whistleblower edward snowden has always maintained his motivation was to force a serious conversation about the all encompassing surveillance state well he certainly has achieved this so with mission accomplished is it time to cut a deal with them or even grant him a pardon. to cross edward snowden i'm joined by my guest mary fan in seattle she is a professor at the university of washington and a former federal prosecutor in washington we have ray mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in new york we cross to timothy car he is a senior director of strategy at free press all right folks on a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington isn't it time to cut a deal with mr snowden i mean he's made his point everybody knows his name if you can if you're. literate you know who he is anywhere in the world we certainly know a whole lot more about the n.s.a. i mean isn't it time to move forward and reform the n.s.a. in the intelligence community and let this guy off the hook he did

to cross-talk edward snowden i'm joined by my guest mary fan in seattle she is a professor at the university of washington and a former federal prosecutor in washington we have ray mcgovern he is the co-founder of veteran intelligence professionals for sanity and in new york we cross to timothy car he is a senior director of strategy at free press all right folks cross talk rolls in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it if i go to you first in washington isn't it time to cut a deal with mr snowden i mean he's made his point everybody knows his name if you can if you're literate you know who he is anywhere in the world we certainly know a whole lot more about the n.s.a. i mean isn't it time to move forward in reform the n.s.a. in the intelligence community and let this guy off the hook he did everyone a huge favor peter i guess i would have problems with your phrase here elegy here cutting a deal. has lived up to a solemn oath to protect and defend the constitution the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic a u.s. district judge now has

gee here cutting a deal edward snowden has lived up to its solemn oath to protect and defend the constitution the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic a u.s. district judge now has reiterated the fact that. the n.s.a. as he put it has indiscriminately and charlie invaded our privacy in direct violation of the fourth amendment it's not that we should cut a deal with edward snowden we should praise him welcome him home for exposing what what i call incipient fascism is like when the government has all kinds of information on all kinds of people and can use it for all kinds of purposes ok timothy it well there are voices in the n.s.a. that think that they the government should talk to mr snowden i in principle i agree with ray don't get me wrong here but cutting a deal is what's being talked about meaning no more leaks and you will clear your name ok this is the kind of deal and i'm not saying it's the best deal but it is a deal that's being talked about timothy go ahead well i would say that they don't need to strike a deal at all the the whole premise of the charges against e

s most prized spy programs on the verge of dismemberment and with edward snowden nearing vindication in the united states but if he's ever going to return home and what happens in our courts and in congress over the next few months are critically important in washington d.c. same sex party. now in the midst of this report calling into question the n.s.a.'s surveillance tactics the spy agency is also conducting a blitz of its own the n.s.a. has launched its own twitter p.r. page so far it has sent out a total of three tweets its first tweet encourage viewers to turn into that controversial sixty minutes report that media clip critics claim amounted to a p.r. job for the agency the other two tweets linked to podcasts on lawfare where our reporter interviewed the n.s.a. director of come of compliance john de long and n.s.a. general counsel d. so is the twitter account going to change the beleaguered agency's perception here to talk all things n.s.a. i'm joined now by justin wright act she is the national security and human rights director for the government accountability project and al

the week started with edward snowden reaching out to brazil and the n.s.a. making a p.r. push with the help of sixty minutes but the week is ending very very differently on monday the federal courthouse behind me delivered the first legal blow to the n.s.a. signature bulk phone records collection program a program that the world just learned about back in june as a result of edward snowden's disclosures in the case judge richard leon said i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate an arbitrary invasion than the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without prior judicial approval surely such a program infringes on the degree of privacy of the founders in shrines in the fourth amendment the program will be shut down in six months pending a government appeal after the ruling journalist glenn greenwald was quick to explain the significance of what just happened it's an extraordinary ruling ari and it's an absolute in the case and somewhere to stay safe a attributes one as a some

contractor edward snowden which exposed america's massive surveillance. the old media organizations are we a branch of the establishment. we also talk to wiki leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team shawn thomas glad to have you with us now investigators say they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in southern russian city of volgograd some evidence now suggests a man that may have been involved in the first reports of those said it was a lone female suicide bomber it has been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the attack which targeted the city's central railway station. has details. the bomb went off just before one pm on the cross busy train station it did to nation ripped through an area around a security checkpoint as in suspecting passengers waited for their luggage to be inspected before leaving i bent down to

no sir while most americans think to edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights what we're doing is said to catering to tell a tarion procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. the former intelligence contractor is now in exile knowing for certain that he'd go to jail should he return to the u.s. like bradley and now chelsea manning who was sentenced to thirty five years in jail this august so we could leaks manning released many thousands of diplomatic cables and b.t.o. proof of u.s. involvement and i don't find. another man who found himself in jail this year was john key the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate care suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to have served his two and a half years sentence which i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is a

spying on world leaders as revealed by edward snowden. be interested to know mr chairman and we would be happier to make you down to the committee and spend a couple of hours going through mounds of product that would allow a member to be as informed as a member wishes to be on sources and methods and all activities of the intelligence community under the national intelligence framework i would just say and i just think we need to be careful. about what i do we need to assume you don't you wish to use the classification and i think you'd be disingenuous mr chairman if you suggesting we have information if we don't have it so after that after what you saw there can we really buy the argument that these committees had enough knowledge all along to perform proper oversight of american spy agencies i don't think so snowden also had a message from the n.s.a. he said i'm not trying to bring down the n.s.a. i'm working to improve the n.s.a. i'm still working for the n.s.a. right now just they are the only ones who don't realize it now this is th

you know all that domestic spying revealed by edward snowden only added. an insult to injury so it seems that the least a failure is is so long that claiming that it was a success is a bit premature don't you think so no i don't think so look there have been active terrorist plots in pakistan and yemen and somalia that have come after or intended to come after the continental united states it is true that our intelligence agencies and in this holds for russian intelligence agencies and agencies around the world are not always perfect sometimes they miss a warning sometimes they miss collecting the information that might have foretold of a particular plot but generally i think the intelligence community has improved its game since september eleventh and we're always looking for ways to get better some of the things that you mentioned in the litany of the legend failures it hasn't always been the case that the intelligence community didn't know what was going on for example we were able to establish in the congress. the central intelligence agency did provid

contractor edward snowden which exposed america's mass surveillance. the old media organizations are simply a branch of the establishment. we also talk to we could leaks founder julian assange about the state of journalism today and his new media standard road movie where he and others offer up secret documents to various media outlets. and broadcasting a lot of direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas let's get right to our top story in investigators say they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people ninety's correspondent margaret how will be joining us later with more information we'll bring you her report a little bit later but anti-war activist don de bar now he believes that the international community should have bring to account the state actors that enable such terrorist attacks. people on the ground who did this perhaps may be you know anonymous players just individuals who are incited one way or another but you d

intelligence services were close edward snowden's latest revelation speaks to just how close he gave the canadian media a top secret four page memo a recent one dated april twenty third team by the way that says canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the us national security agency edward snowden has also revealed that although the canadian intelligence agency employees twenty times less people than the n.s.a. it has done a lot of work for the n.s.a. apparently including spying on foreign politicians and diplomats during the g. eight and g. twenty summits this document says the see as e.c. which stands for the communications security establishment canada shares with the and i say their unique geographic access to areas unavailable to the u.s. now for course it does not give details on what those areas are that could be the spying posts that canada holds toward the n.s.a. around the globe that could be about the ork to the exploration progress of which is interesting to a number of sheriff stakeholders

edward snowden says george orwell's fictitious big brother is no match for the u.s. national security agency the types of collection the book microphones and video cameras t.v.'s that watches are nothing compared to what we have today snowden revealed that a secret court rubber stamps warrants for telecommunication companies to hand out the data of millions of their customers he also leaked the programs that the government uses to track virtually anything anybody does on the internet and also store that information and he showed how the u.s. government had lie about mass surveillance does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans no sir while most americans think to edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights what we're doing is advocating to tell a tarion procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. the former intelligence contractor is

former contractor edward snowden he said i acted on my belief that the n.s.a. is mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge and that the american public deserves a chance to see these issues determined by open courts today a secret program authorized by secret by a secret courts was when exposed to the light of day found to violate americans rights it is the first of many so this decision was deemed likely unconstitutional what does that realistically mean in what does it really do right so it's kind of the this isn't a sort of in a funny procedural posture right now so what happened was that there were several plaintiffs in the case and basically they said our own constitutional rights have been violated by the collection of all of this information so the judge looked at that book broadly at this very broad collection but then said yes for the. particular people i think it violates their constitutional rights but he also said i'm not really making a decision on the constitutionality yet what i'm determining is what my most likely

no sir while most americans think to edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights what we're doing is said to catering to tele tarion procedures which is gathering information about all the individuals in the world. the former intelligence contractor is now in exile knowing for certain that he'd go to jail should he return to the us like bradley and now chelsea manning who was sentenced to thirty five years in jail this august so we could leaks manning released many thousands of diplomatic cables and video proof of us involved thinking and want to find. another man who found himself in jail this year was john king the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate carol suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to have served his two and a half years sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about

whistleblower edward snowden made an appearance on national t.v. with a not so uplifting message on the emergence of western surveillance states but he ended on a cheery note assuring viewers that it's not too late to fight back or tease polly boycott reports. christmas day here in the u.k. is a sacred tradition it's all about the christmas turkey the family gathering and of course getting around the teddy to watch the queen's speech with your family this year the queen was wishing brits a merry christmas she spoke about the birth of her grandson about the year's achievement spots channel four airing an alternative christmas message from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who of course revealed the extent of mass government surveillance programs in the u.s. the u.k. and other western countries and he was speaking all about privacy he said that george orwell's one thousand nine hundred eighty four was the real fairy tale compared to the reality that we're living with right now with a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at al

snowden released those documents submitted and released a statement by edward snowden south about this ruling i want to read part of it it says i acted on my belief that the n.s.a.'s mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge and that the american people deserve a chance to see these issues determined by open courts today a secret program authorized by a secret court was when exposed by the light of day found to violate americans rights it's the first of many so obviously you have one side of the the coin there but i want to talk about the other side of the coin have you heard from any officials kind of official response to this. well we haven't gotten much in the way of an official response that side the fact that they're studying the ruling but it should be pointed out that while this judge thinks the program is probably unconstitutional perhaps fifteen or so other judges over the course of the last seven years have repeatedly reauthorized this program and that it doesn't run afoul of the constitution and a number of these lawsuits are now pending in di

edward snowden the former n.s.a. whistleblower he's going to be the hot topic for debate in crosstalk coming your way in a. the parliament of yemen has put forward a motion to ban drone attacks in the country the motion is now awaiting approval by the president and it's probably impossible to enforce unless they could build a really big net or something isn't it strange that now after years of drone strikes in their country the parliament just wakes up to the fact their systems are getting blown up from the sky to be fair yemen doesn't have a ton of cash and i could see how having the well equipped and funded us military take care of the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really entice and i mean it must be scary to be a politician with lots of power hungry terrorists about this would be the first time in history that a stronger foreign power fought a weaker states battles for them but the problem is that according to the huffington post a former u.s. state department official in yemen says that every year d

the better america spies across the globe is extending the last at the latest a leak from edward snowden has revealed norway's been sharing intelligence with the jew ass on russia's politicians i don't you come ponies and ordinary people the arctic nation joins canada as one of the essays known accomplices. richard cannot address the gaze they motos nations have to share their secret data with america's spy agency. we knew that canadian and u.s. intelligence services were close by it was snowden's latest revelation speaks to just how close he gave the canadian media a top secret four page memo a recent one dated april twenty third team by the way that says canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and conducted espionage against trading partners at the request of the us national security agency edward snowden has also revealed that although the canadian intelligence agency employees twenty times less people than the n.s.a. it has done a lot of work for the n.s.a. apparently including spying on foreign politicians and diplomats during the g. eight and g. twenty summits this d

or what should we make of edward snowden like edward snowden i guess i took an oath to preserve and protect the secrets. of my government and the white house and the president and i knew a number of secrets about what was going on in vietnam before the public did now legal secrets i mean secrets that the public should know about i knew of a bomb in cambodia ok i knew we were bombed cambodia long before the republic or the nation found out nixon told me because i wrote the cambodian invasion speech with him and i think i would have been derelict in my duty and i would have been virtually treasonous if i'd gone out and told the public that it might have created a big uproar on the hill and because i had taken an oath to preserve the secrets of the united states buchanan is a fierce warrior on the front lines of the american culture wars i asked him about his response to polls showing majorities of americans supporting marriage equality and pro choice in court decisions of holding those views that the american people have acclimated themselves to what i would call a steady series of defeats in

did show that alternative christmas speech did move it from edward snowden we did yes but it's there has been a concerted turning a blind eye and most of the national media in the case edward snowden here now and there are a whole range of different mechanisms that the government and intelligence agencies can use to control spies and to control the media within the u.k. when they're reporting on spy stories not least things like defense press advisory notice which is substance ship by the media as well as threatening and we trust these motivations secrets act as they did with the guardian and prosecuting individual journalists so there has been a woeful lack of meaningful discussion and not only within the gritty heat is certainly also the british political classes and it's interesting that i'm not as you say i mean how they're going to be talking at the c.c.c. tomorrow night about these sort of issues too and it's great to see the biggest gathering yet from people from across the world and particularly in europe i'm very very angry about this they cannot guarantee that their governm

is looking into continues with a new week from edward snowden just this morning r.t. sam sacks reports on the latest. just when the n.s.a. thought the week couldn't get any worse a new edward snowden leak drops this one jointly reported in the guardian the new york times and their spiegel reveals that the n.s.a. and its british spying partner g.c. h.q. are using their global dragnet to spy on economic diplomatic and humanitarian targets in more than sixty nations specifically the secret documents revealed joint surveillance by american and british spies on charity and development programs run out of the united nations including unicef on the doctors of the world a french humanitarian group that provides doctors to conflict zones and on the trade union the economic community of west african states the documents also include joaquin almunia as a target of joint surveillance as the vice president of the european commission focuses on antitrust issues and has taken on several american companies including google and microsoft companies that were pushing for n.s.a. reforms