has been conducting a secret investigation against wiki leaks for years and officials refuse to deny that assad would be charged with espionage and extradited if he leaves the ecuadorian embassy so how much damage has this leak done well to talk about cities case earlier i spoke to tangerine bolen founder of revolution truth and a close affiliate of wiki leaks i first asked her what her reaction was to finding out city was an f.b.i. informant. well you know actually i was very surprised i had suspected for quite some time but it was also a seeing kind of same feeling i mean he's he's dangerous to this arena and i'm going to you know i'm thinking where and how close were you with and i mean did you ever directly work with him. i say so i have not in my relationship to see her arse and i spoke to. her weight over one hundred hours after our chats and on sky telephone by text mostly after a chat so you know i had an actual sort of working relationship at the scale which was fascinating and super frustrating and very strange and i actually flew to new york city to meet with him in person

now out of all the material that private manning willingly admitted to leaking to wiki leaks that's the guantanamo be a teeny to sesame briefs state department diplomatic cables the collateral murder video another era. video hundreds and thousands of very sensitive military files now out of all of those collateral murder is perhaps the most well known and with good reason private manning found footage of u.s. soldiers firing and killing civilians journalists and civilians from from high in the sky just gunning them down private manning saw that he wanted the rest of the world to see that the thing about that footage though is that it wasn't top secret this wasn't this wasn't something that was highly sensitive it actually had been out there a very successful journalist had found a copy of it himself and wrote about it in a book that was published around the world so the government you know chose to let manning off a little easy on that one but you know like we were saying it is still possible hundred thirty six years maximum sentence based off of the other convictions and what was bradl

has been conducting a secret investigation against wiki leaks for years and officials refused to deny that assad would be charged with espionage and extradited if he leaves the ecuadorian embassy so how much damage has this leak done well to talk about cities case earlier i spoke to tangerine bolen founder of revolution truth and a close affiliate of wiki leaks i first asked her what her reaction was to finding out siggy was an f.b.i. informant. well you know i actually were very surprised and i had suspected that for quite some time but it was also a seeing kind of same feeling i mean he's he's dangerous to this arena and i'm going to you know i'm thinking where and how close were you with and i mean did you ever directly work with him i say so i have not in my relationship to save your arse and i so to have a crime rate over one hundred hours and. chats and on sky telephone by text mostly after a chat so you know i have an actual sort of working relationship with this case which was fascinating and super frustrating and very strange i actually had a new york city to meet with him in

he said that before this document dump before bradley manning released these war logs wiki leaks was considered a legitimate organization they partnered with the traditional outlets like the new york times like the guardian but after these leaks you saw that the perception of wiki leaks changed dramatically and really interesting what this professor said was that this was due in large part to the rhetoric the rhetoric of the government associating wiki leaks as a terrorist organization or as being linked to a terrorist organization and after that is when we heard this evolution of wiki leaks being considered legitimate to being. linked to terrorists or. it is a shame so he was able this fast it was able to kind of debug this claim and talk about how with the leaks is actually a legitimate part of a media as it is today so less about what wiki leaks was actually doing and more about how the united states government perceived what wiki leaks is doing. the defense has rested now three days in after ten witnesses you said what happens next in this case. what happens next in this case we

well i i do disagree with the comments of your earlier guest from wiki leaks there has been a chilling effect in the united states on whistleblowers and as a result of the government's overreaction to this case and that has been throughout the federal government not just in the intelligence community but all government agencies have been faced with a crackdown on whistleblowers because the obama administration sent out a warning to all agencies to be on the lookout for leakers and to identify the leakers before they happen in response to the manning case that meant anyone who files a grievance or files a whistle a legitimate wall full whistleblower complaint immediately is placed on the list of suspects when there is a leak and tremendous chilling effect after all of this dave you know all we any clearer if you are a whistleblower potentially in any of the services around the world but particularly in america are you any clearer about what you could whistleblower what you couldn't we get itself in dog trouble it's no clear is it. it is not and that's a troubling result because of the f

defense pointed out that there is no proof manning ever saw the tweets or any other requests from wiki leaks. the defense kicked off its case by showing this video of the now infamous video collateral murder that manning leaked it shows an apache helicopter. they're firing down on civilians on the ground in iraq all thirty nine minutes were played in court in the defense phase of the trial manning's attorney david coombs trying to characterize manning as a whistleblower a young man that was talented with computers and excelled at his job as an intelligence analyst on the third day the defense called their key witness i don't think there's going to there's been a day that or what the witness is you. harvard law school professor renowned for his work and published articles on internet freedom and how a free press of facts democracy he's done extensive research on the history of wiki leaks when it first emerged he said wiki leaks was respected by traditional media but after manning's leaks he said government rhetoric associated the website with terrorism bangalore testified that the media's ton

wiki leaks has done extensive research on wiki leaks on the history of wiki leaks. it was able to testify that the organization of wiki leaks really what their role that they play news media said you know what they were prior to these leaks. documents what's being called a document on them and dump excuse like this but these of these iraq war logs. wiki leaks was viewed as a legitimate organization they worked with the new york times they worked with the guardian and then all of a sudden after these latest. there was absolute the way that we can because it would. have to do with it a bit responded that due to. the way that the rhetoric about wiki leaks portrayed wiki leaks as the enemy and after that we the media kind of followed suit and took on that belief that they were affiliated terrorist organizations the professor said . ok. well thanks for the update with we'll continue to stay the latest on this story. correspondent was will. as the war on whistleblowers taken a new turn to attorneys with a dallas law firm are wondering just that the offices of shulman and

just they're they're in a state of like catatonic terror about wiki leaks that's really their goal. so. let me just get this straight then so even though bradley manning hasn't been found guilty of the most serious charge it's no weight off the shoulders nonetheless of julian assange if you think. it will not diminish the importance of the judge's decision today a very important decision again and it's declaring that journalism is not treason and yet on friday we had a federal appellate court order james risen the new york times reporter ordered him to reveal his sources in court so the attack is on monday on friday we had an attack from the appeals court and we can expect that the mormon church will small up here to see current attack on. the really we have a massive attack on free speech and on freedom of the press and they're going to go out through really massage again though this is a landmark decision why did manning choose to have his fight decided by a judge and not have a jury of his pay is as you can do apparently in a military cold what was the logic that you think. that

nations and how they're responding we are just getting word today that wiki leaks and edward snowden have filed for asylum in twenty one different countries wiki leaks of course was helping him out he's got wiki leaks person actually accompanying him through all this so let's start with the countries that flat out said no or are unlikely to grant edward snowden's asylum bid austria ecuador iceland ireland italy the netherlands norway spain the switzerland all said that he must be president in the country soil in order to ask for protection brazil won't respond finland hasn't processed the request for and said asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden withdrew his requests from russia after president vladimir putin said he was to stop leaking documents now so the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are the only countries that offer the former n.s.a. contractor any ray of hope meanwhile there's no information coming out from china cuba or nicaragua in terms of these government responses

government wiki leaks announced today that snowden has applied for asylum in no fewer than twenty one countries including some of the very countries his in a say documents prove the u.s. was trying to spy on here's a look at those nations and how they are responding let's start with the countries who flat out said no or are unlikely to grant snowden's asylum bid austria ecuador iceland ireland italy the number ones norway spain and switzerland all said that he must be present on the country's soil in order to ask. for protection brazil won't respond finland hasn't process the request france said asylum is a non issue germany and poland said his argument isn't strong enough to be granted asylum india flat out said no and snowden withdrew his request from russia after president vladimir putin said he had to stop leaking documents in order to be considered now to the best of our knowledge bolivia and venezuela are the only countries to offer the former n.s.a. contractor a ray of hope meanwhile no information is coming out from china cuba or nicaragua in terms of the request or the govern

to free the wiki leaks whistleblower m.e.p. is from france germany arland croatia portugal sweden and spain have written an open letter to president obama and defense secretary chuck hagel now it says manning is not a traitor he has the best interests of his country in mind now his action is praised as courageous and an inspiration to other whistleblowers like edward snowden for example who had exposed the n.s.a.'s sweeping global surveillance program the e.u. representatives also expressed concern over the u.s. war on whistleblowers saying it harms democracy in both america and europe they're urging a stop to the persecution of bradley manning claiming that he has suffered too much spending over three years behind bars including ten months in solitary confinement the message is manning should be freed as soon as possible and also turns out that this is how many americans feel as well more now from our thousands more in a park near. union square has been something of a stomping ground for bradley manning supporters in new york

wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks as for the whistle blowing website that aims to expose the truth the u.s. has listed wiki leaks as an enemy of the state until the obama administration comes forward with a way to roll out open this into the national security debate there's going to be a problem of people trusting what the ministration is up to the american public has witnessed a top u.s. official lie about the nation's pervasive surveillance program and an n.s.a. contractor reveal the truth yet only one of those men is being punished and prosecuted for their actions and if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust congress and don't trust. federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the constitution due process and rule of law then we're going to have some problems are. welcome to your problem is the president during a point i am artillery. meanwhile the race is on to be the next leader of the troubled torn country mali but the report the winner of this month's presidential poll will just have to take the security situation by the scruff of

manning's intent his motive what he wanted to do when he got to make that little connection with wiki leaks a few years back aside from relief the only other emotion that was really prevailing here today was. absolute frustration i'll be happy susan on behalf of the media dozens and dozens of members of the media the international media from around the world were here and for me this afternoon for the verdict yet when the verdict was announced the internet at the base died people were not allowed to have phones are not allowed to have wi-fi hotspots so pretty much any journalist who was here which aren't many but enough at least for today were able to file reports in a timely matter kind of caused a really big. what have you over here at fort meade but this is about a trial that's been trotted in secrecy throughout for the last three years so. to say that it was unexpected would be a lie i suppose right now andrew bradley manning was acquitted of the most serious charge like you said the aiding the enemy charge but he was found guilty of nineteen lesser charges you mentioned before but can

at the time but he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secrecy website wiki leaks and that he when he did that he had full knowledge that he was aiding the enemy he knew that when he was leaking those documents he was putting it on the internet the world wide web for everybody to see everybody including the enemy and in the prosecution's view he did he knew very well the consequences of his actions he knew exactly what he was doing as an intelligence analyst working with classified information on a daily basis that he knew what he was doing so the government says he's a traitor today the defense says he's a whistleblower it's going to be up to the judge erin to decide if it's going to be up to her the verdict is all it's all on her but there you have it that was our two correspondent liz wall. and in the senate on thursday evening u.s. sanctions against any country offering asylum to snowden passed unanimously in the committee the thirty year old n.s.a. leaker remains in a moscow airport and while russia weighs the request for him to stay permanently the sanctions

epic well it is day sixteen of the trial for bradley manning private first class army because of wiki leaks leaker that is his defense team second day of arguments today lawyer david coombs questioned retired colonel morris davis about one ton of away detainee policies and information used in their detention this is important because manning leaked the assessments of five get most detainees to wiki leaks artie's liz wahl joined me just a short time ago from fort meade to discuss the importance of this testimony. that's right he is a frequent guest on ars he was also a key witness in the court martial against private first class bradley manning today colonel morris davis testified as an expert an expert on these guantanamo bay detainee assessments of the seven hundred thousand documents that bradley manning admitted to handing over to wiki leaks are these profiles these assessments of guantanamo bay detainee is now essentially the defense compared to the the brief to baseball cards they contain all types of information on detainees everything from their names a date of birth aliases they may

leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the amp you see right secrecy web site wiki leaks and dad and that he when he did that he had full knowledge that he was aiding the enemy he knew that when he was leaking those documents he was putting it on the internet the world wide web for everybody to see everybody including the enemy and in the prosecution's view he did he knew very well the consequences of his actions he knew exactly what he was doing as an intelligence analyst working with classified information on a daily basis that he knew what he was doing so the government says he's a traitor today the defense says he's a whistleblower it's going to be up to the judge erin to decide it's going to be up to her the verdict is all is all on her so there you have it that was our two correspondent liz wahl. on the closing day of arguments in the bradley manning trial many supporters gathered in washington d.c. at fort mcnair to protest his detention major general jeffrey buchanan is the military judge with the authority to reduce manning sentence if convicted and he is current

private manning is alleged to have leaked over seven hundred detainees assessment briefs to wiki leaks the government chose five specific briefs for five different detainees that they charged him as part of the charges and so my what i did was take those five briefs and then go to open source documents particularly the department offense in two thousand and six released the combatant status review tribunals the administrative review board so you can go on the pentagon's own website and find the documents on the detainees and if you match them up in the public domain you can find most of the information this in these briefs that he's alleged to have committed espionage by making available to wiki leaks and we're going to hear testimony and dig into the nitty gritty details in just a second but i did want to bring up a point that the judge was unless you're testifying as a specialist on national security but correct me if i'm wrong wasn't your title weren't you a senior specialist of national security for congress in the past thirty senior specialist work for congress and i was the only

wiki leaks web site that is the web site co-founded by julian songe again edward snowden will make his first statement from moscow he is seeking asylum in ecuador and reportedly in fifteen other countries when he makes his statement we will of course bring it to you as it happens. right back here at eight pm. plays. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. and mission free credit taishan free transport charges free. range month free. free studio time free. download free blank.

that he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the antecedent secrecy website wiki leaks and dad and that he when he did that he had full knowledge that he was aiding the enemy he knew that when he was leaking those documents he was putting it on the internet the world wide web for everybody to see everybody including the enemy and in the prosecution's view he did he knew very well the consequences of his actions he knew exactly what he was doing as an intelligence analyst working with classified information on a daily basis that he knew what he was doing so the government says he's a traitor today the defense says he's a whistleblower it's going to be up to the judge erin to decide it's going to be up to her the verdict is all is all on her so there you have it that was our two correspondent liz wall. and while bradley manning awaits a verdict in his case fellow whistleblower edward snowden is trying to figure out his next steps after disclosing classified information about the n.s.a. authorities here in the u.s. charged under the espionage act for revealing details on g

coming up on r t a judge makes a major ruling in the bradley manning trial will the wiki leak or face the aiding the enemy charge we'll have a report from for me just ahead and a lawsuit against a key provision in the india a has been thrown out there are fears that the provision allows that attainment of anyone anywhere suspected of helping terrorist organizations more on this court decision coming up. on the first week of ramadan in iraq has been deadly insurgency and sectarian violence have created a sky rocketing death toll more on the chaos engulfing the country later in today's show. it's thursday july eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. while the last line of defense for wiki leaks or bradley manning's legal team failed in court today military judge denise lynn dismissed the team's request to drop the most serious charge facing the army private first class that is the charge of aiding the enemy here's why she turned it down judge lynn says that manning's training that made him aware of the fact that terrorist organizations use the in

coming up on r t a judge makes a major ruling in the bradley manning trial will the wiki leak or face the aiding the enemy charge we'll have a report from fort meade just ahead a lawsuit against a key provision in the india a has been thrown out there are fears that the provision allowing the detainment of anyone anywhere suspected of helping terrorists more in this court case coming up. and it's thursday so it's time for the tech reporter though that i can promise is less time in purgatory if you follow the pope's twitter is that really the case we'll talk more about that in tonight's tech report. it's thursday july eighteenth eight pm in washington d.c. and i'm meghan lopez and you are watching our t.v. while the last line of defense for wiki leaks or bradley manning's legal team failed in court today military judge denise dillon dismissed the team's request to drop the most serious charge facing the army private first class the charge of aiding the enemy and here's why she turned it down george allen says that manning's training made him aware of the fact that terrorist organizatio

later deployed to iraq about two years later his leaked collateral murder video was released by wiki leaks showing u.s. forces killing civilians in iraq there it is right there now he later told a hacker about his leaks who in turn handed their chats over to the government as a result manning was arrested and charged with revealing that classified information the afghan war diary was released after that with manning moved to solitary confinement in a maximum security prison more revelations about what the u.s. did during the war along with a series of american diplomatic cables were then revealed by wiki leaks in march the extent of the charges became known manning was accused of aiding the enemy we had released documents about the guantanamo bay prisoners and all those revelations are in demanding a nobel peace prize nomination the court martial proceeding against him began shortly after that with the u.n. saying that he was subject to excessive isolation and cruel treatment during detention a judge did not allow the u.n. torture specter to testify the high profile trial finally got under

of other classified materials according to private manning himself when he went to the web site wiki leaks he did so in order to expose the rest of the world to the atrocities that he saw while serving in iraq private manning was held in pretrial detention up until earlier this year and he spent more than one thousand one hundred days in military custody now that the trial approaches a conclusion however manning's fate will for once be a little bit less undecided once the judge decides how many years he will have to spend in prison they'll finally have an answer. let's take a look at how the charges against bradley manning actually break down now the twenty five year old was acquitted of the most serious charge against him that of aiding the enemy which carried a potential life sentence but manning was convicted on six counts of violating the espionage act five counts of stealing government property there was also a computer fraud charge and other military infractions each of which carries a potential ten year jail term now as we heard earlier manning's sentencing hearing is set to begin a

role in the media coverage of bradley manning's case this had happened during the war and he was wiki leaks got the stuff out scooped all these major media outlets right as the bush administration was ending and the war was still an issue and something that was raw the american psyche might be something different but we're short attention span people so three four five years later he's a traitor three four five years ago he might have been a hero the main narrative that the us government has put forward and it was effectively delivered by the us media was that many revelations have endangered us national security but the conversation that's been avoided is that perhaps the government's killing of civilians with drones and otherwise has generated more enemies for the united states then greatly manning's revelations in washington i'm going to check on. well money league some seven hundred thousand diplomatic and military documents to the whistleblower website wiki leaks let's take a look shall we how it all unfolded first off bradley manning enlisted in the u.s. army back in two thousand and

raid afghanistan war logs that were released by wiki leaks now all of this relates to that aiding the enemy charge the most serious charge that many faces the prosecution has been trying to prove that manning and wiki leaks co-founder julian assange on work together to get u.s. secrets on the internet secrets that were then obtained and used by the enemy to harm the united states according to the prosecution manning says he leaves secrets in order to reveal the truth about u.s. wars abroad and in no way intended to intended to aid the enemy the prosecution is expected to call their last witness to the stand today that last witness is daniel lewis he is a defense counter terrorism expert during cross-examination the defense try. to discredit this witness some of his testimony today was done in a closed session and now as this trial progresses the big question is has the prosecution presented enough evidence to prove the most serious charges of espionage and aiding the enemy these are charges that if convicted carry a life sentence without parole and i've spoken to many of many supporte

from the mouth of snowden himself wiki leaks releases a letter allegedly from the n.s.a. whistleblower what it says and what more we can expect from this man of mystery coming up and on the international front european union members are in disarray about the n.s.a. scandal the latest snowden document drop reveals that the agency intercepted information from the embassies of european allies more on this up ahead. millions of protesters fill up the streets of egypt demanding the resignation of president mohamed morsi and new elections more on the unrest in egypt and tonight show. it's monday july first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r.t. well we begin tonight with a developing story out of russia the anti secrets web site wiki leaks has now released a letter that was allegedly written by edward snowden here's part of that letter the obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon although i am convicted of nothing it has unilaterally revoked my passport leaving me a stateless person without any judicial or

keep him behind bars for life in the meantime wiki leaks continue publishing exposing documents about guantanamo bay detainees the court martial proceedings against him began shortly after that with a u.n. saying that he was subject to excessive isolation and cruel treatment during detention a judge did not allow the u.n. torture inspector to testify about high profile trial finally got under way and for me maryland and is expected to be completed today well let's bring in gavin mcfate again who is the director of the london based center for investigative journalism david thank you so much for devon sorry i think it's much for joining us here on our team to discuss this so manning is responsible for the largest exposé of the u.s. government in history what will be his punishment in your view will i suspect that the government is quote in a very difficult place they've invested a great deal in this prosecution they have every interest to prevent other whistleblowers from coming forward so the punitive and specs of the sentence will be quite severe i expect the country compromising qual

state department i presume snowden and his wiki leaks team of aware of all of that he's seeking asylum for this temporary nature because there's no doubt that he has a temporary asylum claim that's processed and accepted in russia his travel to latin america will be a good deal safer and i don't think president obama would shoot down a plane or train i jacket it was carrying of someone with russian asylum papers on board or it is that presumably is the very thing but without that offer and as a man of no state because president obama's first act was to rescind his citizenship in effect by taking away as possible document snowden on a plane then wasn't even safe to travel on the plane of a head of state and they can authorities or their lackeys in europe as has been commented on in the past few weeks would just bring the plane down and goes in a smaller plane the united states has a record of shooting down civilian airliners killing all passengers on board i'm thinking of iran iranian airliner as cuban airliners and so forth so what we have here is someone trying to speak about scared f

and wiki leaks of course had that tweet where they said that michael had contacted them regarding the investigation being done on him i want to read it says michael hastings contacted wiki leaks lawyer jennifer robinson just a few hours before he died saying that the f.b.i. was investigating him joe did he ever talk to you about this or has there been any follow up with wiki leaks that you know of to find out what they know so i'm not sure about that i do know we contacted a lawyer and i know it's not a wiki leaks lawyer so that whole thing i'm still trying to figure out myself. the chance to speak to kimberly dark national security and foreign policy correspondent based in san diego has been conducting a very thorough investigation into michael's death evers' ask him really what drove her to look deeper into the matter. there you know kind of sitting on the news i mean i think it should call on a journalist to see the visit have and actually sat on the story for a good couple of weeks before it just kept bugging me nibbling at my my mind thinking hey you need to go out and have a loo

so i'm not sure about that i do know he contacted a lawyer and i know it's not a wiki leaks lawyer so that whole thing i'm still trying to figure out myself. the chance to speak to kimberly dark national security and foreign policy correspondent based in san diego has been conducting a very thorough investigation into michael's death evers ask him really what drove her to look deeper into the matter. there you know kind of sitting on the news i mean i think it showed quite a lot of journalists to see that this is happening i actually sat on this story for a good couple of weeks before it just kept bugging me nibbling at my my mind thinking hey you need to go out and have a look at this and see what's really going on so when i decided to go to los angeles nationally spend the day there and and and kind of retrace what happened in spain that i probably didn't see that are involved in this it became quite clear quite quickly that this seemed to be a lot more than just as single car accident and it seemed a lot of the details that were being provided to the media who aren't in the los ang

so i'm not sure about that i do know he contacted a lawyer and i know it's not a wiki leaks lawyer so that whole thing i'm still trying to figure out myself. the chance to speak to kimberly darr national security and foreign policy correspondent based in san diego has been conducting a very thorough investigation into michael's death evers ask him really what drove her to look deeper into the matter. there you know kind of sitting on the news i mean i think it should qualify journalists to see the visit have and actually sat on the story for a good couple of weeks before it just kept bugging me nibbling at my my mind thinking hey you need to go out and have a look at this and see what's really going on so when i decided to go to los angeles nationally spend a day there and and and kind of retrace what happened in spain that probably agencies that are involved in this it became quite clear quite quickly that this seemed to be a lot more than just as a single car accident and it seemed a lot of the details that were being provided to the media who aren't in the los angeles area were you

army judge denise lynn heard closing arguments today in the case against wiki leak or bradley manningthe twenty five year old army private first class faces twenty one charges for leaking some seven hundred thousand military and diplomatic cables to the world the most serious charge many faces is aiding the enemy which could result in them life sentence the prosecution spent its final moments trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that manning leaked those documents knowing that they could end up in the hands of al qaeda or other terrorist organizations meanwhile defense lawyer david coombs is expected to portray manning as well meaning but naive for the latest from fort meade i was joined earlier by our two correspondent liz wahl and i asked her how the prosecution's closing arguments played out today. closing arguments from the prosecution today started this morning and went late into the evening today the prosecution tried to raise doubt on manning's character saying that at the time that he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website wiki le

will prosecute wiki leaks founder julian assange now that is according to his attorney and some civil rights groups political analyst mark mason weighs in this is really all about not only of course bradley manning but attack on journalism and we do leaks and julian are sorry. and we want to catch terror in that state court had a ton of terror about wiki leaks that's really really we have a massive attack on free speech and on freedom of the press this comes back to the larger context here that we have the only person in the clear george bush should be shooting in acutely facing charges for look for it. well bradley manning's case has certainly sparked major concerns in the european union with lawmakers from all over the block calling on the u.s. to free the whistleblower i mean he is from france sweden spain portugal ireland and germany have written an open letter to president obama and defense secretary chuck hagel and it says that manning is not a traitor but he had the best interests of his country in mind now the e.u. representatives also expressed concern over the u.s. war on wh

and wiki leaks files twenty one questions on behalf of edward snowden the surveillance whistleblower whose month of leaks has left many nations either fearful or reluctant to get involved. and president obama deals with european outrage over america's spying on politicians on citizens saying the tactic is nothing new and everybody's doing. and egypt's president mohamed morsi takes fire from all directions takes the side of the government protesters and several ministers resigned in solidarity with the opposition. live from moscow with me thank you for joining us this morning straight to our breaking news for you this hour an unmanned russian space rocket has crashed just seconds after launch it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's global navigation system within a quarter of an hour brings us the details here live on the program good morning to you may do you know. exactly what happened well it was quite a shocking morning for those at the bike nor baikonur cosmodrome and as you can see here. now a russian project on rockets which was care. three. lies just went out of co

a charge of aiding the enemy manning is accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks our lives while has been following the proceedings. the testimony was really aimed at trying to get out what manning says character at the time the heli troves of of classified information to the anti secrecy website wiki leaks all of this gets back to this aiding the enemy charge the defense is saying that bradley manning is a whistleblower that he did what he did in order to expose government wrongdoing and in order to spark a national debate the prosecution however is saying bradley manning aided the enemy when he leaked this information that when he leaked this information he did it knowing that al qaeda osama bin laden or al qaeda affiliates get hold of this information so all of this goes back to bradley manning his intent at the time also today discussed where the charges of theft of government property that bradley manning faces the defense is trying to get that charge dismissed the prosecution is saying that these documents these trove of information classified information wa

computer on jeopardy thank you army chose a nice lenhart closing arguments today in the case against wiki leaksour bradley manning the twenty five year old army private first class faces twenty one charges for leaking some seven hundred thousand military and diplomatic cables to the world the most serious charge manning faces as aiding the enemy which could result in a life sentence the prosecution spent its final moments trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that manning leaked those documents knowing that they could end up in the hands of al qaeda and other terrorist organizations meanwhile defense lawyer david coombs is expected to portray manning as well meaning but naive for the latest from fort meade our to correspondent wall. after nearly two months of trial we hear closing arguments today in the court martial of private first class bradley manning today the prosecution said manning recklessly leaked the documents put national security at risk when he did it and put american lives in danger the prosecution kicked off their closing arguments today by saying quote the only human he car