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  • chenk is on target again~! .....go chenk...GO~1

  • I don't get this bullshit.

    The government is meant to serve its people, we're not meant to serve it.

  • Its called the ILLUMINATI secrets. I love how ppl think I'm crazy when I say that. Cenk probably know already.xD

  • Wow. You know sometimes Cenk can be a real Douche. I mean COMMON! Get Pissed! Bush did the same thing with the Warrant-less Wiretapping and yet we let him slide and look where that got us and NOW Ol Barry gives himself almost godly authority and Cenk is making jokes? What the F is wrong with everyone? Its like we've devalued human life. Isn't anybody else disturbed by this? Pass this on to everyone you know. At least Alex Jones gives it to ya Bluntly. Where the heck is CNN with all this?

  • The tighter one grips liberty the faster it slips through your fingers. Just hold it as truth, and don't scream that it is vanishing, because both are self fulfilling prophecies.

    :P

  • Why are there secrets anyway? America isn't about keeping secrets like some... communist country! *points finger at China*

  • There are somethings they can't let everyone know for obvious reasons lol smh...

  • the trouble with state secrets of this nature is that they are only secret to the people of the nation in question. Everyone else knows about this shit, except the people that really ought to know, the frickin' US electorate!

  • @TheGodlessGuitarist EXACTLY!

  • State secrets should not be applied when it's merely embarrasing or politically damaging.

  • obama and bush have something in common...hiding the truth

  • What happened to the guy I voted for that said he was for changing everything, and he was all high an mighty about an America that didn't need the tactics of the Bush administration? Oh... that's right he became president, took a shit on my couch, kicked my dog, flipped me the bird, and told me I was a sucker for believing in his "change" BS. I don't like that guy anymore....

  • no. Bullshit. TRUTH or NOTHING. i'd rather get my feelings hurt and be Suicidal for the rest of my life for knowng the TRUTH than be ignorant and satisfied forever.

  • damnit 

  • Do the courts support state secrets?

    OOOOFFFFF COOOOURSE!!!!!!!!!!!

  • What a fucking Greek tragedy. So, at this point. I have ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING HOPE IN THIS COUNTRY OR IT'S POLITICIANS. I read Japan is on the verge, in the next decade or so, of making artificial intelligence close to, or at the human level...CAN WE SHIP A SHITLOAD OF THOSE ROBOTS, AND SUBSTITUTE OUR WHOLE ADMINISTRATION FULL OF THEM!?!? Why not? Certainly better than appointing another sold-out, apathetic, soulless, empty, spineless, retarded, opportunistic, bloodless sociopath.

  • is the c.i.a so expensive that they have to outsource the torture :)

  • Democracy is dead

  • @superphi Well yeah, it died with the Greeks a long while back.

  • The crazy bit about all this is that we already have a venue (FISA Court) where trials can be carried out using classified information. What is the aversion to using this?

  • Honestly, who would one vote for in 2012? Obama is pretty useless, and Republicans are well .. Republicans. Seems like voting in the 2012 election is pretty pointless.

  • @Elmaln The only reason I will vote for Obama is because the majority of idiots in this country will vote for Republicans--the worse choice, by FAR. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the way to go.

  • @Elmaln vote for obama he is less bad

  • @Elmaln If you vote for Obama you get F#(ked in the front. If you vote for Republicans you get it from behind. It is a matter of which one you can tolerate.

  • Syria have some mean sobs there.

  • when will we wake the fuck up and realise just how god damn corrupt our judiciary really is !?!?!?!

  • The govmnt is just another mafia. But legalised.

  • @Domzdream it's only legal as long as we accept it as legal.

  • "You're mad because we kidnapped and tortured you? Yeah, yeah. State secret."

    And potentially...

    "Oh, you're mad because we sodomized and mutilated your little girl? Yeah, yeah. State secret."

    "You're mad because we tracked down and murdered a bunch of people for being atheist? Yeah, yeah. State secret."

    And on and on and on...

    When will America realize it stopped being free a long time ago?

  • @blackkakari

    A little graphic there...

  • @blackkakari What makes you think that Americans aren't aware of the corruption in their country? 2008 was the wake-up call for most of the country... except for the some of the southern states (of course).

  • @Diatonic5th Oh, most Americans are well aware of "corruption" in their country, but not corruption. Their idea of corruption is whatever bullshit reason their spoon fed by their political parties. Their distracted by false issues meant to divert their attention from the real ones.

  • Obama is not all that different from Bush.

  • Cenk I think you are wrong on one point here - you agree that these 5 cases were judged as real state secrets yet you are upset that the case could not proceed even without the secrets - problem is the plaintiff might not need the info to present a case but the gov't would almost certainly need to bring it up in their defense - so barring this fairness the case cannot proceed - solution - appoint an ombudsman from the court to apportion guilt and recompense.

  • CTU is coming!! Hahahaha

  • Don't forget that Libertarians would be against this also (not the BioShock kind, but the American party kind).

  • Could be worse. Like starting a 3rd World War with China.

  • George Bush has truly destroyed everything that was great about America.

  • NOO NO this was happening well before him and clinton.... clnton just slowed the process and I guess bush thought it to be more slowed than it was... this is why I worry about the next election and if a republican wins!

  • I heard that Oxford replaced the word ''CORRUPTION'' in the dictionary with the word ''AMERICA''.

  • I'm sorry...call me a sick, twisted, human being but: Terrorists attack us and we aren't allowed to torture? In my opinion, they forfeited their rights during 9/11 when they declared war on us and beheaded our soldiers a year later. Keep in mind that the CIA has always had difficulty infiltrating terrorist cells such as the Taliban and Al-Quaida, why would we NOT use torture if they are definately terrorists? Every scrap of information is useful in the war against terror.

  • @acewings221 thats a perfectly fine reaction to have my friend. What you have to understand is many "detainees" are unlawfully arrested in the field. This is documented but not talked about in any of the media outlets. I HIGHLY recommend seeing the film "taxi ride to the darkside" It will put everything into perspective.

  • @803brando will do, thanks. :)

  • @acewings221 Without due process, how do we determine who is and isn't a terrorist? If you declare people guilty and don't give them a chance to even remotely prove their innocence (In America, it's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty anyway), then where can it end? Obama could declare every Tea Party member a terrorist and torture them. You know, when they call Obama a tyrant and talk about spilling blood and such (the old tree of liberty quote), he could do that under your rules.

  • @acewings221 Ummm, who the hell are they torturing? Do you imagine they know who the "terrorists" are before they interrogate them? You're funny. I mean, you hate America and thats wrong, but you're funny.

  • @eirefrance Dude, I live in America dumbass. How exactly do I hate it? I was simply pointing out that we have far more to gain than we do to lose by torturing in the war against terror. If it's proven that someone is a terrorist via wiretapping, bugging, simply from a raid...then WHY NOT TORTURE? They attacked us on 9/11, then videotaped it and sent it in because Osama took credit for the attack. I'm fucking sick and tired of America babying them when we should be punishing them.

  • @acewings221

    1. Torture is inhumane

    2. Only totalitarian countries do torture. Is America totalitarian or a dictatorship?

    3. Torture is an unreliable way of extracting information. I bet you would admit to being the empress of cambodian lavatories planning to dirtybomb the Gateway Arch, if you were tortured enough.

    If you have enough evidence to convict someone, send convicted terrorists to Bubba's "gentle" care; but if there is no evidence.... Innocent until proven guilty.

  • You are dumb in many different ways... maybe not dumb just not well thought... FIRST OF ALL we are suppose to be there to clean their acts up and what example do we set if we do what they do??? When we tell them we are there to help and then we torture just to torture they see us as liars enforcing their (already there) be;lief that we are liars and "evil" which promotes MORE people to join up to fight against us. There is SO much to say say about why torture is the wrong way 2 go NO ROOM THOUGH

  • if it's proven that someone is a terrorist via wiretap/bugging then WHY TORTURE? To get revenge on someone who is proly only fighting because his entire family was killed by a drone strike and has no options other than joining the taliban or whatever? Revenge for WHAT? He dn't do 9/11 what if 1 of them got through to american and you were the first person he saw & he went to kill you and said, I'm killing you because America ruined my life. Would that be right? NO

    Try a little critical thinking

  • An just because you live somewhere doesn't mean you can't hate it? You think the Iraqi's love Iraq? Dude you have NO ability for critical thinking do you? I mean it's like you pull thing out of your ass without having ever thought about what you're saying... most likely you are just spouting shit someone else said.

    What do we hav to gain by torturing? I can name you five things that we can LOSE by torturing can't name anything we will gain except a sense of cruel justice for twits like u

  • I'll explain how u hate America cuse we do NOT punish ppl without a trial LET ALONE TORTURE we ARE a free country who holds it's values very dear and These r AGAINST our core values, & u DISAGREE with those values which implicitly makes u against them and the way you say it sounds to me like you HATE those values. The things u r proposing r the values of the terrorists we r fighting and THEY hate America because of those values we hold dear that you are against!

  • @upplsuckimcool16 i agree with everything you said except for the "they hate our freedoms" part. I can assure you "terrorists" dont hate us bc of our freedoms.

  • @acewings221 YOU are the terrorist. If you hate american values so much go live in saudi arabia.

  • @acewings221 Under torture, a man will say anything to stop the pain, dumb shit. It doesn't work.

  • Send Cenk to Syria - he voted for Obama.

  • one day we will have an oliver north like testimony on 9/11, and people wont give a fuck either

  • State shouldn't have secrets that's some scary shit

  • The problem with having a case while keeping out the state secrets is that, generally speaking, information in the case that may not actually be the state secret, could lead to a revealing of the state secret/s. Now in some cases this may not be true, but generally speaking, all precautions have to be taken in order to ensure security.

    I don't think that having the government deal with it instead of the court system is a good idea, but the courts can't do it either. We need an alternative.

  • change?

  • TYT... I love you. You have a good amount of money. Buy a HD cam

  • @luanluan2006 they might not, they'd have to change ALL their camera's and their entire video taping system (computer and all). that actually runs a lot more than you'd think, as in thousands. It's not as easy as just buying a few couple hundred dollar HD cameras. however if they made some kind of donation box to raise money for it I think people would be glad to help out

  • @luanluan2006 You do know it's more than that, right?

    To make it HD, they would have to get HD equipment, both recording and processing equipment. More importantly, they would have to VASTLY increase their server space due to the size of the HD content. Three hours a DAY of HD? That will cost a lot more than the 1 million dollars worth of revenue will pay for.

    I just want the mic volume was higher... It would cost some, but it's doable.

  • no wonder people hate america...act like such a good nation and then they do things like this...

  • land of the free... can you honestly still say that :p

  • @Darusdei Could we ever?

  • @frictionRx5 thanx for watching our vids. your help to our cause is greatly appreciated. signed : tyt army

  • @407buddy that's crap, if people were better than they are, yea, you could get by without a govt, but that's the problem, they aren't.

  • the UN needs to put the smack down on our country

  • Is there ANYTHING Obama hasn't lied about and flip-flopped on?

  • @RAMKING61 Is there ANYTHING you have said that isn't an irrational troll?

    And listen to Cenk's first sentence. He said A COURT made a ruling in favor of "State Secrets", not the President.

  • this is overt facism. this is one of many steps that have been taken toward a police state. warrantless wiretapping- ORDINARY rendition-state secrets-e mail scanning-illegal wars-assasination-false flags

  • @407buddy the problem is that withiut the govt a free society would turn into predator and prey pretty fast.

  • I recently watched the "Nuremberg Trial" starring Spencer Tracy...this is a powerful movie on many levels, but my favorite quote was near the end when Tracy told one of the Judges on trial, a man respected for his jurisprudence, "you were guilty when you sentenced your first innocent man..." As an American, my biggest concern, even above our economic travesties, is the nation falling down the slippery slope of fascism through the Judicial Branch...

  • Finally, this is where the road leads when the courts are allowed to extend their power, circumvent the legislatures, and find new 'rights' and powers where none are explicitly stated and have never been before, ala gay marriage, abortion, affirmative action, ect.

  • Also, the US knows who its enemies are and who provides them with Sanctuary and support. How many must die so that these vermin can have their 'rights'.

  • This is why the character of those in power is far more important than systematic concerns, or even the system in use. The modern myth is that of democracy, but there is little evidence that it works better than the divine right of king, or the Emperor and Senate selecting the next head of state. The ancients considered good government a gift from the gods because it was such a rare thing.

  • I predict that the USA will fall into a form of dictatorship or there will be revolution. But considering americans are lazy I think that there will be a dictatorship under the guise of democracy. If it isnt already happening.

  • @DRDNIBOY it has already happened. the judiciary is just checking off on the facist underpinnings of current laws.

  • me too! why is obama so set on protecting the asses of the creeps who started this business? or is it just another example that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?

  • @ho2cultcha it dont matter who we elect, seems they are all crooks lol

  • It all stems from education, God damnit, keep religion out of schools and pay mroe for education, they dont understand that if we have better education we will have a better economy, for obvious reasons. so shouldnt conservatives want religion out of schools, so the kids can learn sciences, and logic, to get better jobs and stimulate the economy? but tehy want religion in schools, so they want to hold back the economy? being religious makes you dumb, that is a proven fact.

  • Yeah this doesn't surprise me. Snake watching over the mice...

  • @TheRedbander If you tell a lie long enough eventually it becomes truth. The government loves you, goodnight America.

  • Hmm, maybe a president should be elected on the basis of changing the system. Oh, wait..

  • @TheRedbander The truly sad thing is that yes, most people are shocked when they see evidence for how clandestine their government is.

  • 0:39 Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo husband cuz they torturin' everyone.

  • @qazt19 Win!

  • Final nail in the coffin for The Great Liar

  • I want to be sent to a exotic country. Syria doesn't sound that bad.

  • @RaynMan718 Ok, well start spamming comments that say "America sucks!!!", and perhaps you'll be picked up in a few days and be sped off to your mystery destination! :D

  • @PersonalPariah Paranoid much lol 

  • @RaynMan718 Hey now! Don't knock it. =P

    That's your tax dollars at work! Be proud of the haste with which you are entrapped, bloodied and erased by your own glorious motherland. :D

    All while jetsetting to your desired exotic locale.

  • @PersonalPariah Syria is not in my motherland.

  • @TheRedbander That's the dumbest theory ive ever heard

  • @tjohn1986... When people more intelligent then you say something you don't understand. We often assume its stupid, but really its just because you lack the intelligence to realize the theory makes sense.

    America scores what 40th? for education in the world.. steadily climbing illiteracy rates, we rank at the same level as turkey for people who know about evolution. Math scores we constantly fair worse then poland. As far as geography goes we on par with third world nations.

  • @GhostInTheShell29 Lol i'll debunk your stupid theory right here. If such a govt scheme was in place, then there wouldn't be you or anyone else who would have the smarts to figure out that there is such a scheme in the first place. Moreover there is plenty of education to be had for those who want it. System is not to be blamed for lack of motivation, ambition and overall bad parenting.

    And as far as being smarter than me, you don't even know me so keep that stupid shit to yourself

  • @tjohn1986 My theory? he said it, i agreed to it, its not an uncommon theory either George Carlin discussed it as well (god rest his soul). Do i know you, no. But i can pretty safely assume around what intelligence you are, because you are speaking. When you speak whether you like it or not you reveal everything.

  • @GhostInTheShell29 Huh i didn't notice the name thought you were the same guy. Actually it's my fault i called it a theory, its not even a hypothesis. Hell it's not even an intellectual statement. This idea belongs in the same pile as moon landing conspiracy, kennedy conspiracy and every other conspiracy. Matter of fact it belongs in the bottom of that pile. And why does it matter if Carlin said it? Did he show any evidence?

    And "God rest his soul"?? You mean the same God he DIDN'T believe in?..

  • @tjohn1986 youtube George Carlin Education to find it. He was just someone i thought of who i know is an intellectual and also finds this to be true. If you need evidence.. umm look around you? I don't know what more you would need.

    Well if he did believe in god then my joke wouldn't have been ironic :p and then wouldn't have been a joke.

    You probably are decently educated, at least highschool most likely college. But education is about indoctrination not logic, intelligence, wisdom.

  • @GhostInTheShell29 George Carlin was a great intelligent comedian but not a thinker or intellectual by any means. And the burden of proof doesn't fall on me. I have no need to go researching every idea that is proposed to me

    Yes you don't have to be educated to be intelligent. But education is an universally accepted verification of that intellect. And i don't know which university you went to but you have to be plenty intelligent and logical to major in any math or science field

  • @GhostInTheShell29 ......con't........And if you deduced that I am not educated, well then have fun with that

  • Cenk you keep adressing the president as if he is running the country. he aint doing shit and you better know that, thats why what he promises can't be done because its in conflict with the intrests of the guys behind him. He's locked.

  • What the fuck is this bullshit Obama?? Kucinich 2012. Nader 2012. Dean 2012. Any liberal with fucking principles. No more police state presidents. Basta!

  • It makes me wonder what changed his mind.

  • Pufa

  • they snatchin' yo people up. look out, they're gettin 'erybody out here.

  • @407buddy that was part of bush's patriot act back whenever he put that in,

  • "laws broken by the government"

    LOL, they ARE the government, THEY decide, not you.

    that's why it's Top Secret

  • @DaFawky Yup. People need to understand that they have NO RIGHTS to top secret documents.

  • @HomleandSecurity so you rather have the military and goverment spill the beans on every weakness, flaw, and vunerability this country has to its enemies and terrorist? there needs to be secerets for the protection of the country and its citizens. while i agree that theres needs to be a limit on what the goverment hides and does it still needs the power to protect the country and the citizens by stopping dangerous information from getting out, especaily during times of war.

  • @DaFawky You have a constitution for your government to answer to.

    Why do you think it's there?

  • @PersonalPariah Yeah... That means crap, when it's the government doing it. the government can hide it, the government is the government. It governs YOU. They are not going to punish themselves. Do you really think they would? LOL That's not how america works. America works like "This is against the law, but if we do it, it's ok, because we rule over you, not the other way around."

    the constitution means shit.

  • This court is 100% correct.

  • @HomleandSecurity why ? you should now most of the stuff thats been going on but some stuff yh but most you should know

  • @i0hate0abba These things are secret for a reason. The government needs to conduct certain affairs under the radar, away from the public. The people who want to expose such secrets are what we properly term as terrorists.

    Burn the Origin of Species on October 1!

  • @i0hate0abba i can dig wat ur saying

  • ye i can dig that 

  • @HomleandSecurity

    Obvious troll is obvious.

  • the difference between a liberal on a conservative is that we were also pissed off then Bush was doing this as well, the conservatives didn't care when it was their guy, but now they are upset because it's a Dem doing it. - Conservatives don't care about America or Americans they only care about themselves and their pocket book.

  • @Dahgrostabphri WORD!

  • @Dahgrostabphri That's more Republicans than just all conservatives. There are some real & honest ones out there.

  • @Dahgrostabphri

    Your getting Conservatives confused with the only 20% of Americans that consider themselves Republicans. There's a difference between those who stand for principle and those who pledge to party. It's still hypocritical especially when Glenn Beck is speaking out about it.

  • @Dahgrostabphri if you look at the "everyday joe" conservative, they follow the classic sheep mentality. they dont care what proof they have, they simply want any random piece of ammunition to fling at their target. no independent thougth what so ever..

    that is why you see the sheep at conservative rallies screaming things like "Obama is a radical nazi-communistic atheist-muslim!" they just rage with no goal or mental process until the sheep that screams the loudest gives them a new target.

  • Cenk, you don't understand the internal workings of the CIA or FBI.

  • They showed the confidential material to the judges and FIVE of them said it didn't count?

    If these 'state secrets' NEEDED to be secret, then how could the decision be so close?

    Bull fucking shit.

  • You obviously see that there's a major problem with the system as a whole, and it's a system that transcends the left/right issue and makes it a moot point because it's a system that apparently controls the government at some key junctures, particularly when it comes to the Constitution and foreign policy. You keep implying this, but won't come out and admit it. And yet you scoff at those who do have the balls to openly admit this and are fighting against it.

  • Of course there is loop holes in this and of course goverment uses those loop holes when they see it advangeous.

  • yo, what the fuck.........

  • I rape aliens all the time. I guess my state secret is out.

  • @Mortello Male aliens or female aliens.

  • @TheTone714 Well I rape the female ones, impregnate them, and rape the male babies later.

  • When they make these stupid high court decisions in recent years, they're always just BARELY made, with a one vote difference. That way they can later say, "Well, as you can see, not everyone agreed with it - so at least the vote was very close." That way they figure they can partially wash their hands of it whenever any of their lousy decisions backfires.

  • @frictionRx5 shut the fuck up, moron. go read the constitution, the federalist papers, etc. brush up on law, and review the actions of the 43 previous presidents, idiot.

  • @hollaboutit. friction doesn't know how to read.

  • @frictionRx5 This is the smartest thing I've heard all day, Kill that fucking nigger

  • @frictionRx5

    You need help, I really hope you get it.You watch almost all TYT videos(helping them) and you dont get that.

  • @mlking213

    friction works for tyt, he's a thread antagonist. Just ignore him

  • @Pleblian have any proof of that? Hes really fucking annoying though so hes quite good at his role.

  • @mrFantasticfan111 Nope, no proof

    But nobody has this kind of invested interest in a show they hate, unless it's their show.

  • @frictionRx5 You havent killed yourself yet? Damn. Your so fucking dumb its amusing. I have a hard time believing that you actually think the shit you say is true. You are nothing more then a troll. I hate Obama but at least I have actual reason on why. Instead of childish/immature misplaced hate.

  • Is it me or is the camera a bit more out of focus in this video?

  • so instead of getting upset with this situation, Cenk should grow a brain and program it with logic and common sense, the kind God gave the common goose!!

  • Is there a "Freedom of Information" act in US Law?

  • @peoplz360 shut the fuck up.

  • @peoplz360 Yawn

  • @peoplz360 we already know it stop trying to wipe your ass on it more. Noone really cares anymore

  • state secrets are a problem, but certainly not a new one.

  • There are no secrets that should be held from the public.

    In the Swedish Constitution it says that all public affairs should be...PUBLIC!

  • @LiBlub1

    you do realize that in Sweden public affairs are very tame, of no consequence to anyone. Nothing too much happens there

  • @genie0390 how do you know? What is your knowledge of Sweden based upon?

    Just because a country isn't a world power, doesn't mean they don't have secrets.

  • @Stargazer88

    OK,..I will take it all back provided you can give me a general idea of what a typical Swedish State secret might involve

  • @LiBlub1 How I wish I lived in Europe, they care for their citizens and listen to them when they request change. The U.S is hopeless with corporatists and big business controlling congress.

    However I disagee that pedofiles can be rehabilitated, I believe its a sickness they will always suffer from, unable to ever see it as abuse.

  • @BethanyCharlene

    don't let the horrors of two World Wars plus the Soviet tyranny of eastern Europe unduly influence your admiration

  • @BethanyCharlene Yeah Europe is great interms of having its head right. America is just 90% owned by corporate America. Well who said it was a sickness to be a pedophile? 1.2 billion muslims dont think that it is. :) S

  • It should never be that easy to torture someone. Can't we torture paedophiles instead?

  • @mynameis677 Paedophiles are born with disorders, they should be rehabilitated.

  • @LiBlub1 or got it from being tortured by paedophiles father/mother/gpa/uncles in the past.

  • @LiBlub1 i agree IF you can start rehabilitating them BEFORE they harm someone.

  • @LiBlub1

    you DO know that pedophiles can't be rehabilitated? Only solution to keep children safe is to lock them up for life or do away with them

  • @genie0390 Then they should be kept in safe facilities so that they can never rape again. Not punished...

  • Actually there are a few psychological "rehabilitating" treatments for pedophiles. Although some could argue they are quite cruel and vastly similar to the movie A Clock Work Orange.