As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly clear that he is thinking about the 702 program when he talks about not wittingly collecting. After this hearing, i went to him and said, you know, you were wrong. It was perfectly clear that he had absolutely forgotten the existence of the 215 program. This is not an untruth or falsehood, this was a mistake on his part. We all make mistakes. I would say i made a mistake as well thereafter because i did not think to counsel him that we should immediately send a classified letter to the committee c
Scuffle with Court Officers as a trial for crew members accused of abandoning ship gets under. I College Student athletes fight for their rights. They want to be compensated for the use of their names and images and are taking the this. Caa to court to make it happen. Welcome to aljazeera. We begin with breaking news out of afghanistan. U. S. Defense officials confirmed five nato soldiers killed there are American Special forces. It happened in the southern part of the country while coalition and afghan troops were conduct ago security operation ahead of this weekend said president ial Runoff Election. It appears the americans may have been killed by friendly fire when a Coalition Aircraft may have released a strike on their passion. 35 nato soldiers have been killed so far this year in afghanistan. Most combat troops will be pulling out of there, but a small contingent of u. S. Forces may stay in the country. Good morning, im stephanie sy. Im john henry smith. Our other top story, tha
Shooting a man in the back. The one thing nobody disagrees with is that it shouldnt have happened. Its sunday, june 14th. Im ali velshi. Less than one week after the burial of george floyd another black man has been killed by a Police Officer after an alleged use of force. When is it going to stop . Lets get you up to speed. Protesters and mourners gather at the scene where rashard brooks was shot and killed in a wendys parking lot in atlanta. Protesters filled the streets in atlanta demanding justice. The wendys Fast Food Restaurant was set on fire. A heavy Police Presence remains in the area. Last night the Atlanta Police chief erica shields resigned and the officer involved in the shooting has been fired. I want to take you back to friday night. Mr. Brooks fell asleep at the wendys drivethrough when officers were called to the scene because a man was asleep in his car. The Police Interaction with brooks lasted nearly 30 minutes. It was entirely peaceful until officers tried to handc
Await the attorney generals remarks here. I know weve outlined a couple of these specific charges and claims within these documents, but theyre also demanding changes which is even more important. What types of changes do the Ferguson Police department need to make . Well ana, the Justice Department sent out about 26 recommendations to try to get the department to fix the way it handles the weigh way it interacts with the Africanamerican Community, requiring the police to be trained to ensure officers arent using bias in their police work. Seems like a general recommendation but there are specific steps that they have to do to make sure the 60 or so officers on the force are able to do their jobs and protect and serve the Minority Community there. Another recommendation is that officers get out of their cars simply be more communityoriented instead of sitting in their cars and get to know some of these people in the community again that theyre supposed to be protecting and serving, and
Military bases here in the United States. More on that in a moment because right now oklahoma is under siege from a severe storm system pap state of emergency declared in that state. People there in places like catoe county already had to hide from tornadoes earlier in the week again are burrowing in storm cellars, braces for what meteorologists say could be the worst day yet this year. Our meteorologist is tracking the storm on radar. We see pictures menacing looking clouds. How bad will it get . Put it this way, jake typically the month of may will give the u. S. One, maybe two tornado outbreaks. This is a tornado in nebraska on wednesday, 48 confirmed tornadoes. Thats an outbreak. Yesterday we had another nine. Today most likely is going to be worse than yesterday an saturday the biggest threat for the entire week. During the month of may, 276 tornadoes on average. So it is the biggest risk. It is the biggest threat for this month. Take a look. I want to mention, this was a slow sta