act edward snowden's leaks revealed a secret reinterpretation of section six to fifteen the patriot act by the n.s.a. and the pies a court that gave the n.s.a. enormous power to collect americans phone records to find sign bill will remove this program from murky legal grounds and officially codified into law the electronic frontier foundation called the bill disingenuous saying don't be fooled the bill codifies some of the n.s.a.'s worst practices would be a huge setback for everyone's privacy and it would permanently entrenched them says collection of every phone record held by u.s. telecoms this is not an n.s.a. reform bill it's an n.s.a. entrenchment bill. and senator mark udall who's been critical of the n.s.a. argued the n.s.a.'s ongoing and base of surveillance of americans private information does not to respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform not incidental changes unfortunately the bill passed by the senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the n.s.a.'s overreaching domestic surveillance programs senator udall instead supports

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and protect your online privacy the new oversight board met today to discuss possible changes to the patriot act as well as to pfizer but does this board actually have the power to change and it's a policy details on that ahead. and a german news magazine has published a manifesto written by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the former contractor is pleading for clemency from the u.s. government but white house officials have scoffed at the request for more on that coming up. and in iran thousands gathered outside the former u.s. embassy the anti-american protest marks the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine seizure of that former embassy into iran more on the troubled past between the two nations later in the show. it's monday november fourth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching r.t.e. we begin today with a special hearing held by the privacy and civil liberties oversight board or the p c l o b a public hearing took place today in washington d.c. and was meant to take into consideration the recommended changes to both the patriot act and to five

but the usa freedom act by senator leahy and congressman jim sensenbrenner who wrote the patriot act has some people pleasantly surprised by how strong it is what do you make of it and what are the chances that it is the one that's chose out of these two paths. well i think that is certainly a step in the right direction to bar this kind of bulk collection of innocent americans communications their communications records is imperative to restoring our core privacy rights and in fact our core rights against the government abuse of this power potential abuse by this administration or future administration i'm pleasantly surprised to see that congressman sensenbrenner on that bill he was an indefatigable fan and cheerleader for the bush administration when president bush was office we couldn't get a single amendment through the house judiciary committee when he was at the helm but i'm glad to see he seen the light and recognizes how how dangerous these powers are and how far they go how far they transcend what most americans believe reasonably to be their fundamental point right even th

patriot soldiers i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set you know the last thing i ever ever expected to come out of a nobel peace prize winners mouth is this i am really good at killing people yes folks according to a new book double down our beloved president constitutional lawyer nobel laureates rock obama apparently loves to brag about how well he can execute human beings with drones now i know you're thinking it's probably the republicans making him say such things cause you know he can't look weak on defense but shockingly no it's all the credit of barry you see during the two thousand and twelve election journalists mark halperin and john heilemann were reporting on obama's campaign and it was during this time that the drone king reportedly boasted to his aides about his kills since becoming manager of the us empire obama's rapidly increased the use of drones abroad and his hundreds and hundreds of strikes have put bush's measly fifty two drone attacks shane see thousands of dead when women men and children don't lie they also can't speak or defend themselves in any way now for

act but one of the authors of the patriot act republican jim sensenbrenner disagrees he responded to the disclosure saying there is no legitimate explanation for tracking the numbers locations times and duration of the calls of every american the collection and retention of all telephone records coming in and out of the united states is excessive and does not fall within the guidelines of section two fifteen. one week after this first disclosure about bulk telephone metadata collection the a.c.l.u. filed a lawsuit against the director of national intelligence james clapper calling for an end to this domestic spying as it by lates numerous constitutional rights again that lawsuit was filed one week after the first edward snowden disclosure back in june and tomorrow on friday that suit will receive its stay in court when government lawyers will have to square off with the a.c.l.u. in a federal courtroom in new york city and for the first time the usa will have to defend in public court the n.s.a.'s telephone metadata spying program and what comes out of that hearing could have enormous

i like to talk about patriotism you know being a patriot. does it mean that you worship the star or protect it the country sits on its fifth people that need your protection and your help not the trees not the still will not the leaves fall from the trees the people and when these people root against the president like a scene to love to do their rooting against america and you know it's a question that should be asking why america in your lifetime in my time so i went from number one in everything to now we're only number one and one thing and i know you know what that is thanks for listening see you later thanks a lot frank yeah it's exporting weapons that's what we're number one in we used it we used to make the world's everything i mean we used to make the world's washing machines we used to make the world with blue jeans we used to make the world's computers now we make the world's weapons it's really unfortunate frank excellent point and and i would even go beyond that if you. if you look at the incredible republican obstruction during

can also count on the unconditional support of another star chuck norris i'm talking or a black belt patriot or some thug breaks into my home i can use my roundhouse kick . down the barrel of my. other celebrities publicly proclaim their support of open arms trading. among our bruce willis clint eastwood and eva longoria and old movie stars aren't necessarily members of the n.r.a. their views are reported in the media a seductive image that hides the radical discourse. we tried to get an interview with the n.r.a. but they didn't want to talk on camera. eventually one pro arms lobbyist agreed to meet us the gun owners of america association in virginia made up of three hundred thousand members. erica pratt is the man responsible for communications he records pro arms videos weekly which he then posts on the internet like this expose so tired all throughout the spring of two thousand and eleven bloomberg sponsored a cross-country tour in his efforts to impose extreme restrictions upon second amendment rights four times as many americans die negligently at the hands of doctors than are killed b

such dark colors the lion force one official said there are good with the existing laws including the patriot act the language of which is broad enough to allow the agencies to go after the new players in the world of virtual money but they did say they expected the big corners and others providing money exchange services online to report to the u.s. treasury and generally to comply with existing regulations like getting a money transmitter license and so on following the officials testifying in congress where the gentleman from the bitcoin foundation the chairman of the committee senator carper questioned them and at the end quote it albert einstein's wife mrs armstrong who approached quite brilliant in her own right and. asked if she understood her husband's theory of relativity and she allegedly responded i understand the words but not the sentences so with regard to virtual currency it is fair to say the us congress understands the words but not sentences which is true for the public in general bitcoin users are not exactly the average consumer for now in washington i'm going to check out

in common that they might have initially thought so much so that full political parties that claimed patriotism they decided to put their differences aside and pursue an ambitious goal changing europe's grand plan properly. that europeans and the french have understood that the political structure of the defense people have the best seat in the nation but today the decisions are made in brussels and burley in washington reprise they're not made in france and this cannot go on while a potential alliance between far right parties is already stoking fear into some in the e.u. italian premier enrico letta called the growing popularity of euro skeptics and the far right as the most dangerous phenomenon facing the european union that could lead to the most anti european parliament in history in the end it's a numbers game as far as that's concerned the rise of the right is not quite just a blip on europe's radar. r.t.e. paris. for the way it's a particularly painful problem me and tina gratian progress party came third in national elections this year despite having mass murder and is braving as a for

politics with the lives of people of afghanistan on one hand the president wants to portray himself as a patriot on the other hand he's not able to even take care of corruption a rule of bringing rule of law and good governance that's what the people are suffering from he's trying to distract the people of afghanistan from what he hasn't been able to do to for this country now legal immunity for american troops in afghanistan has long been an obstacle in relations between the two countries of the issue is made even more sensitive by some serious allegations against u.s. special forces. interviewed a journalist who investigated so-called claims of mass murder the special forces team the green beret eighteen as they're called was deployed to an isolated valley west of kabul where the taliban and other insurgent groups have a very heavy presence and what happened was over last winter the locals are complaining that the special forces team and the translators were murdering people torturing them abducting them and disappearing them just extraordinary allegations that at the time were essentially unp

in common that they might have initially thought so much so that full political parties that claimed patriotism they decided to put their differences aside and pursue an ambitious goal changing europe's grand plan. that europeans and the french if you understood the political structure of the defense be looked the best the. president did a decision made in brussels in washington reprise they're not made in france and this cannot go on while a potential alliance between far right parties is already stoking fear into some in the new italian premier enrico letta called the growing popularity of euro skeptics and the far right as the most dangerous phenomenon facing the european union that could lead to the most european parliament in history in the end it's a numbers game as far as that's concerned the rise of the right is not quite just a blip on europe's radar. r.t.e. paris and it is the latest general elections in a number of e.u. member states that have raised the most concern over the swing to the stream this year for example in austria the far right secured one fifth of the ballot the moveme

was authorized by the post nine eleven patriot act with the game a tracking terrorist financing doubtless the same law used to justify mass surveillance by america's national security agency. a recent attack on a prominent member of moscow's as a big community has reignited ethnic tensions and disputes over migration russia has the world's second largest migrant population but a worryingly high number of them are in the country illegally paul scott try to get to the heart of the problem. migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russia the back of allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijan migrant nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with a high. president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting prive commission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. you russian though i have to repeat myself the site ends with the fence we have intially se

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