle blowers than president bush ever did. why do you think that is? >> we talk to reporters and they all make the case that the obama administration like other administrations republican or democrat, this is clearly an issue beyond partisan politics, unfortunately. it's impacted by the military industrial complex or the national security state. that ha

million people who would be subjected to the koch propaganda machine award winning filmmaker robert greenwald exposed just how far the tentacles of the coke to push really go take a look at the cold weather support laws that are the most aggressive attempt to roll back voting rights in this country and we've seen over a century by yourself a congress. that has single handedly tried to have this charade and got. environmental regulation across the board with cold blooded funding spreading an enormous amount of this information. sold to cure. and that's just the tip of the iceberg guys koch brothers have already spent thirty million dollars and su thousand and five to misinform the public about climate change they're also well known for financing some of the most notable think tanks in the front groups in the country working to eliminate everything from social security to collective bargaining rights furthermore the koch's are good friends with supreme court justices thomas and scalia but surely that could have had anything to do with the outcome of the citizens united ruling aka the best damn

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greenwald and michael hastings. we're going to talk about civil liberties. first fbi wants more power. shocking. the fbi director robertargued that the bureau's ability to eavesdrop. and since 2010 has pushed for a legal mandate requiring companies like facebook and google to build into their instant messages and other such systems a capacity to comply with wiretap orders. in other words we're used to wiretapping your phones but when you're talking on your computer we can't track that. in fact, we had a former fbi analysts named tim clemente. he was a counter terrorism agent. he said when asked well they wouldn't find the phone calls. he said no there is a way. we certainly have ways in normal security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. that's not a conversation that is happening right now. it's a conversation that already happened. it's recorded. it's sitting somewhere and they can access it. if it's recorded for them it's also recorded for you. tim clemente also said, when aaron burnett was surprised about it no, welcome to america. all that stuff is being captured as we speak whet