In gaza. What was the evidence behind israels claims that hamas was in the building. We have new information and were going to take you inside of the meeting between the a. P. And the israeli ambassador to the u. S. With reps from both sides coming up. Plus Propublica Bombshell about the taxes of american billionaires, but what about the course of the information. Were going to get into the ethic debate with a top editor from propublica, coming up. But first gagging the news media. There is a big meeting coming you on monday at the Justice Department and it effects all of us because it is about the first amendment. For several weeks weve learned how the trump era doj spied on the press and pursued leakers to do so. First we learned about the secret seizing of Phone Records from reporters and then the gag orders against the New York Times and cnn. And now there are still so many questions out there. Recenttories have also shown how democrats on capitol hill were also targeted by trumps
According to neils melzer the un special rapporteur on torture who visited julian a songe in prison is being held in londons atory s high security belmarsh prison for publishing classified documents which exposed u. S. War crimes in iraq and afghanistan is being indicted on 17 counts under the 1917 espionage act a low he is not a u. S. Citizen and wiki leaks is not a u. S. Based publication charged would be unauthorized possession and dissemination of classified material something that has been performed by countless journalists including myself when i worked for the New York Times and publishers over the decades. The such case is a frontal assault on the 1st amendment it will be used should a songe be extradited tried and sentenced in the United States where he faces the possibility of 175 years in prison to shut down any press investigations into the centers of power joining me to discuss the importance and ramifications of the a songe case is Marjorie Cohen professor america at Thom
Not the only publication to receive and publish the d. N. C. Documents intercepts politico and others wish them as well so this this whole issue of the d. N. C. Hurting Hillary Clintons campaign i think is really a red herring and depp people need to understand the facts. In early may the British Court decided that the extradition hearing for wiki leaks publisher julian a songe originally scheduled for may 18th would be moved to september. This 4 month delay was made after a songes defense lawyers argued the difficulty of his receiving a fair hearing due to the restrictions imposed by the coville 19 lockdown asuncion declining health and showing clear signs of psychological torture according to neils melzer the un special rapporteur on torture who visited julian asuncion prison is being held in londons atory a high security belmarsh prison for publishing classified documents which exposed u. S. War crimes in iraq and afghanistan hes been indicted on 17 counts under the 117. 00 espionag
Will come back to the auditorium. Both those president here and watching at home. I am again senior fellow, burried pleased to welcome you to the second panelist of the 2019 Institute Surveillance conference. This continues the theme, focusing on oversight. With respect to two controversial programs. Surveillance on section seven oh two of Foreign Policy and a provision of section 215 that provides for a burried large scale automated collection of phone records. Both of these programs have had some serious complaints. That come to live over the past year. And so we thought it useful to examine how those arose, what the nature of the problems of the discovery is and how the Intelligence Community is responding to them and whether the response is adequate. So the discussion will be headed up by prizewinning port reporter, Charlie Savage. His book power wars is probably the best portrait of nast National Security policy making. In a president ial ministration. I will pass you on to Charli
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at