happened to recent whistleblowers knows that this was never an option for us to host node and thomas drake of the n.s.a. who suffered for years of of prosecuted and persecution at the hands of eight just department of justice lawyers after which the judge in maryland said look you justice department lawyers don't ever ever bring cases like this to me before to me again based on such flimsy evidence all charges dismissed all felonies dismissed they were going to put him away if it's twenty five years snowden looked at that and stone said look at what happens to tom drake i knew i had to get out of dodge number one to get my mission accomplished and number two he said in wonderment that he happens to be not by his intention but by happenstance in the safest possible place where the john bolton's the james walsh sees the mike rogers and the general hayden's can't get a drone to shoot him down it's seems he'll seal team six to ferret it out so it's a high high ironies here but the fourth amendment could not be clearer and i think judge leon has start. really look at this thing we'll see if we

agency but we've seen this before it was we've had whistleblowers come out of the agency like thomas drake we've had kirk we we've had others who have taken issue with how the n.s.a. is coordinating its programs so we know that this is a reasonable assertion to make that dissent inside the n.s.a. could be the issue but then also secondly i would say that you're sending home a document that tells people how to rebut claims that the agency is violating the law how is your rebut claims that the agency is not respecting u.s. citizens civil liberties and i think that's a sad statement on the agency itself i mean you're having the employees do the work that you're failing to do but you obviously are admitting that you're losing the game let's talk about another recent leak n.s.a. . that the agency actually monitored the porn habits of six muslim targets how was the n.s.a. just to find this practice. the justification is that these are people who while they are not engaged in terrorism they admit i think we need to be clear that none of these targets were accused of being involved in any terroris

like thomas drake kirk wiebe e. we've had others who have taken issue with how the n.s.a. is coordinating its programs so we know that this is a reasonable assertion to make that dissent inside the n.s.a. could be the issue but that also secondly i would say that you're sending home a document that tells people how to rebut claims that the agency is violating the law how to rebut claims that the agency is not respecting u.s. citizens civil liberties and i think that's a sad statement on the agency itself i mean you're having employees do the work that you're failing to do but you obviously are admitting that you're losing the game let's talk about another recent n.s.a. leak that the agency actually monitored the porn habits of six muslim targets how was the n.s.a. justifying this practice. the justification is that these are people who while they are not engaged in terrorism they admit i think we need to be clear that none of these targets were accused of being involved in any terrorism but regardless they found these to be quote unquote radicalized or so people who had in

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agency but we've seen this before it was we've had whistleblowers come out of the agency like thomas drake we've had kirk we we've had others who have taken issue with how the n.s.a. is coordinating its programs so we know that this is a reasonable assertion to make that dissent inside the n.s.a. could be the issue but then also secondly i would say that you're sending home a document that tells people how to rebut claims that the agency is violating the law how is your rebut claims that the agency is not respecting u.s. citizens civil liberties and i think that's a sad statement on the agency itself i mean you're having the employees do the work that you're failing to do but you obviously are admitting that you're losing the game let's talk about another reason n.s.a. leak at the agency actually monitoring the porn habits of six and targets how was the n.s.a. just to find this practice. the justification is that these are people who while they are not engaged in terrorism they admit i think we need to be clear that none of these targets were accused of being involved in any terrorism but

eliminate insider threats people are not trying to reveal private information whistleblowers like thomas drake and bill binney and kirk we be and edward snowden are all n.s.a. where n.s.a. contractors who are trying to reveal illegal programs and that's quite different and you need to have meaningful effective whistleblower reform which national security and intelligence whistleblowers have none that was just right at the national security and human rights director at the government accountability project well amnesty international released a report today describing serious of uses of human rights committed in detention facility is run by the islamic state of iraq and or the i.s.i. yes for a closer look at the report artie's focused alina nasser a researcher for amnesty international. there is widespread torture torture of adults including and also children the most common form of torture is a floodgate. flogging against detainees take place on a daily. on a daily every day basically it includes flogging against children we have witnesses former detainees who told us that they have seen the ch

eliminate insider threats people are not trying to reveal private information whistleblowers like thomas drake and bill binney and kirk we be and edward snowden are all n.s.a. where n.s.a. contractors who are trying to reveal illegal programs and that's quite different and you need to have meaningful effective whistleblower reform which national security and intelligence whistleblowers have none now obviously a lot of people are very happy about this report as you said it is more far reaching than a lot of people anticipated glenn greenwald himself is very happy about this but at the end of the day these are only recommendations how likely do you think it is that the n.s.a. or the white house will take up any or all of them. you know i. it's ironic that president obama is going to be contemplating these recommendations during his time in hawaii where edward snowden is from i am disheartened by the fact that before these even came out he already said that he would be rejecting the recommendation to separate n.s.a. from cyber command i think that's a huge mistake but i hope that he will follow t

thomas drake, thank you for your tom and joining us from baltimore. >> thanks for having me. >>> time to see what is trending on al jazeera's web site and check back in with hermela. >> two years after occupy wall street ended, the topic of income and equality is gaining traction. the google searches topped. the top turned search wa inequilt in income, inequilt of income and income distribution. the conversation went beyond internet. pope francis spoke against the trickle-down theory. president obama ramped up the rhetoric on incoming equality calling it the defining issue of our time and thousands of workers protested low wages outside of wal-mart and fast food restaurants. on twitter, hopefully 2013 is the year of doing something about it. and the problem is not capitalism, the problem is abuse of capitalism. you can read more at the web site. >> that could be a real touchive issue around the holidays when you are sitting around with a diverse group of relatives. >> not good holiday dinner talk. >> keep the politics off the dinner table. thank you so much. >>> straight ahead, a bigg

first started watching season in when he made a phenomenal i encourageh everyone to search for thomas drake at the national press club . a very gripping, chilling survey of what the situation is. before snowden, there was drake. snowden.pired drake exposed the nsa trailblazer program. going through additional challenge -- channels. he did. he did try to report it through official channels to no avail. chelsea manning. i am hopeful manning will see the light of day of freedom. one other comment i would like to make -- the woman who approached the topic of the conspiracy theorists who call in, i applaud her bringing that up. i know many of your folks that post the shows are sensitive about that topic. i would encourage producers to think about having their architects and engineers for truth on as guests regarding the fact that they have done this and so forth. i think it is a topic that should be discussed. people to check out the architects and engineers for truth. a balanced view that you probably will not hear. thank you for your comments. todd brings up the whistleblower even. you can che