Retired air force colonel morris davis was formerly the top prosecutor for terrorist suspects held at guantanamo bay. Colonel davis spoke at the National Press club recently, explaining what he sees as the problems with the military trials at guantanamo bay. All right. Good morning, everyone. Is this on . Can you hear me okay . Sure. Okay, its a small room. Im loud. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us. I am molly mcincludeky. Im a member of the board of governors here at the National Press club and a freelance journalist, and im so proud to welcome colonel morris davis to this newsmaker this morning. During an election cycle that has seen an increasing crackdown on press freedoms and an administration that has also become known for censoring its critics and journalists alike, i can think of few more relevant guests than colonel davis to join us day. Now, morris davis was the former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Military commissions, and he later spoke out publicly agai
It used to be the case back when people just wrote did letters in longhand and put stamps on them that there was something i think called the mail match which would let the government tell the post office, if you see anything coming to, going from, we want to keep track of address theyre also reading the message, and people got very scared and worried about that. Could you help clear up whats going on . Theres so much said to be about that. The public got stampeded into what i calm the darkest corner of the room after that story came out. Ive done a lot of that on how, some of the press covered it. Frankly we should ems brace a little bit of that responsibility ourselves in the i. E. We probably could have been more forth come closing snowden telling our story in explaining what it was that we were doing. But to look at the essential element that you described, metadata is the outside of the envelope for electronic communication. American Law Enforcement traditionally has been able to
We thought this was going to be a big war week but it ends with a big surprise yesterday. Thats right. Surprise is right. Eric holder resigning after six years in one of the most controversial tenures in the Obama Administration. There he is yesterday in the east room next to the president of the United States. He called it quits. He didnt want to stick around much longer. He said our list of accomplishments is real. He said that the president the president at one point said eric holder approached him over the summer and said six years is a pretty good run. So the question is, why exactly is eric holder calling it quits right now . Part of the conventional wisdom is the president didnt want to go through the fact that if the republicans take the senate, then he would have tough instead brian terrys sister, brian terry was gunned down in the fast and furious scandal, she has a theory. I do not find it a coincidence that eric holder chose to resign now after judge baits decided to delay
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Humans to talk to dogs. Were developing the technologies that are going to help us, what we like to say decode, or interpret, what our dogs are saying or communicating to us, as well as help us communicate back to our dogs. Woodruff and, rock star Melissa Etheridge on life, music and her latest album. I still believe in the art form of the album that, that i want to spend you know 45 minutes with someone. I want to listen to it. I want to, i want to be on their drive from here to there. I want them to have it in the car and, and share that time with me. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and dedication show in everything we do; from Electronics Systems to intelligence analysis and cyber operations; from combat vehicles and weapons to the maintenance and modernization of ships, aircraft, and critical infrastructure. Knowing our work makes a difference inspires us