shane bauer also mentioned twitter is something of a good crowd sorcerer in a way. if you are a journalist and if you want to lead on a particular story, looking for an expert you can send out a request and the odds are that somebody following you will say is this person knows this, that person knows that, that is always a great way of assisting you if you are trying to track down a story. before i was a journalist i worked on capitol hill for republican organizations and republican members of congress. that made me sort of unprofessional political observer as a years have gone by and i find this is where the frivolity aspect of twitter comes in. what is ultimately a beneficial way. we are in an increasingly partisan and ideological age. one of the interesting things about twitter is part of the frivolous aspect of it, someone breaks down the hard core ideology. for example one of the people i follow partly because i want to find out what he is saying because it is interesting is a guy by the name of oliver willis. he works for media matters which is a left of cente

she was jailed for 14 months in iran after she and two other americans, shane bauer and now her husbandnow her husband, and josh fatal, were detained by iranian border forces on july 31, 2009, for allegedly hiking across the iraqi border into iran. which they don't believe is the case. she spoke to on jazeera from the protests. >> my name is sarah shourd. i am an advocate against the use of solitary confinement and i was held as a political hostage by the iranian government for 410 days in solitary confinement along with my now has been shane bauer and my friend josh fatal. bradley manning does not deserve to be in prison. i know what it is like to sit in a prison cell and you don't deserve to be there. bradley manning was held for nine months in extreme conditions of solitary confinement, very similar to my own in the iranian prison. we were both under lockdown 23 hours a day. we were under sensory deprivation. there is really no way to describe the deaths of loneliness. you really just have to get through one day of the time. the fact people are coming out for bradley manning and i'm