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Tijana Mihajlović Lukašek Julian, welcome. It's been reported that Wikileaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world's media combined. Can that possibly be true? Yeah, can it possibly be true? It's a worry, isn't it, that the rest of the world's media is doing such a bad job that a little group of activists is able to release more of that type of information than the rest of the world has combined. Picking up the woundaks has made public the most extensive, classified and diplomatic material ever. What they've released is challenging and provoking governments with skeletons in their cupboards all over the world. We should condemn the disclosure of any classified information by individuals and organizations. The people who are in power will not give that power away freely that is just unfortunately a fact of nature the defense department demands that wikileaks return immediately all versions of documents obtained directly or indirectly from the department of defense databases or records it's only now that the true story behind the development of this closed organization is coming to light. But while the world's discussing whether Assange is a rapist or a saint, Wikileaks continue to pursue their own political agenda. Every release that we do of material has a second message, and that is we set examples. If you engage in immoral, in unjust behaviour, it will be found out, it will be revealed, and you will suffer the consequences. What we have here is a new breed of rebel, IT guerrillas without a national base. Student digs, coffee bars and server rooms, these are their command and control centres, spread all over the world, and the battle's already started. The general in charge of 120 defense intelligence agency personnel targeting this institution and its products. To be continued... WikiLeaks have become a global force to be reckoned with in record time. It may not be easy to grasp at first, but the release of classified information is just a small step in a long-term political and ideological battle, and that leaking classified information is a weapon and not a means unto itself. The public has a right to know materials and the historical record has a right to have materials of diplomatic, political, ethical, historical significance. If something is interfering with that process, we will undo it. He's been called the Scarlet Plet pimpernel of the computer age if one were to judge him on 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 wiki leaks 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. As a teenager in Australia he called himself Mendax and got a name for himself as a highly skilled hacker. By the age of 21 he found himself in court pleading guilty to some 20 different charges of hacking. I mean we had a back door in the U.S. military security coordination center. This is the peak security, we're controlling the security of MuleNet, the US military internet. We had total control over this for two years. The US space agency NASA is one of the victims of the Melbourne computer hacking syndicate. American investigators including the FBI contacted Australian authorities with their suspicions. I'll see you next time. Agency NASA is one of the victims of the Melbourne computer hacking syndicate American investigators including the FBI contacted Australian authorities with their suspicions the court was told the men even tampered with the police investigation into hacking at the ANU the judge seeing Assange as just an inquisitive young man find him as symbolic some and released him however the trial added further fuel to Assange his feelings about the importance of unrestricted information. 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. But when one of his customers publishes secret Scientology manuals, This prompts aggressive efforts to censor him. Helen Cobran, one of the lawyers for Scientology in California, I mean, sent many letters trying to attack us and they ended up hiring a private investigator to try and track me down, who did manage to get hold of my silent telephone line and call me up just as a sort of threatening manoeuvre. I ended up tracking down how they did that. Those efforts to censor the site strengthen his conviction that something has to be done against those withholding important information from the public at large. But the problem was.....there needed to be more actions that created positive reform effect, more actions that were just and corrective to injustice. Assange sees disclosures as a preventative instrument. It warns those involved in morally questionable or criminal acts that they'll be found out and will have to face consequences I understood the significance of disclosures for quite some time I mean I registered leaks.org in 1999 in 2006 Assange and 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. His fellow conspirators, comprised of hackers and mathematicians, they're located around the world and communicate via a restricted mailing list. From this platform, they start defining their thoughts of building up a worldwide movement to mass publicize classified information 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 any reform that is large-scale must be based upon information because what else can spread other than viruses? Only information can spread and achieve large-scale reform. Inspired by Wikipedia, Wikileaks distribute the leaked information to anonymous volunteers to check its authenticity and eliminate any traces of the sender's identity. 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. In 2006 we hoped that the general public would write analysis articles, collaboratively, and not at all true. Wikileaks come to the conclusion that media the only channels that have the resources and motivation required to create a real impact in 2007 WikiLeaks in association with the British daily newspaper The Guardian publish evidence a former president Daniel out of my having embezzled massive sums from Kenyan state funds shortly after that they release a report about the Kenyan police's use of death patrols. This disclosure causes a great stir, but as an organization, WikiLeaks continue to remain unknown to the general public. However, the word spreads among activists far and wide on the net, eventually reaching the German Chaos Computer Club, the biggest and oldest club for hackers in the world. 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 the politically engaged chaos computer club has been fighting a long-term battle for free access to information one of its members daniel domscheid berry is quick to recognize the common ground between his view of society and that of wikileaks he quits his job as a computer consultant says to devote all of his time to the new organization. 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? Or do you see society as something where you identify a problem and then you find a creative solution for that problem? So it is a matter of are you a spectator or are you actively participating in society? The Computer Club has put the skills of some of the sharpest hacking talents in the world at WikiLeaks' disposal. What's needed now is a physical haven. Hackers linked to the Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay have what they need. Considerable technical skills in a place where freedom of speech is unusually free. A lot of the countries in today's world do not have really strong laws for the media anymore. But a few countries, like for instance Belgium, also the United States with the First Amendment, first amendment and especially for example sweden have very strong laws protecting the media and the work of investigative or general journalists so from our perspective this is something if there's any if there are any swedes here you have to make sure that your country is really one of the the the the strongholds of freedom of information. Sweden has an enviable, although far from perfect, record in protecting publications. It has a practical record within the past few years of protecting Internet publications against censorship. 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. It started with a tunnel service, that they would tunnel traffic here to be able to bypass certain IP bans that have happened in other countries that donpping either Wikileaks chat pages or finding out who sent what to who. We offer anonymity services, so-called VPN tunnels, where a client from the outside connects to our machines and then downloads the information they want. So if someone tries to track them from the end station, so to speak, where the information comes from, then they will only come to our machines. And from here, we do not release any information about who had the IP number at that time. PRQ, the track record of being... And from here, we don't release any information about who had the IP number at that time. PRQ has a track record of being the hardest ISP you can find in the world. There's just no one else that bothers less about lawyers harassing them about content they are hosting. And it's just the attitude that, let's say, works very well with what Wikileaks was set out to do. One reason why Wikileaks need PRQ is that their operations are protected by Sweden's strict freedom of expression laws, laws which PRQ exploit to the full. And we aren't talking about any old information. It's from these servers at PRQ that Wikileaks has, for example, made public a manual from the United States' Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. A military manual leaked on the Internet is revealing details of the way terror suspects are being treated at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It tells of the use of solitary confinement and humiliation to break down the detainees mentally. Human rights groups have for years been asking the US administration for access to this manual. If you censor important material of this type, we're not just going to criticise you. 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 in a way that's never going to disappear and encourage everyone to get copies of it. WikiLeaks' battle against censorship knows no geographical frontiers. 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 the guardian newspaper was going to produce a big story on this and as a result they were gagged the company obtained a secret order in court to gag all the press in the UK from reporting anything related to the content of that report and the fact that they had been gagged. 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. Wikileaks publishes her messages. After just two years, the site's made public over a million secret documents, but Wikileaks as an organization continues to be largely shrouded in secrecy. Only Only Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berry appear in public, the latter under the pseudonym Schmidt. Okay, hello everybody. My name is Daniel Schmidt, this is Julian Assange. We're here to make a short presentation about the Wikileaks project. According to the National, which is something that we are kind of proud of, it's one of of the last quotes we had so the National has said that we have produced more scoops in our short existence than the Washington Post in the last 30 years their publication activities soon lead to counter-attacks when Wikileaks release lists of censored websites internet service providers in a number of countries including Thailand China and Iran shut them down the more sensitive the material they publish the more often WikiLeaks become the object of lawsuits and threats WikiLeaks now attracts the attention of the U.S. intelligence, who, in a classified report, claim that the site is a threat to national security and suggest ways of shutting it down. Priority is put on finding the individuals leaking the information. The U.S. intelligence, however, only managed to keep the report secret a short while before it's leaked to WikiLeaks. It now becomes obvious that WikiLeaks need to find more and safer havens from which they can publish their information. 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. October came, October 2008, and the Icelandic banking system imploded. It lost 17 eighteenths of its mass over the course of about a week or two. It was essentially one bank per week went bankrupt wikileaks obtain material that show how iceland's catastrophic bank collapses were partly due to cronyism or favoritism carelessness and secretiveness when this highly detailed document is put out on the net, the bank launches a counterattack. Well, the first time I heard of Wikileaks was in the beginning of August 2009. I was working as a reporter for the state television when I got a tip that this website had an important document just posted online the document was the high exposure loan book for the failed counting back it was essentially all of the regulator's had been derelict in her duties all of the bankers had been lying about the actual state of affairs the bank's management react in panic to the revelations and in a desperate move forced the Icelandic judiciary to resort to extreme measures I was the first one actually to to break that story but the bank reacted in a manner that was quite interesting. got a gag order on the state television, actually the first and only one in the history of the Icelandic state television news department. The leak lays bare the disastrous effects of the cronyism inherent in Iceland. We had failed as a country because we had not been sharing the information that we needed. We were in the middle of an information famine. That sort of eventually led to this just... Let's get the WikiLeaks people here and then when they were here we just went hmm okay is there anything you want us to do and obviously there was welcome to this program thank you yes you mentioned to me the dream that we are in iceland we should become a vanguard of publishing freedom absolutely absolutely so we see um and they were presenting this idea which they called sw Bites, which was basically to take the tax haven model and transform it into the transparency haven model. Why doesn't Iceland become the centre for publishing in the world? Because it's going to be... Julian and I, we were just throwing that idea out, just declaring on national television that we thought this would be the next business model for Iceland. So that felt pretty weird. Then realising the next day that everyone wanted to talk about it. Iceland has seen some of the problems that happen when society becomes too secret. Wikileaks gave us the nudge that we needed. We had this idea, but we didn't know what to do with it. And they came and told us, and that is an incredibly valuable thing. Wikileaks now team up with Icelandic activists and parliamentarians and together draw up a proposal that would transform iceland into a haven for journalism herbert's and i and peter and rob conclave and julian sange the five of us sat in this hotel room for about four or five hours and wrote the entire proposal from scratch the proposal is adopted unanimously by Iceland's parliament just getting a bill accepted in the parliament is nearly impossible and this is actually very this is a huge victory for the parliament to have who are now not only using disclosures as a weapon, but also directly influencing freedom of expression laws. The entire hacker world behind Wikileaks is growing increasingly confident that their visions will lead to an improved society well I think people that are dealing with systems and technologically oriented people are dealing with systems they understand systems pretty well and if you look at society that's an just yet system the people involved with wikileaks are are exactly the same as me and and the other people who are fighting this fight in that they are information activists first and foremost they believe in the the power of information and power of knowledge and the importance of allowing everybody to have both of those. Perhaps it's similar convictions that prompt a young former American hacker to make one of the most crucial decisions of his life. Bradley Manning, serving as an intelligent analyst with the U.S. 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. He discovers indications of crime and corruption and tells another hacker, Adrian Lamo, about Thank you for watching. and tells another hacker, Adrian Lamo, about it. Manning writes that he sent hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic reports to WikiLeaks, the biggest leak ever. Manning puts his faith in WikiLeaks. However, Lamo reports their chat to the military. Manning now risks a 52-year jail sentence. Many of the facts are still unclear. One thing is certain, at this point in time, WikiLeaks receive documents with the same material that Manning is charged of having leaked. We make a commitment to our sources that we will represent their material to the public to the best of our ability and achieve maximum political impact for the risks that they take WikiLeaks are in possession of explosive material too big in fact for them to handle alone Assange decides to stake all of his resources in one move we were sitting at a cafe in reykjavik and he basically just flipped over his laptop and told me well you gotta see something very interesting i was quite shocked this was instant so that's something that i recognized instantly as an extremely important and strong material. This is what the crew of an American attack helicopter see while out on patrol in Baghdad. There's a group of men on the street below. Two of them work for the international news agency Reuters. The driver, Saeed Shma, and a cameraman, Namir Nur Eldian. What annoys me the most is when people abuse their power and harm innocence and they didn't actually need to do it hotel 26 is crazy horse 20 we have individuals with weapons request permission roger that we have no personnel east of our position for me, somebody that had spent so much effort in trying to stop this war, that at least if this would be shown to people, that it might give people enough motivation to try to stop the next one. All right, we'll be engaging. Roger, go ahead. I can't get up now because we're behind that it so much shocked me with the video was the how the high resolution the quality of it the excessive use of force to shoot people with hollow 30 millimeter bullets that are designed to penetrate armoured vehicles and tanks, basically shot to pieces. Let me know when you gather or shoot. All right, I'm all up. Come on, fire. Roger. Keep shooting. Keep shooting. Keep shooting. Different people argue that it was right for the United States to be in Iraq, wrong to be in Iraq, but nonetheless, in this incident, 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 in that suburb at that time with a helicopter overlooking his wounded man crawling the street it was not helpful for the United States for that wounded calling man had to be shot The Reuters employee, Saeed Shma, has been seriously wounded. It is very important to offer a voice to the voiceless. Nobody really believes the people on the ground when they're trying to tell what the war crimes are occurring, that happened to the people there so I offered to help with this in any which where possible push master crazy horse we have individuals going to the scene looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons hey we need to stop that so we get down there to uh engage sight of the injured man and stops to help him. This is Bushmaster 7, go ahead. Roger, we have a black Banshoop or Bongo truck picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage. This is Bushmaster 7, roger. This is Bushmaster 7, roger. Engage. 1-8, engage. Clear. Come on. Clear. Clear. Why do it? Well, there's two reasons. One, because it's fun to kill people. If you've been in that environment, removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time it's a video game we get a high score the other is they brag after a kill streak about how many people they kill they go back to base and go hey killed 13 today oh yeah look at that right through through the windshield, haha. Hi, this is Arizona. 5-4-5 individuals in that truck. So I'm down about 12 to 15 feet. When the ground troops arrive, they see that there are children in the car. After viewing the video hundreds of times, it became almost an obsession to get the identity of the people there. We knew the identity of Namir Nureldin and Saeed Sma, the Reuters employees. But for me it was important to establish the identity of the other people there, especially the children in the minivan. We decided that it was worthwhile to go there and interview them. it turns out that the children survived the attack their affinson flies to baghdad in search of more facts he traces the whereabouts of the children and shows the helicopter film to the victim's family i think we're fairly good fairly established very well from a journalistic point of view, that the reason why the minivan was there was basically a coincidence that the driver stumbled up on the scene. He was driving his kid to a tutorial. On the 5th of April 2010, Wikileaks publishes the collateral murder film. The impact is no less than extraordinary. disturbing footage apparently showing civilians being killed by the US military in Iraq it was leaked from within the defense community to a website at the Vapos site and WikiLeaks some the neck controversial a video lawsuit WikiLeaks her callous and mucked factor in the new media landscape by putting all their resources into the helicopter video, WikiLeaks have managed to attract the attention of some of the biggest players in the news business. This is precisely what Assange needs to help him handle the rest of the leaked US material. I had been looking at this release and studying it and understanding how to come up with a way to deal with such a tremendously large volume of material that would actually not simply drown any one organisation. Assange proceeds to contact the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. He manages to persuade the chief editors of these globally respected papers to publish his material in a coordinated fashion with Assange pulling the strings 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 in late July 2010 the Afghanistan reports are published at the same time and day and of military historians the stuff that information slacker becky star carry a corner well one of the biggest leaks in a US military history has exposed several cover-ups over the war in Afghanistan. The real story of this material is that it's war. It's one damn thing after another. The publication of the material is met with praise as well as strong criticism. The Defense Department demands thatikileaks return immediately to the u.s government all versions of documents obtained directly or indirectly from the department of defense databases or records for the first time wikileaks are now facing criticism that they find hard to respond to the material includes the names of civilian Afghanis, putting them at risk of being targeted by the Taliban. The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous. Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family releasing classified material can be very risky but Assange says that the end justifies the means we would have had to have released all this material without separating out any of it, or released none. The value, the extraordinary value of this historic record to the progress of that war and its potential to save lives outweighs the danger to innocents. Wikileaks now take steps to avoid making the same mistake again their next publication 400 000 military reports from the iraq war are painstakingly edited and names removed they also start reinforcing their network of experienced journalists ian overton is editor of the independent, London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who are now going to analyse the material and produce their own documentaries. There's a frantic rush of getting the best people we could on board, and we drew up a team of 25 people over a weekend, and my my phone went red hot calling people it was um saturday night in the middle of august and about sort of five or six of us at the bureau met with julian about an hour later i ended up sort of leaving the place with a usb stick full of 400 000 and classified military documents. The material is essentially an encyclopaedia of this war, with reports issued day by day, hour by hour, corpse by corpse. Absolutely unfiltered, these are the reports written by people on the ground straight afterwards. It's kind of the day-to-day war through their eyes. And that's new. We haven't been able to do that before, ever, really. The material tells of tens of thousands of civilian casualties, figures that the USs have withheld to date and the widespread practice of torture that the u.s said they'd put a stop to is still being practiced by the iraqi allies i think there are stories that cause you, you know, to be filled with grief. Some are incredibly harrowing, I mean you do have children tortured to death or shot in front of parents and it's not material you can read and not be affected by. When was reading the reports you read a young american soldier writing in a very very bureaucratic anodyne sterile way about a father who's driving his children to back home and he's going too fast and they opened fire at the car and the father fearing that his children will be hit caused all his children to lie on the floor all of the children are killed three children and the way it's written up is it's called an escalation of force i know it's not an escalation force it's a killing it's you know it's horrific This is anything truly new in war. War is hell. Awful things happen. And what these logs tell us is that war is hell. They don't hide from the truth. They're not spun by a military spin doctor talking in an air-conditioned conference room in the Green Zone. This is visceral, unequivocal death written in raw detail. 109,000 lives lost over the course of these reports. We're all doing what we can in something so huge that people can and hopefully will study this data for years. This is worth telling, this is worth getting out there. The lack of respect for human life runs like a common thread through the material. These images are of a helicopter crew who have just received orders to bomb a building where three enemy soldiers are thought to be hiding. A passer-by suddenly turns up. But the crew don't wait. The crew could have waited until the man had passed. This is perhaps a measure of how human life was valued in Baghdad. Private cars being pursued by an attack helicopter. The driver gets out of the car and holds his arms up in a gesture of surrender. The more horrific the discovery the investigators in london make the more they get the feeling of being threatened it gradually becomes obvious that someone's watching their office i do know that i'm being listened into and monitored by forces i don't know i've received strange text messages from anonymous sources I've received death threats and they're not very nice okay and particularly the one that talked about my children I just think that was a bit unnecessary as op-eds in the Washington Post saying that our personnel should be kidnapped from Europe. Our sources, one alleged source, executed similar statements by right-wing members of the US Congress. In Washington, the influential public figure Christian Whiten is agitating for the indictment of WikiLeaks members, saying they should be treated as terrorists. There also has to be a clear punishment for people who engage in what I would consider a form of espionage, a form of political warfare. It's not an act of journalism or transparency, but an act of political war against us. The US ups its efforts to stop WikiLeaks. The payment service provider's money brokers close down Wikileaks' account. American hackers suspected of having links to Wikileaks are detained, questioned, and have their computers confiscated. At the end of the day, things involving the web, I think you find, are less mysterious and new than may meet the eye at first. If you just go I'd say the surface you'll find telecommunications companies that are hosting the servers or hosting the companies that in turn post this information and have made this possible you'll find banks that provide banking services to these people you'll find landlords who provide rent to the individuals involved so to that extent I'm pretty sure you can peel back the onion and find exactly what this organization is where it conducts its activities and which jurisdiction it's subject to most directly however the stronger the attacks the greater the support WikiLeaks receive Julian Assange has been without a fixed address for several years, but wherever he lands, activists are on hand to offer him a place to sleep and their services free of charge. People love the idea of an out-of-control investigative journalist who's trying to take on governments. The story of some quasi-romantic, fleet-of-foot, scarlet-pimpernel character in the form of Julian Assange, darting in the cyber shadows, it's very appealing. I am very pleased to be amongst so many people I can respect. I don't think I have ever... Assange is an ideal media figure. He's been portrayed as the lone ranger of the information age. Who to? Arne. You are the only one which is sounding like a pure angel. Me? A pure angel? That's just the head. Praise and prizes have been poured over Wikileaks. Time magazine has included Assange on a short list for the world's most influential man. You should remember Solzhenitsyn's words that in the right moment, one word of truth outweighs the world. But all is not quiet on the Wikileaks front. Assange is aware that the Iraqi material that shortly to be released will generate even more anger in August he travels to Sweden he applies for a residence permit to obtain the protection of the world's most extensive freedom of the press law And tonight, after days of speculation, is becoming even more Swedish? I hope so. To start with, everything goes well. Julian Assange is welcomed with open arms he's invited to major political and trade union venues and there are calls that he should be awarded the nobel peace Julian Assange makes a quick visit to Stockholm and when the Swedish media get to hear about the visit, the phones start to get hot. No one wants to miss the man behind the page who has made more revelaks founder Julian Assange was arrested last night. Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He is accused of rape and molestation. On the 20th of August, Assange is accused of rape. The alleged crime is immediately leaked to the world press. Behind the accusation are two women who had casual relationships with Assange. The women don't make any public statements, but the important evening paper Aftonbladet publishes an anonymous interview with one of them, which states that what started as voluntary sex subsequently became what she described as abusive. But she's not afraid of him,'s not violent all right Julian Assange the WikiLeaks founder and the target of the rape allegations joins me now on the line thank you so much for speaking to us mr. Assange what do you think about this clearly clearly it is a smear campaign of some kind like I came to Sweden as a a refugee, a refugee publisher involved with an extraordinary publishing fight with the Pentagon where our people were being detained. There was an attempt to prosecute me for espionage. So I'm unhappy and disappointed with how the Swedish justice system has been abused. Assange says he never forced anyone to have sex and that the judicial system has been misused. He implies that he's a victim of personal revenge and US pressure. That troubled a lot of us that had worked with the organization the way this case was mixed with WikiLeaks the way of course there must have been a party at the American Embassy in Sweden when they read these news like yes we don't have to do anything except just to pass this on but whatever the the truth is, a shadow has now been cast not only on his but also WikiLeaks' name. The rape allegations lead to a storm of protests from WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has become the sensation because the two last big scoops and the only scoops that have been actually played into the hands of the mainstream media are sort of Wikileaks versus the US or Julian Assange versus the Pentagon. This is not what Wikileaks is about. It is a site that focuses on all sorts of leaks from all over the world. It has weakened the organization. That is my perception. Too much focused on one person, and one person is always much weaker than an organization. The difference of opinion began when Assange decided to put all of Wikileaks' resources into the giant American discloslosures and it's now grown into a serious source of discontent regarding how the organization should be run i think the wisest thing to do would have been to to do this slowly step by step to grow the project that did not happen what happened was to pick out the biggest releases to release these to put all effort all resources everything we had into producing these releases other voices join in the criticism some through anonymous media interviews and now it's Assange's turn to look for leaks. This is an extract from a chat between Domscheit-Berry and Assange. if you preach transparency to everyone else you have to be transparent yourself You have to fulfill the same standards that you expect from others. And I think that's where we've not been heading into the same direction philosophically anymore. The argument ends with Daniel and several others quitting Wikileaks. Eventually this ended with me arguing with Julian about basically his dictatorial behavior which ended in Julian saying to me that if I had a problem with him I could just piss off I wrote those who quit the organization build up their own site on the quiet open leaks to be run without an authoritarian editor and serve purely as an online distribution service helping people deliver material anonymously to the media open leaks is a technology project that is aiming to be a service provider for third parties that want to be able to accept material from anonymous sources well I'm inclined not to talk too much about the people the few people that have decided that their interests are not with the Wikileaks anymore but what I hear is that some of the people are contemplating to open up their own website with with the same ideal as Wikileaks and and I think it's an excellent idea, and I wish them well. I think the more the better. Wikileaks continues to pursue its set strategy, which leads to massive media reaction when the next part of the material is published. I can't think of any case where a satellite news channel, the BBC Radio World Service, terrestrial channels and broadcasters and the internet are all going to go at the same time on Astora. This disclosure is about the truth. They're the secret files from the Iraq war. Internet platform Wikileaks... Let me just say, with regards to the allegations of not intervening when coming across detainee abuse, Not true. The Iraq leak hits the headlines around the world. Thanks to Assange's strategy, the leak has a huge impact and greatly boosts Wikileaks' resources. Now 40 volunteers are brought in to work more or less full-time for the organisation, with another 800 people available for specific specific tasks Wikileaks are well into planning the release of future disclosures but first there's still the final part of the u.s. material to be released for this latest release we have chosen a different methodology we have tried to pull it out over time rather than having it all go out in one hit this time however the new material contains disclosures the consequences of which are far harder to assess than previous releases now they are out the first of thousands of actions with a thousands of diplomatic dispatches covering everything from nuclear reactors in Iran to Saudi Arabian domestic policy? Or is it again a matter of the end justifying the means? For Christian Whiten, things are much simpler than that. I think think Mr Assange is actually waging political warfare too. He's not using weapons, but he's not using purely soft things either, like words. He's using information, wielding information against us, if you will. That, to me, is what political warfare is. By and large, Wikileaks is a force for good I think you can't just be absolute on this Wikileaks is very very powerful and I think one has to be cautious of anything that's very very powerful I'll see you next time. WikiLeaks' website may disappear again tomorrow, or it may suddenly reappear in a thousand other locations. History is still in the process of being written, and the rape allegations are a long way from being settled. One thing's clear. Whatever happens, WikiLeaks have sown a seed, a thought that's impossible to erase. It's about new ways and new channels of disseminating classified information that'll have a profound effect on transparency, not only on the net, but in a broader global dimension. What I really learned in the last three years is that a difference can be made bottom up and not only top down. Information does not respect borders. States are going to have to rethink how they approach information. Any state which fails to do this will cease to exist. exist well you know if we're going gonna have a military and a defense policy it's predicated on on having information that is controlled of course we're a democracy we're one of the most open countries I believe in the history of the world but information has to be protected in certain circumstances and denied to the public democracy without Transparency is no democracy, democracy i mean it's just an empty word you