http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Aftermath of the September 11 attacks) en-us Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:34:00 -0700 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/nsa-whistleblowers-all-us-citizens-targeted-by-obama-administration-surveillance?start=0 A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. The Guardian newspaper published a classified order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directing Verizon's Business Network Services to give the National Security Agency electronic data, including all calling records on an "ongoing, daily basis." The order covers each phone number dialed by all customers, along with location and routing data, and with the duration and frequency of the calls, but not the contents of the communications. Democracy Now! is joined by Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and two former National Security Agency employees turned whistleblowers: Thomas Drake and William Binney.&nbsp; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:34:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/nsa-whistleblowers-all-us-citizens-targeted-by-obama-administration-surveillance US National Security Agency (NSA), USA PATRIOT Act, NSA electronic surveillance program, William Binney, Verizon, Thomas Andrews Drake, Shayana D. Kadidal, Barack Obama, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, Mobile phone A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. The Guardian newspaper published a classified order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directing Verizon's Business Network Services to give the National Security Agency electronic data, including all calling records on an "ongoing, daily basis." The order covers each phone number dialed by all customers, along with location and routing data, and with the duration and frequency of the calls, but not the contents of the communications. Democracy Now! is joined by Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and two former National Security Agency employees turned whistleblowers: Thomas Drake and William Binney. In 2010, the Obama administration charged Drake with violating The Espionage Act after he was accused of leaking classified information to the press about waste and mismanagement at the agency. The charges were later dropped. "Where has the mainstream media been? These are routine orders, nothing new," Drake says. "What's new is we're seeing an actual order and people are somehow surprised by it. The fact remains that this program has been in place for quite some time it was actually started shortly after 9/11. The PATRIOT Act was the enabling mechanism that allowed the United States government in secret to acquire subscriber records from any company." Binney, who worked at nearly 40 years at the NSA and resigned shortly after the 9/11 attacks, says: "NSA has been doing all this stuff all along and it's been all the companies not just one. And I basically looked at that and said if Verizon got one, so did everybody else. Which means that, they're just continuing the collection of this kind of information of all US citizens." http://news.linktv.org/videos/war-in-afghanistan-what-price-revenge?start=0 <div>More than a decade ago -- without consultation, without any debate - the United States launched the war against Afghanistan, with the whole world by its side, in an act of self-defense after the attacks of 9/11. Today, the troops of the coalition are gradually packing up. They have lost more than 3,000 soldiers and leave behind a country on the brink of civil war and bloodshed.</div> Fri, 31 May 2013 16:42:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/war-in-afghanistan-what-price-revenge Afghanistan War, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Afghanistan, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, ISAF, September 11, 2001 attacks, Taliban More than a decade ago -- without consultation, without any debate - the United States launched the war against Afghanistan, with the whole world by its side, in an act of self-defense after the attacks of 9/11. Today, the troops of the coalition are gradually packing up. They have lost more than 3,000 soldiers and leave behind a country on the brink of civil war and bloodshed. http://news.linktv.org/videos/firefighters-kin-seek-justice-at-911-hearings?start=0 A retired New York firefighter and parents of a dead paramedic are among the emergency responders and families who are committed to watching the ongoing pretrial hearings of accused 9/11 attackers at Guantanamo Bay via closed-circuit TV in Brooklyn. They're seeking justice, and to honor their dead. Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:16:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/firefighters-kin-seek-justice-at-911-hearings Guantánamo Bay, September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, World Trade Center, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, United States, New York City, Brooklyn, Closed-circuit television A retired New York firefighter and parents of a dead paramedic are among the emergency responders and families who are committed to watching the ongoing pretrial hearings of accused 9/11 attackers at Guantanamo Bay via closed-circuit TV in Brooklyn. They're seeking justice, and to honor their dead. http://news.linktv.org/videos/brought-to-justice-uk-terror-suspects-appear-in-us-court?start=0 Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has appeared in a New York court where the charges against him were formally read out. Abu Hamza is one of the five men extradited to the US after a long legal fight in Britain. He faces 11 charges, including plotting to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in the US state of Oregon. Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York. Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:28:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/brought-to-justice-uk-terror-suspects-appear-in-us-court Abu Hamza al-Masri, Extradition, Al-Qaeda, Cleric, New York, Afghan training camp, Ulama, United States, Oregon, United Kingdom Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has appeared in a New York court where the charges against him were formally read out. Abu Hamza is one of the five men extradited to the US after a long legal fight in Britain. He faces 11 charges, including plotting to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in the US state of Oregon. Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports from New York. http://news.linktv.org/videos/have-you-heard-of-911?start=0 In the West we take it for granted that everybody knows about the events of September 11th. But is this really the case, especially in some of the places that have been most affected by its consequences? Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:43:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/have-you-heard-of-911 September 11, 2001 attacks, Afghanistan War, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, US Armed Forces, Taliban, US Army, US-Afghanistan relations, World Trade Center In the West we take it for granted that everybody knows about the events of September 11th. But is this really the case, especially in some of the places that have been most affected by its consequences? Amazingly, in Afghanistan, where for ten years a war has been fought with 9/11 as its root cause and justification, not only do many locals claim to be oblivious to 9/11 but it appears that so are the police and even some of the translators working with the US military. "We're farmers, we're just working in our fields. We don't know anything else about the world," they shrug. With high rates of illiteracy, poverty and lack of infrastructure, many Afghans live in what is close to a media vacuum. With American troops set to start withdrawing this year, it appears that they will leave with a huge number of Afghans never having really understood why they came in the first place. For the majority of US soldiers however, it's a different story. "Some of us still have a personal vendetta with the beings that roam here. I still find it very personal." http://news.linktv.org/videos/a-decade-of-injustice-held-without-trial-at-guantanamo?start=0 Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He's a legal UK resident, married to a British national, with four children. He's also yet to face trial or be charged. So why is he still behind bars? Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:23:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/a-decade-of-injustice-held-without-trial-at-guantanamo Shaker Aamer, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, War on Terror, Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, United Kingdom, Guantánamo Bay, Bagram, Extraordinary rendition, UK Government Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He's a legal UK resident, married to a British national, with four children. He's also yet to face trial or be charged. So why is he still behind bars? Through conversations with activists and former detainees, this film paints a picture of Aamer and his extraordinary situation; from the injustices he has endured to what his life has involved for the last decade. From Bagram to Guantanamo Bay, his story illustrates the "unlawful" measures that the US and UK governments continue to use to justify their War on Terror, "ignoring international law, Geneva conventions, and their own Constitution." http://news.linktv.org/videos/inside-story-americas-will-us-personnel-ever-face-torture-charges?start=0 As the Obama administration drops any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners during the Bush administration, Inside Story Americas asks if this will affect the US's standing in the world, and if we can be sure such abuses have stopped. Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:17:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/inside-story-americas-will-us-personnel-ever-face-torture-charges Gul Rahman, Manadel al-Jamadi, Abu Ghraib prison, Waterboarding, Enhanced interrogation techniques, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, Torture, Stress position, Immunity from prosecution, Iraq War As the Obama administration drops any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners during the Bush administration, Inside Story Americas asks if this will affect the US's standing in the world, and if we can be sure such abuses have stopped. http://news.linktv.org/videos/dastaar-defending-sikh-identity?start=0 The Sikh American community faces daily discrimination and violence caused by ignorance of an essential symbol of the Sikh faith -- the dastaar, or turban. This film explores what it means to be a Sikh American in post-9/11 United States. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:21:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/dastaar-defending-sikh-identity Sikhism in the United States, Dastar, Sikh, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Religious discrimination, Sikhism, Turban, 2012 Oak Creek shooting, United States, New York City "Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity" presents the struggle of the Sikh American community against discrimination and violence caused by ignorance of an essential symbol of the Sikh faith -- the dastaar, or turban. The documentary begins by observing the simple, quiet act of putting on the dastaar, a daily ritual imbued with the Sikh values of honor, discipline, and faith. The solemnity of this ritual contrasts with recent incidents of violence and discrimination against Sikhs due to the wearing of the dastaar, which all Sikh men are required to wear at all times in public. Such incidents include the vicious attack on Gurcharan Singh and Rajinder Singh Khalsa by five men after being accused of being terrorists, two NYPD officers who left the force after refusing the order to remove their dastaars while on duty, and a subway operator who wore his dastaar for 20 years until being recently ordered to remove his dastaar. Even though Sikhs have no relationship with the terrorist networks of the Middle East, they are often mistaken as terrorists due to their wearing turbans. The film explores how images in the media fuel the association of the turban with terrorism, leading to the widespread discrimination against Sikhs. The film also shows the efforts made by the Sikh community to counter this discrimination through a combination of community activism, legal action, legislation, and education. http://news.linktv.org/videos/weapons-youth-and-motivation-why-the-taliban-is-growing-in-pakistan?start=0 In a recent trip to Pakistan to report on the recent spike in the region's violence and bloodshed, Vice's Suroosh Alvi heard over and over the same sentiment from people on the ground: America's war on terror is falling flat on its face. Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:40:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/weapons-youth-and-motivation-why-the-taliban-is-growing-in-pakistan Pakistani Taliban, Peshawar, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, War on Terror, Terrorist attack, Taliban, 2010 Pakistan floods, Suicide attack, Shooting We went to Pakistan to investigate why suicide bombings, IED use, and the Taliban are all growing at alarming rates. In a recent trip to Pakistan to report on the recent spike in the region's violence and bloodshed, Suroosh Alvi heard over and over the same sentiment from people on the ground: America's war on terror is falling flat on its face. The military conflict in neighboring Afghanistan, repeatedly cited by locals, sends a constant flood of guns, refugees, militants, and heroin flowing into Pakistan. Heroin is now actually cheaper than hashish in cities like Lahore, and the Kalashnikov culture, the foundation of which was laid 30 years ago when the CIA financed the mujahideen, is all-consuming. According to the Pakistanis he spoke to, it's all taken a devastating toll on the country and is creating the next generation of militants. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-june-8-2012?start=1484 Bradley Manning appears at a pretrial hearing in a military court ahead of his September trial, as a new book documents his trajectory from a difficult childhood to his current predicament. And more from the Democracy Now! interview with the filmmakers behind "Five Broken Cameras," a new documentary that tells the story of a West Bank village's resistance to the Israeli separation barrier. Plus headlines, and more.<br /> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:05:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-june-8-2012 Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, Whistleblower, United States v. Bradley Manning, United States, Court-martial, Trial, Military justice, 2012 al-Qubair massacre, Bil'in The new book, "Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History," tracks Manning's trajectory from growing up as a gay teen in small-town Oklahoma to joining the U.S. Army, where he found success as an intelligence analyst before being charged with the largest U.S. intelligence breach on record. We speak with the book's author, Denver Nicks. "In many ways Bradley Manning's story is the story of the United States in the post-9/11 era," Nicks says. "[His] life is sort of quintessentially American, in that he's gay at a time when gay rights goes mainstream. He joins the Army — and as an intelligence analyst, no less — at a time when the national security state really starts to metastasize into something that we have never seen before. ... We have more people with more access to more secret information than ever before, while we are living in the post-9/11 era of foreign policy conducted, as Dick Cheney said, in the shadows. We are more dependent than ever on leaks to know what our government is doing. Leaks are not only inevitable, but necessary. ... Bradley Manning had access to an extraordinary amount of classified information — more, in fact, than he leaked." In addition to Kevin Gosztola, we're joined by Denver Nicks, author of a new book on Bradley Manning called Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. He's also a regular contributor to The Daily Beast. Kevin Gosztola is a civil liberties blogger at Firedoglake. Why did you decide to write this book? The Bradley Manning story is one of—easily one of the most important stories of the last decade, certainly. In many ways, Bradley Manning's story is the story of the United States in the post-9/11 era. Bradley Manning's life is sort of quintessentially American, in that he was—he's gay at a time when gay rights goes mainstream. He joins the Army—and as an intelligence analyst, no less—at a time when the national security state really starts to metastasize into something that we have never seen before. And, of course, his life intersects with this sort of out-of-control growth in the secrecy state that has existed since 9/11. It's a hugely important story, and I wanted to tell it from the beginning and get into Manning's life and who he is. And you focus quite a bit on his early life, his friendships and his development as a geek, before he even got into the military. And could you talk about that, his early life and his family? Yeah. I mean, I think that's an important part of the story that has been—I wouldn't say it's been overlooked. It's been covered. I mean, it's a part of his life that other figures in the media have talked about and looked into, but I didn't feel that it had been looked into with enough depth and honesty before. Brad, of course, grew up in Crescent, Oklahoma, not far from where I'm from. I come from Tulsa, Oklahoma. And the circumstances of his early life were really humble. He grew up in a farmhouse outside of a small town. And as I said before, his life is sort of quintessentially American in that he becomes deeply interested in computers and sort of a computer whiz, as it were, at a time when the computer becomes the essential form of—the essential tool for communication. He's gay in a small conservative town in Oklahoma. And in short, due to the fact that he has this working-class background, he—and his family falls apart when he's about 13 years old, he has a pretty difficult youth. Bradley Manning joined the Army, like many, many young men and women do in this country, because it was a great opportunity for him, and, frankly, because it was a great opportunity for the Army. It's too often overlooked, I think, that Bradley Manning was very well positioned to be a successful intelligence analyst in the United States Army, and by all accounts, in many ways, was a successful intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army. Certainly had troubles along the way, but he was good at his job, and the Army saw that. One of the interesting aspects of the book is you sort of counterpose the early life of Julian Assange, as well, of him growing up in Australia and his run-ins, as a hacker, with the law in Australia. But then you point out the fact that both Assange and Bradley Manning were influenced by a Richard—the work of Richard Stallman, an advocate of free software and a more open internet. Could you talk about Stallman and how he influenced both of them? Right. Richard Stallman is sort of one of the guru figures in the hacker community, if you will. He's the primary proponent and the founder of what's called the Free Software Foundation, the primary proponent of the notion of free software, which is about, as Stallman would say, free as in freedom, not free beer. The idea basically is that the—is that information should be free. This is one of the places where this idea comes from, that the fundamental currency of politics and culture is information and that information should be free-flowing for a healthy society, for a healthy culture and healthy politics and, in Stallman's case, for a healthy computer. Julian Assange was part of this hacker culture in the '80s and early '90s, and continues to be, but he was at that time. And like many people who are involved in that scene, Assange gets involved in writing open-source software, software based on the premises that Richard Stallman founded, the sort of free software ideals. Bradley Manning, later in his life, becomes good friends with a fellow named Danny Clark, who worked for Richard Stallman at the Free Software Foundation, and to some degree, I think, became interested in Stallman's ideas and the notion that information should be free. So talk about his trajectory from a computer geek, young kid from Oklahoma—interestingly, right near Kerr-McGee and near where Karen Silkwood was killed— That's right. —one of the major whistleblowers of this country, anti-nuclear whistleblower. She was killed leaving a meeting from Crescent, Oklahoma. That's right. It's strange that Karen Silkwood comes from—that she died right outside of Crescent. It's a very, very small town. And, I mean, the odds that two of the world's most famous whistleblowers would come from this small town are tiny. And talk about how he goes from what he was doing in high school to the military. Right, his—so, Bradley goes to high school in the U.K., in Wales. And he goes back to Oklahoma to get out of a bad situation. He was living with his mom, who was dealing with some health problems and alcohol abuse problems. So he goes back to the United States, moves in with his father. And that situation becomes riddled with conflict pretty quickly. Basically, it comes to a point where he gets kicked out of the house, he's got to leave, and he's homeless in Tulsa for a while. Goes on a brief journey from Tulsa to Chicago, lands in Maryland, living with his aunt, and he's working at a Starbucks. Essentially, he's—Bradley Manning is a very ambitious and very bright, thoughtful kid. He knew that he was made for more than working at a pizza parlor in Tulsa or spending the rest of his life working at a Starbucks in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. And he, apparently, after prodding from his father and probably after interacting with people in the national security, in the government universe around in these D.C. suburbs, decides to join the Army, or to look into it, anyway. He made the decision without consulting with many people in his family, announced to his aunt, who he was living with at the time, that he had already joined. When he went to her and told her he was thinking about it, he had already signed his papers. It was the best option available to him, frankly, and a good option for him. One wishes that—you know, as I've said before, he joined the Army before the financial crisis hit in this country; however, if you are in the sort of bottom working-class rung of our socioeconomic structure, the financial crisis began in about 1980. And that's the financial crisis Bradley Manning was living in. That's why joining the Army was the best option available to him. He wanted to get a college education and didn't have a clear route to one. You also chart out that there were numerous indications throughout his life of some amount of anger management problems, emotional instability, that manifested itself in his early life as well as in the military. Right. Could you talk about that? Yeah. I mean, that's certainly true. There are—there are these moments in his life when he manifests emotional problems, emotional instability. It's important to note that if you take any life and put it under a microscope, you're likely to find instances in which a person appears to be crazy. I'm sure—I know that would be true of me. I assume it would be true of—well, I won't speak for the both of you— Never of Amy. Never of Amy. Certainly not Amy, but maybe Juan and I. So there's that fact, you know, that people have moments of emotional instability. Everybody does. However, it is clear that Bradley Manning—I mean, he had a rather difficult life. It's not that he had nothing to be upset about. And the moments of emotional instability manifest themselves throughout his young life and leading up to the Army. And there are indications that the Army, had systems been functioning as they are designed to function, should probably have revoked his security clearance before he—before he was arrested, certainly. There was even discussion about leaving him in the United States when his unit deployed to Iraq. Because? Because he had—because he had had these moments of outburst while he was a soldier at Fort Drum awaiting deployment, enough to cause concern with some of his superiors that maybe he wasn't in the right state of mind to deploy to Iraq. Ultimately, the exigencies of a protracted war won out in the calculus, and the Army needed bright, good intelligence analysts, and that's what Bradley Manning is—was—not an intelligence analyst anymore. But he's still—he's still a soldier in the Army. And so, very quickly, he goes to Iraq. Where is he? And what does he have access to? Talk about the Lady—what he is charged with in the Lady Gaga CDs. Right. Well, he's—so he goes to Iraq, and he had long had access to substantial amounts of information, more information—I mean, Bradley Manning and his peers had more access to state secrets than people in their position of any previous era, because we classify more information than ever and because we, at the same time, share information between agencies in an effort to bulk up our national security and help our intelligence agents do their work. So Bradley Manning had access to an extraordinary amount of classified information—more, in fact, than he leaked. He goes to Iraq, and he finds himself, as he says, troubled by some of the things he sees. On the other hand, I don't have the impression that Bradley Manning is a pacifist or was wholly against the war, certainly not when he arrived there. In fact, he talks in some of the chat logs that I quote in my book, chat logs with a friend of his—he talks about wanting to—about considering applying to West Point, about maybe working—about maybe reenlisting and working in the United States Cyber Command. So he has access to an extraordinary amount information, and he's accused of obviously using that access to download information onto—well, initially, apparently, onto CDs and transferring that from his work computer to his computer in his—what's called a CHU, in his room on base, which is—which was only possible, one should note, because it was a very common practice at FOB Hammer, and apparently in many places in Iraq, to burn information onto CDs, classified information onto unmarked discs, and transfer it out of the secure facility, primarily in order to share it with the Iraqi authorities. Denver, you focus a great deal in Private, the book about Bradley Manning, on his sexuality. Why? Yeah. Well, sexuality is an important part of all of our identities, for one thing. For Bradley Manning, it was an important part—it was an exceptionally important part of his identity socially and his identity politically. I think that much too much has been made of the notion that Bradley Manning lashed out at the Army because he was angry about Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I have never seen any evidence to support that suggestion. And frankly, that comes—I think that comes from the right-wing blogosphere, and there's nothing to back it up. However, Brad was—he was very close friends with a fellow named Toby, who was and is a prominent gay rights activist and a politico in the D.C. area. Brad was deeply concerned personally about the fight for marriage equality. These are important driving factors for him ideologically. So that's why I focus on it. And, of course, his relationship is a hugely important part of his life, leading up to the point when he's arrested. You raise the issue of whether he should be called Breanna or Bradley. Uh-huh, right. I mean, that's a—that's a difficult issue. What Amy's referencing, of course, is the fact that, not long before he was arrested, Brad apparently created a sort of—I'm not sure what the proper terminology is, but he apparently created an alter ego for a transgendered self that he intended to become that he named Breanna. One asks—you know, one asks oneself if the proper thing to call Brad Manning is in fact Breanna. When Brad Manning indicates to the world that he is now Breanna Manning, I'll call him Breanna, certainly. I mean, I'll absolutely respect that. But as of right now, I don't think we have a clear indication of what exactly Manning prefers to be called. You also obviously point out the fact that, in this new metastasized national security state that we have with all of this emphasis on gathering of information, that the system itself becomes more vulnerable, because the more that it gathers so much information, centralizes it, shares it, the more that individuals like Bradley Manning, a mere private—he may have been very skilled, but he was just a private in the military—can have access, can get keys into this trove of intelligence. That's absolutely right. As I—I wrote in The Daily Beast just today about this instance in which, last week, the New York Times ran these two cover stories about insider information in the Obama administration, one about the origins of the Stuxnet virus and the other about the so-called kill list and the drone assassination program, both of which were widely believed to reflect well on the president for political electoral purposes. I'm not sure that both of those stories do reflect well on the president, but certainly they were interpreted to. Both of those—both of those stories quote high-level, confidential sources divulging classified information. Senator McCain has made a big deal about this, as others have, that there is apparently this flow of classified information emanating from—from the White House, but there doesn't seem to be a concerted effort on the part of the White House to crack down on those leaks. Legislators have announced the intention to introduce legislation to crack down on leaks even further, but that doesn't get at the source of the problem. The problem, as I say, is not that the ship is too leaky, it's that the ship is too full. We have more people with more access to more secret information than ever before, while we are living in the post-9/11 era of a foreign policy conducted, as Dick Cheney said, in the shadows. We are more dependent than ever on leaks to know what our government is doing. Leaks are not only inevitable, but necessary. So, as I say in the piece, if the administration is leaking information for political gain, it's reprehensible, but the least of our problems. Finally, what happened to Bradley Manning while in jail? We've just passed the two-year anniversary of him being imprisoned. That's right. And what we understand has taken place, what a number of human rights groups and leaders have called treatment that amounted to torture— That's right. —taken from Quantico—taken from Iraq to Kuwait, then held at Quantico—describe his treatment—and now moved on. And we shouldn't forget that this happened. I mean, it was a miscarriage of justice that I think every reasonable person recognizes was a miscarriage of justice at this point. After he was—Bradley Manning was moved to Kuwait initially after his arrest, and then he was taken from Kuwait to Quantico Marine Base, a brig that was not apparently designed as a pretrial confinement facility, though it served that purpose in this instance. Manning was deeply, deeply fraught when he was first arrested, as I certainly would be in that position. But shortly after he was moved to Quantico, the mental health specialists at Quantico determined that he didn't have to be—that he didn't need to be kept under suicide watch. Suicide watch is the—was the pretense for keeping him in conditions tantamount to solitary confinement. Bradley Manning's attorney, David Coombs, tried, from very early on, to get his client moved into lesser—to less harsh conditions. He was, for example— Stripped naked at night. He—early on, he was—he wasn't stripped naked at night exactly, but he was like not allowed writing utensils in his cell, allowed only one piece of reading material at a time, had to surrender all of his clothes but his underwear in the evening, had to respond verbally to guards to make sure that he was still living but could not converse with guards, and kept in his cell for like 23 hours a day, one hour a day allowed to walk figure eights in an empty gymnasium, essentially. Later, the situation gets much, much worse, and he is apparently—there's a moment that he talks about in a complaint that he filed, that is attorney posted on his website, in which the Marine guards, after a protest outside Quantico protesting his treatment, the Marine guards come to him and basically just start harassing him. You know, no answer is the right answer. They are yelling at him. More guards than usual are escorting him around. That situation becomes more aggravated, as he's stripped naked and is sort of forced to stand at attention naked, which one should note—forced to stand at ease, which is with the feet placed about shoulder width and the hands behind the back—not a good position to sort of modestly cover oneself in front of strangers. So that situation—that situation got totally out of control. It was, frankly, shameful, and at this point—and ultimately totally backfired on the government. I mean, to be perfectly honest with you, I think that Bradley Manning's treatment at Quantico, while deeply unfortunate and a terrible ordeal to go through, was ultimately a positive for him. He raised money, because of what the government did to him, for his legal defense, and was impressed, I think, more sympathetically than ever before on the public mindset. The government's overreaction in that case backfired on the government, made them look—made certain officials look ridiculous. The Quantico brig was ultimately closed. And Bradley Manning has been moved to Fort Leavenworth. Right. We're going to have to wrap it up there, but I want to thank you very much for being with us, Denver Nicks, author of Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-june-7-2012?start=2190 Eight American Muslims from New Jersey have filed a federal lawsuit calling on the New York City Police Department to stop its controversial surveillance and intelligence-gathering program that targets Muslim and Arab communities. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:43:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-june-7-2012 NYPD, New York City stop-and-frisk program, New York City, Michael Bloomberg, US Department of Justice, African American, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Bil'in, Syria, United States Eight American Muslims from New Jersey have filed a federal lawsuit calling on the New York City Police Department to stop its surveillance and intelligence-gathering program that targets Muslim and Arab communities. Under the controversial program, New York City police officers monitored the daily life of Muslims in the tri-city area and across the Northeast — including where people ate, prayed and even where they got their hair cut. We speak to Glenn Katon, legal director at Muslim Advocates, the group that filed the lawsuit. "When the NYPD says basically all Muslims are suspect, it seems clear to us that that violates equal protection of the law," Katon says. A group of eight American Muslims from New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit calling on the New York Police Department to stop its surveillance and intelligence-gathering program that targets Muslims. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by the national organization Muslim Advocates. This is Executive Director Farhana Khera. FARHANA KHERA: It is the first direct legal challenge by victims of the NYPD's discriminatory surveillance program. In fact, this lawsuit, titled Hassan, et al. v. The City of New York, is perhaps a most important legal challenge to date brought by the American Muslim community to protect their rights in our nation's founding values. Under the controversial surveillance program, New York police officers monitored the daily life of Muslims in New York and across the Northeast, including where people ate, where they prayed, and even where they got their hair cut. A Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press investigation revealed that, beginning in 2006, police infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds more. Imam Deen Shareef, whose mosque was under surveillance, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit to stop the program. IMAM DEEN SHAREEF: We are Muslims. We are Americans. And we go about our daily lives trying to establish the best kind of contribution that we can make to the American society. And for us to find out that we are now under suspicion with respect to some criminal activity, without any explanation as to what the provocation was, what the motivation is, what are the people that they're looking for, it is very disturbing for us to find this out. And then to find out that the New York Police Department actually took photographs of our mothers, our children, and those individuals that come into our businesses has created an atmosphere where there is certainly an undue suspicion that has been cast upon the entire Muslim community. The New York Police Department has yet to respond to the lawsuit. Last month, the New Jersey attorney general determined the NYPD's activities there were legal. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has said the surveillance is necessary in order to protect the city from terrorist attacks. We're doing what we have to do, pursuant to the law, to protect the city, a city that's been attacked successfully twice and had 14 plots against it in—you know, in the last two decades. For more, we're joined by Glenn Katon, a legal director for Muslim Advocates. His organization filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday. Glenn Katon, welcome to Democracy Now! Muslim Advocates is based in San Francisco, but you're here. Talk about the significance of this suit and what you're doing. Well, we think it's tremendously significant, because this is the first time American Muslims have challenged a broad-scale surveillance program. And there has been a lot of persecution, discriminatory treatment of Muslims in the post-9/11 era. But really, the revelation of these NYPD reports is the first time that we've seen, in such stark and disturbing detail, exactly what one government entity is doing. So, as those reports were revealed, I mean, people from the community were crying out that, you know, we've always sensed that we're being treated differently, but this is kind of akin to smoking-gun evidence that there is a really concerted and very sophisticated effort to target Muslims based on their faith. And in terms of your legal arguments, what constitutional violations are you alleging? We have three constitutional claims. The first is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Most people are familiar with that in the context of race discrimination, but the law is clear that it applies to certain protected classes, like race, religion, national origin. So when the NYPD says basically all Muslims are suspect, it seems clear to us that that violates equal protection of the law. The other two constitutional claims are based on the religion clauses of the First Amendment. There is the Establishment Clause, which says that government cannot establish a religion. And the most common application of that provision of the Constitution is in the context of the government embracing or endorsing religion. So if the government—I mean, the famous cases are like the crucifix in the national park or the Christian version of the 10 Commandments on the courthouse steps. The flipside of that is that government also cannot denigrate or disfavor a particular religion. So when the policy of the NYPD is to treat all Muslims as suspects of what is traditionally criminal investigation types of activities, that disfavors the Muslim faith. Lastly, we have the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, which, when the government, again, targets religion in a way—or a particular religious faith in a way that interferes with people's ability to worship and practice their religion, that violates the Free Exercise Clause. And we've seen, most recently, Tuesday, there was another NYPD document released that has kind of a spreadsheet of the types of infiltration that the NYPD is carrying out and lists Muslim Student Association, lists mosques, and has a little check for "Do we have an informant there?", "Do we have an undercover officer there?" So, you know, how can people pray, talk to their imam, when the person standing next to them may be a cop? Well, what about the argument of the police department that they are—that this is surveillance, that they are not actually targeting or prosecuting, all they're doing is gathering information? Well, their—yeah, I mean, the idea that, "Oh, we're just in public places observing what anyone else could observe," is really a fallacy for two reasons. First of all, nobody wants to think that they are being photographed as they go in and out of their place of worship. Nobody wants to think that people are watching them in their Halal restaurant. So, it's an intrusion, even if it's in a public place, number one. More importantly than that is you're still targeting people based on faith. I mean, if the policy was, you know, we're going to watch—we're going to go to Catholic churches and photograph license plates, see who's coming in and out; we're going to go to kosher delis and only kosher delis, not the Italian delis, not the German delis—you know, I think people would very understandably be up in arms about that. This is Mayor Bloomberg speaking at Yale University after it was disclosed New York police officers had monitored students from Yale. MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: We have to keep this country safe. This is a dangerous place. Make no mistake about it. It's very cute to go and to blame everybody and say we should stay away from anything that smacks of intelligence gathering. The job of our law enforcement is to make sure that they prevent things, and you only do that to—by being proactive. You have to respect people's right to privacy. You have to obey the law. And I think the police officers across this country, and at a federal level, state level and city level, do that. But having said all of that, you have to be—you do not want to—you are not going to survive, you will not be able to be a journalist and write what you want to say, if the people who want to take away your freedoms are allowed to succeed. That's New York Mayor Bloomberg. Yale President Richard Levin had condemned the spy efforts, saying, quote, "Police surveillance based on religion, nationality, or peacefully expressed political opinions is antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic community, and the United States." Who exactly are you representing, Glenn Katon, and your response to what Mayor Bloomberg said? Let me respond first, since he was just on there. I mean, obviously the police have an enormous responsibility to keep us all safe. What we say to that is, you keep people safe by watching their behavior; you don't keep people safe by watching the religious practices, the color of people's skin. Those are antithetical to American values. We are representing a wonderful group of very brave plaintiffs that really represent the full spectrum of Muslims who were spied on. We have African-American imams. We have business owners. We have students at the Rutgers MSA, which was spied on. The Muslim Students Association. Yes. And we have a soldier, a U.S. Army Reservist, who was a decorated soldier from Iraq, who has said, basically, "I signed up to support and defend the Constitution, only to come back home and worry about pictures of me being—taking my mother to the mosque, that could jeopardize my security clearance." So it has a very—this has a very profound stigma in the abstract sense, but in a very practical sense in how people live their lives. Glenn Katon, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Thank you. Legal director for Muslim Advocates who has just filed a federal lawsuit demanding the New York Police Department stop its surveillance of mosques, businesses, college campuses and gathering spots in New York, New Jersey and beyond. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-25-2012?start=978 A three-month review by New Jersey's attorney general has concluded the New York City Police Department did not violate state laws when they conducted extensive surveillance of Muslim communities with help from the CIA. Fri, 25 May 2012 10:33:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-may-25-2012 Egyptian presidential election, 2012, Egypt, Ahmed Shafiq, Mohamed Morsi, United States, Montreal, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster, Student debt, Education in the United States, Islam in the United States A three-month review by New Jersey's attorney general has concluded the New York City Police Department did not violate state laws when they conducted extensive surveillance of Muslim communities with help from the CIA. The review's finding means Muslims will have no recourse to state law to prevent the NYPD from monitoring and cataloging their daily life. The decision has angered Muslim groups who were seeking an end to the intrastate police operations and surveillance throughout the Northeast. We get reaction from Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. A three-month review of New York City Police Department operations in New Jersey has concluded that they did not violate state laws when they conducted extensive surveillance of Muslim communities. The ruling by New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa means Muslims will have no recourse to state law to prevent the NYPD from monitoring and cataloging their daily life. The decision has angered Muslim groups who were seeking an end to the cross-border police operations. The Associated Press first revealed how a once-covert NYPD surveillance program targeting Muslims had extended far beyond New York and throughout the Northeast. The Associated Press reports exposed the vast operation built by the NYPD to monitor Muslim neighborhoods after 9/11. The revelation sparked a national controversy as more details revealed that hundreds of mosques, businesses and Muslim student groups were investigated, monitored, in many cases infiltrated. Police used informants known as mosque crawlers to monitor sermons, even without any evidence of wrongdoing. Also falling under the NYPD's scrutiny were imams, cab drivers, food cart vendors. According to the Associated Press, which won the Pulitzer Prize for its reports, many of these operations were built with help from the CIA, which is prohibited from spying on Americans. In the process, the New York Police Department became, one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. For more, we're going to the Washington, D.C., studio to talk with Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Gadeir Abbas, thank you for joining us. The New York—the New Jersey attorney general finding that what the NYPD did in New Jersey was not illegal, your response? Well, luckily, the attorney general's opinion on what is lawful and what is not unlawful has no bearing on an individual's constitutional rights in the U.S.. So, the First Amendment right to exercise your faith, the equal protection under law that the 14th Amendment provides you, those are things that the attorney general's opinion, frankly, is not germane to determining. The NYPD program, let's remember, is based on the notion that we are going—the NYPD is going to cast suspicion on Muslims because they're Muslims. And that sends an unmistakable message to the community at large that Islam and Muslims are somehow inherently, because of their faith, a danger to America. And that is a violation of the First Amendment. And so, whatever the attorney general's opinion is, that doesn't change the fact that the rights that the Constitution gives us belong to people and not to the attorney general of New Jersey. Let's go to an excerpt of the video that accompanied the first AP report on the NYPD program. AP REPORT: At this New Brunswick, New Jersey, apartment, an alarming scene was found inside unit 1076: terrorist literature strewn about and a wealth of computer and surveillance equipment. But this wasn't the command center of a terrorist cell. The materials belonged to a secret team of NYPD intelligence officers, a unit operating miles outside its jurisdiction. Now, Gadeir Abbas, what do you know were the actions that the NYPD conducted in New Jersey? So, for instance, in Newark, New Jersey, the NYPD conducted a wide-ranging program of mapping the Muslim community. So this involved analyzing what the Muslim community comprised—its institutions, the businesses that cater to the Muslim community—and conducted what is essentially a comprehensive analysis of the Muslim community in Newark. And in order to conduct this analysis, that involved, in Newark and in other place, placing informants in mosques, as well as deploying NYPD officers to take pictures of those mosques, to write down license plate numbers of cars parked in those mosques, and to be what the NYPD has termed "on their listening post," so NYPD officers and informants strategically placed throughout the community, not to uncover criminal wrongdoing, but to establish an infrastructure of continuously monitoring the community. And that is what has caused such a negative effect on the Muslim community in New Jersey, in New York and beyond. It's the case that when you monitor a community, that affects the ability of that community to function, because what one does in private and what one does when there isn't a reason to believe the government is watching is different than what one does when the government is watching. And for years, since September 11th, American Muslims everywhere, in the New Jersey and New York area included, have long harbored the suspicion that the government and law enforcement is listening. And the revelations of the NYPD program really confirm that, yes, in fact, law enforcement is listening. And it's not only a violation of American Muslims' constitutional rights, but it is an egregious waste of resources that the NYPD is spending time and money monitoring the innocuous religious exercise of the Muslim community in New Jersey, in New York and beyond. Gadeir, earlier this year, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed students at Yale University. He defended the NYPD's surveillance program. MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: We have to keep this country safe. This is a dangerous place. Make no mistake about it. It's very cute to go and to blame everybody and say we should stay away from anything that smacks of intelligence gathering. The job of our law enforcement is to make sure that they prevent things, and you only do that to—by being proactive. You have to respect people's right to privacy. You have to obey the law. And I think the police officers across this country, and at a federal level, state level and city level, do that. But having said all of that, you have to—you do not want to—you are not going to survive, you will not be able to be a journalist and write what you want to say, if the people who want to take away your freedoms are allowed to succeed. That was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, interestingly, speaking at Yale, where students were under surveillance, objected to by the Yale president when he learned of this, Richard Levin, who issued a statement. Gadeir Abbas, your response to Mayor Bloomberg? I think it's worth exploring the assumptions of Mayor Bloomberg's statement. His thought is that we need to be preventing acts of violence rather than reacting to them. But understand what he's proposing and what he has enacted in reality is Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD believe in order to prevent acts of violence, there needs to be a substantially pervasive monitoring of the Muslim community in New York City and New Jersey. And that carries with it the unmistakable belief that many in law enforcement—and Mayor Bloomberg seems to have this idea, as well—that the Muslim community and Islam itself is somehow predisposed to creating and fomenting acts of political violence. And that's a notion that is unfortunately bolstered by organizations and anti-Muslim figures that constantly put out this idea that Muslims and Islam is a threat. So, we really need to explore what is underlying Mayor Bloomberg's vacuous statement, because at the end of the day this has great implications for not only the American Muslim community inside of itself, but also the American Muslim community's relationships with law enforcement, its relationship with government. Since 9/11 and even before, the Muslim community has been an outspoken and strong ally in the fight against terrorism. And when law enforcement, instead of partnering with the Muslim community, decides to create a network of informants and infiltrators that constantly are monitoring the innocent exercise of Islam in America, that undermines a partnership that is important and vital to protecting America from those that want to actually do it harm. And Mayor Bloomberg has created a program that has conducted analytical assessments of mosques within a hundred-mile radius of New York City. And it's led to such objectionable actions as an undercover informant—an undercover agent of the FBI—of the NYPD going on a camping trip with MSA students. Nineteen-, 20-, 21-year-olds go on a camping trip, and an NYPD officer goes with them, writes down how often they pray, whether they talk about Islam or not. That report and that action doesn't make anybody any safer. And it has the effect of sending the message to society that Islam is inherently predisposed to violence, and it also undermines the trust in the community that is a necessary part of that community functioning. Well, Gadeir, this story broke last year, and it took many months, but finally, earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that the Justice Department would review the surveillance. But I'm wondering now—so you have this review at the federal level, but what can the Muslim community do to respond right now? Yeah, so, the conversations regarding the Muslim community's response to the NYPD program have been going on since August, and are going on today and have gone on yesterday. And individuals that have been subject to this surveillance program obviously possess the constitutional rights to challenge the NYPD's program. And that is—those conversations are happening. And at some point, those rights will be asserted and likely adjudicated. But beyond that, so the Muslim community not only has a problem with the surveillance that the NYPD is subjecting it to, but it also has a problem with the surveillance that other law enforcement agents, such as the FBI, are subjecting it to, because the idea that there should be a ongoing monitoring of Islam in America is not an idea that the NYPD came up with by itself, and it's not an idea that they possess exclusively. Unfortunately, law enforcement across the country has taken the approach that wherever there is a mosque, wherever there is a Muslim, there is a danger of acts of political violence. And that is a misguided notion. And ultimately, it will be up to the American Muslim community to mobilize itself and stand up and push back against this, because it is not an acceptable way to conduct law enforcement in America. It does have great ramifications for the American Muslim community and beyond. And it will ultimately—because the American Muslim community is essentially the leading edge of being subject to these misguided, unconstitutional practices, it will be the contribution of the American Muslim community to revitalize these notions of restraints on law enforcement that have been lost. But, Gadeir Abbas, what does it mean that the attorney general of New Jersey now has said that nothing was illegal, as we come back to the original question? Yeah, yeah. All it means is that the state of New Jersey will not be intervening in the matter. And I don't think that there were many in our community that were holding their breath for that outcome. There is not necessarily a reason to believe that this is something that a government official or a politician is going to take it upon themselves to handle. This is something that American Muslims have known for some time, that it's really up to them to mobilize the resources and energies and talents of the community to push back against these types of surveillance tactics. Well, final comments—in the Wall Street Journal today, New Jersey's FBI chief, Michael Ward, was critical of the NYPD for not conducting the operations within the umbrella of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He said the actions undermined the bureau's own efforts by sowing distrust of authorities among Muslims and weakened national security. And interestingly, in February, though he's accepted this report, Governor Christie of New Jersey said, "I know they think their jurisdiction is the world." He's talking about the New York Police Department. "Their jurisdiction is New York City. My concern is this kind of affectation that the NYPD seems to have that they are the masters of the universe." Gadeir Abbas, I want to thank you very much for being with us, staff attorney for the Council on American Islamic-Relations, speaking to us from Washington, D.C. When we come back, we go to Quebec, where massive student protests have been going on for a hundred days. This week, 400,000 students in the streets, nearly a thousand arrests. Stay with us. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-23-2012?start=2158 Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in US history, Democracy Now! looks at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico's residents and wildlife, even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. And in part two of a national broadcast exclusive on growing domestic surveillance in the United States of dissident journalists, activists, and whisteblower, former NSA officer William Binney describes how the FBI raided his home and held him at gunpoint. Plus today's headlines, and more.<br /> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:50:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-23-2012 BP, Oil spill, Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, US National Security Agency (NSA), William Binney, Surveillance state, Environmental disaster, NSA electronic surveillance program, Jacob Appelbaum In part two of our national broadcast exclusive on the growing domestic surveillance state, we speak with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney, and two targeted Americans: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras, and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, who has volunteered for WikiLeaks and now works with Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that teaches about internet security. Binney left the NSA after the 9/11 attacks over his concerns about the agency's widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens. He describes how the FBI later raided his home and held him at gunpoint and notes there is still no effective way of monitoring how and what information the NSA is gathering on U.S. citizens, and how that data is being used. Click here to watch part one of our special report. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-20-2012?start=1933 In a special show, Democracy Now! examines growing domestic surveillance in the US, including an exclusive interview with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney, who says the government intercepts and retains copies of almost all emails sent or received by people living in the US. And American filmmaker Laura Poitras and computer researcher Jacob Appelbaum discuss what it's like to be the target of widespread government surveillance, including being routinely detained and interrogated at US airports. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:01:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-20-2012 US National Security Agency (NSA), United States, William Binney, Surveillance, Jacob Appelbaum, Interrogation, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, Detention, US Department of Homeland Security, NSA electronic surveillance program The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses how she has been repeatedly detained and questioned by federal agents whenever she enters the United States. Poitras said the interrogations began after she began working on her documentary, "My Country, My Country," about post-invasion Iraq. Her most recent film, "The Oath” was about Yemen and Guantánamo, and follows the lives of two past associates of Osama bin Laden. She estimates she has been detained an estimated 40 times and has had her laptop, cell phone, and personal belongings repeatedly searched. Tonight she is leading a surveillance teach-in at the Whitney Museum in New York City with our other guests, computer-security research and government target Jacob Appelbaum and NAtional Security Agency whistleblower William Binney. Poiras' is currently at work on a film about post-9/11 America. http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-17-2012?start=807 The Associated Press wins a Pulitzer prize for exposing NYPD's CIA-linked intelligence program, which led to widespread spying on Muslims. After 40 years in solitary confinement, two members of the "Angola Three" remain in isolation in a Louisiana Prison. And Norway's Johan Galtung, a peace amnd conflict pioneer, reflects on the Norwegian massacre and Afghanistan War. Plus today's headlines, and more. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:08:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/democracy-now-april-17-2012 NYPD, Muslim, Angola Three, Johan Galtung, Norway, CIA, United States, Solitary confinement, Anders Behring Breivik, Islam in the United States as I said before, it would be surprising to me if people didn't have strong—this is an important issue, so it would be surprising to me if editorial writers and pundits and regular people didn't have strong feelings about this one way or the other. You know, some of your viewers probably have strong feelings. The New York Post editorial staff has strong feelings. That's what democracy is all about, right? And democracy needs information. And we try to provide that information so people can make informed decisions. So, not surprised that there are strong feelings. And again, this wasn't a series we set out to do, so whether it continues, I think it continues if more information makes itself available. And we'll go where the story leads. Matt Apuzzo, I want to thank you for being with us. Again, congratulations. Matt is a reporter— Thanks a lot. —for the Associated Press. He and his colleagues were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their series of articles revealing the extensive domestic surveillance program deployed by the New York Police Department in the wake of 9/11. http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-clash-of-civilizations?start=0 A look behind the headline news of air strikes and suicide bombings at the post-9/11 war for hearts and minds. Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:29:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-clash-of-civilizations September 11, 2001 attacks, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, War on Terror, Post-9/11, Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilizations, Al-Qaeda, Western world, Islam, Terrorism A look behind the headline news of air strikes and suicide bombings at the post-9/11 war for hearts and minds. http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-091211?start=915 Somali famine outpacing the delivery of humanitarian aid, Morocco's February 20 Movement reiterates its rejection of cosmetic reforms, Yemen's Saleh authorizes power transfer talks, and more.<br /> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-091211 Protest, Palestinian state, Syria, Israel, Russia, Nuclear power, 2011 Horn of Africa famine, Humanitarian aid, Somalia, 2011 Moroccan Protests The tenth anniversary of 9/11 has coincided with yet another US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. People in Pakistan strongly feel that virtually everyday is their 9/11. Until mid-2001, Pakistan's tribal region was considered to be the most peaceful in the entire country, with the lowest crime rate. The shock waves of 9/11 and the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, however, changed the entire cultural, political and administrative landscape of the tribal region. Now, the region has turned into the most violent area in the world with militants controlling parts of the tribal areas. http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-image-war?start=0 The iconic terrorist attacks of September 2001 killed thousands and launched a propaganda war that has, so far, lasted a decade. Since 9/11, how far has the US and al-Qaeda been prepared to go to win "hearts and minds" with elaborate media strategies? Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:22:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-image-war September 11, 2001 attacks, Propaganda, War on Terror, Al-Qaeda, Media, Information warfare, War photography, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush The iconic terrorist attacks of September 2001 killed thousands and launched a propaganda war that has, so far, lasted a decade. Since 9/11, how far has the US and al-Qaeda been prepared to go to win "hearts and minds" with elaborate media strategies? http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-intelligence-war?start=0 Immediately after 9/11, the US announced that "the gloves were coming off" in the fight against al-Qaeda. This film examines the highs and lows of the intelligence war that began in the aftermath of 9/11. Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:37:00 -0700 http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-911-decade-the-intelligence-war September 11, 2001 attacks, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, War on Terror, Al-Qaeda, Military Intelligence, FBI, CIA, World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism Immediately after 9/11, the US announced that "the gloves were coming off" in the fight against al-Qaeda. This film examines the highs and lows of the intelligence war that began in the aftermath of 9/11.