for starters, he ordered a review, a collection at the cia of anything the cia had done over the years that might be seen as embarrassing or illegal or at least in contravention of the charter under which the cia was founded. at the cia they call that collection of embarrassing and illegal activity, the family jewels. in 2007, the agency declassified the family jewels when they decided to publish the 700 page report that resulted from the agency self reporting their miss dieds over the decades. a lot of it was heavily redacted. but some of had was clear as a bell, like this. hey, look. see the numbers on the side there? so who knows what number one is? that's totally redacted. but in number two, they clearly say that the ca used a member of the mafia to try to assassinate fidel castro. the ca's mission statement is that it is supposed to collect information and analyze information and give that information to policymakers so they can decide what to do with it. the agency even has an all about the ca web page that's aimed specifically at sixth graders to 12th graders. and they spell out

so you went back to the cia. you say, "we've got this phone number..." >> yeah. >> smith: ...in kuala lumpur. >> right. >> smith: "do you know anythin about it?" >> yeah. >> smith: and they said? >> no. >> smith: they said no. >> uh-huh. >> smith: how many times did go back to them and ask them about it? >> well, we talked abo lot on the ground, but we have a saying in the bureau-- not on paper, it doesn't exist. on paper, it's at leas times." >> smith: three times? >> it's a teletype that goes from the fbi to the cia. >> smith: soufan's last request was sent to the agency in july, 2001. on 9/11, soufan watched in horror from yemen. he thought the cole investigation would be put on hold, but he had no idea that his investigation had taken him to the edges of the 9/11 plot. he prepared to return to new york. >> we were at the airport, ready to go on a plane, when the person from the cia came and said to me, you know, "call your headquarters. they want to talk to you." >> smith: soufan was ordered to stay in yemen.

physically acquire them but even that has cia officials on the defense the u.s. court of appeals doesn't agree about oh they unanimously ruled that the agency does not have the right to guard this information the judges did not rule that any specific documents must be made public by the cia but in this case at least it's a step forward for people seeking more information about the secretive program. don't mess with texas that's the message state lawmakers are saying to drone companies representative lance goodenough recently proposed house bill nine one two that would ban unmanned aerial vehicles from flying in the states airspace supporters of the bill say it's a matter of personal privacy but the true reasons for the bill might be a little more dubious than that join me now to discuss this story our to correspondent ramon galindo hey there are mona advocates say that this will protect the public's privacy but at a time when the u.a.e. views are becoming more and more commonplace how likely is this to pass. the texas privacy could be the toughest anti drone law

not physically acquire them but even that has cia officials on the defense the u.s. court of appeals doesn't agree though they unanimously ruled that the agency does not have the right to guard this information the judge did not rule on any specific documents or say that they need to be released to the public by the cia but in any case this is a step forward for people seeking more information about the secretive program and that's going to do it for the news for this week but be sure to tune in next week we're working on a whole new lineup of stories for you first up water of the very sort of source of life that everything needs to survive it's in short supply these days you'd think this would be a public good for all but think again as the threat of global water depletion continues to build more and more of it continues to be privatized by corporations next week on our t.v. we'll tell you more about a problem that'll make you stir steve for more information and the u.s. is adding another country to its list of fears north korea now u.s. defense secretary chuck hage

for starters, he ordered a review, a collection at the cia of anything the cia had done over the years that might be seen as embarrassing or illegal or at least in contravention of the charter under which the cia was founded. at the cia they call that collection of embarrassing and illegal activity, the family jewels. in 2007, the agency declassified the family jewels when they decided to publish the 700 page report that resulted from the misdeeds over the decades. a lot of it was heavily redacted. but some of had was clear as a bell, like this. hey, look. see the numbers on the side there? so who knows what number one is? that's totally redacted. but in number two, they clearly say that the cia used a member of the mafia to try to assassinate fidel castro. the cia's mission statement is that it is supposed to collect information and analyze information and give that information to policymakers so they can decide what to do with it. the agency even has an all about the cia web page that's aimed specifically at sixth graders to 12th graders. and they spell out our mission is to provide

the cia didn't have one station in moss cow. we had three. we had their traditional one in our embassy, we had one in kgb headquarters and one in gru headquarters. we had so many sources. >> you had that country wired. >> we had it covered and it was against that backdrop that we had no -- and i repeat no indication, none of what was about to happen. >> coming up, the cia discovers the a major problem. the a major problem. >> it colost all of the i you're suffering from constipation, miralax or metamucil may take days to work. for faster relief, try dulcolac laxative tablets. dulcolac provides gentle relief overnight unlike miralax and metamucil that can take up to 3 days. dulcolac provides gentle relief overnight dad: you excited for youyeah.st day? ♪ dad: you'll be fine, ok? girl: ok. dad: you look so pretty. ♪ i'm overprotective. that's why i got a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. it shows. we don't run like that. we build john deere equipment the way we always have: the right way. times change. our principles don't. y

that is not the role of the cia. too often toeing a line the administration wanted him to toe. >> we think we stumbled onto one avenue of a nuclear weapons program. >> there is no question there were erroneous judgments in that national intelligence estimate. the purpose was to sell a policy initiative, which was to go to war against iraq. >> the 90-page classified nie asserts that saddam is actively pursuing his wmd program. it cites the debatable intelligence on aluminum tubes, the yellowcake uranium purchase, and mobile weapons labs. but deep inside that thick document are strongly worded dissents that argue the evidence is weak, even wrong. >> the nie is sent over to congress. it's kept in a classified vault. as far as we can tell only about half a dozen senators actually read it. had they done so, they would have seen that it was filled with dissents. >> if i had read the national intelligence estimate on iraq, i probably would have been -- have done myself a favor by being better informed on the intelligence, r

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you know it is unique i've never done contracting with or for well for the cia but i am familiar with government contracting in the whole thing about it is if blackwater. is saying that we were we were working for the cia they've got to have something to back it up verbal doesn't fly if they say you know if there's a verbal agreement that doesn't hold water maybe they have one but it's not going to good enough to defend them if they had some kind of agreement there should have been something in writing that between procurement the cia because the cia has contracted officers the procure for goods and services just like any other federal agency so it would seem to me that they would have had some something in writing that if they're providing all this other information to acted could documents and stuff like that they would have had some kind of contracts roll. contract paperwork to provide as part of their defense the news stated that a couple of very high ranking cia officials spoke on their you know in a document wrote on their behalf. probably trying to help them help their defense

that is not the role of the cia. too often towing the line the administration wanted him to tow. >> we think we stumbled ton one avenue of a nuclear weapons program. >> there is no question there were erroneous judgments in that national intelligence estimate. the purpose was to sell a policy initiative, which was to go to war gebs iraq. >> 90-page classified ni ae that saddam is actively pursuesing wwmd program. the eye lum num tubes, yellowcake and weapons labs. but deep within the document are strongly worded descends that argues the evidence is weak, even wrong. >> the nie is sent over to congress. kept in classified vault. as far as we can tell only about half a dozen senators actually read it. had they done so, they would have seen that it was filled with decents. >> if i had read the intelligence estimate on iraq i probably would have been -- have done myself a favor by being better informed with the intelligence rather than listening to the administration. >> as congressional resolution to authorize war is pu

but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia had instructed blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater carried out countless life threatening missions for the cia and in return the government chose to prosecute my people for doing exactly what was asked of them basically blackwater was just acting under orders of the cia so if anyone should be held accountable it's them look i never thought that i would agree with prince but i can't say i disagree with the fact that the cia is ultimately responsible for outsourcing their death squads to private mercenary corporations who commit their dirty detestable deeds under a cloak of impunity plus passing the buck to the cia is a brilliant move since will surely see no prosecutions or indictments coming out of this ever elusive agency so let me get this straight

but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia agents dropped in blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater carried out countless life threatening missions for the cia and in return the government chose to prosecute my people for doing exactly what was asked of them basically blackwater was just acting under orders of the cia so if anyone should be held accountable it's them look i never thought that i would agree with prince but i can't say i disagree with the fact that the cia is ultimately responsible for outsourcing their death squads to private mercenary corporations who commit their dirty detestable deeds under a cloak of impunity plus passing the buck to the cia is a brilliant move since will surely see no prosecutions or indictments coming out of this ever elusive agency so let me get this straig

but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia had instructed blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater carried out countless life threatening missions for the cia and in return the government chose to prosecute my people for doing exactly what was asked of them basically blackwater was just acting under orders of the cia so if anyone should be held accountable it's then look i never thought that i would agree with prince but i can't say i disagree with the fact that the cia is ultimately responsible for outsourcing their death squads to private mercenary corporations who commit their dirty detestable deeds under a cloak of impunity plus passing the buck to the cia is a brilliant move since will surely see no prosecutions or indictments coming out of this ever elusive agency so let me get this straight

the cia has to process freedom of information act requests. it can't claim that its interest in the targeted killing program is a secret. it is a very narrow victory in a way because if in a way all the court is saying is that you the cia have to acknowledge what everybody already knows to be true. but on the other hand, it can have significant procedural implications because it means that cia now has to explain which records it's holding. about the drones. >> it has to respond within the sort of four lines of the process. >> exactly. >> it can't just say, the process, we are cutting off the process before we are even responding. within the bounds of the process they have to say, well, look, there are these documents and you can't see them because these documents are very secret. >> right. and that's important. not that they have to explain which document they have, they have to explain why they're not being released. >> give a reason. >> right. and that's an important step. >> one of the things that is fascinating in reading the circuit court

-- gathered through the use of cia. have you seen any information since april 2009 to change your views on the topic? >> i was trying to express -- i was not aware of the practices of the facts. >> thank you. yount to follow up with later. i will turn to director brennan. congratulations on your appointment. i appreciate your involvement with the hostage negotiations. i look for to working with you in your new role. in her confirmation hearing, we discussed the committee study and the importance of putting reforms in place to prevent past mistakes from happening again. theso pushed for committee's report. last week before you were on the job for the first day, newspaper story was published senior intelligence official who claimed that the cia is ejecting a majority of the 6000 page report, which has footnotes direct resource to cia documents. there was numerous inaccurate statements about the committees report, including a has has 20 recommendations, which it does not. it appears that the unnamed intelligence official w

remember you know iranians the portrayed like zombies from the one of the dead here who could the cia really control holywood yes of course this may sound like a crazy conspiracy theory to people who are exposed in a regular basis to fox news and c.n.n. the new york times which never talk about these things the cia has been propagandizing the american people through the us media since world war two there's a whole part of the cia hold off aeration mockingbird they may have changed the name but i'm sure it's still around operation mockingbird is that operation in the cia that is in the media there were i forget it's six seven hundred fairly high level and influential cia assets paid by the cia in the media and so it's not surprising that many news articles and hollywood movies are intelligence operations they just one thing also of war is the law about how can a film be a war crime well as did the international covenant on civil and political rights makes it illegal to engage in war propaganda people who have billion dollar media industries at their fingertips are not supposed to be pu

but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia agents dropped in blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater carried out countless life threatening missions for the cia and in return the government chose to prosecute my people for doing exactly what was asked of them basically blackwater was just acting under orders of the cia so if anyone should be held accountable it's then look i never thought that i would agree with prince but i can't say i disagree with the fact that the cia is ultimately responsible for outsourcing their death squads to private mercenary corporations who commit their dirty detestable deeds under a cloak of impunity plus passing the buck to the cia is a brilliant move since will surely see no prosecutions or indictments coming out of this ever elusive agency so let me get this straig

we have to have secretary of state, defense, cia. those are traditionally republican and democratic presidents have been given this authority, and this process has been a bit politicized. >> shepard: it has. at the moment i'm on this drone thing. i mean, there was some question about whether the government can murder a citizen? seriously? >> i think there's issues relating to the court and that's going to be worked out. these are terrorism cases. this is 9/11 stuff. admittedly it bothers people like me. i don't have the evidence. i don't have all the information. i'm a privity citizen now so i can't see what evidence is against there, but we have to protect ourselves. >> shepard: we like to deal with facts and we have a series of facts that on an wag al walk -- anwar awlaki, if you don't know, don't okay. they were following him for 48 hours, an american citizen following him overseas. he had done a lot of bad things, bad guy. they're following him. judge napolitano couldn't they just have arrest him? >> they had a team of american i

the cia joan attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator rand paul spent nearly thirteen hours on the senate floor filibustering brennan's nomination in pursuit of more information about the obama administration's domestic drone policy now confirmation of brennan as cia director that vote came after the obama administration specified limits on the presidential authority to order drone strikes against american citizens in the u.s. senator paul said he was satisfied with the statement that the administration released saying it about the president does not have the authority to use a drone to kill an american in combat on american soil now washington however did not specify what you do in combat and means i know some may say well you might be playing semantics but does combat mean carrying a concealed weapon does it mean carrying a knife does it mean that it has to be a soldier so clearly there are still questions about the wording that the a bottom that a bomb and ministration used but clearly those that were opposed

because tens of thousands of court documents from the case revealed a close connection between the cia and blackwater in fact it's a relationship that was so close that blackwater founder erik prince revealed in a recent interview that the firm took direct orders from the agency and became quote a virtual extension of the cia take for example king abdullah's of jordan's visit to blackwater headquarters in north carolina back in two thousand and five at the end of his trip blackwater executives awarded adela with modified rifles dawn with blackwater's logo that it was uncovered that the weapons were illegally given and there was no paper trail showing the guns making into the hands of the jordanian king. but they ain't worried a paper trail because it was revealed that the cia instructed blackwater to give the king the guns since quote the agency had forgotten to get gifts for him hoops well i'm glad mercenary thugs can pick up where the cia leaves off and since selling the company that continues to be the line of defense used by prince against the allegations he said quote blackwater c

then the cia would say, this is a secret. and not only is it a secret but it would jeopardizes to even mention it. this decision narrows the gap between those two things, at least a little bit. >> the courts have been really quite differential and reluctant. seems like this was a high water mark hit in which the court was pushing back against a lot of assertions both in the secrecy front and just sort of executive authority front. a lot of that had to do we detainee treatment during the bush era. seems like the courts have been much more differential the last three or fours years. maybe you don't think that's the case. but it seems to me that's the way the wind are blowing. and i wonder if you think that the cultural and political shift that we've seen around this issue, particularly on targeting can killing affects the courts. courts are embedded this that same national conversation. >> that's good question. it is hard for me so t.o. sato say, i don't know what goes on behind closed doors. you know, this is a decision that i

new york times which never talk about these things the cia has been propagandizing the american people through the us media since world war two there's a whole part of the cia hold off aeration mockingbird in view of change the name but i'm sure it's still around operation mockingbird is that operation in the cia they do seem to found the media there were created six seven hundred fairly high level in the winchell cia assets being paid by the cia you know in the media and so it's not surprising that many news articles and hollywood movies are intelligence operations they just one thing also of war is the law about how can a film be a war crime well as did the international covenant on civil and political rights makes it illegal to engage in war propaganda people who have billion dollar media industries at their fingertips are not supposed to be pushing war propaganda and that's what our goal is and more effectively because it's not recognized as such but it's it's it's catch full of lies that it depicts irradiance as a. had dishes on human animals the one that you cited earlier of putt

joining me now, that former cia analyst, nada bakos. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you published this article describing what it was like working in the cia at that time, and all the pressure you were under from the vice president's office. i wanted to show you this clip that you mentioned from "meet the press" back then. you mentioned it in your article. let's look at it again. >> we know he's out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al qaeda organization. >> in your article, you say were you shocked when you heard him say that. tell us about that. >> so we had already written an assessment talking about the relationship between iraq and al qaeda and we found there was no substantial connection. how it played in the press and statements made at the time gave the impression there possibly was and that intelligence backed that up. and that was my concern at the time was that the american public would walk a

the cia join attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator rand paul spent nearly thirteen hours on the senate floor filibustering brennan's nomination in pursuit of more information about the obama administration's domestic drone policy now confirmation of brennan as cia director that vote came after the obama administration specified limits on the presidential authority to order drone strikes against american citizens in the u.s. senator paul said he was satisfied with the statement that the administration released saying it about the president does not have the authority to use a drone to kill an american not in combat on american soil now washington however did not specify what you combat and means i know some may say well you might be playing semantics but does combat mean carrying a concealed weapon does it mean carrying a knife does it mean that it has to be a soldier so clearly there are still questions about the wording that the a bottom of a bomb and ministration used but clearly those that were opposed to b

let's get started. >>> first an apology for former cia director david petraeus. the five-star general making a return to public life after retiring in disgrace over an affair with paula broadwell. casey, petraeus has been laying really low since november. what is the end game behind last night's public appearance and very public apology? >> clearly, zoraida, petraeus is attempting to rehabilitate his public image. retired general david petraeus picked a receptive audience to launch his comeback from the sex scandal that cost him his job with the cia and his reputation with the military. >> so please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply i regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the cia and caused such pain for my family, friends, and supporters. >> reporter: supporters once were abundant. petraeus was a four-star general who commanded american forces during the surge in iraq. he also wrote the field manual for how u.s. troops fight insurgents. >> i join you keenly aware that i am regarded in a diffe

. >> sean: a mile away is the cia annex where former navy seal ty woods and five cia gloeshl response agents launch a rescue mission and speed towards the fight. the attackers have poured diesel fuel around the main building and set it on fire. and ambassador stevens and sean smith are forced to control through the flames towards a window to try to escape. >> this is a window that the special agent opens and crawls out of, but stevens and smith do not follow him. even though he can't breathe, barely see he goes back in, in and out to try to find them. and then, he is overcome with the smoke. >> at the pentagon, officials say there is not enough intelligence to get resources to help. >> the basic principle is you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, without having some real-time information. >> sean: but in tripoli, 400 miles from benghazi, a team of seven, including former navy seal glenn doherty commandeer a small jet and fly in to help. president obama departs walter reed for the white house where he will meet with the defense secretary leon panetta a

if it is true that the new cia director doesn't think the cia should be killing people with drones, that the military should be doing it instead, that's a big deal. but you know what would be a bigger deal? is if the president agreed with that. should we see the president's nomination of john brennan to run the cia as a sign that the president agrees with that and that that change is going to happen? >> i believe so. >> the nomination of john brennan should be seen as a sign that president obama may take drones out of the hands of the cia and put them under the control of the military. that would make drone strikes like normal war and not the secretive, unaccountable, denied truth that they are right now. if that is what this nomination means, and this nomination goes forward by the end of the week, our whole country is going to change in terms of how accountable our current war is to we, the people, to whom it is supposed to be accountable. exclamation point. >>> now that the stock market hit an all-time high, will a more robust economy follow? >>> the tsa now says you can carry some we

if you minutes we hear from the former cia head michael hayden stay with us here on r.t. . wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report on. the emission free cretaceous three cents for charges free to arrangements three. three stooges free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. dot com you. will see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. he is a retired four star general of the u.s. air force and also served as director of america's national security agency and central intelligence agency joining our team now for an exclusive one on one interview is general michael hayden thank you very much for taking the time to speak with me today thank you i'd like to begin our discussion with major news events that took place last week that event the death of ven

john brennan confirmed as the new cia chief despite controversy on capitol hill over his endorsement u.s. deadly drone program. it's ten am in moscow i met reza good to have you with us here on r.t. we begin in egypt where the northern city of port site is said to be a war zone a war zone army and police units protecting government buildings from anti from angry anti-government protesters have been on a rampage since sunday at least seven people have been killed in this spate of unrest are true has more. there are ten scenes here in the egypt's coastal city of post sayit as the clashes continue into the night time standing right in front of the front line here we've witnessed excessive use of tear gas and by the security forces as well as hearing gunfire although i cannot confirm whether this is my mission police reports have come in that i mean you should has been used in the past few days these protests abreu counts a few days ago often defendants in this very contentious who cite football massacre verdict were being moved from one prison to unknown unknown location the families of

it's a cia operation. [laughter] and they, eisenhower knew how to listen to the secret dog whistle, you know? when the military says yes when they really mean it and when they don't. and he tutored. and kennedy said, you know, next time i'm not going to make that mistake. well, two years later kennedy learned on the job. i think he became a great president. i don't think he was a great president when he won election. i think he was a good looking guy, glamorous and inspirational, but i don't think he was a great prime minister. by the fall of '62 i think he had learned, and i've actually listened to the tapes, the kennedy -- the cuban missile crisis lasted for 13 days, and they had these meetings of this committee that the president put together to deal with it. secret meetings. and the tapes are fascinating, was about half of -- because about half of these meetings were recorded. in the tapes these were all middle-aged men, in those days all men, and they were trying not to seem panicked. so their voices

i was directing it from the cia. we were doing the feedback into the situation room at the white house so that they were kept updated as to what was happening. >> so many years you were a budget guy. now you are going to go down in american history as a very successful, intelligence and military guy. >> yeah, you know, i often think about that because -- >> how did this happen? >> it was rom emanuel who called me and said we are thinking about the cia job. i said you got to be nuts. i spent most of my time working on budgets. he said, you know, the president really wants you to do this. he thinks you have the credibility to try to restore the reputation, particularly the cia at that time. i looked at it as a challenge. i'm a sucker for challenges. >> his new challenge is daunting. he needs to decompress. he still stops everything to ansz a call. now, it's not the oval office or pentagon. it's his wife at home in carmel valley. >> if the white house calls, you can put the white house on hold, but if your wife calls, y

other countries trick to where no resists iran is suing all go direct to ben affleck it was to show cia documents ordering this flick to prepare america to halt samoans to bomb iran. i'm going to. thank remember you know iranians a portrayed like zombies from the one of the dead here who could the sea oil really control holywood yes of course this may sound like a crazy conspiracy theory to people who are exposed in a regular basis to fox news and c.n.n. the new york times which never talk about these things the cia has been propagandizing the american people through the us media since world war two there's a whole part of the cia called off aeration mockingbird they may have changed the name but i'm sure it's still around operation mockingbird is that operation in the cia that is in the media there were i forget us six seven hundred fairly high level in winchell cia assets getting paid by the sea hey you know the media and so it's not surprising that many news articles and hollywood movies are intelligence operations they just one thing also of war is the law about how can a film be a

the cia join attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator rand paul spent nearly thirteen hours on the senate floor filibustering brennan's nomination in pursuit of more information about the obama administration's domestic drone policy now confirmation of brennan as cia director that vote came after the obama administration specified limits on the presidential authority to order drone strikes against american citizens in the u.s. senator paul said he was satisfied with the statement that the administration released saying it about the president does not have the authority to use a drone to kill an american not in combat on american soil not washington however did not specify what you do in combat and means i know some may say well you might be playing semantics but this combat mean carrying a concealed weapon does it mean carrying a knife does it mean that it has to be a soldier so clearly there are still questions about the wording that the a bottom of a bomb and ministration used but clearly those that were oppose

on the senate floor he's been going strong for the past eight hours now the chairman's of filibuster cia nominee john brennan and protect americans from potential drone strikes on u.s. soil. plus there is a threat to our national defense that's closer than you'd think the military is struggling with out of shape recruits as the ranks of eligible soldiers continue to fit coming up we'll get the skinny on the efforts to drop those pounds. it's wednesday march six eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well tonight venezuelans began their seven days of mourning following the death of their president hugo chavez this is a live picture from caracas where hundreds of mourners are gathered and many others are watching this historic event live on venezuelan state t.v. chavez died yesterday after losing his long battle with cancer he was fifteen years old earlier in the day chavez his body arrived at the day to go on a military academy that's the live picture you see here all this is where his body will lie in state for three days vice president nicolas madur

still to come a new head at the cia john brennan both is the director of langley despite controversy on capitol hill over his and doris mint of the u.s. deadly drone program plus. some british communities are fighting to keep age old traditions alive that are being put at risk by strict tax policies that and more after a short break. did any of you seen darth vader is stormtroopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest well probably a lot of you saw this fun viral video but how many people remember what exactly they wanted and what their protest demands were all about now probably not that many trust me i understand that using wacky protests tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting there so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in pow

john brennan voted is the new cia chief despite controversy on capitol hill over his endorsement of the u.s. deadly drone program. nine am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t we begin today in egypt where the city of port site is said to be a war zone army and police units protecting government buildings from angry anti-government protesters have been on a rampage since sunday at least seven people killed in this spate of unrest bell true has more. there are ten scenes here in egypt's coastal city of post as the clashes continue into the night time standing right in front of the front line here we've witnessed excessive use of tear gas by the security forces as well as hearing gunfire although i cannot confirm whether this is my munition all the reports have come in that i mean it has been used in the past few days these protests broke out a few days ago off the defendants in this very contentious. verdicts were being moved from one prison to on the unknown location the families of the defendants in this trial were very angry and that's how these clashes began s

barack obama's former counterterrorism adviser has been confirmed as the new hate of the cia but before the senate could vote in john brennan his nomination was held up by questions over his role in washington's controversial drone program and republican lawmakers space for a marathon thirteen hours to get guarantees that remote control strike krav to wouldn't be used on the home front as marina put my records. so many u.s. lawmakers have a long objected to john brennan's nomination and there's various reasons before even getting to the drone program he's considered to have played a major role in the cia's enhanced interrogation program under george w. bush and he's also known as the top cheerleader for america's controversial drone program now that program has been criticized as having a huge lack of transparency last year brought in argued for the legality the morality in the effectiveness of america's drone program and publicly had to acknowledge the cia that cia drone attacks have been taking place in pakistan yemen somalia libya afghanistan and elsewhere now on wednesday senator ra

government release documents about the cia's program over addition and secret detention of suspected terrorists and recent believe that there is now credible evidence that shows that black sites were used to extradite suspected terrorists with neither charges nor access to a lawyer you know nothing says protect a democracy like snagging people in foreign countries without even charging them with a crime this huge investigator may have good intentions but the thing is that no matter how much. he and his un pals urged the u.s. to prosecute officials connect with torture or expose classified information they really have no power to do anything if you haven't noticed the un is very happy to section and punish some of the countries bernie if you out there are naive enough to think that they'll sanction the usa or send a peacekeeping mission to stop the human rights violators in washington not a chance the un really has no business meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries but they do it all the time but there is a zero percent chance that the un will stand up to the bad behavior from

have changed the name but i'm sure it's still around operation mockingbird is that operation in the cia they do seem to found the media there were created six seven hundred fairly high level in winchell cia assets getting paid by the sea hey you know the media and so it's not surprising that many news articles and hollywood movies are intelligence operations they just one thing also over war is the law about how can a film be a war crime well as did the international covenant on civil and political rights makes it illegal to engage in war propaganda people who have billion dollar media industries at their fingertips are not supposed to be pushing war propaganda and that's what our goal is and more effectively because it's not recognized as such but it's it's packed full of lies that it depicts irradiance as mad issues of human animals one that you cited earlier of putting out false information about. threats from foreign nations through selected misleading leaks out of the government and then broadcasting those through all the media as if they've been created by independent reporting th

were satisfied enough with that explanation to the point where he was confirmed as the head of the cia. israeli forces appear to have found a way to gag the press tear gas we report in our digital gama now a group of international reporting news including at our two cameramen were dispersed while covering a peaceful protest in the west bank. also while you're online this is what happened to a fifty nine year old cancer stricken man after he spent two years and solitary confinement in the american prison even without a trial at all to come to learn how he managed to become a millionaire. reports a twenty one u.n. peacekeepers being held hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights a could be released within the next several hours several of the services said it was videos posted online that they were safe even as activists are reported clashes and shelling near the israeli border the rebel group has backtracked on earlier claims it took the peacekeepers hostage and human shields it's also not clear whether they're still in precondition for syrian government forces to stop a body in the

on the way a new head of the cia john brennan confirmed as the director of langley despite controversy on capitol hill over his endorsement of the u.s. deadly drone program. but how some british towns are battling to keep age old traditions alive are being put at risk by strict tax policies. did any of you seen darth vader is stormtroopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest well probably a lot of you saw this fun viral video but how many people remember what exactly they wanted and what their protest demands were all about now probably not that many trust me i understand that using wacky protests tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting there so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then the how is it going to cure cost of g

he even accused the cia once of plotting to kill him will relations with them as well as be troubled if vice president nicolas maduro says seeds chavez as president you know one fears that they might one also hope that they might not i think president chavez a very strong populist clearly very popular and some segments there is running society he took an awful lot of the support off a lot of his identity simply by being by appearing to be in opposition to the north just as an opposition to to the united states and whether or not we were causing him problems it was convenient for him to accuse us of causing him problems i actually think the problem for right now that they haven't done a lot of structural although he enjoyed wide popular support among the poorer classes he did not do much to reinvest to reinvest in the infrastructure reinvest in the oil industry which state resources depend and so i think the new president is going to have to take a very realistic look at what he needs to do in order to carry out even to continue some of the policies of his predecessors which was you k

after a bruising confirmation hearing john brennan is officially sworn in to lead the cia but when it came time to take the oath of office he used a constitution draft that was missing the bill of rights that story straight ahead . plus you have the right to report police officers a new ruling says citizens can video officers and use the footage in court will look at the ruling and what it means for citizen rights. and the u.s. loves to use drones overseas but more and more american police departments are turning these machines to track their citizens back home now congress is demanding information on the drone domestic drone program we'll take a look at that issue ahead. it's monday march eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. well after a contentious confirmation process john brennan is officially taking over as director of the cia brennan was sworn in on friday by vice president joe biden with a few people in attendance the media however was not invited to attend the event and only a few pictures actually did come out from the event that the