Surveillance powers, the nsas own internal audit reveals the agency has broken its own privacy rules and overstepped its Legal Authority thousands of times a year. Then we go to cairo where the Muslim Brotherhood has called for a day of rage after more than 600 people were killed on wednesday. The one thing people will not stand for in the long term is to have this kind of regressive Security State inflicted upon them. Once the targets of this authoritarian apparatus moves away from the islamists and starts imposing itself on other parts of egyptian society, then perhaps,e might see, once again a Popular Uprising against that kind of crackdown. We will speak with Sharif Abdel Kouddous in cairo and p. J. Crowley, former state Department Spokesperson, who is called for the u. S. To suspend military aid to egypt and call the ouster of Mohamed Morsi a coup. Then, didnt eightyearold spy for america . We look at how u. S. Allies in yemen used a child the place electronic chips on the man he considered to be his surrogate father. Days later, the man was killed in u. S. Drone strike. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brotherhoode muslim has called on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to join the nationwide day of rage today to protest the killings of hundreds of people in a crackdown that began with raids on two cairo sit ins. According to the health ministry, the death toll from wednesdays violence has risen to 638 with thousands more wounded. On thursday, the government authorized Security Forces to use live ammunition to defend themselves and public buildings. President obama responded to the situation in egypt from Marthas Vineyard where he is on vacation. He condemned the violence, but stopped short of calling it a coup or announcing cuts to the 1. 5 billion in aid to egypts military. While we want to sustain our relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. As a result, this morning we notified the Egyptian Government that we are canceling our biannual joint military exercise , which was scheduled for next month. Going forward i have asked my team to assess the implications of the actions taken by the interim government and further steps that we may take as necessary with respect to the u. S. Egyptian relation. The state Department Spokesperson said the administration is reviewing aid to egypt and all forms. We will get an update from cairo with Sharif Abdel Kouddous later. N the broadcast the Washington Post reports the National Security agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its Legal Authority thousands of times each year since it was given broad new spy powers by congress in 2008. In a separate post story, the leader of the secret court that supposed to oversee the spy program says its ability to do so is limited and that it must trust the government to report when it improperly spies on americans. We will have more on the story with Alexander Abdo after the headlines. Reuters is reporting Edward Snowden began downloading documents related to widespread u. S. Spying while working for dell last april, almost a year earlier than has previously been reported breed prior stories have focused on snow and subsequent threemonth stint with contractor Booz Allen Hamilton holding. Snowden said that people associate with his father have, in his words, misled journalists into printing false claims about my situation. Snowden said neither his father nor his fathers lawyer nor his lawyers wife and spokesperson represent him in any way. In lebanon, a car bomb tore through a busy area in the southern suburb of the capital beirut thursday, killing at least 22 people. Area is a stronghold for a shiite militant group has paula hezbollah. A sunni group claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks. Thank you men expressed concern about israels approval of two new rounds of settlement homes amidst ongoing peace talks with the palestinians. He made the comments during a visit to the west bank city of ramallah. By israels continue settlement activity east of jerusalem, settlement activity [indiscernible] toward achieving peace. It is making a twostate solution impossible. The commission that issue sentencing guidelines to federal judges has unanimously voted to consider softening its framework for drug offenses. They said it would assess its own guidelines regarding prison terms based on certain amounts of drugs. In a statement, the Commission Said the attorney general eric holder signaled major shift on sentencing this week including instructing federal prosecutors to sidestep mandatory minimums for some drug offenses. A group sympathetic to syrian president Bashar Alassad disrupted traffic on the Washington Post website thursday. The breach saw some readers redirected to the website of the steering electronic army, the same group that claimed credit for hacking the twitter account of the Associated Press earlier this year. The issue stemmed from an infiltration of the ad network called out brain which the post uses to generate story recommendations for readers. Cnn and time also use outbrain and reported more minor effects from the hack. On wednesday, the New York Times website went down for about two hours, but the Company Officials cited technical issues from or to maintenance. The midt the pentagon has unveiled new measures to address the epidemic of Sexual Assault in the military. Reforms do not address the key question of whether to remove the fate of Sexual Assault cases from the military chain of command. New york senator Kirsten Gillibrand and others want to rest the control for military commanders, instead leading independent military prosecutors decided the case goes to trial. Estimated survey 26,000 people were sexually assaulted in the Armed Forces Last year. The number of actually reported Sexual Assaults for the pentagons 2012 fiscal year was roughly 3400. Of those, only 190 were center courtmartial proceeding. Ecuador has dropped a plan to preserve swaths of the amazon rain forest from oil drilling by having rich countries they do not to drill breed in a speech a saiday, president corre the plan to say parts of the National Park had raised only a fraction of the money sought. A new report commissioned by the pentagon has found none of the 107 Nuclear Reactors in the u. S. Are adequately secured against potential terrorist attack. The current level of security required of civilian run reactors fails to guard against an onslaught i any more than a small number of attackers. Among the most vulnerable reactors listed is one less than 25 miles from the white house. Are endingefenders their occupation of the Florida State capitol after 31 days. They entered the suite of Florida Republican governor rick scott three days after the acquittal of George Zimmerman to call for the repeal of floridas stand your ground law. Number ofclaimed a victories, including a promise from House SpeakerWill Weatherford to hold a hearing on the law this fall, although Governor Scott rebuffed their demands for special session. They have announced to register the amount of voters by which Governor Scott won the election in 2010. The groups executive director spoke thursday. And so it is now that i am proud to announce that our work and our power has grown too big for these halls. And that it is time for the movement to continue. And that this is the last time im going to sleep on any floor. As we announced just last week, i would like to reaffirm our intent to register 61,550 voters in the state of florida. Because we will indeed never forget. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Vacation. From it is great to have you back from puerto rico. Their loss is our gain. Yesterday you into the funeral of bill lynch here in new york. Can you talk about who he is . He was really an icon of the progressive democrats of new york city, now for more than 30 years. He was a behindthescenes guy who organized campaigns and trained political candidates. At the memorial service, at the riverside church, it was packed with hundreds of people that included all the luminaries from new york politics and both ill and Hillary Clinton as well as al sharpton, Jesse Jackson, cumbersome and wrangle congressman rangel. It was an emotional farewell of a figure who really burst on the scene in 1989 when he masterminded the Political Campaign of David Dinkins as the first africanamerican mayor of new york city. But he was also constantly putting forward progressive candidates. His most recent candidate was jon luther john lew. He helped him become city comptroller four years ago. And was also involved with president mandela. He organized the trip of Nelson Mandela to new york city shortly after angela got out of jail. He has been a major figure and always behind the scenes person. He was never in the limelight youngways nurturing africanamericans, latinos, asians and progressive whites to run for political office. The clintons were there . Yes, and to see Jesse Jackson and al sharpton sitting sideby side what did he say im out sharpton . Rocks at one point he said come a i want to welcome president clinton and her husband bill. And the crowd laughed, indicating what sharpton expects to be the future bill lynch was a hard worker. The founder of orange and noble spoke about him . He noted that one time bill lynch called him one day urging him to provide financial backing to a democrat running for the state cente senator. He hears an ambulance in the background and he says, get out of the way, that the cargo by review says, i am in it. He says, what you doing . He says, i am in the hospital. He said why are you calling me . He said i have nothing else to do, i am trying to get to the hospital. Decent person, humble person. It is great to have you back. The Washington Post has revealed the National Security agency is broken privacy rules have overstepped its Legal Authority thousands of times each year since Congress Granted the agency broad new powers in 2008. According to the nsa audit obtained in 2012 leaked by Edward Snowden, there were 2007 hundred 70 six incidents and the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications. The audit only counted violations committed by the nsas fort meade headquarters and other facilities in the Washington Area. Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States. In one case the nsa intercepted a large number of calls placed from washington when a programming error infused u. S. Area code 202 for 20, the International Dialing code for egypt. The report comes out less than a week after president obama told reporters abuses have not been committed at the nsa. If you look at the reports, even the disclosures mr. Snowden has put forward, all of the stories that have been reported, what youre not reading about is the government actually abusing listening ins and on peoples phone calls or inappropriately reading peoples emails. What youre hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused. Part of the reason theyre not abused is because these checks are in place. Those abuses would be against the law and against the orders of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. The Washington Post has also published a rare comment from reggie b walton. He said the court lacks the tools to independently verify how often government surveillance breaks rules that protect americans privacies. The nsa responded in a statement that read in part for more were joined by Alexander Abdo. The response of the nsa . It is truly shocking they are violating the surveillance laws thousands of times every year, effectively about seven times a day. In part because these laws are permissive. These arent laws that impose meaningful restrictions. They essentially allow the nsa to collect vast amounts of information inside the United States and as we communicate internationally. The fact there are violating these very permissive laws is truly shocking. Really disclosures undermine the intelligence communitys primary defense of these programs, which is that there heavily regulated and overseeing. We know that is simply not true. Congress is not been able to effectively oversee the nsa. Now that we know the fisa court, the nsa is not able to in its own words, doesnt think it has the capacity to effectively oversee the nsa. The government has been claiming for years this is a regulated surveillance complex and in fact the fox has been guarding the hen house for far too long and it needs to stop. , even with these revelations im interested to see if it indicates these are not delivery violations but inadvertent problems in terms of how theyre gathering and sifting data, and that theyre relatively small compared to the huge volume of what theyre actually doing. Do you buy that argument . For the past month the nsa has been using word games to defend itself when it talks about the consequences of these policies for americans privacy. Use these words to obscure what is going on. The fact is, these laws allow the government to listen in on americans phone calls and to read americans emails in an extraordinary number of circumstances, and the government has not been forthcoming about that authority and are not being forthcoming now and they suggest these violations are minimal. These are thousands of violations every year and each violation could affect hundreds or even thousands of americans, but we still dont have the basic facts. And the significance of the , 202,02 the error instead of monitoring egypt, which is 20, what does that mean . That means thousands of calls and easy were swept up into the nsa database when youre supposed to be targeting egypt abroad. Did they get purged . We dont know enough about that story. There is not enough transparency. The public debate now is incredible and was instigated by whistleblowers, leaks. But the fact that we had to wait for those leaks to have this conversation is problematic. And the significance of u. S. Reggie b waltonudge saying, we have to rely on the accuracy of information provided to us by the court, by the nsa. That is right. Were letting the nsa police itself and now one of the consequences. It affects untold number of americans. If you look at what the government told the Supreme Court last year, they were defending the law that allows this dragnet surveillance of international communication. The primary defense of the government was, dont worry about the nsa, the secret court in washington is protecting the rights or privacy of the countless americans in the country for he is now the court itself is saying it doesnt have the capacity to review the governments claims that it is abiding by the law read it is truly shocking. And more than 2000 mistakes that the audit found are only in the washington, d. C. Area breed people like Edward Snowden were working in hawaii as a contractor, so other parts of the nsa that were not in the Washington Area we still dont know the field the full abuses of the nsa. The numbers could be significantly higher. Each one of the incidences doesnt relate to just one person. One example was the sweeping enough d. C. Communications instead of egypt communications, affecting potentially thousands of people. The number could be much, much higher, but we still need more disclosures for the government. If the administration truly welcomes the debate, they need to give the public the facts. The nsa is searching the content of virtually every e mail that comes into workers out of the United States without warrant. You have written about this. The law that Congress Passed in 2008 gives the government essentially unfettered authority to read and listen to our international communications. Now we know theyre doing it with a dragnet by sifting through every single email that goes into or out of the country. You simply dont need that sort of authority to defend