and other countries to do next joining me to discuss it is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine scott thanks so much for joining us tonight has been a while since united spoken about this what do you really think is is happening in syria right now right i mean it seems like the violence is perhaps picking up at the same time you also have those that are in opposition to assad who always want to peacefully protest saying that they now feel like they have no choice but to arm themselves and a lot of warnings that this will be a bloody civil war well i think there's no question but that right now the situation becoming far more boring than it's been up to this day do that or so i mean to be more and more akin to a civil war and more and more like what we've worn in libya particularly in the earlier days and there are a number of reports. about. about soldiers and even officers leaving it's clear the number of them are being harbored to shelter outside of the syrian territory and that they're coordinating the opposition so you know

security council resolution was vetoed by china and russia over the weekend or scott horton is going to join us but a new report from the bureau of investigative journalism shows damning evidence that u.s. drone strikes in pakistan target those who go to help after an initial strike and even target civilians at funerals so how much longer will the u.s. government allow the cia to keep their data secret we're going to speak to marcy wheeler about the reactions to this report and you know to some very politically tinge as during the super bowl this year we're going to talk about the insane amounts of money that are pouring in from all sides to fuel political debate in this country was we have all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. well this monday there is no shortage of big news going on around the world americans to be tried in egypt the u.s. closing its embassy in damascus and continuing rhetoric heating up over iran now for once it's been one of those days where the mainstream media has actually chos

now tonight we're going to speak to scott horton about the continued violence in afghanistan and what it means for the trained forces that the u.s. and nato troops are supposed to leave behind there then our monday hangover panel we're going to talk about oil prices the ties between housing and student debt and what rick santorum has to say for the separation of church and state and wiki leaks is beginning to publish five million e-mails from the analysis company stratfor going to look into the details of this latest dump with kevin gusto let him have all that work at night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. this morning there are some very sad and disturbing news the dominated the television screens as there was yet another shooting on a school campus and us this time in ohio. at least four students injured when a gunman walked into the high school there and began opening fire this morning mccown now up to five students shot and wounded the gunman opened fire in the school cafeteria early this morning there are two sepa

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should they join me to discuss that is mark canis founder of the genocide intervention network and scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine and i want to thank you both for joining us tonight and mark i'm to start with you just start by telling us why it is that you think that human rights organizations should use drones human rights organizations use people to monitor human rights violations we either get visas and do it with the permission of governments were sometimes they sneak in and go in there without governments knowing in eastern burma for example lots of people are being killed there we've got human rights monitors there so the technology of drones it's cheaper it's more available and you don't have to put why is there a risk why not use technology to further advance what people already doing and allow people to see more the force from the trees than ever before and let's not forget that when we say cheaper we still mean about a couple hundred thousand dollars right now they're not millions anymore but they're getting deeper but i t

sorry to interrupt you there or unfortunately out of time thank you for weighing in on that was scott horton contributing editor for harper his magazine. well as the conflict in syria intensifies various numbers are being reported on the death toll and casualties but amid the chaos it is difficult to get a clear picture of what's really going on there which begs the question just how accurate are these numbers the british based syrian observatory of human rights is one of the most widely quoted sources of the figures but the group is now experiencing an ownership route which has left the media outlets wondering how reliable the sources artie's are better reports. the syrian observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership the syrian observatory for human rights is left several media outlets quoting false information as to rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists who are posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sites claim there the of

fly drones of their own for surveillance purposes we're going to debate that issue with harper scott horton and mark and us of the genocide intervention network we're going to all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so last night the results from florida came in and surprise surprise mitt romney was the winner and the mainstream media has spent all morning tirelessly discussing what this all means mitt romney scoring a major victory in florida defeating his closest challenger newt gingrich by a wide margin romney coasted in the florida primary with forty six percent of the vote newt gingrich a distant second from these victories was described as not just the fourteen point win but in the red cross almost every demographic group in his speech last night he already sounded like the nominee you had most of the establishment elected republican officials in the state behind him vastly more than his rivals i mean big win in florida definitely catapult some into a hefty lead in the delegate count mitt rom

security council resolution was vetoed by china and russia over the weekend scott horton is going to join us but a new report from the bureau of investigation.