Comey refuses to criticize the broad collection of phone records of americans and defends the indefinite detention of americans deemed to be enemy combatants. He also explains why he signed off on a memo authorizing waterboarding loss serving under james ashcroft. We will speak to a former fbi agent. And then Bradley Manning on trial. The former chief prosecutor, morris davis, testifies for the defense. Colonel davis joins us today. First, a political crisis escalates in egypt. We go to cairo for a report from sharif Abdel Kouddous. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Spain has a knowledge their request from the u. S. Prompting the blockade of a plane carrying bolivian president and evo morales. The plane was grounded in austria for 14 hours after spain, france, portugal, and italy closed their airspace over false rumors that Edward Snowden was aboard. The Spanish Foreign minister confirmed for the first time the rumor came from the u. S. Government.