Getty of commanders in a move opposed by the United States and israel palestinian authorities have submitted a request to join the International Criminal court and just days after the urine Security Council rejected the palestinian occupation. We will speak to ali abunimah of electronic intifada and Phyllis Bennis of the institute for policy studies. Then to the lords of secrecy. Over the last 12 years, weve seen a shift away from democratic dissipation dissipation. The people know less about what is happening. Congress is much less involved. All of these Vital Decisions are taken secretly by National Security elites. In the tools that has been used to accomplish that is secrecy. What people dont know, they cannot have any meaningful say in. As the first u. S. Drone strike of 2015 kills nine in pakistan, we speak to human rights attorney scott horton about the National Security elite and americas stealth warfare. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now w\elcome to democr
At the end of the day this makes no sense. My husband was a veteran. Went for the vietnam war. When he was gone, it was the worst thing in the whole entire world. Especially when they are whening him especially they miss most of this and that. Especially at the end of the day you need help with veterans. Host what you think . Should the general have to go . Caller you cant just not know about a whole cover up. He has computers, he has this, he has that. Host thank you. A republican there. Cruiser has this. ForWashington Post intuition sekis testimony from last week, concluding that if obama wants to resolve this debacle, he will need a less passive secretary. Secretary who became in january 2009, is not up or go visitor to the obama white house. He visited the white house 33 times, according to the official visitor logs, roughly one visit for every two months of his time in that position. That is less than some cabinet officials with higher profile eric holder visited five times. The n
Continues. Ben we want to welcome fitzgerald, Program Director for technology and National Security at the center for a new american security, here to talk about the Justice Department filing espionage charges against chinese hackers. Let me begin with attorney general eric holder yesterday when he outlined the indictment against these Chinese Military officials. [video clip] maintainpla officers about this unauthorized access to computers to steal information that would be useful to competitors in china, including stateowned enterprises. In some cases, they stole from secrets that would have been an official to Chinese Companies at the time that they were stolen. In others, they stole sensitive internal communications that would provide a competitor or adversary in litigation with insight into the strategy and vulnerabilities of the american entity. The hacking appears to have been conducted for no other reason than to advantage stateowned companies and other interests and china at th
I am claudine wong. You said rosemary orozco, maybe triple digits today. Getting to 100 degrees or slightly above. A live look over a sunny San Francisco. Here is the difference. Many of us had clouds and waking up with sunshine. We have patchy fog and it is along the coast and visibility is along the coastline. Partly cloudy to mostly sunny. That is barely hanging object. Fairfield at 6 miles an hour. Those are two signs that we are going to be warming it up. Ridge of High Pressure is strengthening over the area. Brings warmer air into the area today. Temperatures are 70 in antioch and 52 in San Francisco and 50 degrees for novato and Half Moon Bay waking up with the partly to mostly cloudy skies. Going to 93 in santa rosa and to san jose, 90s as well. Around the coast, pacifica for the afternoon. And at the coast it will be a nice beach day. 80 degrees in San Francisco. 87 for fremont and for 81 in antioch. If it is too hot for you, temperatures will begin to trend downward by tomorr
Ii . Probably at the top of every kids wishlist 25 years ago. How the future is finally getting kickstarted this morning. You see the raindrops there on the camera. Can you believe its been 25 years since back to the future ii . No, but hearing the music sends me right back. Doesnt it . Some things Science Fiction could be turning to reality. Hoverboard may be coming. Thank you. We are remembering a legends in our business. Ben brandlee, died at 93. He led the Washington Post for so many years, a driving force behind some of the biggest stories of the century. The stories that quicken your pulse. He inspired a generation of journalists. Were going to have much more ahead. He did have an impact. He certainly did. But begin with the Severe Weather up and down the east coast. Torrential rain, flooding, wind and ginger is tracking it all for us. Its happening this morning. We have crossed the line from uncomfortable and annoying to potentially dangerous. We have flood advisories from balti