A federal judge says the city of new york had been deliberately indifferent to Police Officers illegally detaining black and latino residents on the streets over many years. We was beaten one of the plaintiffs and his attorneys. And then we talk to the owner of lavabit, Edward Snowdens email provider. Last week, the owner of lavabit is seriously shut down the company and said he did not want to become complicit in crimes against the american people. We will also speak to nick merrill, who is under a gag order for six years after receiving a National Security letter. Technician orhone systems provider, you have a lot of information that paints a picture of peoples private lives and communications. I believe that comes with a great degree of responsibility. You are a steward of peoples private matters. It seemed to me, it was a moral obligation i had to protect. All that and more coming up. Democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Federalstoric move, a
Reports as easy as endangered by a different kind of gets close to the story coming up later a fan. Its friday january seventeen five pm et washington dc and dreary and boring watching artsy America Today president obama outlined the reforms to nsa surveillance that he supported following a review from a white house appointed panel that gained forty six in the stands when he is founder and silliness on st and that is clear the president would not be speaking today or not were snowed in and was a large forehead. The debate around edwards noted that the american intelligence to the about six months ago. If any seo wide range of praise and scrutiny for his actions to be here at when refer to have the whistleblower. While i can say yes but americans and expecially troops and danger when the Intelligence Committee is widely seen as an enemy to america. A pentagon official who is a former special forces officer told by spd i do not take pleasure and taking another human being like her he rem
Year ago this month, the young Internet Freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer took his own life. He was just 26 years old. He died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at mit. He was facing up to 35 years in prison and a 1 million fine. We will play excerpts of the film and speak with aarons brother noah, his lawyer elliot peters, and the filmmaker brian knappenberger. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city tv in utah. President obama has unveiled his longawaited review of the nsas surveillance programs over six months since Edward Snowden exposed them to global scrutiny. In a move denounced by privacy advocates, obama refused to end the bulk collection of telephone metadata, saying only he will modify it from how it currently exists. I am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bul
Is a free country. Just over a month ago we devoted a program to a discussion of the modern presidency. The response to the program was overwhelmingly positive so were going to try something similar this week which will also enable us to take the week off to celebrate the fourth of july. This time i want to focus on civil liberties. The jobs of power are always open to devour and her arm is a we stretched out to destroy the freedom of thinking, speak in, and writing. John adams. He sounds like arch campbell. About two and a half years ago the bill of Rights Institute conducted an Online Survey of knowledge of the constitution and the other founding documents. 42 you could find a phrase from each according to his ability, his needs, in those founding documents. Unfortunately that came from karl marx. [laughter] 60 could not identify the principle that the government derives its powers from us from the american people. In that survey, 20 of adults correctly pick the 10th amendment as the
A guy who shows you how to do it yourself on the internet makes 100,000. Essentially its just a little float device that moves up and down. It can get stuck. Thats tyler zimmerman, and he makes, on average, 100,000 a year giving Appliance Repair advice over the internet. Through a site called pearl. Com. It was fairly successful, working parttime. And i decided to work on it fulltime now. Pearl, formerly called just answer, is a collection of experts, more than 10,000, handing out advice on everything from oil changes to taxes to training your pet. Good boy. Andy kertzig comes from a family of innovators. His man studied under the man who developed Silicon Valley. And his mother is one of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. How nice it is to say your mom, the famous engineer. Weve finally gotten to that point in generations, and time that we can i dont want to talk about your mom the whole time. But who is your mom . Explain that. Im super proud of my mom. She was founder of a. S. K. Bac