ok david jumping is bradley manning from this. if i may if i may i think that you have to distinguish this case from what you've referenced earlier about people disclosing expense accounts or something like this we're talking about very very high love a communique is i think you have to distinguish between the merits of disclose your versus the merits of doing your job as a specialist to protect the interests of the game if you're going against it and bear and the government well exactly david most of these were just saying we were just to paris thing. should someone go to life imprisonment or embarrassment go ahead david. well. i don't think that that's what specialist manning is going to go to jail for specialist manning is going to go to jail for violating his contract with the united states his representation of the united states as an army so we're drawn to that what he's going to jail for and and certainly he put people at risk in fact wiki leaks redacted much of the information that specialist manning put out there and spec

manning is racially and i think you're grimly manning admitted david well i mean bradley manning admitted to something so that he could like it to like you said takes place all over the united states every single day these plea agreements where somebody comes out and says well you're going to face thirty years or we're going to give you ten years or three years and here take this and admit to that and people admit to guilt all the time so that they because they don't have the finances they don't have the ability to fight big government well and this is what we're looking at we're looking at we're looking at a closed system of military court we're bradley manning has very little choice very little chance of getting out the information that he wants to get out to the american public and that's what he said he never said i need to go to jail for a long time can you sit on it to start a conversation that we need to a conversation we need a conversation about what took place in iraq why we went to war and why we went to war in afghanistan and why we're still there in afghanistan all right gent

forces bradley manning has said why he released this document bradley manning is someone like me like many thousands of other young servicemembers who went into the military very idealistic very trusting of this government but weaving in what we are doing is was right only to witness the horrors of war the complete fallacy of why we were there the lies we're told by this government and decided to stand up and say something about it and bradley manning's voice has been much much louder because of the platform he was able to get with wiki leaks but he's one of thousands who went through that same transition and bradley manning in his own words has said this is an act of conscience that the american people don't know what's going on that we're sending soldiers to die that millions of lives are being squandered billions of dollars are being squandered in a war that people have no idea what's going on so he's aim is to stop debate about military policy and also foreign policy but at the great sacrifice is it really worth it. i would say that bradley manning knows that he made the right dec

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. and to speak more of the trial that's now way we're now joined live by political campaign. thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. some people praise bradley manning for mining for exposing america's dog secrets other people call him a traitor and blame him for endangering the nation where do you stand. what do you think there's any evidence that any of the leaks that bradley manning is allegedly responsible for have caused any harm to the united states government or military what they have caused is embarrassment because they're exposed war crimes crimes against humanity human rights abuses and diplomatic double speak where these cables rev

manning is there now getting your gridley manning admitted david well i mean bradley manning admitted to something so that he could like it to like you said takes place all over the united states every single day these plea agreements where somebody comes out and says well you're going to face thirty years or we're going to give you ten years or three years and here take this and admit to that and people admit to guilt all the time so that they because they don't have the finances they don't have the ability to fight big government and this is what we're looking at we're looking at we're looking at a closed system of military court we're bradley manning has very little choice very little chance of getting out the information that he wants to get out to the american public and that's what he said he never said i need to go to jail for a long time can you sit on and just start a conversation if you need to conversation we need a conversation about what took place in iraq why we went to. war and why we went to war in afghanistan and why we're still there in afghanistan all right gentleme

bradley manning." he is a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by the center for constitutional rights that challenges government secrecy in manning's court martial, as by the way, is democracy now! kevin, and welcome back. explain exactly what is happening at the trial. it was very unclear what would happen for the journalists, for how this trial will be covered. >> i expect we will have some sort of opening arguments that will have any sort of housekeeping issues that have to be dealt with before they can really proceed with the trial. what i can tell you about the media, having just come in, there happens to be an overwhelming amount of media. i don't think the military were prepared to handle as many cars as were coming, even though they granted 70 requests in the number was there were about 350 or so requests that were put into the military for credentials. you have had people turned away and denied access and portly, for the issue of the media, yet the story of this crowd funded court reporter or steno

your idea of what a card should be. ♪ ♪ >> i am bradley manning. >> i am bradley manning. >> bradley manning. >> now what to do about this? >> if you know nothing about bradley manning, you should help me bust him out of jail. >> jon: that is new video, their support of army private bradley manning on aiding and abetting the enemy after releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to wikileaks the website founded by julian assange who commented the u.s. government is out to set a precedent. if you communicate with the journalist and you communicate with publisher and then you communicate with the public and then you communicate with al-qaeda. so you communicate with enemies of the united states and as a result, your communication west side journalist must be punished by death or life inprison. what do you think 6 his logic chain there? >> as much as it pains me to say this, we have to distinguish between bradley manning who was a soldier who got 250,000 cables. you have to assume all of them were embarrassing to the government and julian assange who was a publisher had right to publi

everybody is really upset and bradley manning -- in bradley manning's group. when they find out none of their friends are killed, they're celebrating. it next comes back the car in front of the convoy, and iraqi car, whenever an american convoy, spy -- another story, they get off the road because they go through everything they see. that explosive device injured five people in the car and killed one of them, two adults and three children. one person killed. that co was an that coombs pointed to as being important as how he formed his desire to want to expose american crimes in iraq and afghanistan because he said everybody continue to celebrate that no americans were killed, but what about these 5 injured iraqis and one who was killed? >> last week we spoke to julian assange. he fears if he is sent to sweden, he would extradited to the u.s. where he fears a grand jury secretly will indict him -- has secretly indicted him. he talked about the bradley manning case and the two dozen witnesses set to testify in secret at bradley manning's trial. >> it is a further

inflated argument about bradley manning's motivations. but pj, i think it's worth noting that in some ways we are distracted about the statements that the government issued, is that bradley manning has blood on his hands, in fact the people who have the blood on their hands in all of this. are the people who have shot civilians on the ground and not announced that, there's been no transparency about that that's where the blood is. and i think one of the more unfortunate sides of this is we have gotten distracted as far as the fundamental conversation and agreement we need to come to relating to counterterrorism strategy and national security. >> well the reality is that has bradley manning put lives and careers at risk? real lives and careers? yes, he has. and for that, he should be punished. i think 20 years is enough and i think 20 years sends that firm message to those in government that they have a responsibility to protect the national interest, to safeguard classified material and not go down the same route that bradley manning did.

manning and julian assange instead it talks about all of bradley manning's trials and tribulations his gender issues and all of those things not really focusing as much on what is his political motivation i was in court when bradley manning testified about his political motivation and it was incredible it was one of the most moving political statements i've ever heard the film does not fair to that with regard to julian assange of course it accuses it has all kinds of character negativities about julian assange it's not a fair film in that sense at all to either of them and i think about it when i think about what's going on now and now we have a new incredible whistleblower of course. edward snowden and i keep thinking that's really great it's important he's come out with his political motivations he's made a beautiful statement and are we going to see a film about him well you know what happened when he was a child and is this what's motivating him or is it is motivation complicated by that lee should we accept what people are saying about their motivation that they have political re

am bradley manning to highlight his arrest and treatment by the u.s. government we'll talk with some of his supporters just ahead. and maine passed legislation to force companies to label genetically modified foods but what are the details of this bill and how far does it really go more on that in the other states pushing for g.m.o. labeling. it's thursday june thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well president obama has threatened to veto the reauthorization of the national defense authorization act better known as the n.d.a. over a number of concerns those concerns clear include limitations on health benefits for retirees transferring detainees out of guantanamo bay the new start treaty military pay alternative fuels purple hearts for victims of the fort hood and little rock shootings funding for afghan forces and much war in total the administration raised thirty one concerns over the revamped da but while the president talks tough house republicans are sticking to schedule with the bill's markup and more

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. well for more on this story we're now joined live by we can read spokesman kristinn hrafnsson manning is on trial for providing information to your organization your the ones who published what he gave you so do you not feel a certain amount of responsibility for his predicament now well we're a journalistic organization or war or it's a platform for a whistleblowers and sources to submit information it was anonymously and the best way to secure the people the whistleblowers is by it not knowing better than he did so i can i can say that. the neighborly manic when i read it is that he had been arrested in may two thousand and ten so it's sort of worth emph

what will be bradley manning's legacy? faiza? >> i think his legacy will be that he will put pay to obama's transparency. obama came in. he said we'll be the most transparent administration ever. bradley manning is his example of him not being transparent. >> john: chase? >> heroic example of someone who has suffered greatly to bring us truth. >> john: faiza patting of the brennan center and chase madar author of "the story of wikileaks whistle blower." thank you for your time and insight this evening. >> thank you. >> john: the on-going tragedy of syrian refugees. the stuff the media is not telling you. >> john: as the horrific violence in syria drags on, the number of those impacted by the civil war throughout the country is staggering. it's estimated that at least one million people have left syria this year alone and only six months, putting a severe strain on refugee camps throughout the region which generally contains scores of young children, as well. our next guest is a president and ceo of save the children who recently

ok david just going is bradley manning high from this. if i may if i may i think that you have to distinguish this case from what you've referenced earlier about people disclosing expense accounts or something like this we're talking about very very high love a communique i think you have to distinguish between the merits of disclose your versus the merits of doing your job as a specialist to protect the interests of the game at a high level during the games that embarrass the government well exactly david most of these were just saying we were just to various thing. should someone go to life imprisonment or embarrassment go ahead david. well. i don't think that that's what specialist manning is going to go to jail for specialist manning is going to go to jail for violating his contract with the united states his representation of the united states as an army so we're drawn to that what he's going to jail for and and certainly he put people at risk in fact wiki leaks redacted much of the information that specialist manning put out there a

manning but i did speak to the press spokesperson of the bradley manning support network today and he was very quick to point out the similarities saying that both bad did it what they did in the interests of transparency and the public's right to know marty correspondent liz wahl reporting from fort meade maryland thank you so much was. well over the weekend the guardian revealed the name of the man who leaked documents detailing the n.s.a. is top secret surveillance program on american from pewter networks this is the leaker twenty nine year old edward snowden he is a high school dropout who was a former employee of the cia so didn't work for the n.s.a. for four years through different private contractors most recently he was an employee of booz allen hamilton living with his girlfriend in hawaii and making a six figure salary but he gave it all up and here's why i'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office watches what what's happening and goes this is something that's not our place to decide the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right o

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that or a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. private manning has admitted to sending materials to wiki leaks but disputes the main charge of aiding the enemy which carries a potential life sentence sean a former m i five whistleblower who says that president obama has an appalling track record when it comes to cracking down on people seeking to enlighten the public and it's very difficult for the whistleblower to fight any personal attacks which he used to undermine him and i've seen this time and time again for example they will always try and ruin her reputation the whistleblower rather than address the issues that he has raised here she has raised and this is what they do time and time again with w

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that or a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. and to speak nor about the trial the just opened up when i joined live by david swanson a peace activist and author of war is a lie and mr swan some thank you very much indeed for joining us he now so the prosecution side of that money and put american troops and they in time nation in danger by exposing the state secrets so you can't really elegant that can you well there's no evidence for it so the argument against it is rather easy to my mind that this is an unprecedented legal case being brought by the government arguing that making secrets public through the media in dangers the united states people by aiding the enemy that is if you make something pub

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. private manning his revelations shined a light on u.s. operations in iraq and afghanistan there are even some who say they are counted as a catalyst for the arab spring uprisings about griffin the former british so u.s. soldier you told me earlier why he thinks manning chose to leave the information and of the former soldier also showed his experiences that he went through in iraq . some of the media are saying that manning is a traitor who risked their lives of u.s. citizens are you are you buying that no not at all manning had access to a huge amount of information and did and do thousands of other employees of the united states government he saw that in

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. we can fix spokesman kristinn hrafnsson says that the clampdown on freedom of speech in the us will not stop people from blowing the whistle on the government's wrongdoings this is a. strategy tendency that is extra you can sue the phone records that were taken for twenty general should be associated press the folks rose in tears well. let's not forget that the obama more whistleblowers have been persecuted. all other presidents of the second world war combined it will not stop. there will always be great people there who filled with the right ideas and. sometimes they need to break the rules to get information out to the people because the people have the

how are they going to go after bradley manning? >> well, the prosecution in their opening statement went through a very detailed methodical point by point time line of when he arrived in iraq, what he leaked and when he decided to leak it. they're going to show that he leaked these things and he knew that these things could aid the enemy. >> suarez: we're in a situation where we have a defendant who has already admitted committing the core crime. so when his defense team gave their opening argument in the outlines of their defense, what are they going to say on bradley manning's behalf when they put his case on. >> they're not arguing that bradley manning leaks confidential information. they're saying that the defense said in his opening argument that bradley manning was young, naive, but good intention. the good intentions meaning that he was essentially thinking of himself as a whistle blower. he saw things in iraq what he considered a disregard for iraqi life in particular but he found so objectionable that he thought there wasn

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. robert manning says that he leaked the material because he felt the people had the right to know that the u.s. military had little regard for human life when fighting its wars in iraq and afghanistan certainly being world wide demonstrations in support of the embattled on the private over the weekend indeed with the thousands rallying in front of the courthouse where the trial will take place canada germany even south korea have also seen similar rallies and is on his marina portnoy reports his court martial process begins at a time when the u.s. is accused of being anything but truthful or transparent the military court martial against private first class

manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that are a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. documents obtained by mining exposed alleged misdeeds carried on by the american military in iraq and afghanistan and caused an uproar among the international community and my colleague laurie sushi spoke to a former british sailors soldier about griffin who explained what he believes drove manning to lead this secret data some of the media saying that manning is a traitor who risk the lives of u.s. citizens if you're buying that no not at all manning had access to a huge amount of information as did and do thousands of other employees of the united states government he saw that information within that information actions and activity that were illegal and

am bradley manning to highlight his arrest and treatment by the u.s. government we'll talk with some of his supporters coming up. it's june thirteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching our t.v. well it's thursday and so that means it's time for our weekly tech report this week we wanted to focus on the effects of the national security agency leaks on our internet companies and the american public just to recap what we discovered last week the guardian in the washington post revealed that the n.s.a. has a program called prism which allows the n.s.a. to access mehta data from some of the biggest online companies in the world so think google apple facebook microsoft yahoo you tube a.o.l. you name it so that means that this agency can get private communications like e-mail searches chat logs and private messages all and sometimes they can do it in real time the prism program is justified under the foreign intelligence surveillance act and is designed to monitor foreigners however. many american citizens ultimately fall under

against bradley manning did you face any hindrances from u.s. authorities when compiling information and doing your research. well i haven't had any sort of like persecution but what i would say is that there's really little access to court records so that's a limit on my ability to reporting and then also i would share that because his audio of his statement was leaked of a statement he made on february twenty eighth there was a higher ranking military officer who did scold the press and did say that if it happened again everyone in the media center would feel the pain kevin thanks very much indeed for joining us live here not chemical stoner who's written extensively on the case of bradley manning and we could leaks thank you. this week so britain brought in a row about its own guantanamo bay prison closed and it was revealed that up to ninety afghan nationals are being detained in secret and without charge at the ukase camp bastion base as ulti sort of a fun up some of being held there for more than a year. e.-k. lawyers described this is a s

government versus private first class bradley manning what is his trial all about protecting state and military secrets for a show trial scapegoating one individual does this trial send a chilling warning to would be whistleblowers and to journalists and what does aiding the enemy mean in the age of the internet. to cross-talk the bradley manning trial i'm joined by my guests in washington barry he is the washington d.c. director of code pink and we also have david sheldon he is an expert in military law all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it tell you if i can go to you first as this trial started we knew bradley manning is going to sort of at least twenty years in prison so what's the point of all these other charges twenty years is a long time. well i think the government is trying to scapegoat bradley manning trying to get more time out of this they're looking to get a life sentence i'm sure that they're not going to try and kill bradley manning but i think that the government is trying to send a chill a

. >> i am bradley manning. >> bradley manning. >> bradley manning. >> i hope that we're. >> bradley manning. >> bill: apparently that means if bradley manning is convicted we can put phil donahue in prison for 20 years as well. joining us from washington to react fox news analyst dennis kucinich. misguided or are you on board with this? >> well, if the government lies, who is aiding the enemy. there is no proof that bradley manning had any direct communication with the enemy. that he passed information directly. some can say well, it was indirectly. there is no indication that resulted in any american soldier being hurt. >> bill: then he will be found not guilty then. >> i don't know how that's going to turn out. >> don't you believe in the nobility of the justice system in america? >> i believe in the first amendment, which is under attack by this administration. >> bill: do you believe that the government should have the right to classify information and make it a crime if that information is released. >> through 16 years in congress. >> bill: woe, woe, wait a minute. do you believe the h

army private bradley manning goes on trial facing a possible one hundred fifty four years in prison for blowing the whistle on their leisure wrongdoings of the american army. rage against the regime turkish police continue that front down projects now into the fourth day as demonstrators vent fury at what they call an authoritarian government. crossing the rubicon becomes the blowhole t.v. channel to have schooled want to lend you tube views look at some of our online video hits you like tomorrow's. news from russia and around the wall this is all see with me thanks for joining us . the trial of the american whistleblower broadly mining who handed classified military days who we could leaks is set to begin in maryland in just a few hours the army private faces a list of charges among them a zing the enemy which could land him in prison for the rest of his life confident hostile it was a video that shocked the world footage of a u.s. apache helicopter killing twelve iraqi civilians including two journalists collateral murder the cold blooded brutality of the occupation captured on film i

of coverage of bradley manning. who they called a traitor and a terrorist the same organization carried out a similar denial of service attack in august last year when the wiki leaks founder launched his exclusive interview program right here on our save. part now with this video right here of iraqi soul excuse me american soldiers are shooting civilians children among them as well it's become infamous bradley manning's leaks contain plenty of other key information and the documents highlighted the operations of the notorious background detention facility of course starts in afghanistan they revealed the prisoner numbers for example and transfers at a facility which seen allegations of wide spread torture of their own descriptions of unreported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces in fact these leaks also showed that around fifteen thousand more civilians died in iraq than previously thought activists that they made up about eighty percent of all deaths and it's revealed that people are not de

forces bradley manning have said why he released this document bradley manning is someone like me like many thousands of other young servicemembers who went into the military very idealistic very trusting of this government believing in what we are doing is was right only to witness the horrors of war the complete fallacy of why we were there the lies we're told by this government and decided to stand up and say something about it nothing has admitted to being one of we can leak sources but pleaded not guilty to valentin the espionage act well by protest stage in support of people saying the u.s. government is clamping down on the freedom of speech using the twenty five year old to set a threatening example to other potential whistle blows on his miniport not as. the military court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been in prison and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we have a severe problem with t

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truth on trial on the weekly leaks whistleblower bradley manning finally gets his day in court as activists say america is doing everything it can to silence anyone making a stand. demonstrators across turkey are met with clouds of tear gas as they clash with security forces for a fourth straight day there are mounting allegations over time by the authorities. on reaching a milestone we'll look back at the online videos that you watched helping unseat to become the finest global t.v. channel to reach one billion you tube views. new song russia and around the world this is all i see was me. and welcome to the program. one hundred and fifty four years the amount of time whistleblower bradley mining could spend behind bars he's a spanish trial begins later today in the u.s. after his arrest and twenty ten which saw him charged with aiding the enemy on two legs thousands of classified documents online content of the details for us it was a video that shocked the world footage of a u.s. apache helicopter killing twelve iraqi civilians including two journalists collateral murder the cold blooded

him bradley. bradley manning. bradley bradley manning bradley manning brothers bank which we have all my family banning. so various saw celebrities like maggie gyllenhaal and russell brand along with whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg supporting the twenty five year old bradley manning has spent over one thousand and one hundred days in pretrial detention but with the start of this trial he is finally being knowledge both by the government as well as the public. well there's another scandal brewing in washington d.c. and this time it involves sex drugs and the state department and internal memo from the state department's inspector general listed eight examples of wrongdoing by agency staff or contractors they include former secretary of state hillary clinton security detail hiring prostitutes while traveling with her u.s. ambassador who trolled public parks for paid sex and a security official in favor of two committed sexual assaults on foreign nationals the internal memo sought the light of day thanks to a law

private bradley manning's trial opens prosecutors portray him as the tory years and treacherous is the fans insist exposing alleged u.s. war atrocities meant he simply wanted to make the world a better place. journalist brace for washington's latest manhunt this for the informant who exposed the unparalleled surveillance network that spying on the lives of hundreds of millions in america alone. keep your tweets sweet british police urged twitter users to tone it down after a series of arrests for abusive online messages. at a six pm in moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshing and we start in turkey where protesters and police clashed and running battles for a ninth night tear gas and water cannon were again deployed tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a call by the prime minister for an immediate and to the unrest the capital ankara witnessed an especially harsh crackdown with squads of riot police hunting broadcasters down alleyways after breaking apart the main rally crowds of thousands also demonstrated in a sample with record numbers now being reported campaigners na