but saleh a purely changed his mind after a phone call from president obama.rding to white house readout, obama "expressed concern" over the release of shaye. described the impact of president obama's phone call. >> yes, there was a visit by some social figures to the president and they negotiated his release in his pardon. we were all waiting in the for the release memo, which was printed and prepared for the president to sign. and he was to announce the pardon the next day. but the mediators for hasty to announce that pardon that same day, president obama all the yemeni president to express u.s. concerns over the release of abdulelah haider shaye. was his attorney, talking to jeremy scahill. when we come back from break, we will talk to jeremy scahill about the release of abdulelah haider shaye and be joined by a yemeni activist. back in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. prior to the arrest of abdulelah haider shaye, he broke a number of important stories about al qaeda in the ar

people's perspective it's very confusing they never really quite sure it is clear that when president saleh was in power he played it both ways sometimes he cooperated with the u.s. sometimes they didn't it all depended he played a game to try to get more aid but then when hardy took power who is the return current interim president he is clearly authorized in giving giving permission for their own strike because he's afraid but that the people the vast majority are against the drone strikes in fact there's something going on right now called the national dialogue conference that you may have heard about it's a real experiment in democracy but i'm trying to get all sides of the table to talk and they actually just passed by a wide margin resolution that said no more expeditious just more killings including drone strikes no i want to see something that you mentioned earlier what it what it means like to be affiliated with al qaida and you kind of make the comparison that it's a lot like joining a gang of united states and when we're talking about guantanamo fifty six of the eighty six prison

people's perspective it's very confusing they never really quite sure it is clear that when president saleh was in power he played it both ways sometimes he cooperated with the u.s. sometimes he didn't do it all depended you played a game to try to get more aid but then when heidi took power who is the return current interim president he is clearly authorizing giving giving permission for their own strike because he's afraid but that the people the vast majority are against the drone strikes in fact there's something going on right now called the national dialogue conference that you may have heard about it's a real experiment in democracy where they're trying to get all sides of the table to talk and they actually just passed by a wide margin resolution that said no more expeditious traditional killings including drone strikes no i want to see something that you mentioned earlier what it what it means like to be affiliated with al qaida and you kind of make the comparison that it's a lonely joint again united states and when we're talking about guantanamo. fifty six of the eighty six priso

one cable in january says yemen's president saleh told general david petraeus, we'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours. hillary clinton and condoleezza rice before her ordered u.s. embassies and intelligence services to gather private information on u.n. leaders and diplomats. including computer passwords, even dna and fingerprints. >> private manning also released this video. this disturbing video showing american helicopter pilots in iraq in 2007 firing on a group of iraqis and a journalist from the "reuters" wire service, and his driver. 12 people were killed. wikileaks added their own subtitles to it. the military said proper protocols were followed, but after this video was made public, people all across the world and in the united states outraged. until private manning leaked it, we had not seen video like this that the military did not want us to see. we had a whole new kind of access to our war in iraq. on the one hand, seemed like the trial of private bradley manning was over before it began. he had already admitted to leaking the hundreds of thousands of documen