Arctic. We will speak to investigative journalist James Bamford. Then mr. Smith goes to prison. Was the amazing amount of untapped Human Potential in prison. I met some of the brightest people ive met in my life there. People who rivaled those of the ceos who had wind and i me while i was a state senator. Amy a decade ago, jeff smith was a rising political star in missouri. Today is a professor at the new school in new york. In between he spent a year in federal prison for Campaign Election violation. He has just published a book about what a year behind bars taught him about americas prison crisis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has challenged World Leaders to act urgently on Climate Change or condemn our children to a world they will no longer have the capacity to repair. On monday, president obama opened an International Conference on the arctic being held in alaska by emphasizing
Newest front in global espionage. It is one of the least habitable locales on the earth, the arctic. We will speak to investigative journalist James Bamford. Then mr. Smith goes to prison. Was the amazing amount of untapped Human Potential in prison. I met some of the brightest people ive met in my life there. People who rivaled those of the ceos who had wind and i me while i was a state senator. Amy a decade ago, jeff smith was a rising political star in missouri. Today is a professor at the new school in new york. In between he spent a year in federal prison for Campaign Election violation. He has just published a book about what a year behind bars taught him about americas prison crisis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has challenged World Leaders to act urgently on Climate Change or condemn our children to a world they will no longer have the capacity to repair. On monday, presiden
Newest front in global espionage. It is one of the least habitable locales on the earth, the arctic. We will speak to investigative journalist James Bamford. Then mr. Smith goes to prison. Was the amazing amount of untapped Human Potential in prison. I met some of the brightest people ive met in my life there. People who rivaled those of the ceos who had wind and i me while i was a state senator. Amy a decade ago, jeff smith was a rising political star in missouri. Today is a professor at the new school in new york. In between he spent a year in federal prison for Campaign Election violation. He has just published a book about what a year behind bars taught him about americas prison crisis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has challenged World Leaders to act urgently on Climate Change or condemn our children to a world they will no longer have the capacity to repair. On monday, presiden
Kennedy. He will be answering your calls and tweets until 3 00 p. M. Eastern. Host we have author ron kessler with desperate is the system broken . Guest not necessarily with the agents come of age and have been very dedicated and they would take a bullet for the president. But there is a retaliation against those who point out problems or threats, punishing agents who question really anything and on the other hand promoting management who goes along to pretend that the secret service is not vulnerable. So it is a corrupt culture and you saw an example of that when julia pierson, the director claims after this that he was stopped at the door that he was not armed, that was a total lie. How could any agency put out a lie like that and think that they could get away with it. And when it came out that that was not true, the new director joseph clancy, he was asked about that adhering and whether anyone would be held accountable for issuing that information and that was just an error. And
Along to pretend that the secret service is not vulnerable. So it is a corrupt culture and you saw an example of that when julia pierson, the director claims after this that he was stopped at the door that he was not armed, that was a total lie. How could any agency put out a lie like that and think that they could get away with it. And when it came out that that was not true, the new director joseph clancy, he was asked about that adhering and whether anyone would be held accountable for issuing that information and that was just an error. And they said how do you know it is an error, and they said i dont know how this happened and number one to be the director and number two, how can anyone on the lower level trust someone like that, how could they trust him stop this very corrupt culture how could you trust them with any information at the secret service today. Host out of the culture developed . Guest it started around 2003 when the department of Homeland Security took over the sec