it's something our next top news maker continues to fight for julian assad to the co-founder of wiki leaks remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london this december marks three years since he's been detained in the u.k. if he steps foot outside of that embassy so likely be extradited to sweden there he faces questions over alleged sexual misconduct but he and his supporters fear he'll ultimately be extradited to the united states and charged under the espionage act for publishing government secrets on his web site. i'll onto our next top story the ever expanding use of drones in the wars abroad back in may president obama addressed the secret drone campaign. before any strike is taken there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can. but this year unprecedented scrutiny on capitol hill over the effects of innocent civilians being killed and drone strikes in yemen in pakistan and questions over the program doing more harm than good as people demand answers and accountability. and speaking of secretive programs a large scale hunger

the last fifteen to go ga sions were held in salt lake city back in november wiki leaks obtained draft documents from that meeting and has been releasing parts of it to the level of new environmentalist say that this new twenty three pages section raises serious concerns about enforcing environmental abuses so this is only recognizes and acknowledges environmental treaties but doesn't actually announce any actions well you know that expression if the shoe fits wear it what about with condoms tonight's resident takes a look at a grant awarded to a company that has developed fitted condoms for up to ninety five different sizes check it out. we study some funny stuff here in america case in point the national institutes of health just awarded a company called they'd fit a two hundred twenty four thousand dollars grant for a study called behavioral and manufacturing science to commercially developed fitted condoms the goal to study and create custom fit condoms that can accommodate third ninety five different sizes and shapes of penises they also want to figure out how to make condoms stro

wiki leaks has been releasing a steady stream of p.p. documents over the past few months and those documents paint a pretty scary picture of the tepee would be a big pharmaceutical companies virtual monopoly patent lawyers like corporations sue countries in international courts or regulations that those corporations don't like and got environmental and financial these leaks prove that many way prove what many critics of been saying for some time that the treaty is less about actual trade and more about empowering massive transnational corporations of the expense of we the people and the government that represents us in other words game over for the middle class all is not lost yet however turns out there's a very good chance the united states will never sign on to the t.p. on wednesday senate majority leader harry reid told reporters in washington that he is against giving president obama new fast track authority on trade deals like the t.v. pete if given fast track authority the president could push the t.p. through congress with only a

i worked on the state department cables, wiki leaks released those. there were some quite serious and quite interesting public interest stories and those. a lot of what you read in those cables, you would think these are pretty good public servants. one or two of them could write more nicely than i can. a lot of privacy policy gulls were more or less in public. you think, about two thirds of the president's job is probably foreign policy and military policy. the vast majority is kept secret. the thing that struck me when we were going through these cables was what is going on with the reflexive secrecy. this is the bulk of what the administration is doing and a lot of it is fairly innocuous. the same is with these intelligence budgets. you read the black budget, which was a budget appropriation document and a fairly significant chunk of it was released. if you read that, it is very top line. quite broad. there is a lot of stuff in that that could be made public. it is not particularly useful information. it might also make you think, should we be spen

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who is the media and who wiki leaks send photos from the video to the international press. to a national security targets and her right to digital privacy was repealed even though there were no legal proceedings against her. will was demanded to hand over hand over my personal stuff i within three days without my knowledge which means that the least after we do have a very bad example for the government of the united states to go into people you know even parliamentarians in other countries to you to snow into their personal matters. what's most remarkable about this story is that biggie to john's to to is a member of the icelandic parliament. furthermore twitter was not the only source of private digital information to hand data over to the us security agencies. michael have not what i say in this field in the states for example they speculate it is facebook perhaps skype or i think you know i don't know but the judge says refuses to god acknowledge the requests from the barriers to unseal its companies it is. jones that it did nothing illegal when she released the video b

example organization or awareness or organizational help for was a bloggers not necessarily i just wiki leaks or. also we're finding out public internet work and fair which is a canadian initiative reforms also workplace with blowers are very important as well so this week it's a way for us to basically put our money where our mouth is and help the people. with roughly sixty percent of the world's population living in countries where the death penalty is enforced abby martin takes a look at the issue and today's breaking the set. with the u.s. sitting just behind china iran iraq and saudi arabia in the number of state sponsored executions death penalty opponents have plenty of motivation to end capital punishment in this country and while many of these prisoners are indeed guilty of heinous crimes consider this since one thousand nine three hundred twelve people have been exonerated by d.n.a. evidence alone and of those prisoners eighteen were facing death sentences of course hundreds if not thousands of convicted prisoners have no access to d.n.a. evidence virtually ensuring that they will n

for example organization awareness or organizational help for whistleblowers not necessarily just wiki leaks or. and also we're finding out public internet work and fair which is a canadian initiative reform so also one place was a blowers are very important as well so this way to basically put our money where our mouth is and help these people. stay with us he is one of the key united nations officials are peacekeeping operations talks to world apart. the majority of congress are now millionaires for the first time in history according to the center for responsive politics which sounds pretty insulting when the average american is not doing so well financially this seems bad like a bunch of rich guys rule the country which they kind of do but one could argue that congress isn't rich enough first off due to inflation a billion dollars is not as much as it used to be especially the cost of one campaign to get in the congress costs around one million six hundred thousand dollars so yeah a million dollars of net worth may sound pretty rich to you or me but the expensive game of us politics thes

example organization awareness or organizational help for whistleblowers not necessarily i just wiki leaks or. also we're finding out public internet work and fair which is a canadian initiative reform so also one place was a blowers are very important as well so this way basically put our money where our mouth is and help these people. that's it for me today marina joshie will be joining you with more news in just a few minutes. when you're followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. to eunice a teen lee in a sept american citizens. text message use you know. where the calls text messages so you just see everything about my knowledge that i actually basically and that's all legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet you're back with big brother. choose your language. because we know if they sell some of. the consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think are great to. choose the stories that impact the life choose the access to your office. you know the playing. field limbic spirit tr

make the speech that he made today and according to information that we're getting in part from wiki leaks edward snowden is preparing to respond to president obama's speech sometime next week yeah that's the rub exactly what you're saying that if it wasn't for edward snowden this wouldn't have happened in the last few would it we had. a former f.b.i. agent just noted whistle blow she said she saw this is baby steps made today but some progress nonetheless however what about a total moment was that really atonement for what had gone on here he did say that the other side overstepped the mark but what about that apology to all those people that have been needlessly spotted on what was. it wasn't i didn't sense from the tone of obama's speech very lengthy speech that was any apologies made as a matter of fact he said the u.s. will not make any apologies for continuing its surveillance practices overseas he did say that spying on foreign friends and allies the heads of state will stop unless there is necessary need for it unless significant evidence is given for why u.s. officials would have

. >> wiki leaks has obtained a draft in the tpp related to environmental protections. there's a statement saying it rolls back key standards set by congress to ensure that the environment chapters are legally enforceable. what's your reaction to that? >> you got that right. even in the bush administration, the law was pretty clear. that if we have these kinds of deals, these trade agreements, there's got to be provisions protecting water and air and the rest of the environment. this has these provisions, but there's no teeth. these other countries are going to be able to violate those provisions and there's not a dog gone thing we can do. >> there's a sovereignty issue as well. they can bring grievances in front of an international tribunal. this has brought tea parties on board to oppose this. what does that mean? i know it's a mouthful about circumventing american law, but this means that corporations, multinationals, would be dictating american policy all based on whether they can make a profit or not, correct? >> and these are the same multinational corporations wh

it to the justice department which never got around to indicting julianne a safrj, mastermind of wiki leaks and responsible for the other massive leak of classified information in this administration and passing it off to congress, is like the syria vote. instead of working out a clear coherent policy that works for our security and going farther as commander in chief we pass it off to congress. there is a lot in here and something for everyone in the 4,000 give or take words. i don't see a clear coherent policy of how to use signal intelligence to defeat the threats and he never mentioned one of the major cyber intelligence threat we face today which is the chinese government. not one mention. >> thank you for your expertise. >> thank you. >> democrats breaking ranks again over obama care. 33 democrats joining republicans requiring the obama administration to report weekly on how many americans sign up for american coverage. that after 67 democrats bucked the administration and backed a bill requiring americans to be alerted if their security has been breached on healthcare.gov. stef ep di

we don't know what they are the links tout wiki leak is sopa. if sopa but isn't tpp, it is dead.i time is expired and i yield back. >> let me thank the chairman for the generosity of time. panel and excellent well committed in this area and with a lot of history in this area as well. not enough time for our questions. i just want to go across to everyone. i know that you spoke to different issues in my colleague mentioned sopa. i just want a yes or no to this question -- do you feel that congress should way into your particular issue of testimony of today? mr. namer? >> yes. >> no. >> not yet. >> you should pay attention to the negotiation on the broadcast treaty. >> is that a yes or no? >> should you change u.s. law in that area deck of -- area? >> yes or no? >> we don't even know what the treaty is yet. >> no. >> absolutely, yes. >> thank you very much. >> in your testimony you noticed where a egp user that goes to trial is held by the fact that a with this promotion -- disproportionate damage -- could you please elaborate on this? i have one or two other questions. we'll would