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Foundation discussed the studys findings. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Hello and welcome to new america. Im the managing editor at new america which means i edit the digital weekly magazine. Im here here to welcome me to this event. The Obama Administration and the press surveillance post9 11 america. If you havent had a chance to see this report which i have you may want to rename the group that to protect sources say those of us who have done the job of investigative reporting the sources a...

Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. East...

Talk to them. G to that is of the way it should be. There is a link between the nsa program and others. There are government surveillance issues that have come up. Let me ask. The post had an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of these leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It catalogued how, going up against the mechanisms of the United States government has one person, can destroy lives, even for those for whom the prosecution fell apart. Do you think these early prosecutio...

To deal with china. One day where putin has heard thread after thread about his plans to re draw on russias borders. But the russian president has ignored the warnings he signed an agreement to annex the economist ukrainian republic of crimea. He says its an integral part of russia. An eight year old springvale reports. At crowd in red square cheered on by the new routine as he spoke the bottom thats frustrated and infuriated western leaders. The president showed in glory to russia as he talked ...

Have covered of deadly safety defects in its compact cars. We will speak with consumer advocate ralph nader, who is no stranger to General Motors after writing, unsafe at any speed the designedin dangers of the american automobile. He won a major settlement against gm for spying on him and trying to discredit him. Then as senator Dianne Feinstein accuses the cia of spying on Senate Staffers and their computers as they investigated the agencies torture and condition program, cia director john bre...

Thats a lesson that sadly most of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle havent learned for the simple reason that theyve never really served a single day in the minority. So the majority has chosen to take us down this path. The Silver Lining is that there will come a day when roles are reversed. When that happens, our side will likely nominate and confirm lower court and Supreme Court nominees with 51 votes, regardless of whether the democrats actually buy into this fanciful notion that ...

Being held up for no reason other than they want to make sure that if we have somebody is going to be a Circuit Court judge we have to file cloture, thats two hours, i mean two days and then we have 30 hours and then and then we have on a simply moving to a piece of legislation we waste a week getting on that because of their obstruction and delay. So, madam president , its unfortunate that my friends talk about all the great things theyve done. Ill tell you the great things theyve done. This is...

Night, J Edgar Hoovers fbi operated in total secrecy. Americans didnt really know what the fbi was doing, that there was a public fbi and a secret fbi. Everything changed. What one thing do you remember that bothered you the most when you found out about the secret fbi . Can i name two . First, one is from the first set of stolen file that i received when i was a reporter at the Washington Post. It was the very first document. It was an instruction to agents to act in such a way that they would ...

Americans didnt really know what the fbi was doing, that there was a public fbi and a secret fbi. Everything changed. What one thing the euro number do you remember that bothered you when you found out about the secret fbi . Can i name two . First, one is from the first set of stolen file that i received when i was a reporter at the washington post. It was the very first document. It was an instruction to agents to act in such a way that they would enhance the paranoia and also make people think...

Lets be realistic. What can they do more to slow down the country . What could they do more than they have artie done to stop the senate from legislating . We have all been in congress for a long time. Three of us served in the house. Senator murray has been in the senate for a long time, as have other senior members of the senate. We came here to get things done. All this happy talk coming from my republican friends harry, we know you are right. I say, why dont you vote why do you vote the way ...