i support -- i have big problems with julian assange and his personality. but the information that has come out in the wikileaks cables is fascinating. it's important. it by and large shows the government doing things, i think, in the right way and the wrong way. >> and it's had tremendous international impacts. >> and tremendous international impacts. >> leading to tunisia and yemen. >> if our foreign policy rests on falsehoods to the public and secrecy with dictators, it's going to be vulnerable. >> but how about this notion that diplomats should have a right to cable back home, what they think of a leader or point out that the leader's family is corrupt. what do you think, adam, do you think julian assange, who describes himself as a reporter is, in fact, functioning is a

julian assange. >> i would ask you to do your research before making comments like that. >> there was a "the guardian" journalists, and they said they were informants. >> point of order. we are in the process of suing "the guardian" and -- you are welcome to sue was iffy -- to join us if you would like. >> there are some of point of view that are exactly counter to what you are saying.

host: what you think about julian assange in the wikileaks web site? caller: that man needs to get a medal and that young man, barack obama saying that he committed to prime when he is not on trial? it is sad, and it is ugly, we need to stand up and do something about it. other than let people call them rats and snitches. they are protecting us from our online, crooked, underhanded politicians. host: let's go to kentucky. caller: i agree with the gentleman just talking on the phone. they should not be considered rats. i believe it has angered me, and too. i believe that the guy should have a metal what he has done, getting all the information about crimes that should be prosecuted. philip morris had a whistle- blower command and to care of

a more appropriate place there has been talk in the past when you've been pursuing julian assange that there are other people that the government is looking at bradley manning the is a more difficult situation you know he is the alleged leaker he isn't have the same rights as the leader of the president but i think president obama said he believes in a transparent government he believes in protecting was a blowers all bellini's accused of doing is exposing documents that showed war crimes other criminal behavior and other misdeeds president obama should discourage the prosecution is to reevaluate u.s. foreign policy so it's not an abuse of the use of empire and part of the international community. at ten minutes time we'll be hearing from a u.s. special rapporteur on torture who's on demand in case our interview. now the story of a convicted killer who wants death himself a russian for is an hour has racked with pain from illness is pleading with the authorities to be released from his misery the case has reignited the debate over assisted suicide a practice that's illegal in the count

assange that there are other people that the government is looking at bradley manning the is a more difficult situation you know he is the alleged leaker he isn't have the same rights as the leader of the president but i think president obama said he believes

and its founder julian assange is our enemy number one the sun just portrayed as a betrayal of u.s. national security interests somebody who is circumvented the power of both the us media and the government to expose the american government secrets get a new report shows that julian assange has caused does have a large base of support even after the massive smear campaign launched against them and the government pressure on private businesses just on that the german nonprofit group while holland foundation who oversees donations to weekly leaks has been keeping track of how much money has been coming into the site the route twenty ten i believe it or not there's a pretty significant number of supporters enough to donate one point nine million dollars despite having its pay pal account shut down in december i'll take a look at this chart that while holland is created documenting the influx of contributions throughout the year if you notice in april of last year there was a huge increase in donations and i would like to point out why it was the same month that a song we could be relea

[applause] julian assange. [applause] you must recognize that gentleman. [applause] opposing the motion, we have sir david richards. [applause] we have -- [applause] and we have douglas murray. [applause] no heckling yet, please. hey few words from each of our speakers. clinton fisher is the head of transparent unit. he brought to be papers. [applause] our second speaker proposing the motion who needs no introduction, but i shall childless i'm. -- but i shall try out all the same julie. julian assange has facilitated more acts of whistleblowing than any other individual, leavin. leading american politicians have called for his assassination. he has written an article which he describes wikileaks the intelligence agency of the people. i think that is a rather nice phrase. we have a senior editor politics. he writes about politics, economics, world affairs, and when he is not right thing, he tends to be speaking. you may have seen him on other political programs. before joining "the the new statesman," he worked for channel 4. writing aand your wed biography

then wikileaks publisher julian assange participates in the debate on the value of whistleblowers. then the house debate on 2012 funding for amtrak. a daylong discussion on the state of race in america. among the participants, juan williams, fox news commentator, house sharpton, spike lee, and from the abstinence -- from the aspen institute. aspen institute.

won't comment on their ongoing investigation against wake leaks and julian assange but is more time passes seems their goal of prosecuting him appears to be falling apart. i for one congratulate p.j. crowley for pointing out the obvious but both we do leaks and a new york times perform the exact same function of leaking classified information to the american people the same function and function that newspapers and journalists have been playing for years. and now it's the latest battle to consume capitol hill battle over the budget and a potential government shutdown a shutdown would not only close down the government here in washington d.c. but also leave those waiting for passports social security checks and medicare benefits outlook hold so have d.c. politicians forgotten about what the actual effects of a shutdown would be on the american people all in favor of talking and flavor of lofty talking points and what do the american people the american taxpayers feel about this looming shutdown producer lindsey garfield took to the streets of d.c. to find out. there's been a lot of talk ove

to you getting killed is terrorism and julian assange is engaged in terrorism so i think the managed care. he's done in the so much yes there is going is enormous damage to our country and i think he needs to be prosecuted to the full fullest extent of the law and if that becomes a problem i need to change the law and leaking the material is deplorable agree with the pentagon's assessment that the people will be least going to have blood on their hands it sure looks to me on the facts that mr science and wiki leaks are violated america's espionage with great. negative consequences for us. are a short while later it came out of the government in prison to the man they suspect of leaking the government documents and the video to wiki leaks p.f.c. bradley manning however there's never been an official says. ation made between manning and songe and then of course came the massive leak of diplomatic cables it was like christmas for the media when the cables came out exposing our every facet of the us government feels about foreign policy foreign leaders stuff issues and that is just scrat

among the participants is wikileaks publisher is julian assange. this is 90 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon. canry

it is the latest installment obtained by wikileaks founder julian assange. he got the materials from private bradly manning and downloaded the while on the job. he was arrested in iraq in may of last year and incarcerated every since. >> mayomi wants him released. they appealed to the president for manning's release. >> the obama administration said the disclosure of the guantanamo documents could damage national security and we strongly condemn the leaking of the sensitive information. >> nothing about the information thus far have been proven and that begs the question why no trial and why no plans for a trial and why is this man in solitary confinement for a year. >> mannings' supporters said there is a war crime showing a apache news crew killing the driver in iraq in 200divide . manning is scheduled to be moved to a prison in forth levonworth any day now. >> a new poll on cyber security 71 believe that the safety of the our cities are a issue of national security. 66% of americans think new laws need to be writ tone keep information condition. the penal

among the participants is wikileaks publisher julian assange. the event was hosted by the new statement and the frontline club. this is 90 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon. can everyone here in the back? it is good to see so many of you here. i am the vetter -- i am the editor of "the new statesman." when we announce that we were having this debate, we put it up on our website. in a matter of hours, we had sold all their tickets. we thought about shi

julian assange. >> i would ask you to do your research before making comments like that. >> there was a "the guardian" journalists, and they said they were informants. >> point of order. we are in the process of suing "the guardian" and -- you are welcome to sue was iffy -- to join us if you would like. >> there are some of point of view that are exactly counter to what you are saying. >> lives have no social utility. the view abuse is a terrible thing. that is why i was involved. to protect us all from the abuse of libel laws, actualize. ere must be a reurse, and that records is in the courts and in the crt of public opinion. >> thank you very much. >> another point of information, i would lead that was to be able to finish his speech. >> as i said, i very muclook forward to them releasing the information about the russian cret service killing journalists. the fact that the cia does not hunt down and kill its critics, they do. i would like to see that more reflected in your work. daniel said that by and large notice that the complaints of human rights abuses happenings that dispropor

julian assange. >> i would ask you to do your research before making comments like that. there was a "the guardian" journalists, and they said they were informants. >> point of order. we are in the process of suing "the guardian" and -- you are welcome to sue was iffy -- to join us if you would like. >> there are some of point of view that are exactly counter to what you are saying. >> lives have no social utility. the view abuse is a terrible thing. th is why i was involved. to protect us all from the abuse of libel laws, actualize. there must be a recourse, and that records is in the courts and in the court of public opinion. >> thank you very much. >> another point of information, i would lead that was to be able to finish his speech. >> as i said, i very muclook forward to them releasing the information about the russian secret service killing journalists. the fact that the cia does not huntown and kill its critics, they do. i would like to see that more reflected in your work. daniel said that by and large notice that the complaints of human rights abuses happenings

founder, julian assange, is part of a forum on the role of whistle-blowers. then we will look at the affect of arab unrest in north africa. after that, the sec chairman on his agency's agenda. >> the ipod mini is no more. i give you the ipod nano. >> mike daisey comments on the world as he sees it. his latest, the agony and the ecstasy of steve jobs. >> all my monologue come out of a collision with thoughts. >> find out more sunday night on c-span's "q&a". you can also download podcasts online at c-span.org/podcast. >> nice, a discussion of the question "do whistle-blowers' make the world a safer place?" julian assange, journalist, and former intelligence officers are on the panel. this is one hour and a half. [applause] [applause] >> good afternoon. can everyone here me in the back? good to see so many of you here. i am the editor of "the new statesman." when we announced we were having this debate, we put it up on our website and tickets were sold out in a matter of hours. we talked about switching venues. we had a long commute for people who wanted to come

we can we expect our julian assange tries vowed to continue revealing the world secrets speaking in an exclusive interview with r t v controversial whistleblower also warned of a political embarrassment any country would face if it helped extradite him to the u.s. if we look at our work. twelve months think about that for all we stories that have come out actually happened in the world before two thousand and ten people going over so what is it that we don't know. there's an enormous hidden world out there and we don't know until much much from. exist right now and i really think. we only released. secret classified confidential material we didn't have any top secret cables the really embarrassing stuff the really serious stuff was in our collection too late but it is still there so what is it that people need to not be comfortable. what they receive from from the media he's all that is happening inside states he's trying to get up an execution case for me to be nice to the united kingdom wants to keep at the various levels wants to keep it's good management united states. so if the u.

i did a coaching over reporting for us with the leaks founder julian assange has vowed to continue revealing the world's secrets speaking in an exclusive interview to us the controversial whistleblower told us the media could have helped prevent many conflicts around the world one of the hopeful things that i discovered is that it really every war that has started in the past fifteen years has been a result of the media why. media could have stopped it if they had searched people they had. frequented government propaganda they could have stopped it but what does that mean. that means basically populations that live. populations have to be or population will remain and we'll. go into so if we have a quick media environment also have a peaceful. when there was for demonstrations in egypt praised for everyone around . them. so facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying mission and seventy percent. here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people all seem we need i would say it's all accessible to us and there was. just a short excerpt from the full version of our inte

us is a short excerpt from a full interview if you'd like to see the full thing with julian assange and you can it's being shown here on monday throughout the day on. the world's eyes will be on london today has prince william and kate middleton tie the knot in a lavish ceremony at westminster abbey thousands of police officers were deployed in one of the biggest security operations in the u.k. indeed over forty people were arrested in the run up to the event for him i thought intelligence officer told me the police approach was heavy handed. they have to take measures to protect the event from any such terrorist groups irish republican dissidents or middle eastern terrorist groups and i don't think anyone complains about the fact that they're trying to stop stop protestors xor exercising their right to freedom of expression around the world waiting is of much greater concern because the police are talking about such squads and drawn raids and in fact there's the sort of measures that are indeed used in countries like syria but we used against u.k. protesters including notably leading p

and other countries julian assange has been speaking to r.t. and says it's only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known if we look at our work over the last. twelve months think about that so all the stories that have come out actually happened in the world before two thousand and ten people didn't know about it so what is it that we don't know about now. there's an enormous hidden world out there that we don't know about until much much later on but it exists right now you know the release of diplomatic cables we only released . secret classified confidential material we didn't have any top secret cables the really embarrassing stuff the really serious stuff was in our collection to release we didn't store it so what is it. people need to be comfortable. what they receive from me from the main you know is all that is happening you know i'd stayed in strive to get up an execution case for me united states the united kingdom wants to keep at the various levels wants to keep its good relationship with united states. so if

we're giving spouter julian assange hundreds of out to continue revealing the world secrets in an exclusive interview with r t the controversial whistleblower also warned of the political embarrassment any country might face if they helped extradite him to the u.s. if we look at it i'll work over the last. twelve months think about that so all the stories that have come out actually happened in the world before two thousand and ten people didn't know about it so what is it that we don't know about now. there's an enormous and he didn't walled up that we don't know about until much much later on it exists there right now and i did release a diplomatic cables we only released secret classified confidential material we didn't have any top secret cables the really embarrassing stuff the really serious stuff wasn't in our collection to me but it is still are there so what is it. people need to not be comfortable. what they receive from me from the media is all that is happening you know i had states is trying to get up the next edition trace for me you know the united kingdom wants to keep it at

and other countries but julian assange has been speaking with r.t. saying it's only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known if we look at. our work. think about all the stories that have come out. actually happened in the world before two thousand and ten but people didn't know about it so what is it that we don't know about now. there's an enormous hidden world out there that we don't know about until much much later it exists there right now you know it really is a diplomatic cables we only released secret classified confidential material we didn't have any top secret cables really embarrassing stuff the really serious stuff wasn't in our collection to look at it is to update it so what is it. people need to not be comfortable with what they receive from it from the media. is all that is happening you know it states he's trying to get up an exhibition case for me to the united states united kingdom when stickley at the various levels once that he gets good relationship with united states. so it's u.k. was to reject and you w

assange and his bride to continue revealing the world's secrets exclusive interview with a controversial whistleblower says the media could help prevent many conflicts around the world. one of the hopeful things that i discovered is that nearly every war that had started in the past fifty years has been the result of media a lot of. the media could have stopped it if it had searched the people that had an . interim government were going to eclipse them but what does that mean. that means basically populations that are not. populations have to be fooled by the world's population is that we only and only we can open our eyes going to war so if we have a good media environment then who also has peace from the time when it was smaller demonstrations in egypt that use facebook and twitter if people are going to look up front of things so facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying machine because they're being put into. he we have the world's most comprehensive database about people all cd we know that's great it's all excess of all us intelligence so we can watch our full interview

assange is still in england facing his own uncertain future r.t.r. the rare opportunity to sit down with a saw to get his take on events of his upcoming trial and on the greater issue of transparency so as explains the artes lore and it has massive leaks which have already been revealed by wiki leaks are just the tip of the iceberg but only begin to scratch the surface of how much is out there but we don't know about. if we look at. the last. twelve months think about that so all these stories that have come out actually happened in the world before two thousand and ten people didn't know about it so what is it that we don't know about you know. there's an enormous hidden world out there that we don't know about until much much later on that he exists there right now you know the release of diplomatic cables we only released. secret classified confidential material we didn't have any top secret cables the really embarrassing stuff the really serious stuff wasn't in our collection to reverse it it is still out there so what is it. people need to not b

assange enemy number one of the u.s. government so let's hope that manning continues to move up in the poll before the voting ends tomorrow i think any publicity about his treatment will help draw attention to this case and the u.s. abuse of one of their own citizens so they go out and vote. yesterday senators john mccain and john kerry introduced a bill establishing an internet privacy bill of rights something that consumers and civil liberties organizations have been waiting for for a long time now this measure would create rules that would force internet companies to explain to users how they collect their data who's going to be able to view it and how they intend to keep it safe so for those companies wanting to get their hands on your info think of your name their e-mail address maybe even your credit card numbers they won't be able to do that without your individual consent and web companies would also have to offer users the ability to opt out of data collection and all tech giants find even a microsoft intel and

assange you think anyone else is likely to face legal action over this. well there has been talk in the past when. julia signs that there are other people government is looking at it and so we have to wait and see i don't think they really can successfully prosecute to resign she's much like the new york times or the washington post he's a media outlet and there is protecting states and so there were a very hard time prosecuting him unless they worked a lot and in a way that really is unconscionable bradley manning is a more difficult situation you know he is the alleged leaker years and have the same rights as the lead of the president but i think president obama said he believes in a transparent government he believes in protecting was a glorious all braley music use of doing is exposing documents that showed war crimes other cruel behavior and other misdeeds president obama should discourage the prosecution instead of real value in u.s. foreign policy so it's not an abusive use of empire or part of an international community ok kevin zeese attorney mem

assange well his laptop and three cell phones were searched by border and customs agents and i think we all know that these two men being detained at the border was for the safety of the american people or to protect the border this was to punish and intimidate them for supporting wiki leaks as well as to look at all the personal information that they had on those digital devices now these types of searches and seizures which should up haul both the people of the united states and the courts of the united states have now been expressly authorized by an appeals court which ruled that laptop cell phone digital camera stager camera seizures and searches can happen without any suspicion of what so. ever so they get your privacy if you ever plan to leave and re-enter the united states again because the government can't be trusted to use this exception only on suspected child pornographers or terrorists oh wait they have a pattern of targeting people for political reasons and often provide absolutely zero reason why everybody let's just take a moment to mourn the fourth amendment may it re

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you'll hear from wikileaks founder, julian assange. >> it is obvious that whistle whether or not blowers make the world a safer place. it doesn't mean everything in government should be exposed, but what it does mean is the system of breaking alleged laws is working and that must be kept going that way otherwise laws can want reflect the -- cannot reflect the reality we are in. >> watch this debate from the frontline club in london tonight at 8 eastern on c-span. tonight on c-span#, a discussion on what defines corruption. you'll hear from the professors and a high ranking law official and what the courts deem corrupt and whether the american public agrees. >> rangel would say he was not a crook and arguing that he had not received any personal enrichment, no money, no actual dollars in his pocket which was his definition of corruption. redidn't actually get any money, but i think there's few regular americans who look at the host of conduct that mr. rangel was ultimately found to have engagedded in and think it's not corrupt. in that way i might defer from our keynote speaker to say it'

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you will hear from wikileaks founder julian assange as he debates on whether whistle- blowers' make the world a safer place and at what risk. >> i think it is obvious that whistle-blowers make the world a safer place, and when we tried to the counter arguments, it does not mean that everything in government should be exposed. what it does mean is that the system of breaking the alleged laws is working, and it must be kept going that way, otherwise wars cannot reflect the reality that we are in. >> watch this debate from the front line club in london, tonight, did o'clock p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tonight, on c-span two, a discussion on what defines corruption. he will hear from law professors and a high-ranking just department official -- justice department official. >> charles rangel would argue that he was not correct. he then on the last day when he was censured, he was arguing he had not received any personal enrichments, no money had gone into his pocket, which was his definition of corruption. i think there are very few regular americans that would look at the host of conduct tha