Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Senate Intelligence committee has voted to release parts of a report on the Bush Administrations torture iran it should program. 113 other state to declassify nearly 500 pages 6000pagee than report, including its executive summary. The cia will review the findings before their release, leading to fears they might redact large portions. The report caused a spat between the cia and senate panel, with Committee Chair senator Dianne Feinstein openly accusing the cia of spying on Senate Staffers and deleting files. Speaking thursday, she said the results of the investigation are shocking. The report exposes brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation. It chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. This is not what americans do. The report also points to major problems with the cias management of this program and its interactions with the white house, other parts of the executive branch, in congress. This is also deeply troubling and shows why oversight of intelligence agencies in a democratic nation is so important. The senatey reports probe concluded cia officers illegally detained 26 prisoners and used interrogation methods that were not approved by either cia headquarters or the Justice Department. In afghanistan, an Associated Press photographer has been shot dead in Afghan Police officer while her colleague has been wounded. Anja niedringhaus, 48, died instantly in the attack to the pakistani border. Ap reporter kathy gannon survived. It is believed to be the first time in Afghan Police officer has intentionally killed a foreign journalist. The pair were traveling with election workers littering ballots ahead of saturdays president ial election. Anja niedringhaus was a veteran german photographer who served on a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for photographing the iraq war. She was previously hit by snipers bullet while working in syria of oh, loan out of a car by an explosion in kosovo, and mistakenly bombed by nato in albania along with a number of other journalists in 1999. One of her last projects depicted women lawmakers in afghanistan. Her death follows the killings last month in afghanistan of afp reporter sardar ahmand and swedish radio journalist nils horner. Afghans head to the polls on saturday to elect a successor to president karzai. Theres a, karzai urged afghans to vote. The significant participation of our people in the selection will be the biggest guarantee of continuation of the republic of afghanistan. A strong participation will be the greatest response to those who believe violence and destruction will act as a deterrent against our people. The afghan election has already been marred by the anticipation of voter fraud and undue influence by president karzai. A new report reveals the United States oversaw the creation of a fake social media networking cuba in a bid to undermine the cuban government. The Associated Press reports the socalled cuban twitter project was built with secret Shell Companies and financed through foreign banks. Slang forzuneo, cuban hummingbirds tweet, in masqueraded as a twitterlike prime rib but it was created by usaid, the us agency for international development. Its users were unaware their private data was being gathered by u. S. Contractors for political use. What House Press Secretary jay carney denied the program was secret. Quick suggestions this was a Covert Program are wrong. Helping cubans access more information and strengthen civil society. These appropriations our public, unlike covert action. The money invested has been debated in congress. Gao review this program in detail in 2013 and found it was conducted in accordance with u. S. Law and under appropriate oversight controls. Talks despite jay carneys claims, top Congressional Democrats have said they knew nothing about the program. We will have more on the story later in the broadcast. Hasenergy firm anadarko agreed to pay more than 5 billion in what the Justice Department hailed as the largest payment ever for cleaning up environmental contamination. The case involves thousands of sites across the country polluted by nuclear fuel and other toxic material and more than 8000 people who say they were sickened by chemical exposure. Anadarko had tried to avoid liability for pollution caused by kerrmcgee, an Energy Company it acquired in 2006. The payments include 1 billion to the Navajo Nation for damages from kerrmcgees uranium mining. The activist and journalist Barrett Brown has reportedly reached at lee deal with prosecutors after 19 months behind bars. Supporters say brown has been unfairly targeted for investigating the highly secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. Last month, prosecutors dropped a number of charges against him related to the hacking of the private Intelligence Firm stratfor, which exposed how the firm monitors activists and spies for corporate clients. Around was still facing up to 70 years in prison. The plea deal remains sealed, but wired reports round is now being charged with assisting stratfor hacker after the fact and obstructing the execution of a search warrant. Those two charges would dramatically reduce his possible prison time. The hearing is scheduled for april 29. Peace talksd between israelis and palestinians have deadlocked after israel canceled a planned release of palestinian prisoners. The move came after palestinians applied for membership in 15 International Conventions and treaties. Speaking thursday in algeria, secretary of state john kerry said the talks had reached a critical point. The disagreement between them is not over the fundamental substance of a final status processt, but over the that would get you there. And what you need to do in order to be able to continue to negotiate. It would be a tragedy for both of them, we would say, for them to lose the opportunity to get to those really issues that are the differences of the final status agreement. Earlier today, john kerry said the United States would reevaluate its approach to the talks to determine whether or not it is worth continuing their efforts. In the u. S. , legal groups including the aclu of washington are suing immigration and Customs Enforcement to block them from retaliating against immigrant hunger strikers at the northwest Detention Center in washington state. Activists say 20 hunger strikers and supporters have been placed in solitary confinement at the prison, which is run by the or profit geo group. At one point last month, at least 750 prisoners were on hunger strike. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a measure critics say could enable discrimination against lgbt people. Opponents of the bill protested outside the State Capitol thursday. While lawmakers removed some controversial language, appointed still say the law could open the door to discrimination under the guise of religious freedom. Another provision adds the words in god we trust to the Mississippi State seal. Texas has executed its fifth prisoner of the year, using a drug from an undisclosed compounding pharmacy. Tommy lynnurderer sells was the first to be executed with the states newly refreshed supply of pentobarbital after its old batch expired. The Supreme Court declined to halt the execution despite a plea from his attorneys, who wanted the name of the drug supplier disclosed. The state has kept the supplier secret, purportedly to protect it from threats, but an ap report found no evidence authorities in texas are investigating any such threats. Citigroup is reportedly facing a criminal investigation after revelations of a 400 million fraud involving its mexican unit. In february, citigroup revealed at least one and a max employee had processed false documents which helped a mexican oil Services Firm defraud the company. According to the new york times, the fbi and Us Attorneys Office in manhattan have opened a probe into whether citigroup ignored winning signs. The bank is also facing a separate probe from the federal prosecutors in massachusetts over the possible laundering of drug money through a citigroup account. Two taxpayereived bailouts, racking up more in federal aid in the financial crisis than any other bank. The Delivery Company ups is firing 250 unionized drivers for staging a 90 minute walkout in february to protest the dismissal of a longtime worker. The New York Daily News reports ups has already fired 20 workers from a facilities facility in twins, new york and told the remaining 230 they will be dismissed as soon as their replacements are trained. The cofounder and ceo of the nonprofit Internet Firm mozilla a step down after coming under fire for his an antigay views. Had donated 1000 dollars to support californias proposition eight Ballot Initiative against samesex marriage. After his promotion to ceo last week, three mozilla directors resigned and the Online Dating platform protested by blocking users from running the site on mozillas foxfire web fire web browser. The fda has approved an emergency overdose treatment for use in homes and other nonmedical settings. When activated, the treatment device delivers verbal instructions on how to inject a naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an overdose on heroin or painkillers. The fda said the move will help save lives amidst a nationwide epidemic of drug overdoses, which now claims more lives in the u. S. Each year than car accidents. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At fort todays show hood, texas, where flags are fine at half mast following wednesdays shooting that left four dead including the gunman. 16 people were winded in the attack will stop authorities identified the shooter as 34yearold Army Specialist ivan lopez, who was being evaluated for postTraumatic Stress disorder. Lopez served in iraq, but Officials Say he never saw combat. This is base Commander Lieutenant general mark milley. We will go to that clip in a moment. No motive was given for what was the second mass shooting in five years at the countrys Largest Military base. It was the third shooting at a military base in the United States in about six months, including the shooting spree in september that left 12 people dead at the Washington Navy yard. Hasanear, major nidal sentenced to death for committing the worst attack on u. S. Base in history, killing 13 fellow soldiers and injuring scores of others at fort hood in 2009. Defense secretary chuck hagel said the repeated soldier on soldier attacks on military installations suggest something is not working. Is the fort hood investigation unfolds, we will continue to take a close look to identify any new Lessons Learned and implement those as well. In the meantime, we will all stay focused on the victims and their families in the Fort Hood Community who yet again, are experiencing a terrible tragedy and much grief. For more were joined by three guests. From his home near fort hood, texas, were joined by Malachi Muncy, manager of the under the hood cafe in killeen since 2012. He served in the Texas Army National guard from 2003 to 2009 and served two dubbed to iraq. He is a member of iraq veterans against the war and iraq veterans for peace. Last night he helped organize a vigil outside fort hood. In san francisco, were joined by Ryan Holleran, who served as an improvement interim remain in the army from 2010 to 2013. He is a member of iraq veterans against the war and is helping to produce their report coming out on memorial day about soldiers at fort hood. Were also joined by aaron glantz who covers veterans and domestic military issues for the center for investigative reporting. He is author of three books on the war, most recently, the war comes home washingtons battle against americas veterans. We welcome you all to democracy now to theirst go to killeen cafe right outside fort hood to talk about the atmosphere at fort hood. Malachi muncy . Yes. At under the hood cafe which is right outside fort hood. Talk about what has happened over the last two days. Stranges been very experiences. Atic it has been tragic and traumatizing. Ryan holleran, you are at fort hood for quite a long time. Talk about your experience there and your response to this latest shooting. Sure. First cover i would like to say i extend my heart and sympathies to the victims and their families. Andmost, this is a tragedy a terrible thing to see have happened. Also, the second time at the same base. But the reaction ive gotten from a lot of my buddies who are still at fort hood and from veterans and social media seems to be one that is not terribly surprised, i guess. Can you talk about in your time at fort hood, ryan, or their discussions about these shootings and possible shootings . Of course, in 2009, yet another very serious attack. Sure. There was definitely an awareness. Security was heightened for a period of time before he was relaxed again. Everybody station there was well aware of the previous shooting. You could not do your morning physical training without running by the building and the wall of flowers. It was a regular reminder of what had happened in 2009. The active duty suicide rates are also very high. Suicide, unfortunately, has become all too commonplace i think in the dod and that fort hood. All,ron glantz, first of congratulations on winning a peabody for your critical work about what happens to soldiers when they come back. Here on fort hood, we are talking about an active duty soldier and you work with veterans. But if you talk about this issue of suicide, of soldiers coming home. Well, we have had over 10 years of war. In 2001. N 9 11 here we are in 2014. So many people have served so many deployments. 2. 6 Million People have gone to serve in these wars, many, multiple times over an extended period. We have hundreds of thousands of people coming home with poster manic stress disorder, major depression. We have hundreds of thousands of people going home with dramatic brain injury, physical brain damage. Huge gaps in care both on the active duty side and the v. A. Side. Now we are just kind of beginning to piece together how picture might or might not fit into this tragedy that we have seen at fort hood. We know the shooter was in iraq were veteran who served at the very end of our engagement in iraq. You sure served a short to ar who may have sustained traumatic brain injury and was seeking treatment of post Traumatic Stress disorder. Hopefully, the coming days and weeks, we will get some clarity. Lets go to the Fort Hood Base Commander talking about ivan lopez. We have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric or psychological condition, going through the records to ensure that is in fact correct and we believe that to be a fundamental underlying cause. That is Lieutenant General mark milley. I want to go to Malachi Muncy near fort hood at the cafe outside that serves soldiers and veterans under the hood cafe. Talk about how the military is talking about these shootings. Languagek some of the that is being used is telling to where they want responsibility to fall. When talking about some of these issues, ive noticed they have used a lot of language that refers to anxiety and sleeping some of these are symptoms of ptsd, but theyre not using theyre trying to stay away from actually using rainy thing that might be related or anything that might be related. It seems as if th