Checking in with some domestic news now starting with disturbing news which should concern anyone who believes in the First Amendment a lawsuit brought by First Amendment groups against the Justice Department has revealed the government's regulations for targeting journalists with surveillance documents now reveal the DOJ has rules which allow for the government to spy on journalists through the highly secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA Court a 2024 memo signed by Obama era Attorney General Eric Holder to the FBI outlines quote procedures for processing FISA applications targeting known medium entities or known members of the media the news has special implications for this network as Drexel University professor Hana block shweta told the intercept that quote a probable example would be surveillance of reporters who are working for somewhere like RT and as a consequence anyone who is talking to reporters for RT with press freedom in question we're joined now by former UK MP George Galloway for his take all right George this is the first time we've been able to confirm that the US government actually spies on American journalists and foreign journalists using the FISA Court what's your reaction to this news well you're quite lucky actually that you've still got journalists worth spying on the journalists in Britain are working in concert with the building behind me and the building's that stretch out across Whitehall and the secret deep state of Britain and there's no need to spy on them at all there's an old adage thank God you cannot bribe or twist the average British journalist but when you see what unbridle do you see that there's no reason to so take about American journalists the state still thinks it's worth spying on you and clearly they have been doing and...