and as protesters gather to show solidarity for the alleged wiki leaks whistleblower others are quick to criticize his actions so while so many other whistleblowers are praised for coming forward what makes some heroes and others traitors. and worse thing in vide to american rights indefinite detention and internet spying and that's just the tip of the iceberg well look at the day the americans freedoms died. it is friday december sixteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team. well today is the day that private first class bradley manning begins his first stage of his military trial manning is accused of leaking thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents plus a video showing u.s. military pilots gunning down civilians and a reuters journalist in fact that back in two thousand and seven to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks phase one of his trial comes five hundred sixty nine days that's one year six months and three weeks after he was first taken into custody after reportedly admitting to a former hacker what he had done who then exposed

arraignment underway right down for bradley manning the only private suspected of being behind wiki leaks the biggest intelligence leak in u.s. history a short recess was called that the private manning's attorney asked the presiding officer to step down some pretty dramatic developments in the courtroom this morning the attorney for bradley manning david combs basically came out with guns blazing and accused the investigating officer who is essentially acting as a judge in this article thirty two hearing accusing that investigating officer of being prejudiced and asking him to recuse himself this preliminary hearing will determine whether private manning will be court martialed for allegedly leaking half a million secret u.s. state department documents to wiki leaks. now c.n.n. was the only channel that even sent somebody over to meet m s n b c just said a few words about it over a still photo of manning and fox news well unsurprisingly fox news didn't even bother to touch upon it at all and i guess i can't say that i'm really surprised the mainstream media has been completely apathetic

they've been so caught up in hating wiki leaks so they've been blind to what the government is trying to do which is to use things like the as be an object to go after whistleblowers to go after media organizations to take away the freedom of the press to scare that press into submission so the any embarrassing information about the governing powers that is published can be criminalized and there's a lot more dubious cust here the mere notion that it's cables published by wiki leaks and not other information that's already public out publicly out there and acknowledge other actions in our global war on terror that are aiding the enemy at all times well again that shows how shortsighted our government has become how little they want to acknowledge that our actions actually have consequences but that's for another time for now we're going have to wait until january sixteenth until the decision is made as to whether or not manning will go to a full trial and we should all brace ourselves if that happens for what's coming. our guy has time for a happy hour and joining me this evening is o

lawmakers to classify the website as a terrorist organization let's just admit the obvious wiki leaks is a whistle blowing web site it's one with no allegiance to any government any nation it can be considered an international media organization and the government might not like the classified information that they're willing to publish because it's embarrassing transparency shouldn't make you an enemy of the state newspapers the world over published publish classified materials including the materials provided by wiki leaks so again just who is the enemy turns out it's terrorists as in al qaeda al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the like now when you think of industrial who's been detailing every bit of the pretrial hearing for firedoglake for helping to point this out in the prosecution's closing argument captain ashton fein claim that manning knowingly gave intelligence through week you leaks to the enemy knowing it would end up in their hands and you want to know how they came to that conclusion because according to them when you publish something on the internet which is what

and they detail what wiki leaks is calling mass surveillance that's going on on a global scale they say that ten years ago this is an industry that really didn't exist but that nine eleven provided essentially a license for companies to start developing spying systems that basically affect all of us and now there are one hundred sixty companies in twenty different countries all developing this software and it's an industry that's completely unregulated it's just sort of bring it down to the basics julian assange said you know he did a quick survey around the room in this press conference that we were at this morning and he said who here owns an i phone or uses g. mail or has a blackberry and puts their hands up and he says basically you know you are under surveillance and that is without a doubt these systems are able to spy on e-mail they're able to track track what you look at on the internet they will to track he streets what you search for him if you will search for example and telephones are inherently tracking devices in their own right you're carrying around a device that ena

class bradley manning is being tried as a criminal charge with handing national secrets over to wiki leaks we'll introduce you to bradley manning the person take a look at the hurdles he faces in his upcoming trial. and as protesters gather to show solidarity for the alleged wiki leaks whistleblower others are quick to criticize his actions so while so many other whistleblowers are praise for coming forward what makes some people heroes and other traitors. and we're singing bye bye to american rights with indefinite detention and internet spying and that's just the tip of the iceberg today we're going to take a look at the day americans freedoms died. good afternoon it is friday december sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team well today is the day that private first class bradley manning begins the first stage of his military trial manning is accused of leaking thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents plus a video showing military pilots gunning down civilians and a reuters journalist in baghdad back in two thousand and seven he leaked thos

e-mails and so you know what about organizations now that have been trying to implement their own wiki leaks style leaking things like the wall street journal of both the wall street journal and al-jazeera english both set up their own wiki leaks style platforms to encourage leakers when the wall street journal said there was a they had some initial stumbling they chose incorrectly encryption algorithms they were vulnerable to certain forms of interception and then their terms of service basically said that they could hand over your information to the government really whenever the government asked for it and those organizations receive criticism legitimate criticism and they've sort of learned from that but really what this tells you is that news organizations at least right now are not really equipped to be setting up these sites they don't have trained information security experts in-house right they focus on what they're good at which is digging up dirt and publishing it but they really really need to go out and acquire this additional expertise because their information their sources si

say for now so in the meantime though you think that wiki leaks is probably the safest place for somebody to leak their information for a source to go to whatever you think of asuncion people really do have different opinions about him he is a computer scientist he's a trained computer security expert and he and his volunteers have really built this stellar form for anonymous leaking no one no source is all we could be have been revealed based on anything that wiki leaks has done and in fact they still don't have the redacted state department cables that got put out there you know you could say that what has had is a problem is their vulnerability in terms of the personal relationships people who have left the organization and then tried to hurt wiki leaks has protected its own sources the information that's come in has clearly leaked like a sieve once it's there but the infrastructure that they've set up has been put in place such that they don't know who is leaking things to them in fact they still don't know if manning was the person who provided them with the cables they have built a

army private accused of siphoning military secrets off to wiki leaks has appeared at a pretrial hearing at an army base in maryland among the documents manning leaked was footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq now found guilty faces life in prison or even the death penalty list while reports. it was this video of u.s. army pilots in iraq eagerly firing shots at innocent people on the ground and hundreds of thousands of secret military documents and cables leaked to wiki leaks there have been some criminal acts committed by u.s. government employees and those employees have never been held accountable for them all this made public over a year and a half ago by bradley manning army private turned whistleblower and the past eighteen months that bradley manning has been behind bars has become somewhat of a symbol to his supporters who represents the extreme secrecy and lack of transparency within the u.s. government the documents that he helped to make public reveal that the u.s. has some dark secrets it shows that in my opinion in the last decade there's been no real. less

were coming out military vengeance against a soldier's virtue's wiki leaks suspect bradley manning gets to a military hearing a supporter saying the deadly data he allegedly revealed should see him decorated instead of disciplined. deadly unrest in kazakhstan as left at least ten people dead in the western oil town clashes broke out when independence day celebrations turned violent with police reportedly farming live rounds at the crowd there are conflicting reports about how events something funny thing the interior ministry claims the situation has calmed down but activists say crowds are gathering again on political campaign in the country told out it's difficult to establish exactly what's happening because communications with the city are down. a local authorities your nose then we're trying to organize a concert to go to do it in the grocery independently in the square were stricken world war has already been demanded reinstatement was seven month course oil workers didn't like it and the. stage. local authorities believe there's information obligated so going to the. internet it'

private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive military documents and cables so wiki leaks and he supposedly did this through downloading the files onto a lady ga ga desk i think it's a common one lady ga ga this how is it possible that with our with our advanced technology and and massive spending on security about a hack like this can happen i mean shouldn't there be something in place to prevent it from happening in the first place well i think what we're finding is that nothing much is secure a sphere difficult to have secured transactions and all sorts of things get hacked that people didn't expect to be hacked and so i'm not surprised. it went to sturbridge me about it is the treatment bradley manning has received for what two years now. this is in my view inexcusable. as a united states soldier he is requirement to report war crimes and if he actually did what he's accused of doing then he did his duty and so wisely being punished. you know and we are we're going to have a lot more on the bradley manning later on in the show bring it back to do this topic of technolo

is doing everything they can to go after him for whistleblowers looking at what's happened after wiki leaks leaks how the world has changed in the last year is it still worth it i mean do you think of this is deterring somebody or would you be willing to spend the rest of your life in jail the people i know who went to prison for nonviolent draft resistance during the vietnam war. i don't know a single one who granted the several years they had to stand out that they wanted it or that they enjoyed it but i don't know of anybody who looked like a much better example would be my friend mordechai vanunu in israel who spent eighteen and a half years in prison eleven and a half years in solitary confinement again amnesty in the others that's worse than ten and a half months the same principle of torture he's always said to me of course it's worthwhile of course i would do it again of course it was the right thing to do and if bradley manning is is were to be convicted of the charges that he's credited with it's a pleasure i really think that this is a man he has not broken in the course of that

tonight truth and consequence for the wiki leaks. he has impacted governments around the world is lifted the veil of the us empire to show us what we really are . an american soldier faces his first pretrial hearing for leaking a treasure trove of u.s. military secrets a move it could cost him life in jail. two of the world's emerging economic powers russia and india are looking to become because of stability in a sea of global crisis at the meeting in moscow president medvedev and prime minister singh and discussed a whole range of pivotal issues from military energy ties to the political troubles of their neighbors and is a country a grove of reports. as the crisis continues to readjust the world economic powers emerging economies like russia and india look more than sad today to remain firmly in the spotlight as members of the breaks group they alone encompass more about it beeped of the world's land coverage and their g.d.p. in twenty eleven stood at seven billion dollars and it continues to grow and one of the grim unsane dia an

soldier accused of handing over tens of thousands of confidential files to wiki leaks. it is. still. a low in welcome across talking to people about hero or traitor these are among the labels to describe bradley manning and he's a legend involvement in the week a leaks release of hundreds of thousands of classified state department cables can he get a fair trial in the us and what is the future of whistleblowers. to cross-talk bradley manning's alleged involvement in the release of classified cables i'm joined by seton motley in washington he is the president and editor in chief of less government in oklahoma city we have james brown and he is the co-chair of the military law task force of the national lawyers guild and in berkeley we cross to bob meo he is a peace and justice activist and a commissioner on the peace and justice commission of the city of berkeley gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's have a look at some of the issues surrounding p.f.c. bradley manning. the case of with the excess bu

now if you were wiki leaks released a quarter of a million confidential state department cables they were splashed across the internet published on the front pages of the new york times the guardian hillary clinton responded and the entire u.s. foreign policy world was in a tizzy. united states strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information it puts people's lives in danger threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. well it's funny because the government seems to have forgotten about all that and prefers to live in a dream state pretending that those cables aren't public knowledge say back in april the a.c.l.u. filed a freedom of information act request seeking it twenty three state department cables that had been made public by wiki leaks but they still asked to test the state department and the state department seem to fall right into the trap and they really did themselves this time they just responded as if the content of the requested cables was still confidential they withheld twelve cable

the military hearing of the wiki leaks suspect has opened with bradley manning's lawyers demanding the officer overseeing his case steps aside they claim his other role investigating the whistle blowing web site's founder makes him biased manning is accused of releasing secret military and diplomatic data to wiki leaks made his first public appearance since going to take. on the army private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually lost to wiki leaks and the aiding the enemy could things life in prison if. antiwar activists brownback running would be considered a hero for his sacrifices in revealing the truth. i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand in is obviously willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war or the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carryin

they're ready for the alleged wiki leaks whistleblower others are quick to criticize his actions so why won't so many other whistleblowers are praised for coming forward what makes some people heroes and others traitors. i think this gold to help another war in the name of defense is the dangerous thing the dangers and the danger is really overreacting. to bomb or not to bomb that is the question it's a war of words between michele bachmann and ron paul g.o.p. candidates spar over the issue of iran i'll give you my take on last night's debate . is friday december sixteenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team. all right folks there is a lot going on right now decisions being made that are unprecedented and will have an overreaching impact on what it means to live in the united states of america just down the street from our studios in the u.s. capitol your elected officials both the senate and the house of representatives have just overwhelmingly passed the national defense authorization act squeezed into this military funding bill are two provisions that

the military herring or the so-called wiki leaks continues in the united states with bradley manning having to spend his twenty fourth birthday this week he made his first public appearance since being detained in the home forget the court hearing to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring that into trial if found guilty he could receive a life term on the private faces twenty two charges of distributing government secrets which eventually plans to wiki leaks and the aiding the enemy and or activist says that he's convicted he's become a nation want to hear it and i call him truth telling. i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand in this lee willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all

excuse wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning will finally appeared in court martial later more than a year and a half after his arrest. the un security council's mulling a new draft resolution on syria putting forward by russia it condemns all signs in the ongoing conflict calling for violence to stop but there's no mention of sanctions the kremlin's u.n. envoy says the balance drop should be passed. from the outset. our assessment of the situation that was that various violent groups where taking advantage of peaceful demonstrators in order to pursue their agenda so those concerns were reflected in the draft resolution but there is also very strong language in terms of knowing punitive and support for human rights and. the need to stop violence and make sure that it does the transgressions do not go unnoticed. russia has actively been trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months posting delegations from damascus and members of the opposition in the latest violence government troops who should be fired on protesters are for friday prayers on thursday deserted is gunned down two

i think that bradley manning if it's true that he was the one who released the documents to wiki leaks will be considered in u.s. history as a hero because he took a stand and is obviously willing to pay a very difficult price possibly life in prison possibly the death sentence for exposing a criminal war or the iraq war is a crime against humanity it's a war crime in fact bradley manning had an obligation to reveal that this country was carrying out criminal activities of course we all knew that and one sense but by releasing these hundreds of thousands of classified documents if in fact it was he who did it he did a great deal to expose to shine a bright light on those who are committing crimes against the iraqi people and in fact against the american people bradley manning has been held wrongly he's been held in solitary confinement he's been pre-judged by the military and by the media he has been stripped naked in forest in solitary confinement that's a kind of torture and he's being treated as the worst possible lowest criminal in fact somebody who's not even part of the judicial

them wiki leaks whistleblower blower bradley manning the twenty four year old army private is accused of releasing a video which showed a u.s. apache helicopter shooting and killing iraqi civilians and two journalists manning faces a slew of charges including aiding the enemy if convicted he could face life behind bars meanwhile wiki leaks at or an editor in chief julian assange is fighting his extradition so when is a whistleblower a hero and when is he a criminal and with the man in case underway what is the future of whistleblowing in the federal government case madara is the author of this book the passion of bradley manning he joined me earlier tonight from our studio in new york and i asked him as whistleblowing being criminalized in the us. yes it is once again as we see in the case of bradley manning but i think the case of bradley manning will set a familiar historical pattern where whistleblowers are first. criminalized but then later seen as heroes this happened with dead ellsberg the sap that was karen silkwood that happened to a great many other patriotic whistleblowers i

truth is actually undermining our national security there's something wrong with the truth he's wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning will finally appear at a court martial next. year in the heart after his arrest. the u.n. security council is among a new draft resolution on syria which russia is putting forward it condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for balance to stop there's no mention of sanctions the kremlin's u.n. envoy says the balance draft should be passed. from the outset. resistent of the situation that was that various violent groups were taking advantage of peaceful demonstrators in order to pursue their agenda so those concerns were reflected in the draft resolution but there is also very strong language in terms of knowing purity and support of human rights and. the need to stop violence and make sure that. transgressions do not go unnoticed. russia has been actively trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months syria's vice president will hold talks with officials in moscow on friday. in the balance there which most recently saw does it has done down tw

industry is unregulated so these companies overstep any ethical boundaries on a regular basis over wiki leaks latest leak of information regarding this type of surveillance equipment will force government agencies to take a stance on the issue or at least fess up to what they've been doing behind closed doors. well last night for the first time demonstrators with the occupy wall street movement targeted event for the president was a big fundraiser for president obama in new york city that supporters paid between one thousand and thirty five thousand dollars per person to attend were a few hundred of them and they say the protesters say they were speaking out against a system that makes those high donations often given by wall street executives necessary in what is becoming an all too familiar scene much of the media was kept as far away as possible with police there and mass to control the crowds. what was. right. there are. lots of. meanwhile in los angeles earlier this week the occupy encampment encampment outside city hall was raided and destroyed by police there who arrested nearly three

army private accused of siphoning military secrets off to wiki leaks is appeared a pretrial hearing at an army base in maryland among the documents manning allegedly leaked was footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq the charges he's facing could carry the death penalty well kevin zeese is from the bradley manning support network in washington d.c. is joining us now kevin very good evening to you thanks for being on your organizations become a part of your manning to be free what are your reasons for demanding his release could you briefly outline for us. well first off we think that manning is not someone who's a traitor he was. documents to foreign enemies he didn't profit from them he is accused of giving them to the media and what he gave the media were allegedly were very low level documents low security and probably should not have been declassified documents at all if you look at video of the area where the documentary the computers were used for these documents they had the password stuck on the computer so anybody had access to them in fact hundreds of thousand

army private accused of siphoning military secrets after wiki leaks has appeared in a pretrial hearing at an army base in maryland among the documents manning leaked was footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq the charges he's facing carry the punishment of up to the death penalty talk about this story now with the governor is a former cia officer joining us on the line from washington d.c. hi there among the charges that iran is facing is quote aiding the enemy now how big a blow to america's campaigns abroad has manning really delve in reality. well the charge is laughable that's why i laugh and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others were saying manning has blood on his hands and when the chairman of the senate armed services committee carl levin asked the secretary of defense robert gates well give me a memo on that well you know gates said well really our worst fears were not borne out by the facts as a matter of fact this these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those wh

the state department don't really seem to understand what the internet is i remember after the wiki leaks documents came out they had this big press conference where the spokesperson for the state department got up there and said it would be leaks needs to return this classified material the crime is ongoing until they do and all the journalists just laughter like how can they return the material it's up on the internet apparently people in the government don't seem to understand what that means which is i guess why we should be all more worried if they're legislating based on these things and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight. thanks so much for having me again. all right just ahead on tonight's show the n.c.a.a. is trying to push their anti-piracy agenda with lawmakers. to make their point. and that in happy hour with a show you great spoof on rick perry is the latest ad at michele bachmann. her daughters. into the only new with. the difficult work to bring justice or accountability. i have the right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay tax

the case of wiki leaks suspect bradley manning today it's the first step in a legal process that could end with a life sentence for a u.s. soldier accused of leaking a trove of military and diplomatic documents private manning who turned twenty four tomorrow a superior in a court martial in maryland in an intense debate over the merits of the allegations that we recognize as having done the right that manning was apprehended in iraq in two thousand and ten on suspicion of giving without permission thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing website we can wait. the documents were subsequently published worldwide and led to the controversial revelation of diplomatic and military secrets including possible war crimes for the last eighteen months the soldier has been held in pretrial detention much of it in solitary confinement under conditions that have drawn the attention of amnesty international and the american civil liberties union i have actually asked the pentagon whether or not. the procedures that have been taken terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeti

national corporations one thing that the wiki leaks documents showed was that the state department and the military work hand in glove with transnational corporations for their profit and not for a national security what's under my our national security is not bradley manning if you do what he's accused of well there are national security is our own foreign policy numerous repeated intelligence assessments by all of our intelligence agencies say these wars in iraq and afghanistan no doubt in other countries that were involved as well are resulting in more terrorists than we can capture or kill and creating more fast we can capture or kill them so it's really a foreign policy has way on track and undermine our national security now of course a phase one of bradley manning's trial it just started today but many people including it seems president obama obama himself have already sort of made up their mind about amending skills i want to play something the president said recently the you know individually the you know the the. all right so there you see president obama being questioned so