so i had here on our team the f.b.i. is getting awfully frisky but their online data creating some sneaky ways to spy on your personal internet communications give you a few good reasons why you should be worried. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to u.s. . efforts for a just burned your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything you'd be by a lot of. thousands of times stronger than any kind of debris and they were putting a. straight. up in the ilona so you know there's a real headlines with none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and forget it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and t

maybe one way to think about it is this the f.b.i. has court orders in many cases to conduct surveillance on skype or google hangouts or whatnot and they can't necessarily get the information from the companies in a format they can understand and they're kind of stuck in one thousand eason one nine hundred ninety s. right more telephone wire house maybe a bit of wireless thrown in but certainly not what we're encountering now on the internet so they want to wait to figure out how to make sense of it and this is what the d.c.-ac is designed to do it's designed to kind of be their little silicon valley research lab and they increase all this wonderful wiretapping technology and they're going to you know if facebook google sky again over all these companies are . invested in this facility or are they just kind of i mean i know you mentioned that they were kind of in the lobbying swing of things but are you know if they're directly invested in this or working with the f.b.i. this is. this is just ramping up they're just they're just hiring

in the past now the f.b.i. says this is a good reason to expand their ability to snoop on people online they want to be able to wiretap the internet and are asking companies like google and facebook to alter their code to enable them to do so and they hope to do this by amending a law that allows the wiretapping of phones and expand that power to internet sites that people often use to communicate these days so is this infringing on your on line privacy or a necessary tool to ensure public safety that clinical is the chief political correspondent for c news and has been following this story since the very beginning and he joins us now for more welcome back len so you were one of the people to break this story what do you bake the f.b.i. asking for more surveillance powers. well it depends on who you talk to the f.b.i. is going to say this is something that lets us keep up with technology and privacy advocates are going to be alarmed by this because i mean if you think about it if facebook or microsoft or google

starting off this hour the f.b.i. is calling it a victory against homegrown terrorism five self described anarchists were arrested after allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge near cleveland the bombing of the post take place on occupy wall street huge mayday action but the good guys rush to the rescue stop the men in their tracks and save civilians from danger right it turns out the government agency was actually instrumental in helping the craven five planets terrorist bridge plot the entire event was provoked and orchestrated by agent provocateurs who supplied the motive and the means to carry out the plot now f.b.i. entrapment in terrorism cases is nothing new the agent currently has fifteen thousand undercover operatives in their ranks who get paid as much as one hundred thousand dollars per sign meant at least half of the latest five hundred prosecutions related to terrorism have involved f.b.i. entrapment so the question remains when the f.b.i. foils its own terrorist plots are they preventing terrorism or they

officials but the justice department the f.b.i. . ressured by the state department by the white house at the time to to not transfer it and then in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine they were told to only pursue the congregational aspects because it's was leaving more towards republican than this is the clinton administration and then leave the ones that were the individuals appointed by clinton ad of it and then george w. bush came into office he basically ordered the entire investigation all the files shut down so that's one the other one had to do because it's a pretty big on the right and that's something the nobody had known right something the really good idea doesn't report this for years mainstream media has been reporting this as they do with whistleblowers here is a poor petite poor was a lawyer who was fired she reported incompetence and nobody asked the questions within the mainstream media why the state secrets privilege she was only with them for six seven months she was only a language a special she was not a cia un

in 2006 the f.b.i. planned its new sentinal system, we spent a lot of money, over $425 million, that was i guess kind of rescoped in 2008 with an additional $26 million. but it wasn't finished by the target date. in 2009 it was extended again. in july of 2010 the second phase had more problems. and in september of 2010 the agency announce add plan to have the -- announced a plan to have the methodology with a new target completion date of september, which was not met. and then in october there was a, i understand, a bureauwide test exercise which showed problems, insufficient hardware capacity. and the i.g. gave a report in december that the f.b.i. was still trying to determine the cost of the additional hardware and had delayed its planned deployment until may. it's may now. where are we on this much awaited and extremely expensive system? >> unfortunately i am very aware of that history. can i tell you that it has been one of the most difficult challenges. a couple of things that -- parts along the way

without the f.b.i. involvement i mean you see that the f.b.i. supplied the transportation the bombs and pretty much everything else do you think that they would have had the means to do it well it's really impossible to say but it is quite uncomfortable to know how close the f.b.i. was informed of these guys. one of them i believe was even employed at this person's roofing company for a while so you see there's a very cozy relationship with law enforcement and it's going to curators who you know may or may not have the impetus to do this regardless. appear to be sort of sympathetic to occupiers blackwater which for occupiers is really like a cancer right. lot of people have said that the black bloc is the cancer of the movement. and you know stephen i just want to ask you some would say that the recruitment methods that the f.b.i. provocateurs use against would be terrorists is similar to suicide bomber recruiters in the middle east i mean they prey upon the emotional need to range to financially down and out people and convince them to conduct

i started working for the f.b.i. and immediately within the first few weeks i started discovering issues cases cover ups now some of these are considered peer incompetence bureaucratic bungling others are far more aware far more serious because they were intentional what was what was probably some of the most damning evidence that you found out there that somebody might want suppressed well to give you some general ideas in one thousand nine hundred six at the f.b.i. is that these are various field offices not only where i work washington field office but f.b.i. chicago's field office and also another branch in new jersey they had a very important high level counterintelligence investigations of foreign entities. military attaché some of them were just embassy diplomats but others were corporations businesses and as hard of this investigation that began in one nine hundred ninety six they on covered of various high level several more than a dozen u.s. officials some of them elected in congress some of them within the

is the one who creates the plot for example in new york for case the f.b.i. not only. did you know they were to want to. determine where the supposed that attack was supposed to take they're the ones that they're the ones who. provided the you know drove the the defendants around they're the ones who who work on all these kinds of things and that is really what created the plot in the newburgh four case you know i believe that if there had been no informant there would have been no plot well the aunts one of the men said they couldn't even organize a barbecue let alone a terror plot but we do have to say you know in this cleveland case one of the accused did by eight bricks of c four and mentioned that he wanted to blow up a bank i mean is this not a good lead good evidence to go on. well you know you have to look at you know what went on before all of this and is it that he said to the informant this is what i want to you or does the informant work with them for weeks or months say well you know you need to do more or urge him on or egging him on you know some of the t

bound airliner using a device in a passenger's underwear the f.b.i. still examining the device but it did not contain any metal and most likely would have even been detected by some of those metal detectors and scanners at the airports. speaking of a foiled plots you may remember hearing last week about a group that's come to be known as the cleveland five five men self described anarchists had a plan to valma bridge in ohio or so said an f.b.i. informant who apparently got to know them at certain events put on by the occupy wall street movement in cleveland but many of the facts in the case the government is speaking about are not adding up so our to correspondent marina port nial looked a little deeper into this story and discovered there are quite a few layers behind the headlines. what began last september returned with a vengeance on the first of may tens of thousands of americans across the country expressing collective outrage over wealth inequality little preparation and money by evening federal agents have busted up an anarchist plot in clevel

what was earlier this month that seen at report of the f.b.i. was applying pressure on tech companies not to oppose legislation that would force social networks providers of voice messaging web e-mail to build in back doors for the purpose of government surveillance but it turns out that the f.b.i. has just been sitting around waiting for the legislative process to work out the legal kinks it turns out that they've actually created a domestic communications assistance center it's in virginia and it's supposed to focus on creating new surveillance technologies including the interception of all those lovely things that i mentioned that we all love so much our social networks our e-mail skype and the like so is this new center as nefarious as it sounds and just how much is it costing you joining me to discuss this is declan mccullagh chief political correspondent for c net declan thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess first just tell us a little bit more as to how it is that you came upon this because i know that the information isn't som

oh wiretapping the internet that's the f.b.i.'s new mission traditionally they've been able to get a warrant to tap into telephones but today more people are communicating through the internet by e-mail skype social media and instant messaging and this poses a challenge for the f.b.i. they're finding it harder to wiretap websites calling it a going dark problem and now they're taking action to change this an article on c.n.n. at reveals the f.b.i.'s push to force internet giants like google facebook and yahoo to alter their code to ensure that law enforcement can easily wiretap the websites the f.b.i. has planned would have many one thousand nine hundred four law that applies to wiretapping phones they want to expand that power to web companies so is this another attack on your online freedoms or is it necessary to ensure national security david seaman journalist and host of the d.l. show joins us now to dig deeper into this welcome david so it should people be concerned about this. it's great to be back on liz people should be co

our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to the f.b.i. for perpetuating a pointless war on activists now we all know there are post nine eleven world terrorist that's probably the most widely used word that's thrown around carelessly by our government and our media but the f.b.i. is taking this to an extreme they use it extremely loose interpretation of terrorism when applying it to environmental activists say it's all part of this trend led by corporate interests the government and law enforcement those who highlight gross mismanagement of natural resources environmental problems well they're increasingly prosecuted in extreme ways and it's something we've spoken about before on this show like for example this conversation that i had with will potter from the blog green is the new red. so this campaign by corporations and industry groups to label activists is eco terrorists to push their political agenda they've been waging a p.r. campaign as they've been pushing for legislation and so when you actually has a study eco terrorism law that

all sort of comes out the f.b.i. is perpetuating a pointless war on eco terrorists were given details and are told time and happy hour obama makes a mistake during a speech that a little cringe worthy and jonah goldberg declares the view. to the state. emission free accreditation free transport judges free arrangement free. free. free. free blog as well a video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. all right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to the f.b.i. for perpetuating a pointless war on activists now we all know there are post nine eleven world terrorist now that's probably the most widely used word that's thrown around carelessly by our government and our media but the f.b.i. is taking this to an extreme they use it extremely loose interpretation of terrorism when applying it to environmental activists so it's all part of this trend led by corporate interests the government and law enforcement those who highlight gross mismanagement of natural resources env

has the f.b.i. een an increase in this type of left-wing extremist terrorist activity and is the occupy movement a breeding ground for this type of extremism? and if those within the occupy movement perceive their demands are not being met, what is the likelihood we will see them resorting to more of this type of violence? >> as for the last aspect of your question, i can't speculate that. i will tell you because it's in -- individuals were arrested last week, i'm limited to and i'd direct you if i could to the complaint that was followed and the facts that were laid out in the complaint which focus on their conduct, not necessarily the conduct of others. >> and how about my first question which is, have you seen an increase in this type of left-wing extremist terrorist activity? >> well, i wouldn't -- i would say -- i wouldn't necessarily go with a predicate left-wing terrorist attack. i would say persons who violated the law in this particular way we have not seen necessarily an increase. it's epis

all sort of comes out the f.b.i. is perpetuating a pointless war on eco terrorists were given details and are told time and happy hour obama makes a mistake during a speech that a little cringe worthy and jonah goldberg declares the view. to the state. of mind of american power continuing. by the time revolution. and there. were very good. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. here is what i. like and they alone are so they'll get the real headline that none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer th

are going to take a quick break but coming up the f.b.i. wants her to be easier to spy on you and i want the tech companies to help that. sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care watch only on the dog. world of the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. all right it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because he has me to say i do listen now first i would respond to somebody who commented on our mainstream it's about the f.b.i. taking down another self created terror plot right that dead tweeted at the lone a show are you seriously defending the halfwits that tried to blow up that bridge can you tell me your theories on roswell too well either you were listening to

i've got to take a quick break but coming up the f.b.i. wants to be easier to spy on you and they want the tech companies to help. there hasn't been anything yet. it is to get the maximum that. is for. sure and was. we. we want to present. something all. right it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because he has me to say i do listen now first i would respond to somebody who commented on our mainstream it's about the f.b.i. taking down another self created terror plot right that dead tweeted at the alona show are you seriously defending the halfwits that tried to blow up that bridge can you tell me your theories on roswell too well either you were listening to my main three minutes or you choose to live in ignorant bliss where you believe everything off already tell you but the point is that even if these guys were half way through the truth to describe them we have to ask questions when the feds help conceive the plots find them provide

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does the f.b.i. feel that participation in the political process or protesting police constitutes a threat of any kind? do you think it's appropriate for the f.b.i. to track americans' first amendment protected activity in this way? does the f.b.i. list of major terrorism cases past and present, are more comprehensive list that terrorist attacks going back to 1930, detailed in a f.b.i. report entitled terrorism, 2002 to 2005, include any terrorist act committed by anyone who could fairly be scrind as a member of a black -- be described as a member of a black separatist group? that's a lot that i have asked, but i'm really interested, do you have a program called domain management simlar -- >> we have -- yes, we have domain managers. we have a program that requires our intelligence analysts who identify a threat in a particular area, and an aspect of that program may depend on the threat information we got from asourcing or inside the united states or outside the united states. let me start by saying w

but the f.b.i. building leads all of them by being called the ugliest of all. >>> maurice sendak is being remembered this afternoon. the author of the children's book "where the wild things are" died this morning. the book was later made into a successful movie in 2009 by director spike jones. sendak died at a hospital in connecticut. his long-time companion said he suffered a stroke last friday. maurice sendak was 83 years old. >>> prince harry made a quick visit to washington yesterday. he received an award from the atlantic council last night for his work with wounded soldiers. this was the prince's first visit to washington. >>> this is the e-day, the day that world war ii allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of nazi, germany. there was a ceremony this morning at the world war ii memorial in southwest washington to remember victory in europe day. massive celebrations broke out in the western world on this day in 1945 when the defeat of the nazis became official

forget about occupy the people are speaking but will politicians listen up then it turns out that the f.b.i. has been lobbying the top tech firms out there to not oppose a new bill they're pushing to create back doors so the government can have more access to your communications for surveillance purposes not only does that sound a lot like the one nine hundred eighty four come to life but can't the government already get that access sanchez is going to break it down for us and our conservatives more susceptible to fear than liberals joshua holland is going to talk to us about some new research out there that suggests yes we're going to all of that have more freedom night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the main three media decided to miss. now if you watch our show regularly then you've heard a lot about the f. twenty two raptor and the numerous problems that the stealth jet has had not only cost overruns which we'll get into in a minute but don't forget the entire fleet was grounded because of oxygen problems which were affecting pilots then the air force decided to

does the f.b.i. feel that participation in the political process or protesting police constitutes a threat of any kind? do you think it's appropriate for the f.b.i. to track americans' first amendment protected activity in this way? does the f.b.i. list of major terrorism cases past and present, are more comprehensive list that terrorist attacks going back to 1930, detailed in a f.b.i. report entitled terrorism, 2002 to 2005, include any terrorist act committed by anyone who could fairly be scrind as a member of a black separatist group? that's a lot that i have asked, but i'm really interested, do you have a program called domain management simlar -- >> we have -- yes, we have domain managers. we have a program that requires our intelligence analysts who identify a threat in a particular area, and an aspect of that program may depend on the threat information we got from asourcing or inside the united states or outside the united states. let me start by saying we do not investigate individuals or gro

and frankly don't have an answer to that you know the f.b.i. did not even speak to him prior to nine eleven they spoke to his wife so it's it's really unclear and i was stunned when i found the comment and eventually tracked him down to florida where he's currently living with his wife and daughter and he has been for the past ten years basically paying for the alleged crimes committed by his brother as you referenced in in the introduction by you know being an f.b.i. informant with the promise. of being led to believe that the f.b.i. could help him obtain a green card and just two years ago you know he was forced to testify against his brother before a grand jury authenticate his appearance in a videotape again he said i'm not sure that's my brother you know you more or less say it is ok and that videotape actually was used in the war crimes trial of another kuantan m o detainees but again it's you know he's been living in obscurity and he has been obviously you know very upset by the fact that his brother who we know as abu zubaida. has been g

and the f.b.i. is on the scene as a negotiator in contact with the individual and negotiated with the individual. as far as we know right now no one inside the building has been injured currently at this time. including the gunman. >> has he made demands? >> i cannot talk about the communication. >> can you see him from the building? from a window in the building? >> i cannot. i don't know what their vision is. all have you made contact? >> everything is under investigation. i believe he was right at the door, inside or outside at the front door, the communication. i don't have the exact location. >> we hear two different stories of motive. >> i can confirm it is not a domestic disturbance but an issue over believing someone inside the building owed him money. >> did he come here yesterday? >> i cannot confirm that. >> we is seen a robot? >> that is from the bomb squad, they have a robot involved. it is just a camera. how many people are in the building? >> i don't have a count on how many have been

f.b.i. informants. today as the ninety nine percent becomes a bigger challenge for washington some say angry activists could replace scary muslims as the so-called new face of homegrown terror i think that occupy wall street is dealing with big enough issues and there are enough people who are committed enough to the movement that it probably will have political prisoners maybe sooner than later occupy cleveland issued a statement saying that while the five men arrested were associated with the movement they were in no way representing or acting on behalf of the group and f.b.i. spokesperson also said the incident was not an occupy movement wants facts which so far have not stopped many from branding occupy with an unfavorable state very important i.r.t. new york. i want to look a little deeper into the entrapment aspect of this case many facets of government not to mention wall street are of course ready for the occupy wall street movement to go away and as a marine imagine in her report it's not just these so-call

reveals the f.b.i.'s push to force internet giants like google facebook and yahoo to alter their code to ensure law enforcement can easily wiretap the sites the f.b.i.'s plan but amending one thousand nine hundred four law that applies to wiretapping phones they want to expand that power to web companies so is this another attack on your online freedoms or necessary to ensure national security earlier i spoke with david seaman journalist and host of the elf show and asked him should people be concerned about this people should be concerned i want to choose my words very carefully here. the legislation we've seen over the past few months including cispa and now this f.b.i. request to have backdoor access to people's facebook activity we're talking about american citizens not people in afghanistan in a cave they aren't the ones sending out friend requests and talking on facebook we're talking about you and me the government wants intimate intimate access to what we're doing online and through since but the

or the f.b.i. actually admitted that the defendants had said repeatedly that they had no intentions of harming anyone they stated that they didn't want anyone didn't want people to think that they were terrorists now personally that doesn't convince me then that they weren't demonized for an artist views which are considered radical by the government but the poor. here is that we need to ask these questions right which is why we have continuously done so here on this show now finally some other media elements are catching on the new york times devoted some time to entrapment this past weekend but the cable networks not a chance they're happy to repeat the lines of law enforcement verbatim hype up the threat and ignore the fact that the feds need to prove their own importance justify their funding but therefore we need to be skeptical when one plot after another has been conceived funded and armed by them but no that's something that the mainstream media chooses to miss. last night after arriving by

the f.b.i. may have to get in line. the security & exchange commission could fine morgan and the federal reserve and banking schmidt have announced plans to look into it. timothygit geithner added his voice to say the failure strengthened the case for stronger financial reforms. mitt romney's senior advisor eric burnstrom said the bank could take care of the problem itself and the government should stay out. >> there is accountability. people will be held to account for the losses that occurred. there was no taxpayers money at risk. >> that's how it works in a public market. >> despite a handful of protesters there was no accountability at the shareholder meeting. jamie dimon kept his $23 million compensation, title as chairman and had the full backing of the bank's board. so much for learning from someone's mistakes. i am joined by felix and the scourge of wall street. i will not use the vampire squid metaphor at this time even though i am dying to do it. felix, with ahat should we do with jamie dimon? should he be the

new face of the dooars homegrown terror f.b.i. the dirty tactics give occupy critics the tools to tar the entire movement's reputation and present them as domestic terrorists. they're also markets have opens up impulsive territory today all continues to climb china top growth and high terrain that the greek people are warming to procure out of the parking lot before all that is out about twenty minutes time. international news live from moscow this is ask the with me union shop of our thanks for joining us the most gruesome episode in syria's uprising is quickly turning into a p.r. battle as each side and their allies portion blame for this slaughter in houla just four days after the murders of over one hundred men women and children the media has been flooded with images furthering one or the other drowned and as a first reports authenticity has taken a back seat. when the b.b.c. ran the speccy from iraq mistakingly claiming it was syria it led to some fierce criticisms somebody is using my images from iraq as propaganda. against

there was no unit in the f.b.i. that dealt with al qaeda anybody who claims that they those people are liars because they had units called would just heed while mujahideen while f.b.i. were conducting some investigations to other branches of our executive branch and that is the state department and the cia starting from one thousand nine hundred five were closely working with this people in fact they were using nato planes to bring these entities from afghanistan from saudi arabia from various places in central into turkey and turkey is a nato country they've been given turkey passports and they were being sent to bosnia so how could they have units chasing al qaeda when outcry. it was our biggest partner and it wasn't called al-qaeda they refer to them as our allies mujahideen it is very interesting and like you said working with bin laden and very closely with these organizations before and after nine eleven that was the bell adman's founder and director of the national security whistleblower coalition and the auth