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a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there's some anti-government sentiment. howard: it's a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they'd eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn't given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted -- posted on...

♪ howard: "the washington post" all but fingered the man who posted a massive haul of u.s. intelligence documents. the next day the fbi arrested 21-year-old guardsman jack teixeira who was trying to impress his friends in a chat room. national security spokesman john kim kirby said the media shouldn't touch this top secret material. >> this is information that has no business in the public domain. it has no business if you don't mind me saying on the pages of, front pages of newspapers or on television. howard: joining us now from brazil, glenn greenwald, who hosts a nightly show on rumble. ...

First time in history. >> but on other key policy questions, the obama administration has cut access to government information. and it now spending over $11 billion on secrecy, be an all-time high. the president has instructed his lawyers to defend some of the broadest determinations of secrecy powers. foek, t for example, the drone program. a recent freedom of information request asks how it's used to kill suspected terrorists, butt administration argues it shouldn't have to say whether the program exists. as their lawyers put it in court, the government can, quote, neither confirm nor deny t...