but probably the way i most, pointedly was involved in this issue was with wikileaks. on june 23, 2010, i received a call from bill keller's secretary to come to be the that was about to take place. i was at the oral surgeon bleeding heavily, and had gauze in my mouth. i explained to her that the oral surgeon hadn't gone well and maybe i could come with the she said no, you want to come now. so i came in a continued to bleed for the rest of the day. nothing help me at that meeting. and meeting was around the idea that we're going to get copies of the first set of wikileaks cable took over the next month, leading up to july 25, 2010, when the times published the first set of wikileaks documents, you can imagine from my perspective, as was from journalist perspective, it was an incredibly busy time. i tried to understand, did we -- i tried to understand what the exceptions could be found in what the pentagon papers taught, but all those cases came to me. and he was fairly momentous on july 25 when we first released those. and as a large of a sense, what happens now? than

was julian assange from wikileaks.lenn greenwald, your final comment? these kinds of issues from guantanamo to join in assange, we don't know, in a town hall meeting, i guess they could be asked. what do you think? >> i cannot imagine candy crowley of choosing a question that relates to the war on whistleblowers were julian assange or secrecy. just think about that contrast. when daniel ellsberg was prosecuted by the nixon administration, a huge story, he became a symbol of heroism and bravery. here you have wikileaks and bradley manning facing exactly the same treatment and it has completely disappeared from public discourse. progressives could not care less, even though every investigative journalist will tell you this is all created incredible climate of fear not only deters and intimidates the resources out of whistleblowing, but a lot of journalists as well that is what it is designed to do. you have this attack on transparency, bolstering of secrecy, undermining of investigative journalism all concentrated within

breathe happy. >>> in april 2010, wikileaks releases a classified video that shocks the world.of a u.s. apache helicopter, the video first shows an attack on a group of men in baghdad. and then on a van trying to aid the wounded. the video continues with another engagement, about 20 minutes later. >> to me, the most shocking part of the video comes at the end. >> come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. clear. >> there's more individuals in there. >> there's some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, let's hit it with a hellfire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile, and at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy just kind of randomly walk into the scene. and they don't say no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, don't fire. they shoot off the missile anyway. >> target hit. it was a missile. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own

wikileaks by contrast is all about just disclosing secrets. you know. the press, typical press, investigative journalism, that is how they get their permission wikileaks sets up internet lockboxes all designed to collect possible automation in a way that can scrub the laws. so you have these distinctions between methods and the missions of wikileaks versus traditional press such that if the government decides to bring a case in wikileaks i have some confidence that the rest of the press will not be chilled. but, obviously that is a tough line to draw. and it is getting tougher and tougher with more immediate, more news being disseminated by sort of these alternative routes , bloggers and the like. >> so let's do one more question here and then we will take some from the audience and a couple of minutes. so picking up, again, on the judge's comments about -- about some extent of over classification or misclassification and also on cans discussion of the hard issues that are posed by the legitimate was a blow or, the person who legitimately is motivated t

you know, that, in essence, is what caused wikileaks. the state department and the military decided that the only way to more effectively communicate with one another is to put it all up on the super gnat. and that was how private manning got ahold of it. so i'm trying not to be overly cynical, but i just think we will be living with the phenomenon for a good long time. my friend briefly alluded to a so-called opera disclosures. that is a phenomenon that is not a partisan thing. i remember during the bush of restoration. terribly frustrating to us that the agency. heavily involved in the post 9/11 programs. to get a directive passed down from the white house, we would cooperate with bob woodward. what turned out to be too buxom zero about the war on the chair. we were basically directed to make ourselves available to him to discuss matters that certainly in my case i thought were classified. now, i'm on the outside. reading stats, david sanders piece. it's easy to become cynical. you know, it doesn't take judge roberts scholar to realize

julian assange, the founder of wikileaks, is still at an ecuadoran embassy in london. are concernede his health and are asking london officials that they be so he canlease him get medical treatment. if he leaves the embassy, he could face arrest. this is a story we will keep a close eye on this morning. we have not seen any reaction the department of defense officials. we will update you as we get any morenformation. back to you. >> thank you. hurricanes and the clashing cuba going across jamaica. utility companies and homeowners in the d.c. region preparations. >> homeowners can hope they avoid a repeat of past storms. carter is in bloomingdale in northwest d.c., area than has been prone to pass flooding in the past. getting aeople are little concerned. >> absolutely. flooding problems are familiar residents of this neighborhood. year they have had find ways to get more than a of theirater out basements. are worried about what do and whether it another flooded basement. with her cane sandy moving the east coast, people worst anding for the .oping for the best >> i jus

what i found is that wikileaks became an ink blot of what you cared about.when i was in china, a professor in china raised the question -- i talked about how "the new york times" had been very careful in publishing these, concerned about not harming national security, not identifying, not exposing confidential informants and others who helped the u.s. government or allies in afghanistan. and this chinese professor raised his hand and said, well, did you call the taliban to find out if you would reveal their secrets? if your an independent medium, why are you taking sides? i acted like i didn't know what the translator said. when i got to hungary, the first -- hungary, country that understands about secrecy and understands the abuse that can be taken in the name of secrecy and government security. the first question was do you think the u.s. congress will change foya? now they see how value this information it. i think it's safe to say that was not the first instinct of congress. but i was happy when i got back to the u.s. and was on a panel with a former pro

there is the disclosure of the movements like there was in some of the wikileaks disclosures.that's something our enemies and adversaries can use against us. there was disclosure five years ago of a very responsibly run and a very effective program going after the terrorist finances called the swift program. once that got out that diminished our ability to attract the financing of terrorists and that is a serious damage to our operations and to our sources. much has been made over the last ten, 11 years to have human intelligence, and human intelligence is intelligence officials going out and developing sources. human beings that are going to get inside the organization we have and tell you what they are doing. we allow that to pass after the fall of the berlin wall and after 9/11 it's clear we didn't have an insight into what they were doing because we didn't have that intelligence. so we need to develop sources and the government has done a good job in the last years of doing that and that is why we see them getting taken off the battlefield in a pretty impressive rate becau

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meade for private first class bradley manning, the man accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks. he is scheduled to be tried in february. he's facing 20 charges including aiding the enemy. >> a memorial service being held today for a professor struck by a car and killed earlier this month. rhett leverett was walking his dog when the accident occurred. the driver suffered a medical emergency and ran his vehicle on the sidewalk. the victim was 60 years old. today's service will be held at marymount university in arlington at 11:30. >> two virginia hiker stranded in montana park are back home this morning. neal peckens and jason hiser arrived in richmond. there were found in a remote area where they had gone hiking. they did have the right equipment and used their outdoor skills to survive. >> glad they are doing all right. a bombshell announcement from citigroup and. the the former fdic chairman says it's a good thing if. >> apple is ready to unveil another new product. let's get to ellen braitman in new york. >> it's official. apple has sent out invitations for what it's calling

>>> on the radar this morning, wikileaks is releasing more classified documents. florida gets hit with a storm of voter intimidation and jim moran's son puts himself in a campaign time-out. > >>> new e-mails obtained by nbc may shed more light on the benghazi attacks showing that officials at the white house and state department were advised two hours after the attack that a militant group had taken credit for them on facebook. secretary of state hillary clinton cautioned against jumping to conclusions when asked about this yesterday. >> you know, posting something on facebook is not in and of itself evidence and i think it just underscores how fluid the reporting was at the time and continued for some time to be. >> wikileaks announced it will release more than 100 classified files from the department of defense today. in a press release on their website, the whistle blowing group says they'll release restricted policies outlining rules for handling detainees in the u.s. military custody. >>> the fbi is investigating at least 50 cases in which florida voters rece

ecuador has as the british government to assure the safe passage of wikileaks founder julian assangeshould he require medical treatment in hospital. on wednesday, an ecuadorean diplomat said that concerns have been raised about julian assange's health that may require medical attention. assange has taken refuge in the ecuador embassy in london in a bid to avoid extradition to sweden, and ultimately, he says, to the united states. the whistleblowing group has just released a new cache of files, the killing as guidelines for jailing foreign prisoners at military prisons from iraq to guantanamo bay. according to wikileaks, the detainee policies includes one manual instructing how to disappear prisoners into other government agencies while hiding their names from u.s. military records. and those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. at stanford,road university in palo alto, california, part of our 100-city tour. we are broadcasting here from stanford university with the november election less than two weeks away,

>>> finally, wikileaks founder bill assange who has been hold up in london has had an unlikely visitor. that's right. on tuesday lady gaga was in the neighborhood promoting her perfume. why not, she stopped in. the two reportedly had a dinner during a five-hour visit. five hours. i work with you every single day for years. i don't think that we can have a five hour visit. no. dinner would be like 20 minutes. we're good. >> we would be bored of each other. >> we're good. we've talked about everything we need to talk about. >>> this comes to us from kvly valley news live in fargo, north dakota, where a nearby glin done minnesota, a lone wild turkey has turned one neighborhood into its personal stomping ground. the wayward foul has made himself at home wherever he sees fit. over the past five months he's gotten a reputation for peeking through windows. fans have called him roger. he could be called dinner this coming thanksgiving. i hope not for his sake. >>> i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >> you are watching wbal tv

. >>> finally, wikileaks busts julian assange who has been hold up in ecuador's london embassy to avoid extradition has had an unlikely visitor. that's right. on tuesday lady gaga was in the neighborhood promoting her perfume. the two reportedly had dinner during a five-hour visit. fly on the wall. would have loved that. >> this comes to us from fargo, north dakota, where in minnesota a lone turkey turned one neighborhood into its personal stomping ground. the way ward fowl has made itself at home wherever he sees fit. he's gotten a reputation for peeping through windows and holding up traffic. the fans of the bird are calling him roger. if there's any ring of truth to recent jokes, he could also be called dinner this coming thanksgiving. i didn't make it up. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> a zoo in israel is now home to a strange looking arrival. say hello to the south african tapir, an endangered mammal with a curiously flexible nose. zookeepers are extremely proud of the newborn saying he's very healthy and is succ

. >>> finally, wikileaks busts julian assange who has been hold up in equador's london embassy to avoid had an unlikely visitor. that's right. on tuesday lady gaga was in the neighborhood promoting her perfume. why not, she stopped in. the two reportedly had a dinner during a five-hour visit. five hours. >> i'm not going to get sucked into the kardashian wedding like i it last time. >> you'll openly admit it. thank you, bill. stay tuned, way too early with willie geist starts right now. >>> one day now ahead of the vice presidential debate in kentucky, and we have some new state by state poll numbers that show more of the presidential debate effect. even as bill clinton hits the stump in vegas on cut into the perception that romney beat up on the president in denver. the question is, will the obama campaign spend another day today talking about big bird? meanwhile a new state department account of what exactly happened outside the u.s. consulate in benghazi the night four americans were killed shows there was no protest outside the gates. the question is, how do we square this with the

nine supporters of wikileaks found -- >>> nine supporters of wikileaks' founder assange have until novemberr pay $150,000 because assange violated his probation. >>> convicted killer joran van der sloot could soon be a father. a dutch newspaper says van der sloot got a lima woman pregnant while in prison. he's serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a peruvian woman. the newspaper claims the woman became pregnant during an up supervised visit at the jail. he's also wanted in connection with the disappearance of natalee holloway who went missing in july. >>> a new report is calling the report on treasure island inadequate because it does not consider the possibility of radioactive material on that base. the report is part of a process for the military to turn land over to the city of san francisco for new developments. >>> one of the winners of the nobel prize in medicine announced this morning has a bay area connection. the two men were awarded the prize for stem cell discoveries. the two men will split the $1.2 million prize money. the foundation lowered the price 20% this year citing

 some of mine reporting is in there and some of the same reporting appeared on wikileaks this is 1979. i read it and i still think this holds up. when you see your reporting 25, 30 years ago sometimes it is embarrassing when you wrote. >> john limbert, how long were you behind the hard line and what was the process of the next couple of events? >> what happened is they got to the hard line. i think i mentioned this in the ?reword to my book. i ended up in a decision that?? was probably one of the worst of my career. i ended up outside the door attempting to talk them down or slow them down, to slow them down. that obviously did not work. they had a gun on me and on our security officer and threatened to shoot us both if the door was not opening five minutes. i've often pointed to that incident as probably my worst example of the negotiations in my career. >> so that said did the door get open in five minutes? >> it did, i thought fortunately at the time. were they bluffing? i don't know. i can get was perhaps the ambassador who was at the ford ministry or ann swift

was arrested back in 2010 accused of giving classified documents to the whistle-blower web site wikileaks. he is charged with several counts including aiding the enemy and transmitting defense records, all of this are considered death penalty offenses. >>> also this morning, metro's long awaited promise to expand wireless service throughout its system may have to wait a little longer. metro has requested appear extension on the project saying they need until december 2015 to ensure all safety upgrades are in place following the twine red line crash. this is the second extension requested by metro six the deal was first made in 2008. >>> the search is on for the person who shot two men? silver spring last night. police were first called to the golden china restaurant in the 12000 block of old columbia pike just after 7:00 p.m. the victims were found in a car two miles down the road. investigators are trying to figure out where the shooting actually happened. both victims are expected to survive. >>> two virginia men who got lost while hiking in montana are back home now. they were hiking i

. >> lady gaga posted a photograph of the founder of wikileaks, julianne assange.he embassy in ecuador are still trying to negotiate his say passage to sweden to face charges. >> the historical jump is possibly going to be shut down from baumgartner. he is planning to drop from a capsuled this is possibly going to be this thursday. >> the a's are going to stay alive. at the coliseum carry 11 update. and also, the giants said. -- will have an update. and of course game for gary radnich will have all of your sports and highlights, coming up. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found people behaving badly. >> you can find that people are running these red lights at this intersection. the significant is that these could be locations of new cameras. the city of oakland has 13 read like cameras at 11 different intersections. with 6670 not far from the oakland coliseum. and in my years of covering traffic violations i consider myself an expert. and i did not see a lot of people running these red lights which made me question. you cannot argue the fact that o

is scheduled today against private first class bradley man who is accused of leaking documents to wikileaks. his trial is scheduled for february. >> we are following the latest details in the fund all meningitis outbreak. the second person has now died in virginia. >> federal investigators have rated the center believed to be behind this deadly outbreak. the newest infection is from drugs used in heart and i surgery. the cdc says more patients could be at risk. criminal investigators from the department justice and the food and drug administration searched the pharmacy distributor in massachusetts. they believe the steroid medication has been linked to a lethal outbreak. many families now mourn. >> the grief and is believed that something like this could happen is still there. >> the number of illnesses associated with the command -- contaminated shouts distributed by a new england company have climbed to over 230 patients. at least 50 people have died in 50 states including two in virginia. nearly all the victims had receive steroid injections for back pain. >> she was probably infected wi

. >> this morning wikileaks released several documents. they say over the next month they will release 100 of these documents. they are said to be from the past decade. meanwhile, the founder is seeking asylum at the ecuadorean embassy in london. >> prince george's county teachers see their first pay raise in years after the school board unanimously had a three- year contract with the teachers' union. >> they will get a one time 2% pay increase. >> you can enter an online lottery for free tickets for the national tree lighting ceremony. all you have to do is visit the web site wjla.com and look for the thursday express' tab. >> we want to find out what is going on with today's forecast. >> some fog and low clouds to start the day. otherwise sunny. another warm start to the day. mid 70's this afternoon. for the latest on a sandy, let's go with jacqui jeras. >> sandy is a category 2 storm now and heading to the north there will take a trip through the bahamas. where does it go after that that is the big question mark. for some reason, you ar

manning was arrested back in 2010 and is accused of providing classified documents to wikileaks. >>> the plan to have full wireless access on metro has been delayed once againen metro was supposed to have the project complete this week but the "washington post" reports metro has requested an extension to 2015. right now, metro offers wireless service at 20 of its stations. >>> also new this morning, police in montgomery county are searching for a suspect in a double shooting from yesterday evening. police responded to the golden china restaurant in the 12000 block of old columbia pike in silver spring around 7:00 p.m. police found the men about two miles down the road. both are expected to survive. the police now trying to figure out where the shooting actually occurred. >>> those two virginia men rescued after being stranded for days in montana were well prepared for the wintry conditions. jason hiser and neal peckens were hiking in glacier national park last week. the two men fell down a steep incline and became lost. park ranger say they had the right equipment and hiking experien

diplomatic cables released by the wikileaks that revealed the bush a ministration trip was to retaliateinst europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds. >> they've been saying for years the u.s. government has joined or is joined at the hip with monsanto, and pushing gmo's as part of monsanto's engine on the rest of the world. this lays bare the mechanics of that effort. we have >> stapleton, the former ambassador to france, specifically asking u.s. government to retaliate and cause some harm throughout the european union. and in two years later in 2009, we have a cable from the ambassador to spain from the united states, asking for intervention there, asking the government to help formulate a biotech strategy and support the government, members of the government in spain that want to promote gmo's as well. this specifically indicate they sat with the director of monsanto for the region and got briefed by him about the politics of the region and created strategies with and to promote the gmo agenda. >> that was jeffrey smith. michael pollan, your response? >> our government ha

the wikileaks founder julian asang got an unexpected visitor last night. lady gaga dropped in last night in london. assange has been holed up there. gaga is there to promote her new perfume. it is not clear why she decided to visit but some think -- >> the rock band green day is headlines again. this time for canceling it's up coming appearance. there's no word on whether the cancellation is related to a recent meltdown by former, by front man bille joe armstrong. following that meltdown, it was revealed that armstrong is seeking treatment for substance abuse. >>> the real bride zilla, facebook gets frisky. >> what do they mean by this? helping you decide your date's text message. with us, cane from 99.5. this site clues us in on the meaning behind the text, kind of breaking the code. >> i didn't realize there was so much deciphering needed when it came to down texts. one of the co-foumders used to work for glamour magazine and she saw so many e-mails coming in from so many women saying, what does he mean by this text? what are you doing tonight? does that

what's more, this is the same darrell issa who some would say hypocritically derided wikileaks almost for doing exactly what he's done now. >> the kind of transparency we need is not to have somebody outing what is said by diplomats in private, and we need to change that and that's going to be a big part of our committee's oversight is to get that right so diplomats can do their job with confident dense. >> the kind of transparency we need is not to have somebody outing what is said by diplomats in private. fine words, mr. issa. a pity you don't seem to remember them in an election year. joining us thousand is democratic congressman elijah cummings, the oversight committee's ranking democrat. >> good to be with you. >> chairman issa's document dump included disclosures about a fee meal human rights activists, a ben ghazi port manager and a militia commander providing information. >> is he happy to expose these individuals to threats, perhaps even death, to provide fodder for mitt romney's debate performance this evening? >> i believe there's no other way of seeing this, martin. i have

the wikileaks cases of the.ke that balance, and the balance between transparency and secrecy. and the government struck it is certainly, and i think it's important we keep sort of scrutinizing that balance, to see is calibrated right. that's what i think these kind of forums are good. they are a good way to scrutinize that balance and make sure that the government is on the right path. thanks. >> thank you. judge. >> i too thank for him and karen for this conference, and for asking me. i was a little surprised to be invited into i realized that there aren't any judges who will talk because they are still on the bench. but since i'm not on the bench any longer people think i will reveal all. neil mcbride and ken wainstein are two of the most dedicated and distinguished prosecutors i've ever run across. and by the way i've run across both of them in washington. and i have no problem with what they are doing, but their presentation is about prosecution of leakers, and the importance of prosecuting leakers take the

she talked about the wikileaks report where china said, hey, that's a manmade number. china has been stimulating for the last year. they never stop. fixed asset investors up almost 23% year-over-year. >> look, you can cite all of the data -- >> let me cite this -- >> but if the stocks believe the data and the stock market goes up and individual stocks go up, as a result, isn't that all that matters? >> it is. but that's not what's happening. >> coach is up 1%, caterpillar's up 1%, nike's up, yum's up. >> down 6%, they're supposed to be up 3%. every single company that's reported without exception, i believe, has reported a slowing china. that disagrees with -- >> difference between slowing and crashing. >> that's right. it's slowing, it's not crashing. people are expecting hard landing, the stock prices are expecting hard landing. >> game's not over. >> i'm not saying it is. i'm saying you're in the bottoming process, i think you've had three rrr cuts, to me, the last 15 weeks we've had good liquidity injections into their system, last week was at 42 billion, two weeks

wikileaks has started releasing more than 100 classified files from the department of defense. the files are from the past decade. they'll be released over the next month, including information on guantanamo bay, procedures in detention camps as well as detailed interrogation manuals. we'll have more of that coming up. >>> the trial begins today of two people accused of giving alcohol to minors killed in a crash. prosecutors say debbie franco and her son joshua gave alcohol to three teenagers before a january 28th crash in krofton. police say britney walker was driving the wrong way along route 50 when she slammed into another car. walker, zachary rose and franco's daughter brianna and the other driver died in that crash. >>> a former university of maryland stubt who threatened to go on a campus shooting rampage will be sentenced today. alexander song was arrested in march after posting online that he was going to "kill enough people to make it national news." in august, he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace. song is already banned from campus and required to do 200 hours o

manning is accused of giving information to the website wikileaks. the center for constitutional rights says it should have access to written motions, opinions, and other records. typically, those sorts of files are available to the public in civilian trials. the military has denied multiple freedom of information requests to make those files public. >>> 5:07 is your time. 56 degrees. we're watching the spacex capsule as it approaches the international space station. >>> and new developments in the war on terror. the potential threat developed across the pond. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] combine the pnc cashbuilder visa credit card with a qualifying pnc performance select checking account and earn 75% more than cards earning 1% cash back on almost everything. >>> nbc 4 received a big honor last night. prince george's community college presented us with a partners for success award. nbc 4's president and general manager jackie bradford accepted the honor. nbc 4 has partnered with prince george's community college several times to organize events like the

-- of julian assange and the work of wikileaks? >> we have had a guest for a couple years, both on skype and in person. -- we have had julian assange as a guest for a couple of years, both on skype and in person. that is a complicated issue for many reasons. one of the problems is it is hard to parsecs the figure from -- it is hard to parse julian assange, the figure, from what he is actually doing. i do not have a clear answer to that. in a lot of ways, i support what he was trying to do. i do not know if i support it in the way he did it. most journalists believe in the public access of information. that is why we do what we do. he is an interesting figure. it makes things very complicated, at least for me. >> i support and defend his right to do what they did. there is some discomfort with his personality, his figure. i think this is an example of another formula being applied to the journalism problem. i think homicide watch in washington d.c. is another one. instead of everything having to go through a story on the front page,

during the wikileaks scandal of 2007 one cable quoted l li keqiang, the current premier, he said china's "man made." instead i look at electricity consumption, rail cargo volume and bank lending. so we wanted to do our own alternative look at china right now and see what their economy is doing and we're going to do these numbers in reverse. first let's show you what happened with new loan lending since 2009, as you can see and if you look to the right of the chart it has been falling. let's now go to rail cargo volume as well and you'll see a similar pattern which is going to show a decline. we say thank you to rhodium group which has put together all the data and the charts, they've been crunching numbers for the last 24 hours, this looks frightening, a big decline in freight traffic and then this is the big daddy of them all that we have numerous people on cnbc always quoting power demand in china. this seems to be the favorite data point when it comes to measuring chinese economy and it's been falling since 2010, fallen off a little bit here in 2012. however, the guys at rhodium group

what we saw in the wikileaks cables was that the bush administration had these discussions with chinaut its proliferation of nuclear weapons technology to iran and did nothing about it. so clearly, this is going to be an issue not only for the republicans but also for the democrats because neither party has been very successful on iran. >> how do you balance that like the threat issue so iran can provide us with this sense of threat versus syria, which is not a threat issue. it's a humanitarian crisis issue. if you're president and in a foreign policy debate, it's both an issue about war weary independence, not liking a war among erg stance vis-a-vis iran. is there been -- it might work against the president on sort of taking a bit of a stance back from syria. >> i think the american people at this point, after two wars and thousands of americans wounded and thousands killed, if the president is going to send troops to another country, they want to know exactly what is the mission, what exactly are they going to be doing an how fast can we then bring them home? the thing -- >> all the

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it was like wikileaks in the united states. they had no idea who was getting these papers.the pope breakfast, who was stealing the papers. >> for 20 years, his loyalty to the papacy. >> he also stole a check for up with for euros. he's got the pope's check, a nugget of gold, a historic manuscript that must have been worth $1 million at least. the bottom line, he claims he was trying to help in a misguided way. >> a lot of the papers became public documents so not, i guess some of what you think would be secret is public material anyway. but did the vatican feel like they were in any way harmed by the publishing of some of the documents or papers? >> they were. i mean, think about all of the scandals around the catholic church in years. here's a whole other one, instead of coming from some unknown source, these are documents with the pope's own stamp on them. there was no question about the authenticity of the documents. here's one of the interesting things. the vatican launched an investigation, cardinals were put to work to try to figure out where the leaks were coming fro

if you read wikileaks, it is all over the place. if you have read the books by ed with this and the top foreign diplomats, it behaves like a mafia state. one of the principles of the mafia state is support your friends when they are in trouble. assad is a friend to the mafia state. thank you. >> thank you very much. would you like to bring it home? >> bring it home and try to connect to u.s. policy. there are different opinions in the community about why russia is so adamant about its support of bashar al-assad. it is a historic regime, a regime that goes back to the '60s and even the '50s. russia got along famously well with the regimes in iraq and syria and a regime in egypt it was not that different. basically, white secular arab socialists, ultranationalists in some cases. these regimes for anti-american and with the leader of russia saying the soviet -- the death of the soviet union was the worst geopolitical pastor of the 20th-century, having an anti- american regime is a good thing. some said this is about iran. i think the i

anti-quietism the case, anti-but the zen, anticorruption, pro-transparency, inspired by things like wikileaks, which is a former state person i'm still upset about. we can't deny that it had a huge impact on the person. the other surrogate major change in terms of the movement of the arab spring is the hybrid nature of these contests are touring movements and the major hybrid i think a secular islamist divide. there is the show at least in the countries -- there is a confiscation between the islamists and arrest at a certain level of society and then there's the rejection of the lower level of society. we sunday february 20 alliance be preceded in all the countries. we saw it in algeria in the 90s where it began. there's a strong desire among young people not to have the secular islamist debate. and most social confiscation these days is not along those lines can about everything we see in tunisia in the news is actually, just appalling number out of a hat, 90% as here this morning the economic and social related and probably 10%, or to read the international press, it was the exact oposite.

wikileaks demonstrated that they were joking about lying about it. at this point, the plausible deniability does not exist. we have the yemeni president making a speech about it. i think sunlight is a great disinfectant. >> way in the back? please speak up. >> george washington. [indiscernible] a new terrain for the geopolitics. >> i am not familiar with that event. i know the united states turned down a request from turkey for armed drones. they turned around and said, we will arm our own drones. we are right at the tipping point where a lot of countries, egypt, turkey, or others, has the technology. it is not that complicated. >> i am not personally familiar with the situation, but drones' generally reduce the cost of military intervention. it is easier, like an iphone makes it easier to communicate with whomever you would like to communicate with. to the extent we have a proliferation drone, and to the extent that different countries around the world are using this instrument to pursue their policies, we are likely to see greater intensity in term

we must never forget what we are dealing with is a criminalize regime and its in wikileaks and all ofthe place. if you read the books by luke harding and ed lucas and talk to foreign -- it behaves in things like a mafia state and one of the principles of a mafia state is to support your friends when they are in trouble. and assad is a fit friend for a mafia state. thank you. >> thank you very much. ariel bring it home. >> bring it home and try to connect u.s. policy. there are different opinions and analytic community about why rush is so adamant about the support of bashar al-assad. yes of course it is a historic regime. is a regime that goes back to the 60's and even the 50s. russia got along famously well with baath regimes in iraq and syria and with the regime in egypt that was not that different. basically arab soldiers -- socialist ultranationalist regimes. bees were anti-american and with there as leader of russia saying the collapse of the soviet union -- of the 20th century clearly having an anti-american regime is a good thing. some said that this this zubaydn in the writing

leaked cables published by wikileaks indicate u.s. and israeli officials also believe that. and tel aviv in april of 2009 says of the weapons flow to hamas the egyptians know that the arms pipeline runs from iran to sudan to egypt. >> seems pretty clear hamas is continuing to receive arms. and not just hamas, these other groups, these more radical jihadist groups involved in the shooting rockets at israel. so the iranians have been trying to get arms from libya to gaza. they're getting arms via sudan to gaza. >> contacted by cnn an official at iran's mission to the u.n. strongly rejected what he called those baseless allegations. we tried repeatedly but could not get sudanese officials in washington and at the u.n. to respond to the claims that their country is working with iran to smuggle weapons to hamas. wolf. >> is widespread an assumption that this would not necessarily be the first time israel has struck inside sudan. >> that's right, wolf. there are strong indications they have done that before. in 2009 at least one convoy carrying weapons in sudan was targeted from t

if you've read wikileaks, it's all over the place.u've read the books by luke harding and at lucas and talk to foreign diplomats will tell you it behaves in tanks at the mafia state and one of the principles of a mafia state is to support your friends when they're in trouble. and aside is a good friend for a mafia state. thank you. >> thank you very much. saturday, which i took it home? >> at home to connect with u.s. policy. there are different opinions in the analytic community about why russia is adamant about this sort of the charlotte side. and of course it isn't historic regime. it is a regime that goes back to the 60s and even the 50s. russia got along famously well with baath regimes in syria that was not that different. the quite secular arab in sometime regimes. they were anti-american and with the leader of russia seen is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. , clearly having an anti-american regime. sounds bad about iran and the radiant dimension we didn't discuss in great detail here is an important d

if you go back to the wikileaks from 2007, there's a state department menu that shows the vice premier saying, don't even look at the gdp numbers. they're man made. i like to look at new loans, rail freight, and electricity consumption. we can show you charts. we've built them. and they all look pretty horrendous. here's the new loans since 2009 falling. when you look at rail freight, what's been happening. it also looks pretty frightening. freight traffic growth falling right off the cliff in 2012. and power consumption, which we endlessly here ceos talk about, also down. however, there is this growing thought out there you shouldn't be looking at rail freight or at electricity consumption as much as you should have in the past because those are reflective of heavy industrial production, which china is trying to make less a part of the economy, not more. so if you look at power production, this is year to date growth last year versus year to date growth this year. industry still growing, but only 3% compared to 12%. services doesn't fall off nearly as much. and residential power consu

you know, that in essence is what made wikileaks made. state department military decided the only way to more effectively communicate with one another was to put all upon the siprnet. and that is how private man get hold of the. i'm trying not to be overly cynical, but i just think we're going to be living, we'll all be living, we'll have to live with the phenomena of the leaks for a long time to my friend ken wainstein also recently alluded to so-called authorized disclosures. and again, that's a phenomenon that is not a partisan thing in my experience. i remembered during the bush administration, it was her by frustrating to us at the agency to get a directive passed down from the white house that we wouldn't cooperate with bob woodward in what turned out to be two books he wrote. about the war on terrorism and, i think the other one was on wmd. we were basically directed to make ourselves available to him to discuss matters that certainly in my case i thought were classified. now i'm on the outside, reading scott's piece, reading david