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1:13Community welcome we're back access to
1:16democracy is back and Colleen rowy is
1:19back who is a favorite and longtime
1:22guest now really you've been coming here
1:24for quite a few years uh Colleen Raleigh
1:27whose name is really a household work
1:31uh who probably was not known for her 24
1:34years in the FBI but certainly became
1:36known when she became times person Time
1:39magazine's person of the year in
1:422002 and is really highly sought after
1:46uh for speaking engagements a social
1:48activist a protector of civil rights and
1:51individual rights and welcome back thank
1:54you for having me it's always a pleasure
1:57now today's New York Times had a front
1:59page P article on the uh foreign
2:03intelligence surveillance court and it
2:06pointed out that 11 of the 12 judges
2:09have been appointed by Chief Justice
2:11Roberts that they are all Republicans
2:15all conservative
2:17Republicans uh six of them actually
2:19worked in other
2:21administrations uh is it any surprise
2:24that anything that put goes before them
2:28is okay that of thousands of
2:31applications for
2:33surveillance they're all getting okay I
2:35think four out of 4,000 or something
2:37like that would turn down right um of
2:40course that's been the constant
2:41criticism is that in secrecy and there's
2:44no ability to make an U for it's exp
2:47parte so no one is able to make the
2:49opposite argument that it's basically a
2:51rubber stamp um I will say before 9/11
2:55um there were problems with the wall the
2:58sharing of intelligence with criminal
3:00matters and that is actually the reason
3:02why the case here in Minnesota did not
3:04go forward there was a career risk
3:06aversion in the FBI of even taking a
3:09case to the to the fisa court um the the
3:13applications for uh court orders and and
3:16to Monitor and to search have at least
3:19doubled since 9911 and they quickly
3:21doubled so you you not only you have the
3:23rubber stamping was around 900 before
3:26911 per year and that went up uh to uh
3:29to 1,800 or so so it's a large number
3:33and that doesn't even tell you
3:34everything because one order can
3:36actually Encompass a lot of different
3:38locations and as you see with this court
3:40order and the fisa court for the massive
3:42telephone that's everyone's telephone
3:45toll data so it's not just one uh you
3:47know piece of information well we're all
3:49our all our Communications apparently
3:52are being spied upon
3:54now we have drones that are FL fly
3:58flying around
4:00I was going to say floating around but
4:02flying around uh we have cell phones
4:07that are monitoring where we go uh where
4:11is the Privacy GPS systems um well there
4:15you know privacy is what they say has to
4:18be sacrificed for security and that is
4:20kind of the myth or what what you want
4:22to call the propaganda I call it a
4:23utilitarian proposition that is being uh
4:26put to the people that if you want
4:28security you're going to have to go
4:29along with giving up privacy it's
4:32actually worse than that because you
4:33know we're all walking through those
4:35monitors into the airports you know or
4:37they photograph our body cavities and
4:40you can't give up more privacy than that
4:42it's worse than that for democracy
4:44though and the title of your show access
4:45to democracy is important because we
4:48have the the founding fathers who
4:49understood that the checks and balances
4:51between the courts and the legislative
4:53and the executive power and then the
4:55fourth estate the freedom of press which
4:57is embodied in the First Amendment we
4:59are now looking and it's it's right on
5:01the line of of of of U losing the First
5:05Amendment and that would be freedom of
5:07the press how are we going to learn
5:09about these things the fourth the Fourth
5:12Amendment as well that's right searches
5:14and seizures and Fifth Amendment due
5:16process but the I'm I'm focused right
5:18now on the First Amendment because
5:20that's where you see the whistleblowers
5:21with Edward Snowden who are telling you
5:23know finally telling what's going on and
5:26then the administration overreacting and
5:30um and using these Draconian
5:33prosecutions under the Espionage Act as
5:36a AER and a better of the enemy and then
5:39applying that to journalists starting to
5:40apply that even to journalists there's a
5:42New York Times journalist who is being
5:44threatened right now with jail for not
5:47disclosing a source now one of the
5:50things that's always been sacran in this
5:53democracy is that the Press uh the
5:56freedom of the press really so much
5:58depends on it
6:00a journalist should not be expected to
6:02disclose a source well the court just
6:05held that there's no reporters privilege
6:08and that um that reporter is a Pulitzer
6:11prizewinning reporter um you know you
6:14can there's not that many good reporters
6:16right now actually a lot of them have
6:18either done the easy thing or become
6:20intimidated but the handful that are
6:22left uh people like Jane mayor that
6:24outed the black sits and the torture
6:26Dana priest at the Washington Post James
6:28R right at New York Times I mean they
6:31are the ones actually that this
6:33surveillance you know we we are we are
6:36just common citizens and so basically
6:38our info is just going into the storage
6:41of those massive computer systems the
6:43interesting individuals are the
6:46reporters because that is what the
6:48administration sees as the danger of
6:50getting out these so-called Secrets
6:53there's there's one thing I just got to
6:55jump in right here it's the opposite
6:57people believe that the secrecy is
6:59protecting them if you go back to before
7:01911 and you actually look at the um the
7:04inquiries one of the my memo led to a An
7:07Inspector General inquiry but there's
7:09the 911 Commission there's the we
7:11talking about the memo that you wrote to
7:13the FBI which was ignored which might
7:17have had an effect on 9/11 well my memo
7:20actually when it came to light wasn't
7:22ignored it led to this uh uh Inspector
7:25General investigation that went on for
7:27two years it came to light after right
7:29your superiors ignored it in the FBI
7:32well the superiors ignored the request
7:34for the fisa court of the agents before
7:36911 and there was a
7:39compartmentalization uh there was
7:40extreme secrecy uh this is exactly the
7:43opposite of what we're being told we're
7:45being told secrecy protects us what if
7:47the American public had known that
7:49Ashcraft in arguing with the head of the
7:52FBI in July of 2001 had said I don't
7:56want to ever hear about terrorism um
7:58that's actually the 9/11 commission you
8:01know these are the types of secrets that
8:03this secrecy is protecting and then you
8:05find out that uh memos were not even
8:07read in the FBI that that were said
8:10Osama Bin Laden heavily entwined with
8:12the Chan terrorists uh they're going to
8:14attack that went to our FBI director
8:17Louis free and eight of his assistants
8:19they claimed they never read the memo so
8:22this flood of of intelligence and some
8:24of these pieces of intelligence were
8:26very important um that came in before
8:29911 can you imagine what it is now when
8:32they have started the massive top secret
8:34America and then it's all covered with
8:36secrecy don't we have almost a half a
8:38million people who are in
8:42surveillance uh who have top secret
8:45clearance uh do we need a half a million
8:49people uh spying on us in effect it it
8:52it it's a little higher than half a
8:54million The Washington Post in 2010
8:57counted nearly a million the last last
8:59figure I've heard of people with just
9:01clearances which could be top secret or
9:03something less 4 and A5 million you're
9:06talking 1,200 public agencies you know
9:09there's the top 16 CIA NSA FBI but
9:12there's also 1,200 more public ones some
9:15of them are small then there's 1,00
9:18private contractors and that really
9:20scares me more than anything because who
9:23are these people who are these
9:24contractors how are they vetted how do
9:26we know uh really uh what their
9:30backgrounds are they're not we're
9:32relying on what the contractor says and
9:36that's a very dangerous Prof and then it
9:39goes back to Eisenhower's warning about
9:40the military-industrial complex there's
9:42a whole new national security
9:44surveillance complex and they the those
9:471900 are in it for the money uh they're
9:49in it to make profits and of course this
9:51higher technology with drone
9:53surveillance and and the computer
9:55storage and and all this Digital
9:57Collection GPS tracking
10:00uh so the the common citizen right now
10:03is not doing well um the courts are not
10:06allowing the ACU lawsuits to even be
10:09heard they're they're dismissing the
10:11lawsuits based on technical reasons like
10:13lack of standing or uh State Secrets
10:17privilege there's a couple of things but
10:18they're not even hearing them on the
10:19merits right now so this this is really
10:22um a telling uh sign that our our checks
10:26and balances are out of out way out of
10:29wh
10:30really threatens the very foundations of
10:32our democracy now we had eight years of
10:35George W bush uh I was not disappointed
10:39in George W bush because I expected
10:41nothing good to come from that
10:44Administration uh and it didn't uh I I
10:48expected him to go to the right I
10:50expected him to trample uh civil
10:53liberties uh but we have moved now to
10:57Obama and I am terribly
10:59disappointed in the fact that Obama
11:02seems to have
11:04perpetuated uh what Bush did uh he put
11:08Eric Holder in charge of the justice
11:10department who I I think if not a
11:13complete failure certainly is close to
11:16it he hasn't prosecuted who should be
11:19prosecuted uh he finally did something
11:22today uh at somebody's urging about the
11:25state of Texas and voting rights but
11:27that's another thing that's being taken
11:29away from the people and the justice
11:32department pretty much has sat on its
11:33hands also well Obama had a a carryover
11:37from the Bush Administration he used
11:39John Brennan who was the one of the main
11:42figures involved with the black sites
11:44and the kidnappings and the CIA
11:45Renditions and then John Brennan became
11:48the Drone assassination are under Obama
11:51Obama did a real good job as in in his
11:54campaign of speaking truth to power he
11:57claimed he wanted to protect
11:58whistleblowers
11:59he uh you know he voted actually against
12:02I'm trying to think he had some key
12:03votes uh he did vote for the for the
12:05nsa's monitoring I know he finally
12:08capitulated on this but he did vote
12:09against a couple of um of key moments
12:12where he when he was still a senator
12:14okay he gets into power and I think it's
12:16just the switcheroo he's become a
12:18corporatist right and and it's a vested
12:21interest because the all of the money
12:23and the power is on this side and I
12:24think that any I think our next
12:26president I don't care what party will
12:28probably be worse
12:29because until we can fix the uh problems
12:32underlying problems in the in this
12:34Corruption of the military industrial
12:36national security surveillance uh we
12:39have some hope right now there was a
12:41vote uh two days ago and it was only 12
12:44votes shy of at least fixing part of
12:47that NSA which shows you that when
12:49there's a the media you know put the
12:51story out and the people read the story
12:53at least there was some impetus for a
12:55while but the media has been so weak I
12:57mean you talked about three
12:59investigative journalists to get good
13:03investigative journalists today we we
13:06certainly can't rely on the big sources
13:10the networks forget about it uh most of
13:12the newspapers forget about it uh we're
13:16certainly not going to go to Fox for
13:17investigative journalism or MSNBC
13:21although they do have a couple of people
13:23there with courage and backbone but
13:26still uh it's magazines and it's small
13:29vehicles that seem to be doing the the
13:32grunt work that's enabling us to find
13:35some of these things out and at danger
13:38to themselves also yeah that's correct
13:40and you know again it's the sponsorship
13:43uh of the news and I'm I'm sure that's a
13:45big factor I think there is hope though
13:48that maybe with this last uh threat for
13:50instance of ryzen that maybe for
13:52instance the New York Times understands
13:54now what is on the line This is actually
13:57now freedom of the press that is on the
13:58line
13:59and at that point you know they they
14:01might become stronger and finally see
14:03that this is something that they have to
14:05encourage the writers will do it if
14:07their bosses will let them and will
14:09encourage them so it kind of goes all
14:11the way to the top and uh you know we
14:13have to hope we can get a press back um
14:16that there there's alternative press and
14:17you know whatever and you have to read
14:19unbelievable amount in order to finally
14:22kind of put it all together to really
14:24understand as a critical thinker what's
14:25going on yeah you can't pick up the
14:27newspaper uh I remember when I was a kid
14:32we had about in New York we had about 10
14:35daily papers we're down to what
14:38two uh three the post which is not
14:42certainly a vehicle for journalism The
14:44Daily News same thing and the New York
14:47Times you have to go elsewhere and the
14:50times uh which had backbone certainly
14:55has seen readership falling and that
14:57affects the bottom line and and then the
14:59pressure gets put on y yeah now you had
15:02a an article in the New York Times just
15:06a few days ago questions for the New FBI
15:10director right uh in his nomination
15:13hearings and you had 10 points that you
15:16wanted him toh be asked by Congress and
15:19we'll see if anybody has the courage to
15:20ask them but well they they had a 2 and
15:23a half hour hearing and uh there were a
15:26lot there were quite a few that asked
15:27the questions about his authorization of
15:29water boarding and they forced James
15:31Comey who will probably be they haven't
15:34had the full vote yet but he's been
15:35voted out of committee um he uh had to
15:39admit unlike Muki that water boarding is
15:41torture then Senator Franken went even a
15:44step further I think Senator Franken
15:46actually did one of the better jobs of
15:48questioning and he went a step further
15:49and read the whole gory gruesome
15:52description of sleep deprivation uh
15:54people think Oh missing a couple hours
15:56of sleep no it's being shed Shackled to
15:59the floor your arms Shackled to the
16:01ceiling you get this much room small
16:03amount of room you have to wear a diaper
16:06and it's for up to 180 hours 7 and a
16:09half days and when he read that he
16:12turned to Comey and he says isn't that
16:14torture and he forced uh Comey then to
16:16admit also that sleep deprivation is
16:18torture so while he admitted those
16:21things he could not really explain why
16:24he had signed off on them and he had
16:26signed off on these harsh so-called
16:29enhanced interrogation tactics in 2005
16:32right before he left he had also signed
16:35off on the the warrantless
16:36monitoring that's ones that really
16:39concerned me also and he had actually
16:41signed off on um what's the other one
16:43there was a third one that he signed off
16:45on use of drones uh no that was just
16:48starting I mean I'm sure he went along
16:50with it too but the the warrantless
16:53monitoring people had a misunderstanding
16:56because they knew the story of him in
16:58the uh hospital room with ashof very
17:01sick and Bush sending his men there to
17:04get ashc that was his moment of Glory
17:07well they know the media played it up
17:09they made it very dramatic as if he had
17:11stood up to Bush well there there was a
17:13lot more to that story the very next
17:16morning after the hospital room scene
17:18Bush called him in Comey and there's a
17:20private conversation that he refuses to
17:22talk about uh Bush also called in Robert
17:25Mueller on they he talked to them
17:27separately and somehow that warrantless
17:30monitoring continued bush first of all
17:32continued it without ashcraft's uh
17:35signature and it's my kind of you know
17:38read reading between the lines and
17:40deducing that what they were really
17:42arguing about at the time was the
17:44rationale for the monitoring Bush uh
17:47under John Yu had him compartmentalized
17:50and he had this idea of expanded
17:52inherent executive power well John Yu
17:55was the fellow who authorized just about
17:57anything in terms of torture
17:59right he was working with I think
18:01Genie's uh Addington they were working
18:03together with people in the
18:04administration and was very tightly held
18:07there were times when even for instance
18:08the NSA legal council was not privy to
18:11what John Yu was writing uh so this was
18:14you talk about secrecy this wasn't
18:16secrecy from the citizens it was even
18:18secrecy inside of the office of legal
18:20councel well we have so many different
18:23aspects or departments or areas of
18:26government that one does not necess
18:28neily know what the other is doing well
18:31this was deliberately this was not an
18:34accident um you know when the nsa's
18:36monitoring Authority is expanded
18:38overnight as it was after 911 and the
18:41Ansa legal council has not even cut into
18:43it that was deliberate and that was
18:45because they were doing these things
18:47under these novel theories of inherent
18:50executive power what happened is uh this
18:53Goldsmith came in in 2003 or four and he
18:57started to look then at some of those
18:59prior theories one was the torture memo
19:01that John Yu had written but then also
19:03the NSA and then he started to question
19:06and what they did though is I think they
19:08switched the legal Theory to now uh
19:11being justified by the authorization to
19:13use military force how does somebody
19:16become a member of the
19:19NSA well probably recruit them now I
19:23mean they recruit FBI agents they
19:25recruit CIA agents but I've never read
19:28any anything about the recruitment of
19:30NSA well I know one most secretive
19:32agency uh Keith Alexander who is the
19:34current head of uh the NSA and he's also
19:37a fourstar general he's also the Cyber
19:39War Commander he's actually been to
19:42hackers conferences and he wore blue
19:44jeans and he was one of the Keynotes for
19:46one of these hacker things and he's
19:49actually going there to recruit people
19:51to join because they need people with
19:53computer skills and so where you going
19:55to get computer skills thank you Edward
19:57Snowden well Edward Snowden wasn't he
19:59actually joined out of the military you
20:01know so they they FBI CIA they get
20:05people I think from all different walks
20:06of of life and they need different
20:09skills the NSA needs math they have a
20:12certain skill set they need mathematics
20:14and they need computer high-tech uh
20:16engineering type Josh I hope you're
20:17listening in the uh in the control
20:22room Josh is a computer whiz oh the the
20:26CIA for instance have two types of of
20:28people they're recruiting they recruit
20:30very smart Professor types for their
20:32intelligence analysts and then they
20:34recruit for their operatives the more
20:37Reckless uh you know uh you know what
20:39you think of a James Bond types you know
20:42the the the Daredevil types and then we
20:45have people who are recruited for their
20:47intelligence who get pushed too far as
20:49you were and who have to come out and
20:53then get skewered by the administration
20:56by the people that you worked for for
20:57doing what the conscience should tell
21:00you to do in the first place you know I
21:03think I had a unique career because when
21:04I joined it was just two years after the
21:07fisa law had gone into effect and I
21:09actually had some retired a retiring
21:12agents they had gone through the coel
21:14pro under Hoover and in fact one guy had
21:16his supervisor had been indicted or had
21:18gotten into trouble with all of the
21:20black bag jobs and the the monitoring of
21:24Martin Luther King and they went after
21:26black panthers even feminists well that
21:28a lot of them went along with it of
21:30course because they were you know
21:31collecting salaries and it was easy work
21:33but I got warned actually when I first
21:35joined the FBI that this was Dumb and
21:37never to go do that again then I taught
21:40constitutional law in the FBI for 13
21:42years if you knew how I focused and it
21:46wasn't just me there were 56 offices and
21:48we were all doing this focusing on the
21:50technicalities of the Miranda Rights
21:53okay now we're talking not even having
21:54due process you don't even get your day
21:56in court you don't even get charg
21:59uh I just remember the third thing with
22:01Comey indefinite detention he was the
22:04spokesperson for the Padilla case an
22:06American citizen held three over three
22:09years in a brri without even being
22:12charged no no defense without counil
22:15exactly without contact with family
22:17right Franken uh again Senator Franken
22:20hammered him on that and he did a really
22:21good job and and he still defends this
22:24he says this is necessary Al Franken has
22:27really become one of the the strongest
22:29voices in the Senate uh there aren't too
22:32many you know uh would that we still had
22:38uh some people who have been in the past
22:42who were not afraid to speak up but
22:45Franken Bernie Sanders is another one
22:48but there aren't too
22:50many no and when it push comes to shove
22:53on these votes you know it's just kind
22:54of I mean that on the ndaa there were 14
22:57it Frank was one of the 14 but in the
23:00final analysis they all voted to let it
23:02happen so and they need to keep pushing
23:05right now there's a moment because of
23:06the the public has learned that you know
23:09we're supposed to be the enemy we're
23:10considered the potential enemy this
23:12we're you're spying on us American
23:14citizens you're saying you can put us
23:16into indefinite detention uh the lawsuit
23:18that was just dismissed was one uh
23:20challenging indefinite Detention of
23:22Americans the filibuster that Rand Paul
23:25had was on drone bombing of American
23:27citizens well even Rand Paul can do
23:30something right once in a while but when
23:32when we realize it's us and not just
23:34some enemy and a far away country I
23:37think that there is a chance now for
23:38these things to finally be rectified and
23:40changed do we have the right to order a
23:43drone kill on an American citizen I mean
23:46we did that on an alleged quote unquote
23:49terrorist and he probably was a
23:51terrorist but we also took out his
23:5316-year-old son uh Collateral Damage I
23:57mean it just frightens me as to how far
24:01we can go and get away with this I've
24:04read the white paper several times and
24:06in fact in John Brennan's confirmation
24:08it's on the record uh we submitted I
24:11don't know 50 60 questions for John
24:13Brennan based on the Drone assassination
24:16policy in that white paper it does not
24:18hold water I mean I have talked to some
24:20law professors now unfortunately some
24:22law professors are going along with it
24:25but you know you cannot without due
24:27process well see also Barack Obama who
24:29was a constitutional law professor and
24:32the the idea that the world is a battle
24:34place you don't have to declare war on a
24:37given country or say that that country
24:39is a you know a nation state that you're
24:41at war with you say that the whole world
24:43is a battlefield and that we're just
24:45picking people off all over I mean that
24:47theory is incredible it's it's out of
24:50Science Fiction but that is what they is
24:52in the white people it's out of Science
24:53Fiction but you know if you see a drone
24:55overhead you wonder if it's for you
24:57that's right the imminent threat
24:59imminent has been re uh defined uh to
25:02mean that is if that if you think that
25:04will eventually happen there's no human
25:07ability to predict what is what is a
25:10threat I mean if it if somebody's
25:11shooting at you yes you know they're a
25:13threat but to say that uh this person
25:15sleeping in bed right now next week is
25:18going to be a threat to me so I get to
25:20kill him now that's incredible and it's
25:23Minority Report that's what it is uh
25:25really the movie is then personified in
25:28life and it's pretty scary there there's
25:31another thing I've written about with
25:32respect to the um the uh course the New
25:36York Times one was about James comey's
25:38confirmation and the CNN I wrote about
25:40CNN massive spying on Americans is
25:43outrageous right that's on that's
25:45another recent one that you and and then
25:47the the third one I wrote about over two
25:49years ago when it was first announced
25:51was The Insider threat program so the
25:54very first I mean this was after
25:56Wikileaks in Bradley Manning OMB put out
25:59guidance that inside the government you
26:01were to be spying on your co-workers and
26:04and try to tell who would be the
26:06disgruntled employee who could become a
26:08leaker and there's now a formal program
26:11set up there are uh every every agency
26:14has a kind of an internal affairs called
26:16The Insider threat program what does
26:18this remind you of by the way does this
26:20remind you 1984 big brother and and and
26:23what we used to hear about the Soviet
26:25Union and the block and the stazzy
26:27there's no way if you think about it the
26:30people who are submitting suggestions
26:32for improvement I actually submitted
26:33suggestions from time to time we had
26:35something called the suggestion program
26:37well they're going to be targeted now is
26:39if they are the disgruntled employees uh
26:41that will become a a leaker or a tra
26:44people will be afraid to make
26:45suggestions to improve systems right
26:48that will help make us a better country
26:51and and when when we had true spies in
26:53the 80s we had I mean for one uh Robert
26:56Hansen in the FBI he went like 20 years
26:58spying and he was actually giving up
27:01double agents that were getting murdered
27:03they knew there was an FBI spy they they
27:06uh targeted lots of other people except
27:08for Robert Hansen in fact Robert Hansen
27:11was put in charge of the task force to
27:15look for the spy in the FBI and he was
27:17the spy and he was and then we have the
27:19other side of the coin uh with Cheney
27:23who really I believe was the brain
27:25behind the bush Administration taking
27:28a legitimate spy somebody who had done a
27:32lot of things Valerie PL to help this
27:35country to bring this country back to
27:37where it was and he outs her so that it
27:40ends her career now I know that Cheney
27:43was not prosecuted for it but uh and
27:45scooter liby got I'm going to be
27:47prosecuted by the control room because
27:49we we already ran through a half an hour
27:52uh so fast and we have so much more to
27:54talk about well we need citizens to get
27:57talking about these things get right
27:59letter writing uh write op ads and and
28:02educate your fellow citizens Colleen
28:05rally always a pleasure to sit and chat
28:09with you and we we we have to do it more
28:12often than once a year uh which is about
28:14what we have been doing but we have to
28:17and well let's hope the next time we get
28:18together we can talk about good news you
28:21you are access to democracy thank you
28:23thank you
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