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Transcripts For LINKTV Democracy Now 20131230

Are and who we want to be. As a federal judge upholds the nsa xfone collection Records Program exposed by Edward Snowden, new details emerge about a secretive nsa unit hacks into computers around the world. Sometimes the nsa even intercepts computers purchased online in order to place spyware on them before the customer receives them. We will speak to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jameel Jaffer of the aclu. There is a broader pattern here in which the courts are advocating their role under our constitutional system. They are supposed to be ensuring the Governments National Security Policies are consistent with the constitution. Instead, what is happening as many of these challenges are being thrown out at the threshold. Despite longterm unemployment being at its highest level since world war ii, 1. 3 million americans have just lost their Unemployment Benefits. We will look at why. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Opposition activists are claiming over 500 people have died in weeks of Syrian Government airstrikes on the city of aleppo. The steering observatory for human rights has the debt children. 51 Syrian Government helicopters have been hitting aleppo with highly destructive barrel bombs oil drums filled with explosives and sometimes with nails or scrap metal. At least 25 people were reportedly killed on saturday when Government Forces bombed a vegetable market. Meanwhile, the alassad regime has evacuated thousands of residents from the town of adra amidst heavy clashes with rebel fighters. At least 31 people have died in two consecutive days of bombings in the russian city of volgogr ad. 17 people were killed and 34 winded on sunday when a female suicide bomber hit a train station. Another 14 people were killed earlier today when a bomber hit a packed bus. No group has claimed responsibility, but russia has faced repeated attacks from islamist militants in chechnya and north caucuses. Russia is set to host the Winter Olympics in just over a month. Warning of are humanitarian crisis amidst sectarian violence in the Central African republic. The local coordinator of Doctors Without Borders says over 100,000 people have now sought shelter at one camp for the displaced in the capital. Weeks now, these people havent received any other assistance but Health Assistance from Doctors Without Borders and water from the red cross. There are no toilets. Water is not sufficient. Theres no food distribution. There is so much to do. First of all, we have to improve the situation with the hygiene as soon as possible before the sachin situation becomes catastrophic. It is an emergency. We must do something quickly. African leaders have set a deadline of tuesday for talks between the south Sudanese Government and rebel fighters. Or than 1000 people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced in over two weeks of fighting between Government Forces and rebels loyal to the countrys ousted former Vice President. In kenya, ethiopias foreign minister read a statement on behalf of regional country supporting south sudanese president salva kiir. Welcome the commitment by the government of the republic of cell sedan to mediate cessation of hostilities and call on the parties to make similar commitments. And if hostilities do not cease within four days of this communique, the summit will consider taking further measures. Condemns all constitutional actions to challenge the constitutional order, democracy, and rule of law, and in particularly, condemns changing the democratic government of the republic of south sudan through the use of force. Trucks that was ethiopias foreign minister. A federal judge has upheld the National Security agencys ball collection of u. S. Telephone data just days after a separate court reached an opposite opinion. Friday, district judge William Polley dismissed a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties union challenging the nsas mass collection of u. S. Phone records. He said telephone metadata could have potentially prevented the 9 11 attacks by alerting the government to hijackers who made phone calls from the United States. The issue will likely head to the Supreme Court. Pollys ruling comes less than two weeks after another federal judge questioned the programs constitutionality and described the bulk collection as almost orwellian. The german publication der spiegel has revealed new details about a secretive hacking unit inside the nsa call the office of tailored access operations, or tao. The unit was created in 1997 to hack into Global Communications traffic. Hackers inside the tao have developed a way to break into Computers Running Microsoft Windows by gaining passive access to machines when users report program crashes to microsoft. With help from the cia and fbi, the nsa has the ability to intercept computers and other Electronic Accessories purchased online in order to secretly insert spyware and components i can provide backdoor access for spies. We will have more on the nsa news later after headlines. Jobless benefits have expired for over 1. 3 million americans after congress fell to renew them under the recent budget deal. The program provided up to 47 weeks of supplemental Unemployment Insurance payments to jobless people looking for work. Just one quarter of unemployed americans will now receive jobless benefits. The smallest proportion in half a century. More on the story later in the broadcast. The white house says nearly 2 Million People have signed up for Health Insurance plans to the federal and state exchanges in the first three months of enrollment. Over 1. 1 million signed up through the federal website healthcare. Gov including over 975,000 in december. Egypt is facing continued violence and unrest amidst the latest escalation of the military governments crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. On sunday, four soldiers were when it when a bomb struck a Military Building north of cairo. A bombing last week on to the Egyptian Government to deem the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, even though a separate militant group claimed responsibility. One person was killed and over 100 board attained over the weekend and student protests against the antibrotherhood crackdown. Buildings on the University Campus were set on fire during the unrest. Egypt is set to hold a referendum on a new constitution next month. Egyptian forces meanwhile have arrested for journalists with the News Network Al Jazeera in cairo. , twospondent peter greste producers and a cameraman were detained at their hotel on sunday. Al jazeeras calling for their immediate release. Egypts military government has repeatedly targeted al jazeera, rating offices, ordering and affiliates closure, and supporting several of his staffers. Deporting several of its staffers. Receiving 3 billion in aid from saudi arabia. The lebanese government says the money will go to its military. The announcement follows fridays bombing in beirut that killed five people, including ,ormer minister Mohammed Chatah a critic of syrian president Bashar Alassad and the Lebanese Group hezbollah. A Health Worker overseeing the polio vaccination effort in pakistan has been shot dead. The victim was the latest medical official to be killed in the fallout from the u. S. Assassination of osama bin laden. The taliban began attacking Health Workers after it was revealed the cia used a Fake Vaccination Program to help locate osama bin laden. Intelligence estimate warns afghanistan will likely descend into chaos unless the two sides can sign a longterm agreement to maintain american troops. Hasan president karzai delayed ratification of a security pact that would keep u. S. Forces in afghanistan after 2014. The National Intelligence estimate says u. S. Gains will be eroded within three years without a large military presence to fight the taliban. Thousands of people have rallied on the japanese island of okinawa in protest of plans to relocate a u. S. Military base. Local officials sign on to a deal last week that will move the base from a densely populated urban area to a more remote location. But a movement of okinawa residents has opposed the base altogether and pushed for ousting u. S. Forces off the island, citing Environmental Concerns and sexual assaults by your soldiers on local residents. Peopleay, thousands of surrounded a government building and staged a sit in inside. New investigation challenges rightwing claims around the deadly attack on u. S. Consulate him and got the that was in libya last year. The New York Times reports theres no evidence al qaeda or other International Militants played a role in the assault that killed four americans, including ambassador christopher stevens. The attack was coordinated by local militia who in fact benefited from the u. S. Backed nato intervention against colonel muammar gaddafi. It also appears that anger over antiislam film produced in the muslimshe innocence of , helped fill the attack as the obama ministration initially claimed. Protests are continuing in new york city over incoming mayor bill de blasios appointment of William Bratton as the next Police Commissioner. Bryan returns to the job after leading the nypd in the mid 1990s when he and braced a controversial strategy of cracking down on lowlevel offenses. De blasio campaigned on a promise to curb the nypds controversial stop and frisk policy, but bratton actually expanded the program will heading the los angeles police. Parents ofthe victims shot dead by police under brattons watch that a protest march from harlem to the bronx. Nicholas heyward, senior lost his 13yearold son after police mistook the boys toy rifle for real gun. Im angry today. Ive been angry since hearing bill de blasio has chosen bill bratton to be the next commissioner. Back in 1994, my son was murdered and he was gunned down by new York City Police officer. You should have addressed that issue. But he failed to do that. This protest you have parents and families out here who had their innocent loved ones killed. That is what were talking about. We do not wish for William Bratton to be the Police Commissioner of new york city again. Organizers said they plan to sntinue protest at de blasio inauguration on wednesday. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. To one of the biggest stories of 2013 the National Security agency and its massive to Mystic International surveillance apparatus. The german publication der spiegel has revealed new details about a secretive hacking unit inside the nsa called the office of tailored access operations, or gao. The unit was created in 1997 to hack into Global Communications traffic. The der spiegel report includes a number of new details about the nsas hacking abilities. Hackers inside the secretive unit have developed a way to break into Computers Running Microsoft Windows by gaining passive access to machines when users report program crashes to microsoft. Fbi,help from the cia and the nsa has the ability to intercept computers and other Electronic Accessories purchased online in order to secretly insert spyware and components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. In one secret operation called white tamale, the nsa hacked into the communications of mexicos secretariat of public security. Publishedlations were just two days after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties union challenging the nsas use mass collection of u. S. Phone records. U. S. District judge William Polley wrote another federal judge questioned the constitutionality and described it as almost orwellian. Were joined today by two guests. ,our new york, Jameel Jaffer deputy legal director of the aclu and director of the aclus center for democracy. And joining us from brazil is Glenn Greenwald. She was prewas the a columnist at the guardian and is creating an immediate venture with the ebay founder, to. Eschedule, and Laura Poitras what exactly did the judge rule . It is a ruling that is limiting to the bulk surveillance of collecting metadata. Theres a program the nsa has in place now and has had in place now for seven years at least that collects information about every single phone call nader received on u. S. Telephone network so that means every time you pick up the phone, the nsa is making a note in some sense of who you called, how long you spoke to them, when you call them, every single time you pick up the phone. The nsa is doing that with respect to every single phone in thede in the usa United States. We challenge the constitutionality. Judge polly appel the program saying First Congress had intended to prevent people like us, that is the targets of this surveillance, from challenging the Scanner Program in court. Also the constitution doesnt foreclose the government from collecting this kind of information about everybody. Obvious they, we disagreed strongly with the decision and think it is wrong the multiple respects and intent to appeal it. Explain exactly who you represented in this lawsuit. We represent the aclu. I work for the aclu myself but declined in this case is aclu. These organizations are the clients because we are verizon subscribers. The order that was disclosed by when greenwald and the guardian is in order that requires verizon to turn over all of its information, all of this kind of information to the nsa on a daily basis. So we have evidence now that our own communications were monitored in this way. We know that everybodys communications are monitored in this way. We were able to go into court to challenge the program because we have this evidence. When greenwald, your response to the judges ruling . This comes right after another judge, u. S. District judge richard leon, called the nsa surveillance on most orwellian and likely unconstitutional. History of thehe post9 11 era has been one of failed institutions are particularly those designed to check abuses by the executive branch in the Intelligence Community, beginning with the u. S. Media, u. S. Congress, and i think the worst culprit has been the federal judiciary, which really is the most inexcusable because it is supposed to be immunized from political pressures by life tenure which is a doubt in the constitution. Which is laid out in the constitution. Their duty is to respect peoples rights and matter how unpopular it may be. In the most extreme and radical forms of unconstitutional conduct. I think judge pauleys decision is typical. It begins by exploiting 9 11 to justify anything the government wants to do. The reason judge leons decision grabbed so much attention is because it was such an amazing aberration. It was one of the few ringing endorsements the hostages and Still Matters and the war on terrorism. We will see have how these conflicts play out in the appellate courts. Former nsa director general Michael Hayden addressed the issue of telephone surveillance in his interview with cbs face the nation on sunday. Millions, billions of phone records a day are acquired by the National Security agency, but what follows is really important. What happens to that data, how often it is touched. The truth is, it is touched 200 to 300 times per year and only based upon a reasonable are to the suspicion that that number is affiliated with terrorism. Jameel jaffer, your response . I dont think that should be reassuring to anyone. The fact is this information rest in an nsa database. It is already being used pretty extensively 300 times in a single year that the nsa has conducted what it calls queries into this data. Eve

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