workers and more importantly believe or movement here in america and the grand jury hearings in the wiki leaks case continues today so what will the justice department dig up against julian assange and is it a all part of a larger war against whistleblowers. all you need to know this a major development in the wisconsin labor battle lasting last night yesterday evening as governor scott walker's union busting bill is now the law of the land so what exactly happened now although a lower court did decide to belong to walker's budget repair bill from going into effect the wisconsin supreme court yesterday evening decided to overturn that ruling effectively making it completely illegal for state workers in wisconsin to collectively bargain now don't forget that we're talking about wisconsin here this is the birthplace of collective bargaining rights now well this is is in fact a major blow to the workers' rights movement we shouldn't be surprised after all the deciding judge in the high court's forty. the ruling was none other than justice david prosser a familiar name since he was the same guy wh

welcome back a grand jury is investigating wiki leaks antic a witness a friend of alleged wiki leaks and forment bradley manning argues the goal is really to intimidate whistleblowers and regulate journalism here's what he told r.t. yesterday after he testified and pled the fifth my new before the grand jury in alexandria virginia. i think that over time they're going to try to influence public opinion by launching these tactics which chilled the personal rights association of the u.s. government is trying to finish the job it started four years ago with the pentagon papers the station it is trying to find a matter to regulate journalism in media both domestically and internationally and i feel that is trying to use investigating its we keep beats to establish policies which would give the government broad censorship powers in determining how source information actually makes it to the head of the media and all of this as the legacy of leaked documents on wiki leaks continues to prove its journalistic value one example the case of victor boot he's a russian man that america accuses o

role in the case in some of those wiki leaks diplomatic cables here's what she found. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt it there but was secretly on swiftly extradited to the u.s. seven months ago and this may be where he stays indefinitely if found guilty on arms smuggling and terrorism related charges if you use and. he's looking at life there's no parole there's no early release in the federal system really the only way in the federal system to get a reduction in your sentence. a significant reduction is if you cooperate with the united states government some have argued distribute needs to be on captain america's team however captain on their record is being accused of playing dirty and illegally to remove the air cargo businessman from thailand according to documents released by wiki leaks all levels of washington top to bottom mounted political pressure against bangkok to gain custody of boot in a us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine us president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about

and now these wiki leaks cables show us that not only was the relationship between u.s. corporations and come down. but. they were the u.s. department had its eyes on a oil deal between an italian company and a russian company who both wanted a giant stake in libyan oil and it was going to undercut u.s. efforts to do to do the same and so naturally they had their eyes on it and they were literally plotting ways to prevent the deal from going down and then fast forward a little bit and we were in libya because it was themselves didn't mention anything about war going to war but since the libyan intervention has started that war has been that deal has been abandoned and so i think it's a legitimate question to be asking ourselves you know did the rebel uprising in libya present the obama administration with a perfect opportunity to go in with force and secure their own oil interests in libya as opposed to waiting around and how much money every time talking about that was already invested at least specifically by u.s. oil companies after the sanctions were lifted in two th

we've been documenting the obama administration's war on whistleblowers from bradley manning and wiki leaks to the case of thomas drake amongst others but today let's take a good look at what this administration is doing to james rise of the award winning new york times reporter who they're trying to force to reveal his source as a case carry over from the bush administration and in an affidavit affidavit excuse me that rise in filed last week he knows that he was told by reliable sources that former vice president dick cheney pressure the justice department to personally target him because cheney was unhappy with his reporting and wanted to see him in jail now the reporting in this particular case refers to a chapter in his two thousand and six book state of war the secret history of the cia in the bush administration in that chapter he described a cia effort to thwart iran's nuclear ambitions by secretly providing them with faulty blueprints but it was more than just that rising reported on the waterboarding of detainees in iraq he broke the story of the n.s.a.'s warrantless wiretapping p

putting much pressure on bulgaria according to wiki leaks to two to act in favor of westinghouse and said russ that i'm american investors instead of russian investors is that true. i'm not one of those people who take wiki leaks seriously so if you want to talk about that you but find somebody who takes it seriously all the sources of information says that. as i said i think you know all of these conspiracy theories and these discussions that have been spurred by leaks very interesting and fascinating but the reality is that we're talking about a nuclear power facility a nuclear power facility highly complicated. facility that must at. you know at the very minimum meet the requirements in terms of safety that we now have. and as i said after fukushima people have been very sensitive to that but you. know we're not abandoning nuclear energy at this point definitely not. you know people are sensitive off to fukushima but people in bulgaria also remember bill and they remember the effects of that happens and these effects still linger on. in many bulgarian families there are stories ab

parity and that's what they try to claim with wiki leaks as well but i don't think that rising reporting does that actually damage our national security i've seen no evidence that it's damaged our national security even if you know it's been several years since the bush administration claimed that what he reported to mr national security and yet i've never seen anyone from the bush administration come forward and say look here are the effects of this this guy guide abroad and it's because of what jane tries reported or this terrorist attack out there and it's you know we can trace it back to what james rosen reported it's never happened and i would encourage americans to you know of course sometimes there are things that the government should keep secret things that would damage our national security if you've seen so many assertions that things have been mentioned or national security it seems that eventually you should be able to point to exactly how that happened to them never seen any allegation with that sort of specificity with regard to anything that is reported and certainly not

so i had a wiki leaks grand jury meets again in alexandria virginia with several people who have now been subpoenaed from boston massachusetts in attendance now one of these people is a frequent guest on our show he's also co-founder of the bradley manning support network david house when we spoke the house just last week he couldn't comment comment much on the subpoenas that were issued in the boston area but today new details are coming out how's amongst other people in boston travel to alexandria to answer a line of questions from the grand jury which is secretly determining if we can leaks act that in violation of the espionage act however people aren't taking this opaque actions of a grand jury lying down so there are currently protests underway in boston and outside a courthouse in alexandria over the way in which the government is treated david house a vocal bradley manning supporter as we told you in the past houses one of the few people who was able to visit bradley manning on he was detained at quantico and one of the few who openly spoke out about is inhumane treatment whi

his knowledge base from the headlines it's clear the government is pursuing its campaign against wiki leaks as vigorously as ever so is it just beginning we cover the outcry the government's witch hunt against wiki leaks month after month while details surrounding today's events remain hush hush but continue to uncover what we can so that you can get the full story of the obama administration's war against not only wiki leaks but everyone that they feel might be involved with them. now just the other day we told you that the f.b.i. has new guidelines they'll soon be issuing as reported by the new york times the loosening of the rules of the f.b.i.'s general counsel is described as a fine tuning or rather the major changes but isn't really the changes include allowing agents to search a group or person proactively without having to make any records of it allowing them to tell people more than once during a proactive assessment searching people's trash to find a potential informant and spending up to five meetings with a group undercover eliminating extra supervision of investigations of poli

egypt where a democratic revolution was ignited thanks in part to government abuses exposed by wiki leaks to china where the ranks of the solders are swelling to syria where the people were in the streets again today brought out by activists using twitter and facebook and cell phones in much of the world the press is not doing its job either because it's been taken over by corporate interests or because been snuffed out by to tell the touring regimes but no matter how hard some may try to cloak transparency and silence journalism information has a way of finding the cracks and leaking out to the people that's what we're seeing today with internet activism a new breed of investigative journalism to take on the entrenched forces of secrecy and corporate rule and we'll see more of these sorts of things if we real journalism and real news don't return to the american landscape this means bringing back the sherman antitrust act and breaking up the corporate oligarchy it has strangled our news media it means constructing strong financial disclosure requirements our politics so that we all know

documentary about wiki leaks and bradley manning they have p.b.s. is web page and change the front page to a false story about two blocks being alive in new zealand but here's a little more background on this group are pretty new they've only been performing notable hacks since may and one of their first acts which put them on the map was when they have to obtain information on contestants of the show x. factor complete with names and phone numbers and email addresses which of course they then reposed for all the public to see but it also bypassed cyber security for other big companies also made a pass of the already battered sony tapping at three of their websites for once again leaving all of their consumer data on cricket they also have nintendo's website but it didn't actually affect any user data and the group says it was just a warmup for their bigger hit at the affiliated sites the group's in for a garden unveil its were hit by loss last friday in for garden bed. and so are private firms that concentrate on quote fake hacking government sites

society is very sensitive to these issues so you know with all due respect to wiki leaks with all due respect to different types of reactors and producers when you build something on your own territory you wanted to be top notch thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest on the show today. gary and that's it for now for all of us the spotlight will be back with more first on comments on what's going on in and outside russia and so then stay. and take care. white stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is miss much. of this beauty brings deaths at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers per. step in the avalanche on our cheek.

i'm not one of those people who take wiki leaks seriously so if you want sort of all that you both find somebody who takes a series of other sources of information says that despite as i said i think you know all of the conspiracy theories and these discussions that have been spurred by leaks are very interesting and fascinating but the reality is that we're talking about a nuclear power facility i nuclear power facility is a highly complicated. facility that must. you know at the very minimum you meet the requirements in terms of safety you know. and as i said after fukushima people have been very sensitive to that but you have to do was you know we're not abandoning them for an original at this point definitely a lot. of people a sense of after fukushima but people in bulgaria also remember. and they remember the effects of that hatch and these affect still linger on in many bulgarian families there are stories about how the government then the communist government then did not inform people of the risks that they were facing going out into the streets because of the clouds and all of

society is very sensitive to these issues so you know with all due respect to wiki leaks with respect to different types of reactors and producers when you build something on your own territory you wanted to be top notch thank you thank you very much for being with. my guest on the show today. and that's. all of us the spotlight will be back with more. and take you. for the full. voice face to face with the news makers.

society is very sensitive to these issues so you know with all due respect to wiki leaks with all due respect to different types of reactors and producers when you build something on your own territory you wanted to be top notch thank you thank you very much for being with us to remind you that my guest on the show today was. gary and that's it for now for all of us the spotlight will be back with more first on comments on what's going on in and outside russia and so then stay. and take care. it is easy to. do. you believe. in tokyo thousands demonstrate for clean energy three months after an earthquake triggered the focus on nuclear crisis which there still no end in sight. and activists in switzerland tried to breach a wall of silence surrounding one of the world's most secretive and influential gatherings demanding the builder birchgrove comes clean on what they're up to. and along with the twenty four.

gary faced a lot of flack in the cyber world over their backhanded techniques of attacking wiki leaks things like sending them false government information and although the firm's devilish plan did leak out stopping them from actually being successful it appears as the flaw decided to make them their next target so this morning it was tweeted about its latest hack saying while we're at it let's shine more light on h.p. gary a company that plotted to attack wiki leaks and its supporters so this should be good right while it's clearly has no trouble hacking or temporarily taking down even the most secure organizations so just a few minutes later decided to expose the company's man in charge and they tweet it you know why they got oh and because this man right here aaron bar use the password kid a up zero thirty three for the entire company e-mail account so wait a minute the head of a firm that specializes in tech security used one password for the entire company's e-mail accounts talk about a rookie move but then also tweeted this they said you know what else he has that password for h

the private sits behind bars his friend thinks the government is on a witch hunt when it comes to wiki leaks we'll have more on david house's refusal to testify. this case between the u.s. and cuba is not fair because her son's cause was very noble and the cuban five sent to the u.s. to prevent terrorism in cuba so why is the man they were watching now receiving the key to the city of miami while they're sitting in prison. good evening it's wednesday june fifteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster in your watching our team now while u.s. lawmakers are trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and still trying to decide on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which mind you the u.s. has already blown through in greece protesters are taking to the streets and opposition to their government solutions greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they're trying trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on new austerity measures measures so the countr

linked them. >> -- he picked out the best parts when he originally leak to them. >> it was the wiki-leaksf 40 years ago, only bigger. the man who leaked to them says anyone in a similar position today should do so, only sooner, before the bombs start falling. >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. >> a reminder of the main news again this hour, the exodus of refugees fleeing the violence and unrest in syria is continuing. almost 6000 people have crossed into turkey. people crossing the border said the syrian military had been arresting hundreds of people in the villages near the town of jisr al-shughour. if you are watching bbc. your watching bbc. we will be back in five minutes with the business reports. stay with us. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play videogo to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put i

eye and say i will offer you a very large cash reward if you keep your ear to the ground about wiki leaks at a boston hacker scene and that was a point which i actually didn't want to leave because it's one thing for the u.s. government to come to my town to start harassing my friends and circling around surveilling all of us and it's definitely another thing to try to turn us against each other and put it under surveillance i thought it committed no crime whatsoever i would stand for these tactics and no one else i don't think so lastly since you brought it up turning hackers or people against each other i just want to know what you thought of that p.b.s. documentary about wiki leaks then for adrian lamo because they really made it seem like the guy was really struggle between what you do and whether one was the right thing or the wrong thing. well adrian almost kind of a nobody in this situation i mean he is a felon is a government form and be someone that we really should be giving airtime to his opinions don't really not all of us and i would say that was a very interesting is that he

now the minute andrew started filming wiki leaks happened. we had layoffs. our stock plummeted.people were predicting our demise. many people were cheering our demise. so probably six months later i'm not sure i would have welcomed andrew quite the way we did at that point. but he managed to capture a lot of what was happening that year and a lot of the drama. >> the wiki leaks stuff is the most fascinating because it represented that, you know, they have brian in there who is younger. and so he i think maybe has a little more insight into the scenes where he is sort of interacting with some of the older, you know, no disrespect. >> no disrespect. >> but it just was kind of -- >> slower, weaker. >> jon: it was like wait, you don't reit twitter that is kind of where it is happening. like he has there is a sense that he was urging everybody to embrace something that there was some resistence too. >> and brian urges all of us to embrace twitter. i encourage brian to send #úq!at doesn't seem to have taken hold yet. no, i think he's a good example, david carr without as many people m

putting much pressure on bulgaria according to wiki leaks two to two that in favor of house instead of russ that i'm american investors instead of russian investors is that. i'm not one of those people who think we can look seriously so if you want to talk about that you better find somebody who takes a series of other sources of information says that despite as i said i think you know all of the skin spirity theories in these discussions that have been spurred by leaks are very interesting and fascinating but the reality is that we're talking about a nuclear power facility a nuclear power facility is a highly complicated. facility that must at. you know at the very minimum meet the requirements in terms of safety good right now. and as i said after fukushima people have been very sensitive to that but you do want to let the kids know know we're not abandoning encouraged at this point definitely not. you know people are some stood off to fukushima but people in bulgaria also remember of mobile and they remember the effects about how much and these effects still linger on. in many bulga

gary a company that plotted to attack wiki leaks and its supporters so this should be good right well it clearly has no trouble hacking or temporarily taking down even the most secure organizations so just a few minutes later decided to expose the company's man in charge and they tweet it you know why they got own because this man right here aaron barr use the password kid a of both thirty three for the entire company e-mail account so wait a minute the head of a firm that specializes in tech security used one password for the entire company e-mail accounts talk about a rookie move but them also tweeted this and he said you know what else he has that password for his twitter his online payment accounts his personal e-mail and his links in secure or secure seriously the hell is wrong with you it's internet knowledge one o one of the you make your passwords different for every account and you definitely don't make a. something obvious that anybody can figure out on their own now and should be embarrassed at least beyond embarrassed at this point some to let that one go but yesterday we

and now if there's one thing that wiki leaks has shown the world for the release of u.s. state department cables was some point out the obvious but dirty truths that the u.s. tries to interfere in the domestic politics of sovereign nations to suit america's agenda for the agenda of american corporations even have thoughts all detrimental to the economic development of the attempts to democratize those nations the ones which we claim to support through diplomatic announcements of foreign aid packages and all the grandstanding we do about spreading democracy and haiti is a perfect example of this as nearly two thousand new weekly leaks cables released this week for a partnership with the haitian weekly newspaper haiti live today are showing us the state department cables released so far details to glaring examples of u.s. arrogance and hawkers. the first story is one of the u.s. government working with oil companies companies like exxon mobil and chevron to sabotage a deal for haiti the joint petrarca rebate venezuela's oil alliance and the u.s. admits itself in these cable

is ignoring from wiki leaks. 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 i'm sorry pacific ocean. the united states of america incorporated a governor a government of the stockholders for the stockholders by the stockholders not so much our democracy as a corporate toxic talk receive compound word i obviously can't now it may sound a little bit farfetched but if your d.h. reading happens to be a bunch of wiki leaks documents i may just be the impression you walk away with so the corporation somehow eroding democracy but i think the conclusion reached by independent journalist around ayatollah who happens to be joining us live from fairfax virginia i just butchered your name there where you pronounce it for i don't know it's a good idea ranya wrong i thank you so much all right well walk us through this i mean you're weird it's actually saying that the r

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embassy cables released by wiki leaks you'll see a trend where oftentimes in other countries than when that when what the national corporations profits are threatened by whatever it may be by that country changing of policies or by you know protestors not country the immediately the whole meeting that we had the u.s. just not that country and and us to get involved and start basically intervening intervene on behalf of a multinational corporation to force a country not to make a policy change for example. there's people doubt about ecuador in ecuador a few years ago the president of ecuador talked about changing the drug policy the drug czar changing the from a physical all the to where they could make generics and it would be more affordable for people to buy buy life saving medicine and the u.s. corporations u.s. from bill companies in as we're like pfizer all called a meeting with u.s. diplomats and talked about intervening and and talking with people in the ecuadorian government on changing the control of power. you can go through but i have to say i mean this sounds sure that soun

curious to know what do you think of this report about human rights and the internet says about wiki leaks about whistleblowers about putting information out there that well just might be a little bit embarrassing to the government and they mentioned specifically the fact that governments are now talking about national security issues about countering terrorism but that perhaps the motives aren't really oh always about that. yeah both exactly right i mean this notion that national security is an excuse to shut down the internet but that's exactly what we heard in egypt and syria and all these other countries and so yeah it's true so it's like we can weeks or going to be putting up some embarrassing material about what the u.s. government does and people are going to be organizing to protest about it and try and change their government you know and that's a good thing that's what all the first amendment rights of free expression and freedom of association are all about and so the notion that we should try and show oppose they are really being just goes against very basis american prince tho

do something that outrageous there are elements that know what they're doing it just came out in wiki leaks not long ago that the u.s. was pushing g m o's very aggressively throughout the e.u. including spain and spain resisted that effort and as the wiki leaks website revealed the us had determined it was going to retaliate against spain for resisting g m o's so there are elements within the government that do have an agenda and sometimes they pull it off. and that was mike adams health ranger and the editor in chief of the natural news dot com unfortunately that does it for now for more on the stories that we've covered please go to our t. dot com slash usa and i've got our you tube page it's you tube dot com slash our team erica there's always please follow me on twitter it's at lucy catherine of i try to keep you posted of all the interesting stories that you're not getting elsewhere on there and they have a good night and enjoy your weekend. r t is the state run in an english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. and. russia today has an extremely confrontational stanc

something that's outrageous there are elements that know what they're doing and this came out in wiki leaks not long ago that the u.s. was pushing g m o's very aggressively throughout the e.u. including spain and spain resisted that effort and as the wiki leaks website revealed the us had determined it was going to retaliate against spain for resisting g.m.o. so there are elements within the government that do have an agenda and sometimes they pull it off all right well mike that unfortunately we're out of time but i hope that you're wrong obviously we don't have a lot of answers here but scary stuff nonetheless i really do appreciate us taking the time to speak with us as my having to join your health ranger and editor in chief.

is because this is a topic that we always cover and harder i want to ask you what you think of wiki leaks do you think that any of the information the paper leaf has actually harmed national security in america i don't know go after them the same way that the obama administration's justice department is no i would not think that they were the messenger and that if it wasn't the leaks it would be someone else and i really wasn't surprised that any of the information that was let out now i haven't been aware of any information that has been let out that has led to a loss of life because of i'm not aware of that if that ends up to well even or does anyone know any military or government officials none of that has has that's my and that's my understanding also right that's what i understand so that perhaps they would be your number one enemy of the state. government needs to be transparent the more transparent the government is the better off we all are you know we fear eyes basically about everything that i read coming out of wiki leaks is just it's just what we theorized was actually the tr

now still to come tonight a secret grand jury looking into the wiki leaks case calling a frequent guest of ours to testify we're going to hear what david house told the grand jury in just a moment and it's a growing trend amongst anti-war activists their homes being raided by the f.b.i. tonight in minnesota woman tells the story of her home the brand sacked by f.b.i. agents last september when back in just a moment. she was that so much about something i mean when you see these a lot of people are areas you're always seeing prices will be with this and years. as we first told you yesterday david house a supporter of bradley manning was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in alexandria virginia he was among a handful of individuals from the boston area who were all instructed to come to virginia and testify about various elements involving bradley manning and the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks as a whole now while hells did in fact show up he didn't give out any information other than his name and his address to the grand jury has attorney peter cropp explains why. we did this

sexual misconduct in sweden pictures from london england julian the founder of wiki leaks being rebuked. his lawyers have maintained that he denies all of these allegations of the sex crimes sweden and that they have found the entire swedish legal process to be very unusual room. there in lies the problem it has to do with sex or infidelity or rape allegations or winter breaks then the mainstream media is all over it but this brings up questions about government transparency our morality and the rule of law the value of truth that's where the mainstream media always seems to me. now there's a lot of big news today when it comes to the wars that america is waging abrar save us has reportedly been stepping up air strikes in yemen over the last few weeks with drones and fighter jets on attempts to keep al qaeda in the arabian peninsula from gaining any ground for now president saleh has left the country after being injured in an attack and the war against libya has been seeing some of the heaviest bombing in the last few days while allied arab nations have all been meeting in all who davia