with the f.b.i. i would argue and the main f.b.i. criticism of my book is that you know even mentally ill people are dangerous people can be dangerous and of course that's true right i mean if a mentally ill person gets a gun and you do terrible things i shot reagan right but that doesn't mean that they're going to be empowered by any sort of terrorist that there's going to be al qaeda operative who is around the corner who says hey here's a bomb in most of these cases i think if there really was an al qaeda operative searching for recruits they would have nothing to do with these you know mentally ill man on the fringes of society that the f.b.i. finds you know and if you look at this you know if these men were truly that dangerous without f.b.i. assistance i think we would see an awful lot of terrorism strikes that actually happen but in the decade since nine eleven more people have been killed by a lone gunman that have been killed by. you know. it's sympathies and so that doesn't necessary so that doesn't show that there's a grea

in 20 years, the f.b.i. ince then, i've never run into a collector who had million dollar paintings that were stolen. >> reporter: anthony amore doesn't buy the dr. no theory, either. >> my gut instinct is not far. typically, when art is stolen, it doesn't get moved very far. if i had to guess, it's still in new england. >> the u.s. attorney's office has offered complete immunity to anyone who came forward with invest on the pantdings. and the museum is offering a 5 million dlarsz award. that's a lot of money on the table. so why hasn't anyone come forward? >> the other alternative is that whoever has them just is waiting for the right time. and it's not a question of the $5 million or immunity. it's a question of this individual might get jammed up on some other unrelated crime and he or she might feel that this is their trump card to get out of prison. >> stolen art can be a get-out-of-jail free card for criminals, kwh is why the notorious whiteybulger was looked at with suspicion for a while. and more rece

well it looks like even the f.b.i. is subject to the rule of law a federal judge last week found that the f.b.i. has not been abiding by the constitution for years and is demanding for the agency to change its ways here's the rundown the f.b.i. has been writing hundreds of thousands of so-called national security letters to private businesses these letters demand for employers to disclose private information about their clients that would otherwise require a warrant or a subpoena in order to obtain essentially it's the f.b.i.'s way of skirting around court orders the agency even tries to hide these letters by preventing businesses from even talking about them but that's not the case any longer here to explain why i'm joined by kevin blogger at firedoglake hey there kevin so what is the latest information coming out from the u.s. district court. well sir to explain why this decision happened because you're basically constraining speech an issue of free speech you're making it so that someone who is receiving this request

well look like even the f.b.i. is subject to the rule of law these days that a federal judge last week found that the f.b.i. has not been abiding by the constitution for years and is demanding for the agency to change its ways here's the rundown the f.b.i. has been writing hundreds of thousands of so-called national security letters to private businesses these letters demand for employers to disclose private information about their clients that would otherwise require a warrant or a subpoena in order to obtain essentially it's the f.b.i.'s way of skirting around court orders the agency even tried to hide these letters by preventing businesses from even talking about them but that's no longer the case to explain why i was joined earlier by kurt upsala he's a senior staff attorney at the electronic frontier foundation he started off by explaining why these letters are so controversial these letters are somewhat unprecedented in the american system because they allow for a demand of information from a telecommunication

fishing for information do we think that this fellow was actually you know set up by the f.b.i. there's a lot of really interesting questions it fits into many pieces of the puzzle here not only did reuters hire someone who maybe they shouldn't have but also was the government trying to to set up in the midst there or set up someone try to bring down a journalist like there's a lot of really weird questions here a lot of bizarre little twists and turns and we only have a short time left but i have to ask you how do we know for sure is there a way for the prosecution to prove that anonymous didn't go into it that they logged into it with the information that this person gave is there any is there any indication of how it actually happened or to say definitively that the information i think gave a link to them to the website well when when he was profiled anonymous in two thousand and twelve with reuters he actually included screen shots of the chat room conversations that he was having at the time not ones where he allegedly handed out user names and password. well username and pa

and later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to tax and voice conversations plans that have provoked an angry reaction from web users that still ahead. twenty one doctors a kid i'll be legal protest charges in but grain spending two years behind bars will be bringing you one but it's first time to experience all the case in a few moments. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. mission. critical free. free. free. free. free. free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. welcome back you're watching our. twenty one doctors have been cleared off involvement in the legal and to go. protests they arrest was part of a crackdown on program form demonstrations that started in february of two thousand and eleven dr dhar day you for who was on trial herself and spend some two months behind

right and later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to review online tags and voice conversations ones that have provoked an angry reaction from web users that's delayed. britain's worried that its citizens who join up to fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return to the u.k. the home office us says hundreds of europeans who are getting involved are learning combat skills from groups like al-qaeda but it's not preventing britain and france from pushing to supply arms to the opposition in syria surfer who has the story. this is the first annual report on the counterterrorism strategy and in it they highlighted the growing security threat from syria where al qaeda affiliates were tracking hundreds of fighters from europe now let's take a look at some of what the report says and they said as and when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed eva sees no these are concerns that are only being highlighted by the

the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping is coming up so we report on the f.b.i. the soon get the right to read your online text and voice conversations plans have provoked an angry reaction as you'd expect from more now than just ahead looking at as well other stories you've got lined up for you very soon bringing home the u.k. fears its citizens fighting in syria could pose a threat a terrorist threat when they return although it is still pushing the supply to the rebels more but after this break. good luck. was able to build a new. found anything mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the interviews intriguing stories for you to. visit. well again britain's worried that its citizens to join up to fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return back to the u.k. the home office says hundreds of europeans are getting involved learning combat skills from groups like al-qaeda but it's not preve

community the ability to monitor online correspondence in real time basically the same way that the f.b.i. could listen in on phone conversations with court approval under love. the phone companies were required by law to implement technology that allows this wire when you're looking at something like skype or some of the other networks those laws do not apply to these places and the f.b.i. is saying we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get cooperation and technical assistance sometimes we don't and that's just not enough courtesy of the electronic communications privacy act the f.b.i. can already out says archives of e-mails tweets and transcripts but clearly that's not enough for the agency to keep tabs on what criminals would be terrorists dissidents are saying online the problem is where we are today so the way that we communicate is really not limited to telephone companies and sort of the old fashioned you know picking the phone and calling someone you have i mean g.-mail google voice dropbox according to google's latest transparency report the uni

now web users online communications may be bout to get a wider and possibly unwanted audience the f.b.i. is seeking more powers to spied on people's emails and internet chats in real time the proposals have already been met with criticism that they are a complete breach of privacy as are his merino porton i now explains. an estimated six hundred million people use skype to chat with family friends and colleagues i'm using the video ip service to talk to you right now and this year a top priority for the f.b.i. is to gain the power to be able to monitor internet chats e-mails and basically all on line correspondence as it is taking place washington is working on legislation that would force email cloud services and chop providers like skype to install in surveillance equipment within their networks that equipment would give the u.s. intelligence community the ability to monitor online correspondence in real time basically the same way that the f.b.i. could listen in on phone conversations with court approval under love coca leaves the phone companies were required by law to implement tec

a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to read your online tags and voice conversations plans that have provoked an angry reaction from web users. and a russian sawyer's rocket reaches the international space station that break and speed completing the journey in less so than the time it takes to fly from moscow to new york. it's four pm here in a moscow you love with us on our show you with me to bum would say it's good to have you with. my nearly two months since of the longest hunger strike it went on i'm a baby gadow there's still no sign of a crisis being solved some of the inmates protesting over mistreatment at the jail are reportedly close to death. is a lawyer for one of the jailed man and is near i can delta joining us live cindy if you can get me the mad you represent has a been in jail since two thousand and two is he one of the hunger strikers yes you know hundreds frankly we were very are twenty thirty what's his condition right now . well he i have met with him for the last three days

true later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping the f.b.i. could soon get the right to read your old line text of voice conversations plans that have provoked an angry reaction from web users is coming up just ahead also to bring the u.k. fears its citizens fighting in syria could pose a terrorist threat when they return coming up later as well. but next nearly two months since the hunger strike began the still no sign of the cross is being resolved in some protesters are reportedly close to death no. lawyer for one of the prisoners that is near camp delta she outlined the client's plight and says that guards are resorting to harsh tactics to force of maids to their campaign. first say that i saw him he was very weak he had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very free temperatures it's it appears that the guards here at the base are trying to end the hunger strike by making conditions more difficult for the prisoners here including making the room the camp ve

later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping know we've all covered the f.b.i. could sit right to read your online text and voice conversations plans that have provoked an angry reaction from web users understandably that's still ahead the also to bring in joe how to code the u.k. physicists in the fighting in syria could pose a terrorist threat when they return just a couple of the many stories you've got lined up ahead. nearly two months since the guantanamo bay hunger strike began the still no sign of the crisis being resolved and some protestors are reportedly close to death cindy is a lawyer for one of the prisoners and it's near come. clients plight and she says gods are resorting to harsh tactics to force inmates to end their company. the first year that i saw him he was very weak he had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very frequent temperatures it's it appears that the guards here at the base are trying to end the hunger strike by making conditions more difficult fo

>> i think the f.b.i. has acess to this. it is suspicious financial transactions. >> say you popped up on the radar >> f.b.i. . you should let c.i.a. and them do whatever the f.b.i. does. i have no problem if it means fighting terrorist. >> you can use that as a lotex>> look at elliott sphitzer. >> i feel so bad with the former governor of new york who came up with many ridiculous cases and some good ones. he saw a money transfers to the house of ilrepute and caught with infamous client number nine. there is so much they can do already. >> i have no expectation of privacy at all. >> so much they do. why don't we have hearings to figure out what? >> i think baghdadit had the name. we have up expectation of privacy . if something goes in this, our whole life is an open book. >> i don't depis agree with charlie. we should have hearings and be thorough. if i have to choose between in ask water boarding, i would choose this in a heart beat. >>id wil choose water boarding. >> that is insane. >> adam. >> explain that. up are saying

>> i think the f.b.i. has acess to this. is suspicious financial transactions. >> say you popped up on the radar >> f.b.i. . you should let c.i.a. and them do whatever the f.b.i. does. i have no problem if it means fighting terrorist. >> you can use that as a lotex>> look at elliott sphitzer. >> i feel so bad with the former governor of new york who came up with many ridiculous cases and some good ones. he saw a money transfers to the house of ilrepute and caught with infamous client number nine. there is so much they can do already. >> i have no expectation of privacy at all. >> so much they do. why don't we have hearings to figure out what? >> i think baghdadit had the name. we have up expectation of privacy . if something goes in this, our whole life is an open book. >> i don't depis agree with charlie. we should have hearings and be thorough. if i have to choose between in ask water boarding, i would choose this in a heart beat. >>id will choose water boarding. >> that is insane. >> adam. >> explain that. up are saying a

whether it's the f.b.i. whether it's the pentagon the different department of defense that has actually been from some quarters are not saying that the whole agencies of you know islamophobia or against muslims other that would be a mistake but there are elements of these agencies that you quite deliberately attempted to feed into this idea that yes actually it's a muslim problem over the last few years we've seen some reports and expressways from the new york times in the washington post on how even some of the training that is being provided to you know security agents working in the f.b.i. and elsewhere on you know counterterrorism stuff that you've been really racist. and is really demonized was in communities this hopelessly a mindset which is you know to some extent it's a reaction to some extent it's even being deliberately promoted feeding into this idea that there is an enemy out there but unfortunately these kind of simple play stick you know binary divisions all quite convenient. how those most vir

is us you've documented fact since whistleblowers like civil lemons for example who worked with the f.b.i. confirms. from the late ninety's to two thousand and one you know just bates was funneling into central asia these islamist extremists and terrorists in order to carry out operations in order to pursue there is. a very narrow it's used to teach you can trust sidelining russia's side right side i think trying to using these extremists on the ground to destabilize regions that and push through certain interests including like you know just paving the way or the gas pipelines and so on and so it will and even someone like i'm on the way here he was covered leave the recognizes the head of al qaeda and who had that was bin laden's right hand man he was i see one of the guys that u.s. officials were meeting with a quote it's adman's he was meeting with u.s. officials at the u.s. embassy in baku. so disk on this kind of thing continues you know we've been still find out sink. the gates admit it since in this part of world in the middle east in relation to countering it rein it in because w

politics and dealt our country another major blow to tell you about it tonight's daily take and is the f.b.i. really catching future terrorists or just setting up vulnerable in of individuals all in the name of making americans feel safer and less trevor anderson aronsen insights conversations are great but it's. you need to know this thursday president obama gave a speech at the white house demanding that congress get its act together and passed meaningful gun control. there's absolutely no reason why we can't get this done but the reason we're talking about it here today is because it's not done until it's about and there are some powerful voices on the other side that are interested in running out the clock or changing the subject or driving up the majority of the american people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all less than one hundred days ago that happened in the entire country was shut in the entire country pledged we would do something about it this time would be different shame on us if we forgot. shame on us indeed we've let the n.r.a. bully us around for too long

i have personally talked to the f.b.i. rector to get a brief on exactly where we stand in that process. >> reporter: what did he tell you? >> he told me literally on the eve of his departure to go to tripoli in order to talk with people that they are doing everything they can within the f.b.i. to conduct their investigation and to lay the groundwork in order to be able to bring justice. >> reporter: we are six months out? >> justice sometimes takes a while when you operated by high standards and when you need the levels of evidence that we do. we are working at it and continue to work at it. >> reporter: as the tenth anniversary of the iraq war nears, i asked him if he still believes it was a mistake? >> i believe that getting our troops out of iraq which is what the president did was right thing to do. if you talk to almost anybody here in the region as i have in the last days, turning the region up side down in a way that that did has created serious security challenges for people throughout this region. think we can be p

look at this surveillance video, the f.b.i. has joined forces with santa rosa and the police in the hunt for this man called the hoodie bandit believed to be connected to three bank robberies in the first two weeks of february. >> a new milestone for bay area-based youtube, saying more than a billion people are now visiting the site each month. that puts youtube in the same league as facebook. people are watching everything from cute cat videos to political protests and creating their own channels. a huge audience has given the owner, google, a lucrative way to sell ads beyond the interpret search engine. >> imagine seeing 3-d pictures on your smartphone without the glasses and with the ability to adjust the picture by moving the screen. researchers at appeal-based hewlet-packard have come up with a new way to put glasses-free 3-d video on mobile devices saying the viewing angle is wide enough to let viewers bring more of the picture into view by tilting the screen up or down with findings in a scientific journal "nature." >> pr

the country targeted never day people like you would mean recently a four year request reveal that the f.b.i. have extensively been spying on the occupy wall street movement and they did this in a variety of ways including infiltration and others then mention just a few of the instances we now know about but there are probably countless more. on the first anniversary of occupy seven members of an occupy a group in austin texas were faced with felony charges and up to two years in prison over an act of civil disobedience resulting from a case of police entrapment they were calling for a shutdown of a local seaport in solidarity with union groups seven protesters blocked the entry of the porch and used lock boxes made of p.v.c. pipes to link their arms together to form a human chain they were then all charged with unlawful use of a criminal instrument however it was later discovered that the real undercover cops had been involved in not only purchasing but designing assembling and ultimately providing demonstrators with the lock boxes used in the demonstration yep the whole should bang the mat

i have personally talked to the f.b.i. director to get a brief on exactly where we stand in that process. >> reporter: what did he tell you? >> he told me literally on the eve of his departure to go to tripoli in order to talk with people that they are doing everything they can within the f.b.i. to conduct their investigation and to lay the groundwork in order to be able to bring justice. >> reporter: we are six months out? >> justice sometimes takes a while when you operated by high standards and when you need the levels of evidence that we do. we are working at it and continue to work at it. >> reporter: as the tenth anniversary of the iraq war nears, i asked him if he still believes it was a mistake? >> i believe that getting our troops out of iraq which is what the president did was right thing to do. if you talk to almost anybody here in the region as i have in the last days, turning the region up side down in a way that that did has created serious security challenges for people throughout this region. think we can be

the country targeted never day people like you would mean recently a four year request reveal that the f.b.i. have extensively been spying on the occupy wall street movement and they did this in a variety of ways including infiltration and others then mention just a few of the instances we now know about but there are probably countless more. on the first anniversary of occupy seven members of an occupy a group in austin texas were faced with felony charges and up to two years in prison over an act of civil disobedience resulting from a case of police entrapment they were calling for a shutdown of a local seaport in solidarity with union groups seven protesters blocked the entry of the porch and used lock boxes made of p.v.c. pipes to link their arms together to form a human chain they were then all charged with unlawful use of a criminal instrument however it was later discovered that three undercover cops had been involved in not only purchasing but designing assembling and ultimately providing demonstrators with the lock boxes used in the demonstration yep the whole should bang the materi

dollar reporting threshold now things like that but but if i if i'm a terrorist and i know that the f.b.i. or the cia is going to be watching on the find out a different way to do it so it's a good way if you've got sort of these lone wolfs who don't who aren't really bright. but if it's a really sophisticated network it's not going to help you and that much and it's just going to allow further erosion of our privacy rights of been going on since nine eleven and there's a use and terrorists are going to find a different way to do it but still it seems like everybody is going to be susceptible to being have our finances be monitored so can you talk more about the privacy concerns here well think about what you do with your bank accounts no use your debit card for coffee as you could have a card with think about what you do with today so you can look at the debit of cancer from accessing your bank records i can really develop a profile of you so we're going to have a lot more profiling people and that the concern here is what's a terrorist. you know if somebody holds up a sign. on a preside

the egyptian authorities arrested ahmed whose followers are suspected to take part in the attack, the f.b.irector was asked whether the agent are getting direct access. >> not yet. >> obstacles in libya, egypt and tunisia, where the embassy was nearly overrun three days later, lawmakers were told u.s. foreign aid exceeds half a billion dollars annually. >> the thought that the government will give that foreign aid and not have the f.b.i. be given access on the individual is unacceptable. >> in letter from republican susan collins on the intelligence committee, the f.b.i. director is asked to identify the suspects and whether any will be extradited to the u.s. for trial. in the house hearing, acknowledged the case faces obstacles from foreign government. >> the question is not necessarily the willingness but the capability. we are working on that. as i say, the investigation is progressing. >> in if case of congressional pressure to make survivors able to investigators the state department is noncommittal about access to its own employees. >> we have been working with the congress on the ben

the f.b.i. hing for new tools and laws to try to keep up with the changing technology around us. the bureau is a little worried about terrorists and other criminals who are using different forms of communication that they are having a real hard time tracking. you might hear about it when someone says they are going dark this is what they are worried about, they are off the grid. the f.b.i. wants the power to monster all forms of digital communication in realtime, and that is the catch. rick folbaum is in the newsroom hopefully not being monitored and has more information on all of this. >> reporter: i hope some people out there are monitoring us right now. that would be good. this is a website slate reporting that the f.b.i. wants to be able to tap into our email, our text messages, our internet communications in realtime that is the key here. that means gmail, google voice, skype, dropbox even x-box live and chat rooms for web games like words with friends. the agency says that's how criminals a

the country targeted never day people like you would mean recently a four year request reveal that the f.b.i. have extensively been spying on the occupy wall street movement and they did this in a variety of ways including infiltration and others then mention just a few of the instances we now know about but there are probably countless more. on the first anniversary of occupy seven members of an occupy a group in austin texas were faced with felony charges and up to two years in prison over an act of civil disobedience resulting from a case of police entrapment they were calling for a shutdown of a local seaport in solidarity with union groups seven protesters blocked the entry of the porch and used lock boxes made of p.v.c. pipes to link their arms together to form a human chain they were then all charged with unlawful use of a criminal instrument however it was later discovered that the real undercover cops had been involved in not only purchasing but designing assembling and ultimately providing demonstrators with the lock boxes used in the demonstration yep the whole should bang the mat