Been made. The mayor of San Cristobal has been detained, the government trying to crack down on protests. The Supreme Court gaoled another mayor for 10 months. This is a pattern known as the princeton mum. Gaining fame by telling ivy league college. Most thing love just happens it doesnt. As the death toll from the mongthlopping protests increased, Nicolas Maduro sent a force to reclaim an opposition stronghold. He is hurling insults,including references to a series of American Horror movies involving a murderous doll. Translation you are the chucky of fascism, burning, crazies. Joining us now is the former president of peru, one of four former heads of states calling for calm. He is at stamford university. Despite president Nicolas Maduros best efforts, protesters returned to the community, and the opposition leaders wife told protesters that her husband message was i call for the country to keep the pressure on. How concerned are you . Where do you think the violence will go . To be candid, im very concerned. Unlikely unlike what we had in peru, at the beginning of the 90s, when we had also dictatorship of im afraid that we have a long way to ri coup rate democracy, freedom, freedom of expression, and independence of democratic institutions. I would like to call on president Nicolas Maduro as we have done when my colleagues those of brazil and chile, and myself, we made a pronouncement to call on both sides to recuperate the sense that the democracy needs to be en routed. It is not sufficient to be elected democratically. Assuming one is elected democratically. We have a normal responsibility to govern democratically. To respect the independence of the institutions. You cannot silence the pps that are different from what the government have. Thats certainly date day. You cannot violate human rights. Theres already 29 young men and women is only guiltiness is to screen for freedom for democracy. The announcement. I was going to quote that. You said we con do you think that will happen, that the debate will come together. Is there anyone in the region that can get Nicolas Maduro to sit down. Many of the president s in south america have been silent. Well, let me be frank. Ambiguity in silence and in for a position that is evident in violation of human rights. The silence and ambiguity could be part of complicity. Not only the optimum head of state of the region, with whom i have enormous respect. But also, american states that have the responsibility to supervise the quality of democracy and the rich. Also the responsibility to implement the American Democratic charter that was signed on september 11, 2001, in lima peru, assigned for everyone. Todays head of estates could not close their eyes to what is happening, brothers, country within our hemmize fer hemisphere. I hope that the world will rise their voice. Independently whether you are within the region or outside the region, i hope the United States will be a little bit more firm. Im not calling the United States to intervene. Its our relationship. But let me tell you democracy does not have a nationality, just as much human rights does not have skin colour. So its a universal value. But what should the United States do . Nicolas maduro is talking out both sides of his mouth. At one side he proposes a Peace Commission to president obama, and on the other saying that the u. S. Is behind the process and his foreign minister is calling secretary of state john kerry a murderer. What should the u. S. Do . Should the government impose sanctions . United states is part of the american hemisphere, and is the leader of certain democratic values, and i respect it a lot. But with a with the silence that could be misinterpreted. We are seeing this rhetoric, like we heard a moment ago from Nicolas Maduro. Hes taken to calling his opponent chuckies, a reference to American Films featuring a homicidal redheaded child, chucky. He called a couple of opposition leaders crazy chuckies, and made an appalling joke about the man he barely beat in an election calling him chucky lucky, saying Henriques Capriles was sexually assaulted by a guerilla whilst visiting africa and lucky to survive. Its almost impossible to believe this stuff. President Nicolas Maduro is prisoner of the Venezuelan Armed forces. From there you can extrapolate what the next circumstances would be. If they do not raise their voices, it is a time to tell people who use the door of democracy to kidnap the institutions and set up the scenario for the reelections under the name of 21st century socialism. I do not understand what that means. So, the social responsibility of the world is to keep up the values. Now, i encourage the young people, men and women of venezuela, not to stimulate violence, but dont silence your voice. Use all the mediums and i hope that the leaders of the world will rise their voice in the name of democracy, because the voices of democracy are much louder than the tanks of ukraine, and much louder than the dictators or the governments in the region. Former peruvian president. We appreciate you joining us and appreciate your thoughts. We are hiving in a world where our every move can be tracked, data stockpiled with a click of the mouse, with every cell phone call, with the cars gps and in other ways most people are unaware of. How pervasive is the problem. With surveillance, is there any way to protect our privacy. Joining us is a paul it zer price history winning journalist. Her new book is dragnet nation, a quest for privacy and freedom. Extended surveillance is relentless in every imaginable way. How worried should be be. It is a great question. Civil onlies is invisible and the consequences are invisible. People legitimately wonder why they should be concerned. Theres two big reasons, one is when the government has so much information about people, they can make arbitrary and unjust decisions about people, putting them in gaol or on a no fly list. Im worried about a country where we are scared to talk about things that might be subversive. Separately, i think the commercial side. Theres so much data about us, they have a lot of leverage over us. If they want to show us a higher available. That was surprising. We were talking about the government side of things. I know you went into germany, and you talked to people with archives, the german please. It will be fabulous. That is the thing. We are not living in communist east germany, but its worth reminding ourselves that the repress if secret police only had data about a quarter of the citizens. Now our government has it on 100 of us. The question is when is the right oversight we can put in place over our government to make sure they dont use it in an unauthorised which. You went through, and here is a list of things you found. They had everywhere you lived. Every phone number. 3,000 email exchanges, 26,000 web searches, shopping habits. Internal wall street Journal Communications that jumped out at me. Who can actions that stuff . Each one is what a Different Party had. More than half of them are wearing google. They have a lot of information. Between the searches and email and maps and android phone, it was a big junk. Incredibly detailed information. Precisely when you were searching for Different Things, and you could see you were working on one thing and you were distracted and working on something else. Its incredible. I wanted that informs about myself. I thoughtify saw how my mind leaped all over the place, i may learn something. This is like a quantified self. I could wear a tracker and make my mind behave. I cant get my data. You could get data from other places. How many people can access that . It depened. The data troubling about the wall street Journal Communications was with the government. When i asked for customs and boarder control files, i found that the wall street journal, through a technological glitch had been sending internal things, that i had to get my boss to approve travel for, and it was in my file. It could be sent to counterterrorism for analysis and all sorts of playerses that clues. You talk about how the facial recognition could lead stores to know all sorts of things about you the second up walk in the door of. The stores are getting excited about facial recognition technology. Some experimented with the cameras at the door. Basically now they are alerting them to known shoplifters. They dream of a day and write about this, where some of the best shoppers and Sales Assistants because i feel ill get the worst ones. You spent a lot of money trying to protect your privacy and brought an example. I was frustrated by not escaping telephone data. I put my mobile in this bag, a metallined bag. Its blocking signals. They cant track you. Calls. Its an inconvenient way to protect your privacy, because i cant make calls. A lot of things out there that can help you protect privacy are iffy, and theres no way of having quality control. With the bag, the only way to test it is if someone calls and is doesnt ring. Thats good. But it doesnt tell me that some silent pinging couldnt be going on. Thats true of a lot of privacy product. I worried that im pleased there are new Services Offering privacy, but we cant verify how successful they are. Thats a tough one. How would you tell someone who is not really into privacy, that does want to protect themselves, it . There are a couple of simple things that work. I switched off of google search. I didnt want a Service Engine that stores my history. I use one without a log. They dont know who i am, and never kept a record of my searches. I switched to using technology in my web browser that blocks a lot of invisible ad and change your passwords. The most common password is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or password. If you up your game, thats the thing to do. What about those that defend governments. They say whats the big deal, if i dont do anything wrong, what do i have to worry about . I agree. But we dont have evidence that the civil apps is a protecting us. We have evidence that every time theres a terrorist attempt, the boston bombing, underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, there was data and it was not flagged appropriately. What we so is mass surveillance, theres information about everyone, we havent seen good evidence. So much information, its a fascinating read. Back. As the irs faces backlash over streeting conservative groups harshly, new allegations emerge the alleging widespread corruption, misconduct, managerial abuse and wasting taxpayer money and potentially costing millions more in uncollected revenue. Are the problems contained within a few officers or do they represent a larger issue within the irs as a whole. Joining us is a professor of the clem of law, writing for analyst. Com. Good to see you, david. You wrote that the negligence at the irs offices, including new york, the largest in the company let tax cheats get away with it. Potentially this costs the government millions and millions. How much revenue is being lost. We dont know the official number the irs has. Its about a Million Dollars a day. I dont put credence in that number. What is significance antonio is i had, over the last 20 years, hundreds of people i talked to tell me about pervasive problems with managers. And consistently they talk about the high standards of conduct, the lack of abuse of taxpayers, but about people who are promoted into management positions where theres a lot of favouritism and abuse of people. Anyone that works in a big office for a corporation may have some familiarity with the problem of uneven management. Thats a question. What could have happened here, this favouritism unbalance the work loads, lazy managers. It seems to be something that places. It does. What is significant here is that the irs is under incredible stress. The size and complexion of the tax system has grown. It is the tax police agency, like the cops riding around in cars are the street police. So as a result there are not enough people to do the work that needs to be done, making internal problems worse. In this case a longtime irs attorney named jane kim went on the record. She sent a 33 page letter to 10 u. S. Senators, which is why i was able to write my column, attributing specific things. Many are verifiable, if there is a manager coming in late, leaving early, and no one will do timesheets. That would be a crime to lie on the crime sheets as a federal employee. If some lawyers have no work to do and others are ordered to work seven days a week, that is a violation of federal labour laws or policy. Its not just a question of losing revenue, its that taxpayers are not getting treated or getting the attention that they deserve. Exactly. You and i assuage earners, we basically cant cheat on the taxes. We have an efficient system, the mar very well of other systems around the world. People who are an investors, ive been one, business owners. Ive been one of the those. Income from those sources is not verified the way your pay check is to the government. Thats where you need enforcement efforts. Lawyers have been told to concede big multi million cases, simply because they dont have the revenue. Obvious tax cheats are getting away with not paying their taxes. The rest of us need to be concern beside a system that only taxes wage earners. There were complaints about drug use in government facilities that werent addressed until complaints went outside the irs. Is there a systematic problem in the irs . I think theres a systematic problem in the irs in the assistance that any institution that is way overworked does not perform well. When i was at the l. A. Times i wrote about what was going on with the l. A. Pe. They didnt have enough officers and you see the behaviour that people are complaining about. What ms kim is complaining about, she says theres a high degree of professionalism and treating taxpayers well, that the cincinnati story, i have shown to be nonsense, there was no scandal in manufactured. On the other hand, that systematic problem question, if you look at what happened, there was higher and more intense scrutiny of conservative groups compared to licial groups, even though the fbi found no crimes, we still had louis lerner coming out pleading the fifth. Win under criminal investigation will exercise a right under the constitution and not testify. Secondly, importantry, the only groups with tax status tape away were liberal groups. The reason the conservative group came under cuty. Think of a building inspector looking at plans saying this building will cop apps and collapse, arguing that those that submit plans that dont meed the law, they change your. Presented. Were the liberal ones presented well. If you look at the numbers. You hit upon what is the key problem. More of these conservative applications had problems, and the person that made the did you suggest in cincinnati to scrutinise these is a selfdistributed conservative republican who said this was entirely a matter of professional judgment, and his view, and that of his staff as to these applications, in their fulfilment of their duty, and all is compounded by a 1959 regulation from the icen hour years that is goofy. Theres no evidence whatsoever that this was targetting. Its unfortunate the irs used that word. Its clear that this was professionalism. But kim, the lawyer that spoke up here. There are several other irs employees reaching out here today. Her concern is if you dont deal in the environment of not enough staff, you are going to get mistreatment of taxpayers. Thats a concern. We should be concerned about that. We need an irs that is large enough to do the job of raising the money we need. Theres no liberties, no wealth creation, no United States of america without taxes. It does affect all of us. Tonight. Leading from behind was the phrase an advisor used to describe an approach to the crisis in libya. Its been resurrected by critics, clamming actions with respect to syria and iran. Is the thought of american decline been channelling ration. Bruce jones is author of still ours to leave america, rising powers and the tension between rivalry and constraint, hes a fellow at the Brookings Institution and has past experience at middle east peace negotiations and work that the United Nations and the world bank. Hes a consulting professor at stanton and made the time to see us here today. The book is still ours to lead, you thought of calling it still ours to lose, but you thought it was too offensive. Part of what led me to write of book is we spent a lot of time contemplating American Leadership with the dominating military power. As an important part but not the only thing. We talk about american decline. I look hard at the fundamentals of american power. When you look at the military strength, i reach a conclusion that we are an enduring power. Theres no way well lose our position as a world power. Theres no working paper that can challenge us or the suite of tools that we have. We hear about the rise of the bricks. They are a divided state. Who are the bricks . Brazil, russia, china. They are important actors, playing a big role in the world statement. They are important, but their interests sometimes overlap the powers. Sometimes theyll challenge us but have nothing like the ability to challenge us. Really, the only United States is still in a position to lead the internationals. In that light you have written in every region critics decry the lack of leadership. The question that brings up to me is how can we win. If we withdraw, we get these complaints. If we intervene you get the yankee go home. Sometimes you have to take the pain of leadership. The case i try to make is when we are effective at leading, its not just by ourselves, thats what i meant by head, not dominate. There are a lot of countries, india, brazil. We look at us to see how we are going. We have to spend a lot of energy and time coel esing and lead with a breeder coalition. As we make the argument, america still would be the world leading power for a long time. You point out in interesting ways how much for powerful we are on so many levels than the rest of the world