to discuss these horrifying images is jake villa barito its political researcher at the university of birmingham jake thank you so much for joining me i want to get your initial impressions of these pictures. so nationally when i when i looked in the photos and began making some phone calls investigating a little bit more on my personal view is i thought obviously again they were they were gross they are they also demonstrate that for the violence the brutality of conflict and the kind of various behavior that can come out of it but i think as i investigate a little bit more i think what we can clear to me two major things is that one after in the past there has been situations where soldiers have been ordered for humanitarian purposes just to burn bodies for cleanliness and this kind of thing but that's not the kind of situation that you would see from photos like this this is a clear demonstration to me of the various actions cover up or scandal to some degree as the pentagon state is evidence of that i mean if the pentagon knew that soldiers were doing this because of some sort of close they

in the fight for four years i was joined by deliberate help political researcher at the university of birmingham i first asked him as a veteran if he felt like the u.s. efforts in iraq were worth it. well i think i think i think that the story of the iraq war is very clear the war the british alive jack gives the united states did not achieve them there was no mass weapons of mass destruction the war in general failed to stabilize iraq because if you look at today iraq is twice as more violent as a places like afghanistan a thing like this. and i think that overall the maliki government and every other government in the future is going to have very difficult problems with these non-state groups such as al qaida and the largely it's because of complete distrust within the government and the people because of the greater part of sixty years of government abuse prior with saddam hussein so the war wasn't worth it and i just would like to make a point on this developing of al qaida that when we went in to do the surge with general petraeus in two thousand and seven al-qaeda we were able to suppress

coming on this headache is always that was until there is no clinical researcher at the university of birmingham. secure. they were held as the nation's greatest and financed the new allegation say it was all a scam. over a hundred workers including york city police officers and firefighters are accused of faking depression and anxiety after responding to the september eleventh attacks prosecutors say they were coached the military doctors that they were permanently scarred from the tragedy. a recorded phone calls and photographs found on their facebook pages into a much a different picture a lot. you can see the former members of law enforcement living it up fishing gets engulfing he can join or rides on motorcycles shootings and whoops and more prosecutors say the man made everything up in order to collect social security benefits. the lawsuit alleges that some of them continue to work jobs on a sunday. they say that our officers are perfectly fine and have friday and we benefited from hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. the lawyers for the accused maintain that the claims were suffering

thank you so much for sharing ej tells her to clinical research at the university of birmingham. well another day another leak about the national security agency and its broader global reach to the headline that read in new york times readers this weekend. it turns out the nsa has implanted software and nearly one hundred thousand computers around the world that allows the agency to spying and also to create a digital highway to launch cyber attacks. this comes in the wake of the recent revelation about the agency building a quantum computer and another revelation that the nsa could we not nailed to the office is so they can't use of malware is a computer components and forward those parts to their own recently intended destinations. this is known as digital dj. while this complicated nsa spying twenty some rattling the congress is working on ways to rein in the agency's broad powers congressman rush holt of new jersey. even if one of its platforms. rush. as a teacher and we students would stop checking your e mail last leisure center on the piano is a stock checking your e mails

dilla barito political researcher at the university of birmingham well another day another leak about the national security agency and its broader global reach check out this headline that greeted new york times readers this weekend it turns out the n.s.a. has implanted software into nearly one hundred thousand computers around the world that allows the agency to spy and also to create a digital highway to launch a cyber attacks this comes in the wake of a recent revelation about the agency building a quantum computer and another revelation that the n.s.a. could reach out mail to their offices so they can insert malware into computer components and then forward those parts to their own originally intended destinations this is known as digital packaging while this complicated n.s.a. spy web keeps on rattling congress is working on ways to rein in the agency's broad powers congressman rush holt of new jersey has even made it one of his platforms. i rush as a teacher i wish students would stop taking their e-mails. as your senator i'll make the n.s.a. stop checking your emails behind you

clinical research at the university of birmingham thank you. well they were held as the nation's bravest and finest the new allegations say it was all a scam over one hundred public workers including new york city police officers and firefighters are accused of faking depression and anxiety after responding to the september eleventh attacks prosecutors say they were coached to tell military doctors that they were permanently scarred from the tragedy but recorded phone calls and photographs found on their facebook pages paints a much different picture take a look you can see the former members of law enforcement living it up jet skiing golfing taking joy rides on motorcycles shooting seven hoops and more prosecutors say the men made everything up in order to collect social security benefits the lawsuit alleges that some of them continue to work jobs on the side they say the former officers are perfectly fine and have fraudulently benefited from hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars the lawyers for the accused maintain that the clients were su

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