1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 MUSIC 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:26,000 It's been reported that Wikileaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world's media combined. 3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Can that possibly be true? 4 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Yeah, it can possibly be true. It's a worry isn't it? 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 The rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job. 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:42,000 That a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world has combined. 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 MUSIC 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 MUSIC 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 MUSIC 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Greetings, they have a secret files from the surrounding internet platform Wikileaks. 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Firstly, in the Blacks and Wikileaks, some public health and clear 100,000 seed will have the standard and cost of the planet. 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Wikileaks have made public the most extensive classified military and diplomatic material ever. 13 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,000 What they've released is challenging and provoking governments with skeletons in their covers all over the world. 14 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,000 We should condemn that a disclosure of any classified information by individuals and organizations. 15 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:28,000 The people who are in power will not give that power away free. That is just unfortunately effective nature. 16 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:38,000 The Defense Department demands that Wikileaks return immediately. All versions of documents obtained directly or indirectly from the Department of Defense, 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 data bases or records. 18 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:46,000 It's only now that the true story behind the development of this closed organization is coming to light. 19 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:54,000 But while the world's discussing whether a sound is a rapist or a saint, Wikileaks continue to pursue their own political agenda. 20 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Every release, the pre-do of material, a second message, and that is weed set examples. 21 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 If you engage in immoral and unjust behavior, it will be found out. 22 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 It will be revealed and you will suffer the consequences. 23 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 What we have here is a new breed of rebel, IT guerrillas without a national base. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Student digs, coffee bars and server rooms, these are their command and control centers spread all over the world and the battles already started. 25 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:34,000 The general in charge of 120% of the agency personnel targeting this institution and its products. 26 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 The first thing that is important is to have a good time. 27 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 The first thing that is important is to have a good time. 28 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Wikileaks have become a global force to be reckoned within record time. 29 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:00,000 It may not be easy to grasp but first, but the release of classified information is just a small step in a long-term political and ideological battle. 30 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And that leaking classified information is a weapon and not a means unto itself. 31 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:20,000 The public has a right to know materials and a historical record has a right to have materials of diplomatic political, ethical, historical significance. 32 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 There is something that is interfering with that process. 33 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 We will undo it. 34 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 He's been called the Scarlet Pimpanel of the Computer Age. 35 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:37,000 If one were to judge him when his looks alone, you could call him a chameleon, given the frequency of his change of hairstyles during the six months we've been following Wikileaks. 36 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:45,000 But if you look under the surface, you'll soon discover that Julian Assange has been revolting against the powers that be for a long time. 37 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 As a teenager in Australia, he called himself Mendax and got a name for himself as a highly skilled hacker. 38 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 By the age of 21, he found himself in court pleading guilty to some 20 different charges of hacking. 39 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,000 We had a back door in the US military security coordination sector. 40 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:14,000 This is the peak security of the US military intelligence. 41 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,000 We had total control over this for two years. 42 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 The US Space Agency NASA is one of the victims of the Melbourne Computer Hacking Syndicate. 43 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:29,000 American investigators, including the FBI, contacted Australian authorities with their suspicions. 44 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:36,000 The court was told the men even tampered with the police investigation into hacking at the ANU. 45 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 The judge, seeing Assange as just an inquisitive young man, find him a symbolic sum and release him. 46 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 However, the trial added further fuel to Assange's feelings about the importance of unrestricted information. 47 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Together with some friends, he sets up one of Australia's first Internet suppliers and gives people with politically sensitive viewpoints a platform from which to publish their opinions. 48 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:05,000 But, when one of his customers publishes secret Scientology Manures, this prompts aggressive efforts to sense a him. 49 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Pelon Coburn, who, one of the lawyers for Scientology and California, I mean, sent many letters trying to attack us and they ended up hiring a private investigator to try and track me down. 50 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Who did manage to get hold of my silent telephone line and call me up and just sort of sort of threatening. 51 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 An overriding that I'm tracking down how they did that. 52 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Those efforts to sense at the site strengthen his conviction that something has to be done against those withholding important information from the public at large. 53 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:51,000 With the problem was, they needed to use more actions that created positive reform effect. 54 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:58,000 More actions that were just and corrective to injustice. 55 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Assange sees disclosures as a preventative instrument. 56 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:10,000 It warns those involved in morally questionable or criminal acts that they'll be found out and will have to face consequences. 57 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I understood this significance of disclosures for quite some time. 58 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I mean, I registered leaks through all in 1999. 59 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:33,000 In 2006, Assange on a group of like-minded people start building up a special internet service, WikiLeaks.org, exclusively for people wishing to blow the whistle on abuse of power. 60 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:42,000 His fellow conspirators comprised of hackers and mathematicians, they're located around the world and communicate via restricted mailing list. 61 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,000 From this platform, they start defining their thoughts of building up a worldwide movement to mass-publicize classified information. 62 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:57,000 They affirm that this is the most cost-effective political weapon and that they intend to place a new star on the political firmament of man. 63 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Any reform that is large scale must be based upon information, because what else can spread other than viruses, uninformation can spread, and achieve large-scale reform. 64 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Inspired by WikiPedia, WikiLeaks distribute the leaked information to anonymous volunteers to check its authenticity and eliminate any traces of the situation. 65 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:28,000 It turns out that the majority of the general public has neither the time, interest or resources to analyse WikiLeaks material, but there are professionals to turn to. 66 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:42,000 In 2006, we hope that the general public would write analysis articles, collaboratively, and not at all true. 67 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:51,000 WikiLeaks come to the conclusion that media are the only channels that have the resources and motivation required to create a real impact. 68 00:07:51,000 --> 00:08:06,000 In 2007, WikiLeaks in association with the British Daily newspaper The Guardian published evidence of former President Daniel Adapmoye, having imbezzled massive sums from Kenyan State funds. 69 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Shortly after that, they release a report about the Kenyan Police's use of death patrols. 70 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:23,000 This disclosure causes a great stir, but as an organisation WikiLeaks continue to remain unknown to the general public. 71 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 However, the words spread among activists far and wide on the net. 72 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Eventually reaching the German Chaos Computer Club, the biggest and oldest club for hackers in the world. 73 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:47,000 I heard about it in late 2007 from a couple of friends. I started reading a bit more, but I started to understand the value of such a project to society. 74 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 The politically-engaged Chaos Computer Club has been fighting a long-term battle for free access to information. 75 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,000 One of its members, Daniel Domshite Berry, is quick to recognise the common ground between his view of society and that of WikiLeaks. 76 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,000 He quits his job as a computer consultant, says to devote all of his time to the new organisation. 77 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:19,000 The question is the attitude, what attitude do you have to society? Do you look at what there is and you accept that as God given? 78 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Or do you see society as something where you identify a problem and then you find a creative solution for that problem? 79 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:33,000 So it is a matter of your spectator or are you actively participating in society? 80 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:40,000 The Computer Club has put the skills of some of the sharpest hacking talents in the world at WikiLeaks disposal. 81 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:47,000 What's needed now is a physical haven. Hackers linked to the Swedish far-sharing side pirate bay have what they need. 82 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Considerable technical skills in a place where freedom or speech is unusually free. 83 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:59,000 A lot of the countries in today's world do not have really strong laws for the media anymore. 84 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:15,000 But a few countries like, for instance, Belgium, also the United States with the first amendment and especially for example Sweden have very strong laws protecting the media and the work of investigative or general journalists. 85 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:27,000 So from our perspective, this is something if there is any, if there are any Swedes here, you have to make sure that your country is really one of the strongholds of freedom of information. 86 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Sweden has a infeable, although far from perfect, a record in protecting publications. 87 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:46,000 It has a practical record within the past few years of protecting internet publications. 88 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 It's a sense of censorship. 89 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:58,000 And it's precisely Sweden's unique freedom of speech law that prompts WikiLeaks to locate their main site in this unpretentious basement in one of Stockholm's inner suburbs. 90 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,000 We're talking about the sense that they're going to take the topic of the Caribbean and the country to go to the urban areas of the society. 91 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 And there's another thing that's important. 92 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:12,000 But the sense is that we're all going to leave a machine here, and then we're going to leave a machine here. 93 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 PRQ offers their customers total secrecy. 94 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Their systems prevent anyone from age dropping either WikiLeaks, chat pages or finding out who sent what to who. 95 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,000 We're a part of the world's health centre, so we're going to take a look at a client from the outside of the machine, 96 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:38,000 who sends the information to them and then they'll be able to get them from the outside of the machine. 97 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 So they'll come and get the information. 98 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 And this is what we're going to take to the future, and they'll be able to get the information from the outside of the machine. 99 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:54,000 He's a QR queue, the track record of being the hardest ISP you can find in the world. 100 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:00,000 There's just no one else that bothers less about lawyers harassing them about content they are hosting. 101 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:07,000 And it's just the attitude that let's say works very well with what WikiLeaks was set out to do. 102 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 How are the one and start a half? 103 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:20,000 One reason why WikiLeaks need PRQ is that their operations are protected by Sweden's strict freedom of expression laws, 104 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,000 laws which PRQ exploit to the foe. 105 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:31,000 We accept all things, all things from the public, from the public, in its sense-block. 106 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:36,000 So accept the precise all things, and also to the overall, or to the cast, the camera, I have it. 107 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 So we don't know if we're going to be able to do anything. 108 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 It's an information bomb, some sort of a matter. We're standing for them to come and come and come and come and let's go. 109 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:50,000 And for the opening of this information, we can stop them from coming and coming and come and come and come and come and come and let's go. 110 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 And we aren't talking about any old information. 111 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:05,000 It's from these servers at PRQ that WikiLeaks has, for example, made public a manual from the United States Guantanau-Webe detention center. 112 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:16,000 A military manual leaked on the internet is revealing details of the way terrorist suspects are being treated at the US Naval Base at Guantanau-Webe in Cuba. 113 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:23,000 It tells of the use of solitary confinement and humiliation to break down the detainees mentally. 114 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Human rights groups have for years been asking the US administration for access to this manual. 115 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:39,000 If you censor, important material is type, we're not just going to criticize you. 116 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We're going to take the material that you tried to censor, and we're going to spray it all over the world, and we're going to stick it in our archives and wait us, never going to disappear. 117 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 And encourage everyone to get copies of it. 118 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 WikiLeaks battle against censorship knows no geographical frontiers. 119 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:12,000 The next step is to publish an internal report commissioned by the multinational trading company, Trafigura, who are alleged to have dumped toxic waste in the Ivory Coast that caused tens of thousands of people to seek medical care. 120 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:17,000 The Guardian newspaper was going to produce a big story on this. 121 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:35,000 And as a result, they were gagged. The company obtained a secret order in court to gag all press in UK from reporting anything related to the content of that report and the fact they had been gagged. 122 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:49,000 In the US, hackers discover that the Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin is apparently bypassing US transparency laws by using a private email account to conduct government business. 123 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 WikiLeaks publishes her messages. 124 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,000 After just two years, the sites made public over a million secret documents. 125 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 But WikiLeaks as an organization continues to be largely shrouded in secrecy. 126 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Only Julian Assange and Daniel Domsheit Berry, appearing public, the latter under the pseudonym Schmidt. 127 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Okay, hello everybody. My name is Daniel Schmidt, this is Julian Assange. 128 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,000 We're here to make a short presentation about the WikiLeaks project. 129 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 According to the National, which is something that we are kind of proud of. 130 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 It's one of the last quotes we had. 131 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:33,000 So the National has said that we have produced more scoops in our short existence than the Washington Post in the last 30 years. 132 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Um, the publication activities soon lead to counterattacks. 133 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:53,000 When WikiLeaks release lists of censored websites, internet service providers in a number of countries including Thailand, China and Iran shut them down. 134 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:02,000 The more sensitive the material they publish, the more often WikiLeaks become the object of lawsuits and threats. 135 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:14,000 WikiLeaks now tracks the attention of the US intelligence, who in a classified report claimed that the site is a threat to national security and suggest ways of shutting it down. 136 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Priority is put on finding the individuals leaking the information. 137 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:26,000 The US intelligence, however, only managed to keep the report secret a short while before it's leaked to WikiLeaks. 138 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:33,000 It now becomes obvious that WikiLeaks need to find more and safer havens from which they can publish their information. 139 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:44,000 A sequence of events now starts on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic, which while it leads to more censorship efforts will also create new opportunities for WikiLeaks. 140 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:50,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 141 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 142 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 143 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 144 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 145 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 The US intelligence has been a threat to the US intelligence. 146 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:20,000 WikiLeaks obtained material that show how Iceland's catastrophic bank collapses were partly due to colonialism or favoritism, carelessness and secretiveness. 147 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:25,000 When this highly detailed document is put out on the net, the bank launches a counterattack. 148 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Well, the first time I've heard of WikiLeaks was in the beginning of August 2009. 149 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 I was working as a reporter for this detailed exhibition. 150 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:45,000 When I got a tip that this website had an important document just posted online. 151 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:54,000 The document was the high exposure loan book for the failed counting back. 152 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 It was essentially all of the regulators had been there, 153 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 and they had been there, and they had been there. 154 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:07,000 All of the bankers had been lying about the actual state of affairs. 155 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 The bank's management react in panic to the revelations, 156 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,000 and in a desperate move forced the Icelandic judiciary to resort to extreme measures. 157 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,000 I was the first one actually to break that story. 158 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 But the bank reacted in a manner that was quite interesting. 159 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Got what? No, I have just 30, 30 years ago, I was at the August 17th, 25th, I think. 160 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:53,000 They got a gag order on the state television, actually the first and only one in the history of the Icelandic state television news department. 161 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:01,000 At lid get an al-Qaustel, we have seen the WikiLeaks. 162 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:08,000 The leak lays bare the disastrous effects of the chronism inherent in Iceland. 163 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:16,000 We had failed as a country because we had not been sharing the information that we needed. 164 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 We were in the middle of an information famine. 165 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:29,000 That sort of eventually let the WikiLeaks people hear. 166 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And then when they were here, we just went, okay, is there anything you want us to do? 167 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Obviously there was. 168 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Welcome to this program. 169 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Thank you. 170 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Yes. You mentioned to me the dream that we are in Iceland which would become a vanguard of publishing freedom. 171 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Absolutely. Absolutely. 172 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And they were presenting this idea which they called Switzerland of Bites, which was basically to take the tax haven model. 173 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And a transformated into the transparency haven model. 174 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Why doesn't Iceland become the centre for publishing in the world? 175 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Because it's going to be cool. 176 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Julian and I were just throwing that idea out, just declaring on national television that we thought this would be the next business model. 177 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Next business model for Iceland. So that felt pretty weird. 178 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Then realizing the next day that everyone wanted to talk about it. 179 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Iceland has seen some of the problems that happened when society becomes too secret. 180 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:50,000 We clearly gave us the nudges that we needed. 181 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 We had had this idea but we didn't know what to do with it. 182 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000 And they came and told us and that is an incredibly valuable thing. 183 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:08,000 WikiLeaks now team up with Icelandic activists and parliamentarians and together draw up a proposal that would transform Iceland into a haven for journalism. 184 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Her roots and I and Piddachary on-stottage and Rob Conchrype and Julian Sange, 185 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:22,000 the five of us sat in a hotel room for about four or five hours and wrote the entire proposal from scratch. 186 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,000 The proposal is adopted unanimously by Iceland's parliament. 187 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Just getting a bill accepted in the parliament is nearly impossible. 188 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:52,000 And this is actually very, this is a huge victory for the parliament to have a proposal of this nature has through the parliament with everybody saying yes. 189 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,000 It's also a victory for WikiLeaks who are now not only using disclosures as a weapon but also directly influencing freedom of expression laws. 190 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:10,000 The entire hacker world behind WikiLeaks is growing increasingly confident that their visions will lead to an improved society. 191 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Well, I think people that are dealing with systems and technologically oriented people are dealing with systems they understand systems pretty well. 192 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 And if you look at society that's just yet another system. 193 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:37,000 The people involved with WikiLeaks are exactly the same as me and the other people who are fighting this fight and that they are information activists first and foremost. 194 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:49,000 They believe in the power of information and power of knowledge and the importance of allowing everybody to have both laws. 195 00:22:51,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Perhaps it's similar convictions that prompt a young former American hacker to make one of the most crucial decisions of his life. 196 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Bradley Manning serving as an intelligent analyst with a US Army in Iraq early 2010 has just like millions of other Americans in the military or civil service access to a massive database of classified information. 197 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:24,000 He discovers indications of crime and corruption and tells another hacker Adrian Leemo about it. 198 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Manning writes that he sent hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic reports to WikiLeaks the biggest leak ever. 199 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Manning puts his faith in WikiLeaks. 200 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 However, Leemo reports their chat to the military, 201 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Manning now risks a 52-year jail sentence. 202 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Many the facts are still unclear. 203 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:41,000 One thing is certain, at this point in time, WikiLeaks receive documents with the same material that Manning is charged of having leaked. 204 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:50,000 We make a commitment to our sources that we will represent their material to the public, to the best of our ability. 205 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:56,000 And achieve maximum political impact for the rest of the day. 206 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:07,000 WikiLeaks are in possession of explosive material, two big in fact for them to handle alone, a search decides to stake all of his resources in one move. 207 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:21,000 We were seeing a cafe in Reykjavik and he basically was flipped over his laptop and told me, well, you gotta see something very interesting. 208 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I was quite shocked. This was instant, something that I recognized that instantly as extremely important and strong material. 209 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,000 This is what the crew of an American attack helicopter see while out on patrol in Baghdad. 210 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,000 There's a group of men on the street below. 211 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Two of them work for the international news agency Reuters. 212 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:59,000 The driver, Saeed, Shma, and a cameraman, Namir Nuhel Dian. 213 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:08,000 What annoys me the most is when people abuse their power and harm in a sense, and they didn't actually need to do it. 214 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:23,000 We have no personal issue for our position. 215 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:35,000 For me, personally, somebody that had spent so much effort into trying to stop this war, that at least, if this would be shown to people, 216 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:42,000 it might give people enough motivation to try to stop the next one. 217 00:26:47,000 --> 00:27:04,000 It shocked me with the video, how the high resolution, the quality of the excessive use of force to shoot people with hollow 30mm bullets that are designed to penetrate the armored vehicles and tanks. 218 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,000 It's basically shot to pieces. 219 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:42,000 The most important thing is to have a good time with the enemy. 220 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Different people argue that it was right for the United States to be in Iraq, or wrong to be in Iraq, but nonetheless, in this incident. 221 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Even if you argue that it was right for the United States to be in Iraq, even if it was right for them to be, and that suburb at that time, 222 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,000 without helicopter, overlooking its wounded man calling the street. 223 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,000 It was not helpful for the United States for that wounded-calling man to be shot. 224 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 The Reuters employee, Saeed Schmacht, has been seriously wounded. 225 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:37,000 It's been a very important thing to offer a voice to the voice. 226 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Nobody really believes the people on the ground when they're trying to tell what the war crimes are occurring, 227 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000 and that happened to the people there. 228 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000 So I offered to help with this in any which way possible. 229 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:18,000 A father driving its children to school catches sight of the injured man and stops to help him. 230 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:24,000 The first man to set the gun. 231 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 The last we have up the flag. 232 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,000 The two of our Hongo trucks picking up the bomb. 233 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 The request is to engage. 234 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,000 The first man to set the gun. 235 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000 The second man to set the gun. 236 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,000 The second man to set the gun. 237 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000 The second man to set the gun. 238 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 The second man to set the gun. 239 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 The second man to set the gun. 240 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,000 The second man to set the gun. 241 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,000 The second man to set the gun. 242 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000 The second man to set the gun. 243 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000 The second man to set the gun. 244 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000 The second man to set the gun. 245 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 The second man to set the gun. 246 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,000 The second man to set the gun. 247 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000 The second man to set the gun. 248 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000 The second man to set the gun. 249 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000 The second man to set the gun. 250 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000 The second man to set the gun. 251 00:29:55,000 --> 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second man to set the gun. 268 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000 After a kill. 269 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,000 String. 270 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,000 How many people like you? 271 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000 Go back to base and go ahead. 272 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Kill 13 today. 273 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Oh yeah, look at that. 274 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Right into the windshield. 275 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Ah. 276 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000 I said it. 277 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,000 I said it. 278 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,000 I said it. 279 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,000 280 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,000 I said it. 281 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:27,000 282 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I said it. 283 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 I said it. 284 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:29,000 285 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 I said it. 286 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,000 I said it. 287 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,000 I said it. 288 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I said it. 289 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,000 I said it. 290 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:34,000 291 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,000 I said it. 292 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000 I said it. 293 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000 I said it. 294 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000 I said it. 295 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:38,000 296 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 I said it. 297 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 298 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 299 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 300 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 301 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 302 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:39,000 303 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000 When the ground troops arrived, 304 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 they see that they're children in the car. 305 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 Asterfall for right there can be no battle. 306 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Never. 307 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,000 After viewing the video hundreds of times. 308 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,000 It became almost an obsession to get the identity of the people. 309 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 When you the identity of Namiya Noudildin 310 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000 and the side smile, the writers and employees. 311 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,000 But for me it was important to establish the identity of the other people. 312 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Especially the children and the many of them. 313 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,000 We decided that it was worthwhile to go there and interview them. 314 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 It turns out that the children survived the attack. 315 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,000 There are fencing, flight to Baghdad in search of more facts. 316 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 The people of Baghdad are the only people who are in the world. 317 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 318 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 319 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 320 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 321 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 322 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 323 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 324 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 325 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 326 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 327 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 328 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 329 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 330 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000 They are the only people who are in the world. 331 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 I think we are fairly good failures. 332 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:14,000 I was very well from a young master point of view that the reason why many of us were there was basically a coincidence that he had the drugstumb 333 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000 from the scene that he was trying to escape the kids to a tutorial. 334 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000 The reason was that he was not a child. 335 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000 He was a child. 336 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000 He was a child. 337 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000 He was a child. 338 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 He was a child. 339 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000 He was a child. 340 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,000 He was a child. 341 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000 He was a child. 342 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 He was a child. 343 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000 He was a child. 344 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 He was a child. 345 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000 On the 5th of April 2010, 346 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000 WikiLeaks publishes the collateral murder film. 347 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000 The impact is no less than extraordinary. 348 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:50,000 The disturbing footage of parents showing civilians being killed by the US military in Iraq. 349 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,000 It was leaked from within the defense community to a website. 350 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,000 It was on site in WikiLeaks, which is a controversial video. 351 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 WikiLeaks has a very active and new media landscape. 352 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000 And we are aware that this is a... 353 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 By putting all the resources into the helicopter video, 354 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:12,000 WikiLeaks have managed to attract the attention of some of the biggest players in the news business. 355 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:18,000 This is precisely what a sound needs to help him handle the rest of the leaked US material. 356 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,000 I had been looking at this release and starting at an understanding how to come up. 357 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,000 With a way to deal with such a tremendously large volume of material, 358 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:35,000 the wood actually is not simply drowned in anyone organization. 359 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000 A sound proceeds to contact the New York Times, the Guardian and Deshbegel. 360 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:50,000 He manages to persuade the chief editors of these globally respected papers to publish his material in a coordinated fashion with a sound pulling the strings. 361 00:33:51,000 --> 00:34:09,000 What is new is us enforcing cooperation between competitive organizations that would otherwise be rivals to do the best by the story as opposed to simply just doing the best by their own organization. 362 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:16,000 In late July 2010, the Afghanistan reports are published at the same time and day. 363 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:23,000 And of military historians and stars staying from our homes, let get a bit of a start of Gary Ackl. 364 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:31,000 One of the biggest leaks in US military history has exposed several cover-ups over the war in Afghanistan. 365 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:37,000 The real story of this material is that it's war. It's one damn thing after another. 366 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,000 The publication of the material is met with praise as well as strong criticism. 367 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:56,000 The Defense Department demands that WikiLeaks return immediately to the US government, all versions of documents obtained directly or indirectly, from the Department of Defense databases or records. 368 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,000 For the first time WikiLeaks are now facing criticism that they're fine hard to respond to. 369 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:07,000 The material includes the names of civilian Afghanis putting them at risk of being targeted by the Taliban. 370 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:14,000 The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous. 371 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Mr. Sange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing. 372 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:29,000 But the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family. 373 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Releasing classified material can be very risky, but a Sange says that the end justifies the means. 374 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:47,000 We would have had to release always material without separating out any of it, or release none. 375 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:58,000 The value, the extraordinary value of this historic record to the progress of that war, and it's potential to save lives outways. 376 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000 The danger to innocence. 377 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000 WikiLeaks now takes steps to avoid making the same mistake again. 378 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:12,000 The next publication 400,000 military reports from the Iraq War are painstakingly edited and names removed. 379 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,000 They also start reinforcing their network of experienced journalists. 380 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,000 The first publication of the American War is the first one. 381 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465 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 466 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 467 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 468 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 469 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 470 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 471 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 The third publication of the American War is the second one. 472 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:07,000 They're not spun by a military spin doctor talking in a air-conditioned conference room in the green zone. 473 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:15,000 This is visceral, unequivocal death written in raw detail. 474 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000 109,000 lives last over the course of these reports. 475 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000 We're all dealing with what we can in something so huge that people can and hopefully 476 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 will study this state for years. 477 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 This is worth telling, this is worth going out there. 478 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:39,000 The lack of respect for human life runs like a common thread through the material. 479 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:47,000 These images are of a helicopter crew of just received orders to bomb a building where three 480 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000 enemy soldiers are thought to be hiding. 481 00:40:49,000 --> 00:41:01,000 A passerby suddenly turns up. 482 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 But the crew don't wait. 483 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:15,000 The crew could have waited until the man had passed. 484 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,000 This is perhaps a measure of how human life was valued in Baghdad. 485 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Private cars being pursued by an attack helicopter. 486 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:41,000 The driver gets out of the car and holds his arms up in a gesture of surrender. 487 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:49,000 The more horrific the discovery the investigators in London make, 488 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000 the more they get the feeling of being threatened. 489 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000 It gradually becomes obvious that someone's watching their office. 490 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000 I do know that I'm being listened into, monitored by forces. 491 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:07,000 I don't know. I've received strange text messages from anonymous sources. 492 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000 I've received death threats. I've heard not very nice. 493 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000 But particularly the ones that talked about my children. 494 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000 I just think that was a bit unnecessary. 495 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:21,000 There's op-eds in the Washington Post saying that our personnel should be kidnapped 496 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:27,000 from Europe. Our sources, one-of-litch source, 497 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:33,000 executed, similar statements by right-wing members of the US Congress. 498 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000 Congressman Mike Rogers isn't the only one crying revenge. 499 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000 In Washington, the influential public figure Christian Wighton is agitating for the indictment of 500 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,000 WikiLeaks members, saying they should be treated as terrorists. 501 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,000 It has to be a clear punishment for people who engage in what I would consider a form of 502 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000 espionage, a form of political warfare. 503 00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:01,000 It's not an act of journalism or transparency, but an act of political war against us. 504 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000 The US upsets efforts to stop WikiLeaks. The Payment Service 505 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,000 providers Moneybrokers closed down WikiLeaks account. 506 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,000 American hackers suspected of having links to WikiLeaks are detained, 507 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000 questioned and have their computers confiscated. 508 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000 The end of the day, things involving the web, I think you find our less mysterious and new 509 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,000 than may meet the eye at first. If you just go beyond, I'd say the surface. 510 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:35,000 You'll find telecommunications companies that are hosting the servers, 511 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,000 or hosting the companies that in turn post this information and have made this possible. 512 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,000 You'll find banks that provide banking services to these people. 513 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,000 You'll find landlords who provide rent to the individuals involved. 514 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:53,000 So to that extent, I'm pretty sure you can peel back the onion and find exactly what this 515 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,000 organization is, where it conducts its activities and which jurisdiction it's subject to 516 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:05,000 most directly. However, the stronger the attacks, the greater the support WikiLeaks 517 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000 receive. Julian Assange has been without a fixed address for several years, but wherever he 518 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:15,000 lands, activists are on hand to offer him a place to sleep and their services free of charge. 519 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:21,000 People love the idea of an ounce of control, investigative journalists who 520 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,000 is trying to take on governments. The story of some quasi-romantic, 521 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:31,000 fleet of foot, scarlet, pimping our character in a form of Julian Assange, 522 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:37,000 darting in the cybershadows. It's very appealing. 523 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:49,000 I am very pleased to be amongst so many people I can respect. I don't think I have ever been 524 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:55,000 as an ideal media figure. He's been portrayed as the lone range of the information age. 525 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000 You too. 526 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000 I don't know what the only one, which is something like a pure angel. 527 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 Me? Yes. A few angels. 528 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,000 I just can't answer. 529 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000 Praise and prizes have been poured over WikiLeaks. 530 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Time magazine has included Assange on a short list for the world's most influential man. 531 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000 You should remember salt and it's in words that in the right moment, 532 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,000 one word truth outweighs the world. 533 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:31,000 But all is not quiet on the WikiLeaks front. Assange is aware that the Iraqi material that 534 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,000 shortly to be released will generate even more anger. In August he travels to Sweden. 535 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:43,000 He applies for a residence permit to obtain the protection of the world's most extensive 536 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,000 freedom of the press law. 537 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000 I often talk about speculation, so I can report now of a certain period. 538 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,000 I'm sure you'll have a chance to see the security and the right of the site 539 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,000 to see the big data. 540 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000 This has been the legal release he's becoming even more Swedish. 541 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,000 I hope so. 542 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,000 To start with everything goes well. 543 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:09,000 Julian Assange is welcomed with open arms. He's invited to major political and trade union venues. 544 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,000 And there are calls that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 545 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 Julian Assange has been a big city in Stockholm, and he's been a major head of the 546 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,000 city to support the Japanese government. 547 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000 In the future, the city of Sweden has been a major role in the international 548 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:31,000 country, and has been a major role in the international trade union. 549 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 A couple of days later, the picture changes dramatically. 550 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000 Oh, Clara has now been able to see that in the future, 551 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,000 the church has a unique, unique, unique and unique Julian Assange. 552 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,000 For her, this is Gorkfeld. 553 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,000 We did so far, he's the best student and the best one with the founder, Glyna Thoms. 554 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,000 He's accused of rape and molestation. 555 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,000 On the 20th of August, Assange is accused of rape. 556 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000 The alleged crime is immediately leaked to the world press. 557 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:13,000 Behind the accusation of two women who have had casual relationships with Assange, 558 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,000 the women don't make any public statements. 559 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,000 But the important evening paper after him blotted, 560 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,000 publishes an anonymous interview with one of them, which states that what started as 561 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000 voluntary sex subsequently became what she described as abusive. 562 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,000 But she's not afraid of him, and he's not violent. 563 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:35,000 All right, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and the target of the rape allegations joins me now 564 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000 on the line. Thank you so much for speaking to us, Miss Assange. 565 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,000 What do you think about this? 566 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000 Clearly, it is a smear campaign of some kind. 567 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:47,000 Like I came to Sweden as a refugee, a refugee published, 568 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:57,000 involved with an extraordinary publishing of fight with a pentagon where our people were being detained. 569 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000 It was attempt to prosecute me for espionage. 570 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:09,000 So I'm unhappy and disappointed with how the Swedish justice system 571 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000 has been abused. 572 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:19,000 Assange says he never forced anyone to have sex, and that the judicial system has been misused. 573 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:25,000 He implies that he's a victim of personal revenge and US pressure. 574 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,000 That troubled the lot of us that had worked with the organisation, 575 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,000 the way this case was mixed with WikiLeaks. 576 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,000 The way, of course, there must have been a party at the American embassy in Sweden 577 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,000 when they read these news. 578 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,000 But yes, we don't have to do anything except this to pass this on. 579 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:53,000 But whatever the truth is, a shadow is now being cast not only on his, but also WikiLeaks name. 580 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:01,000 The rape allegations lead to a storm of protest from WikiLeaks. 581 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:09,000 WikiLeaks has become the sensation because the two last big scoops, 582 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,000 and the only scoops that have been actually played into the hands of the mainstream media, 583 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:19,000 are sort of WikiLeaks versus the US or Julian Assan versus the pentagon. 584 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:23,000 This is not what WikiLeaks is about. 585 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,000 It is a side that focuses on all sorts of leaks from all over the world. 586 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,000 It has weakened the organisation. 587 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,000 That is my perception. 588 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:39,000 Too much focused on one person and one person is almost much meeker than an organisation. 589 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:45,000 The difference of opinion began when a sound decided to put all of WikiLeaks resources 590 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:51,000 into the giant American disclosures, and it's now grown into a serious source of discontent regarding 591 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,000 how the organisation should be run. 592 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:03,000 I think the wisest thing to do would have been to do this, slowly step by step, to grow the project. 593 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:11,000 That did not happen. What happened was to pick out the biggest releases to release these, 594 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:19,000 to put all effort, all resources, everything we had into producing these releases. 595 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:23,000 Other voices join in the criticism, some through anonymous media interviews, 596 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,000 and now it's a sound just turn to look for leaks. 597 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,000 This is an extract from a chat between Domicide Berry and Assange. 598 00:50:49,000 --> 00:51:07,000 If you preach transparency to everyone else, you have to be transparent yourself. 599 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,000 You have to fulfill the same standards that you expect from others. 600 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:19,000 And I think that's where we've not been heading into the same direction, philosophically, anymore. 601 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,000 The argument ends with Daniel and several others quitting WikiLeaks. 602 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:30,000 Eventually, this ended with me arguing with Julian about basically his dictatorial behavior, 603 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:39,000 which ended in Julian saying to me that if I had a problem with him, I could just piss off, I quote. 604 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,000 Those who quit the organization build up their own site on the quiet, open leaks, 605 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:51,000 to be run without an authoritarian editor and serve purely as an online distribution service, 606 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,000 helping people deliver material anonymously to the media. 607 00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:04,000 Open leaks is a technology project that is aiming to be a service provider for third parties 608 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,000 that want to be able to accept material from anonymous sources. 609 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:16,000 Well, I'm inclined not to talk too much about the people, the few people that have decided that their interests are not with WikiLeaks anymore. 610 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:25,000 But what I hear is that some of the people are contemplating to open up their own websites with the same ID, 611 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,000 last WikiLeaks. 612 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:33,000 And I think that's an excellent idea and I wish them well. I think it's the more the better. 613 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:41,000 WikiLeaks continues to pursue its set strategy, which leads to massive media reaction when the next part of the material is published. 614 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:50,000 I can't think of any case where a satellite news channel, the BBC Radio World Service, 615 00:52:51,000 --> 00:53:00,000 terrestrial channels and broadcasters and their internet are all going to go at the same time on the sort of thing. 616 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:08,000 This is quite a bit about the truth. 617 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:14,000 There are the secret files from the Iraq Internet platform WikiLeaks. 618 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:21,000 The Air Web Bluts and WikiLeaks on publicity are talking 400,000 seed or Hamlet stampada on the course of the commat. 619 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:27,000 So let me just say with regards to the allegations of not intervening when coming across a detainee of use. 620 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,000 Not true. 621 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:39,000 The Iraq leak hits the headlines around the world. Thanks to a soundgeist strategy, the leak has a huge impact on greatly boosts WikiLeaks resources. 622 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:48,000 Now 40 volunteers are brought in to work more or less full time for the organisation, with another 800 people available for specific tasks. 623 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:53,000 WikiLeaks are well interplanning the release of future disclosures. 624 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:59,000 But first, they're still the final part of the US material to be released. 625 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:06,000 For this latest release, we have chosen a different methodology. We have tried to pull it out over time. 626 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000 Rather than having it, we'll go out in one hit. 627 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:20,000 This time, however, the new material contains disclosures, the consequences of which are far harder to assess than previous releases. 628 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:28,000 Now they're out on the first of two St. Hansenlinger, Mehemlig Amrikorsk, Diplomot Post. 629 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:35,000 The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. 630 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:41,000 In a storm of criticism WikiLeaks are accused of threatening world peace. 631 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:49,000 Are they in their media partners sufficiently competent to gauge the consequences of releasing hundreds of thousands of diplomatic dispatches, 632 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:55,000 covering everything from nuclear reactors in Iran to Saudi Arabian domestic policy? 633 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:01,000 Or is it again a matter of the end justifying the means? 634 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:07,000 For Christian Weiten, things are much simpler than that. 635 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:16,000 I think Mr. Asash is actually waging political warfare, too. He's not using weapons, but he's not using purely soft things either, like words, 636 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:21,000 he's using information wielding information against us, if you will. 637 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,000 That to me is what political warfare is. 638 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,000 By and large, what he leaks is a force for good. 639 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,000 I think you can't just be absolute on this. 640 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:41,000 WikiLeaks is very, very powerful, and I think one has to be cautious of anything that's very, very powerful in a way. 641 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:58,000 WikiLeaks website may disappear again tomorrow, or it may suddenly reappear in a thousand other locations. 642 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:04,000 History is still in the process of being written, and the rape allegations are a long way from being settled. 643 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:11,000 One thing's clear, whatever happens, WikiLeaks have so-nessied, a thought that's impossible to erase. 644 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:18,000 It's about new ways and new channels of disseminating classified information that will have a profound effect on transparency, 645 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,000 not only on the net, but on a broader global dimension. 646 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:33,000 What I really learned in the last three years is that a difference can be made bottom up and not only top down. 647 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,000 Information does not respect borders. 648 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:42,000 States are going to have to rethink how they approach information. 649 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Any state which fails to do this will cease to exist. 650 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:53,000 Well, if we're going to have a military and a defense policy, it's predicated on having information that is controlled. 651 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:58,000 Of course, we're a democracy, one of the most open countries I believe in the history of the world, 652 00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:03,000 but information has to be protected in certain circumstances and denied to the public. 653 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:08,000 Democracy, with transparency, is not democracy and that's just a empty word. 654 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:18,000 Join Jenny Broky as she leads an open discussion to tackle the issue of WikiLeaks on inside. 655 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,000 Tuesday 730 on SBS1.