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In the winter of 2009, 5 years ago today, actually, a small blog in this country got a very big international scoop. it was february 2009, so that's just one month into the barack obama presidency. right? and while most people in this country were fixated on the freefalling global economy, and whether the new president and newly elected democrats would be able to arrest that freefall and bring us back from the brink of depression, three activists here in the united states were making preparations for big overseas trip. the blog in question which is called the box turtle bulletin, they got adva...

That group, that american religious group it turns out has ties to the specific ugandan legislator who introduced the anti-homosexuality bill. the man who introduced the kill the gays bill in uganda is a member of the family, yes? >> yes. a young member of parliament, david bahati, rising star who has been over to the united states for our national prayer breakfast and has taken something of an organizing role in the ugandan national prayer breakfast and has been involved in the family for some time. >> so the legislator in uganda who introduced the kill the gays bill had ties to the group and...

Even though these american activists were trying desperately to distance themselves from the kill the gays bill when it came out, prominent ugandans aware of how the bill came to be were crediting the same americans for helping with and inspiring the legislation. one priest we spoke with said members of the ugandan parliament present at the march conference left the meetings saying they needed to draft a new law to deal with the homosexuality issue. we learned it was not just the three american activists who had a front-row seat to what was happening in uganda. remember "c" street? a swanky to...

Obama presidency. right? and while most people in this country were fixated on the free-falling global economy, and whether the new president and newly elected democrats would be able to arrest that free-fall and bring us back from the brink of depression, three activists here in the united states were making preparations for big overseas trip. the blog in question which is called the box turtle bulletin, they got advanced word about this trip. five years ago today, they posted this blog item. what they reported that day is three american evangelical activists had been invited to attend a thre...

>> wow. when you say that the u.s. is definitely not going to take away that foreign aid money, even though the government put out a statement today saying they would review it, we also saw president obama review it, we also saw president obama put out a statement in advance of the bill saying he hoped the president wouldn't sign it, but obviously he did. what do you make about the statements of objection and the pressure from the u.s. government sneer. >> a lot of human rights organizations are calling it empty rhetoric but i don't think it's quite right. i think it's a rhetoric that's filled...