Structurally sound. United states, france and spain today pledging to send in crews to help morocco with Search And Rescue efforts. Rod sanchez is there for us tonight okita amateur Recovery Efforts in the rural villages outside of marrakesh . Well, alicia, we spent most of the day in the Mountain Village called east of the epicenter. We saw devastation. Theyre the narrow alleys of the Village Market filled with rubber rubble and debris. This was some 3000 people. Locals tell us that more than 40 were killed in the earthquake. That is more than 1 of the entire population. We met a father today, alicia, who lost not only his wife and his three daughters in his baby son, and he said to us through tears the is not know what hes living for any more at this point. His family as part of the growing National Death toll. Its over 2100 people who have now been killed in this earthquake. But despite all this heartbreak and all this news, the Rescue Effort continues and there been moments of joy
Would be to fortify the protections, the Privacy Protections for americans in the law but the law has evolved and exactly the opposite direction and indeed since 9 11 there has been a sea change in the law. If you back up a few decades following the church committees revelations in 1970s there was a series of laws and policies put in place that establish a kind of golden rule. Intelligence agencies could not collect information on americans from within the United States without some individualized factbased suspicion of wrongdoing. Now the purpose and the effect of this rule was to constrain the abuses that had come before it. In the past 14 years a cardinal principle has been utterly jettisoned from the law. So lets talk about the three legal authorities that we know of under which mass surveillance is currently occurring. The first is section 215 of the patriot act. This is the provision that allows the government to get a fisa court order Compelling Companies to turn over Business R
They give you less time. I remained silent. I wouldnt address the court. And people said to me, why dont you do that . And maybe i was polly annaish about this but i felt it was a matter of principle. I felt i was in a kangaroo court. I felt my Constitutional Rights had been violated, and i wasnt going to participate. And as a result, i turned down a deal, by the way, i could have had a deal on one count probably would have done 18 months. The doj was going to insist on prison time, but the deal i turned down was 1 count, 18 months. It was a 10,000. My restitution would have been 10,000. I would have been fined 1 million. Instead, i said, no, they indicted me on 43 counts, faced 430 the government asked for 430 years in prison. I ultimately got only 72 months. I had to forfeit 62 million and fined 19 million on top of it. And then, of course, there is a story for another time, how enjoyable it is to be in federal prison 4 1 2 years when the feds are watching you. Because there are spec