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No worries.
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British police got him into the embassy
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and arrested Julian.
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[Music]
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This is one example of many, many
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acts of persecution,
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deliberate torture. Joanne
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Then I felt there was danger.
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[Music]
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I'm all right. I'm here with you. With a
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concern for us, Julian's family and
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friends is that Julian's not here with
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us.
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[Music]
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many many millions of people have
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benefited immensely from the
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publications of Wikileaks in June.
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If you just want to take one example is
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the uh Katron murder. I don't know if
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that's
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what the helicopter pilots and the
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gunner murder these people.
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This is a war crime and yet Julian has
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to be extradited for reporting a war
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crime.
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It's a vindictive persecution which is
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an attack on press freedom worldwide.
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Right. And uh it should be fought by all
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means.
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[Music]
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The story of Wikileaks begins in the
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middle of the war in Iraq. A handful of
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hackers and a few journalists. They
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quickly made the US military's worst
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nightmare a reality by revealing a
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classified video to the world.
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When I first saw it, actually it didn't
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have that much impact on me.
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cuz I didn't know where it was, when it
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was, what was the circumstances, who
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were these people, etc. It was only by
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following the path through the thing and
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seeing how relaxed and sort of innocent
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most of the people were in the video
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that the carnage then became uh so
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outrageous.
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The video is complex. To better decipher
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it, the founder of Wikileaks and his
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team moved to Rekuik, the capital of
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Iceland. They rent a discrete house they
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call the bunker.
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[Music]
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It's July 2007. An Apache helicopter
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flies over a neighborhood in Baghdad.
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The onboard camera spots a group of
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Iraqis on the ground. Two of them are
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carrying weapons. The pilot in radio
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contact with his base requests
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permission to fire.
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Hotel
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to six individuals with AK-47s
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request permission to engage.
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Once I started discovering more and more
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detail, this is when it became more
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emotional. So to understand that yes,
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this person was a journalist from
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Reuters and this was a a driver uh from
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Reuters.
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Among the victims, Wikileaks identifies
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Sed Shama, a Reuters's assistant driver
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and photographer, Namir Nor Eld.
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The helicopter pilot obviously sees
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Namir and Sas as insurgent and instantly
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decides that the cameras are are
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weapons.
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All right, we got guy with an RPG.
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But this is what death sent basically
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for those guys.
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A few minutes later, the nature of the
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incident changes. The mission becomes a
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war crime. A black van approaches to
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assist the wounded. Inside, there are no
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combatants, just two men with two
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children. The pilot makes up an imminent
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threat and requests permission to fire
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again.
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Bushmaster 7. Roger. This is Bushmaster
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7. Roger. Engage.
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Come on.
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Clear.
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Clear.
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Coming around. Clear.
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Roger. Trying to
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Oh yeah. Look at that. right through the
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windshield.
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[Music]
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On the ground, corpses everywhere. The
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helicopter then captures on film the
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arrival of a group of soldiers. Among
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them, Ethan McCord.
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This is me here.
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I was one of about six who were
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dismounted at the time um running up
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onto the scene. I had never seen
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anything like that before. I saw on the
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corner um what appeared to have been uh
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three men. Um and they were completely
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destroyed by the 30 mm rounds. It almost
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to me didn't seem real. It it kind of
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seemed like something that you would see
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out of a bad horror movie.
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The soldier realizes the severity of the
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incident as he approaches the van. He
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locates two wounded people. a
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four-year-old girl and a 10-year-old
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boy.
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[Music]
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I originally thought that the boy was
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was deceased
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um cuz of the he had a wound to the
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right side of his head and he wasn't
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moving. Um and when I went back out to
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the van, um he made like a labored
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breath movement and um that's when I
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started screaming that the boy's alive,
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the boy's alive. And uh I grabbed him,
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started running up to the Bradley, which
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is now
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radio.
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At this point, he looks up at me and I
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looked down at him. Um and I told him,
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"It's going to be okay. I have you.
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Don't worry. It's going to be okay." Um
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and his eyes rolled back into his head.
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And at that point, I thought that he
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possibly had just died in my arms.
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[Music]
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After this day, I couldn't justify what
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I was doing in Iraq anymore.
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I became um very angry with the war, the
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death and destruction of of innocent
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people. That's not what I joined the
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military for.
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On April the 5th, 2010, Wikileaks
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publishes the video online. The public
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discovers the true horror of this war in
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Baghdad. The families of the victims
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learn of what happened.
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[Music]
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The man driving the van died, but the
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boy saved by Ethan McCord survived.
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[Music]
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Huh?
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[Music]
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Well, good afternoon to you. I am Dylan
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Ratigan. Some breaking news this
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afternoon. a shocking graphic video from
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Iraq apparently showing US troops
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gunning down innocent civilians. I
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had just got done dropping my kids off
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at school back in April 2010. Um I went
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home, grabbed a cup of coffee, sat down
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on the couch, and turned on the news and
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uh there I was running across the screen
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of my own television um carrying a
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child. Um I knew immediately what it
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was. Um and it actually felt like a huge
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slap in the face. I had spent so much
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time trying to forget that incident. Um,
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and then here it was being pushed in my
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face again.
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Ethan McCord was demobilized in 2010.
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Since then, he has been an anti-war
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activist.
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[Music]
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The collateral murder release was very
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important. Uh, the video is iconic. It's
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symbolic. It was a stunning testimony of
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a war crime. There was no question about
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it. And people saw for their own eyes
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what the the war entailed.
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[Music]
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Wikileaks explodes on international
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media.
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[Music]
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Many people are now interested in these
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faces.
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Julian Assange and one of the founders
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of the project.
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Wikileaks is financed by contributions
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from private people. $200,000 for
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operational costs. It was built in a way
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that whistleblowers remain anonymous to
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the project itself. So whenever
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something was received, it was not clear
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where it came from. So the whistleblower
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should feel secure in a way that if he
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feels something should be out in the
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public. Um there is not an instance that
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is then judging about his feelings.
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Wikileaks grants total anonymity to all
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its sources. Just one month after the
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video was broadcast, the US Army
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arrested a young soldier not far from
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Baghdad.
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[Music]
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His name Bradley Manning. He spends his
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days filing military documents and is
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suspected of having leaked the video.
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Bradley Manning is a young 22-year-old
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army intelligence specialist only a
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couple of years in the army. He felt
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that there were operations going on. He
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felt that there had been civilian deaths
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and other things about war that the
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American people and that the world
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should know about.
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[Music]
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The question is how was he able to
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download all this information without
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drawing suspicion to himself? So, in
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fact, he told people apparently that
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when he was actually downloading some of
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this sensitive information onto a CD, he
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was actually listening to Lady Gaga. It
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wasn't true at all, but that's what he
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told people. And they said, "Oh, okay.
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That's fine. That now we understand what
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he's why he's spending so so much time,
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why it's taking so long for him to do
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whatever he's doing." With high levels
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of clearance, Bradley Manning downloads
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millions of confidential documents,
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military reports,
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diplomatic cables, strategy memos about
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Iraq and also Afghanistan.
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Bradley Manning first offers his
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documents to the Washington Post and the
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New York Times, who don't respond.
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Then he contacted Wikileaks.
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Alone, the soldier is in a vulnerable
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position. He chats with Adrien Lammo, a
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young hacker, telling him everything.
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Unfazed by the circumstances, Adrien
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Lammo reports Bradley Manning to the
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FBI, a move he explains during a meeting
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with other hackers.
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what I was doing at that time is what I
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do believe um Private First Class
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Manning was doing which is acting one's
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conscience.
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In that case, I felt
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compelled.
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Compelled, I don't believe, is too
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strong a word.
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[Music]
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Bradley Manning is supported by some
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activists. However, it's little compared
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to the firepower of conservative
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commentators.
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for
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watching us tonight. There are traitors
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in America. That is the subject of this
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evening's talking points memo. Whoever
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leaked all those State Department
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documents to the Wikileaks website is a
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traitor and should be executed or put in
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prison for life.
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Whoever in uh our government leaked that
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information, is guilty of treason. And I
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think anything less than execution is
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too kind a penalty.
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Bradley Manning is incarcerated in a
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highsecurity military prison. During his
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trial, the soldier admits to leaking
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documents to alert the public. He is
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convicted of espionage and theft.
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[Music]
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35 years behind bars, that is the
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sentence for this man, Bradley Manning,
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the US soldier convicted of the biggest
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breach of classified data and media.
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The fate of Bradley Manning does not
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prevent Wikileaks from continuing its
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affairs. The site is now associated with
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international press, including the
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Guardian. In the property of the news
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giant, a headquarters is set up to
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analyze over 90,000 documents. This time
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about Afghanistan.
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[Music]
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We set up a secret office on the fourth
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floor of this building that nobody else
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was allowed in. uh and we had this kind
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of little international bunker uh or war
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room
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and essentially what we found were there
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were some 92,000
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documents uh these are incident logs uh
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war reports in Afghanistan and to some
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parts along the Afghan Pakistan border
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and we did a lot of work on going
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through these logs trying to decode them
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a lot of them were written in an almost
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impenetrable military jargon full of
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abbreviations and acronyms
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One of the main uh findings that we came
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up with these documents was that the
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Pakistani military and intelligence
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service, the ISI
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very closely supports the some of the
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Taliban and other insurgent activities
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in Afghanistan as a way of keeping the
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coalition forces off balance.
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Whistleblowing website Wikileaks does it
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again. Last time it was Iraq. This time
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it's Afghanistan.
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The discoveries make the front page of
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the New York Times, the Spiegel, and of
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course the Guardian. By doing so,
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validating the work of Wikileaks.
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[Music]
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So this is the Guardian from this
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morning. Uh 14 pages uh about this
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topic. Uh, also concurrently in the
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Spiegel 17 pages, the real story of this
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material is that it's war. It's one damn
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thing after another.
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Washington is inevitably furious
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groups.
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The United States strongly condemns the
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illegal disclosure of classified
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information.
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In the documents published by Wikileaks,
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there are some names of American army
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collaborators that appear. In
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Afghanistan or Iraq, the military uses
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translators. In the eyes of the
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insurgents, these men are traitors.
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Disclosing their identity puts their
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lives at risk.
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Good afternoon
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at the Pentagon. Wikileaks is denounced
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as a criminal organization.
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The battlefield consequences of the
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release of these documents are
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potentially severe and dangerous.
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Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes
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about the greater good he thinks he and
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his source are doing. But the truth is
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they might already have on their hands
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the blood of some young soldier or that
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of an Afghan family.
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It was of course unfortunate that uh uh
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some names were actually published
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there. But uh it has been overplayed
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quite a bit uh with very dramatic and
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and ridiculous words from Pentagon that
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uh Wikile might have blood on his hand
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and that coming from you know
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organization
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which have you know quite a bit of blood
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on his hands is almost hypocritical
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and as of now I mean there have been no
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reported incidents of of of anyone that
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has been been hurt by this information.
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[Music]
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What do you expect at the end of the day
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with all this material?
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Well, I hope it creates
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disincentives for engaging in immoral
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conduct in war. So, disincentives for
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engaging in war in war crimes uh in
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Iraq, in other places. It gives the
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victims of war in Iraq a sense of
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justice,
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a better understanding of how war goes
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and how war goes wrong.
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Possibly the most valuable thing to come
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out of it.
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Wikileaks is releasing one story after
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another. Afghanistan, Iraq. The media
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world is asking the same question. Who
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is this enigmatic Julian Assange?
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The founder of Wikileaks covers the
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front pages of magazines.
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[Music]
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Julian Assange taking the world by storm
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which has proven to irritate his
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colleagues.
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Julian's approach was to just rush
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things and to blast out those few big
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leaks
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and concentrate only on those leaks.
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Yes. Because they they're what gives you
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most popularity, you know, and that's
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not the approach. I'm not into being
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popular. It was a right approach. if you
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want to build a personality, if you want
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to become, I don't know, Time magazine
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man of the year or something like this,
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but it's not the right approach in
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respect to the ideals of this
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organization.
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Sweden.
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Okay.
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For Asange's colleague, it's a betrayal
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of Wikileaks ideals. The two men clash
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through online conversation, of course.
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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He suspended me for being disloyal and
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insubordinate and stuff like this. So,
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this is some kind of weird military
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terminology that he uses himself to deal
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with people he is working with. Um,
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you felt betrayed? Yes, because I did
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not betray him and I did never ever
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betray Wikileaks.
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Daniel Dmshite Berg leaves Wikileaks in
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2010. Criticized by his friends, Julian
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Assange is hated by his enemies who
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sometimes call for his execution
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publicly.
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The dead man can't leak stuff. This
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guy's a traitor, a treasonist, and and
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illegally shoot the son of a
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Well, I think Assange should be
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assassinated. Actually, I think Obama
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should put out a contract and maybe use
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a drone or something.
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120 people headed up by a general who do
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nothing else but target us. Defense
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Intelligence Agency and FBI uh
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internally called the Wikileaks war
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room. United States at the moment there
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is an attempt to get up an espionage
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prosecution against me and other people.
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The United States um intelligence
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community plus military is what may
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maybe 1.5 million people. So 120 is
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actually not so
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perhaps a bit overconfident of Julian
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Assange. Since 2010, the American
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authorities are in fact seeking to
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arrest him, and an opportunity presents
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itself in Sweden.
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[Music]
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In the summer of 2010, two young women
00:23:45
accuse Julian Assange of having
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consensual but unprotected sex. The
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press takes the case and speaks of a
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suspicion of rape. The judge opens an
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investigation.
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Without proof, the proceedings are first
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cancelled, but it is surprisingly
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revived. Julian Assange accuses
00:24:06
Wikileaks of political maneuvering.
00:24:08
[Music]
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It appears to be highly irregular
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uh and some kind of legal circus
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was clearly a smear campaign and that
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who is behind this we do not know.
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Behind
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closed doors, however, Julian Assange
00:24:31
speaks of a destabilization operation
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aimed at his extradition to the United
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States.
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British police have arrested the founder
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of the Wikileaks website, Julian
00:25:14
Assange. Wikileaks founder has been
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arrested by British police over sexual
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assault claims in Sweden.
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In December 2010, British police issue a
00:25:24
Swedish arrest warrant. In prison in
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London for a week, Julian Assange denies
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all accusations of rape. For a year and
00:25:32
a half, he does everything in his power
00:25:35
to not be handed over to Sweden, which
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is, according to him, the first step of
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his extradition to the United States.
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[Music]
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when all legal remedies were were
00:25:48
exhausted, uh, Julian sought refuge in
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the Ecuadorian embassy and, uh, they
00:25:54
decided that he had a a reasonable fear
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of extradition to United States and uh,
00:26:01
granted him
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safe haven in the Ecuadorian embassy.
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The Assange case mobilized the most
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acclaimed lawyers in the world. among
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them a historical figure of Spanish
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justice, former magistrate Baltazar
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Garzon.
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He coordinates free of charge the
00:26:22
defense of the Wikileaks founder.
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In June 2012, Julian Assange became the
00:27:05
world's most protected political
00:27:07
refugee. barricaded in this Victorian
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house in central London.
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I ask President Obama to do the right
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thing.
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The United States must renounce its
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witch hunt against Wikileaks.
00:27:31
What appeared to be temporary will
00:27:34
continue on for seven long years. Julian
00:27:37
Assange receives many visitors, lawyers,
00:27:40
ministers, journalists, always in the
00:27:43
confines of four walls.
00:27:45
[Music]
00:27:57
Say photo.
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Fore
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exterior.
00:28:53
me
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Julen
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Lavan. Obsessed
00:29:20
with his safety, locked inside, Julian
00:29:24
Assange and his team keep on working. In
00:29:27
2015, new discoveries make the front
00:29:30
page of French papers.
00:29:34
[Music]
00:29:56
In the United States, they are
00:29:59
militarily
00:30:01
occupying what we had previously thought
00:30:03
of as a civilian space.
00:30:06
The essential ingredients of a new
00:30:08
transnational totalitarian dystopia have
00:30:11
been built. The the engine and the
00:30:15
wheels and the chassis have been built
00:30:18
and the key is in the ignition and it's
00:30:20
just imagine a matter now of turning
00:30:22
this on and actually it has been turned
00:30:24
on for some people. Wishaks is an
00:30:26
example of it spreading even to a media
00:30:28
organization.
00:30:30
Julian Assange's obsession the extreme
00:30:33
power of America. the 2016 presidential
00:30:38
campaign will give him the opportunity
00:30:39
to play a leading role. Once again,
00:30:46
ladies and gentlemen, I am officially
00:30:49
running for president of the United
00:30:51
States
00:30:53
and we are going to make our country
00:30:57
great again.
00:30:59
America
00:31:01
can't succeed unless you succeed.
00:31:07
That is why I am running for president
00:31:10
of the United States.
00:31:13
Clinton versus Trump. Their campaigns
00:31:16
promise to be brutal. Opposed to Hillary
00:31:19
Clinton since 2010, Wikileaks has chosen
00:31:23
its side. An internal message sent by
00:31:26
Julian Assange himself, leaving no doubt
00:31:29
about his opinion.
00:31:33
[Music]
00:31:46
What we are drawing attention to is the
00:31:49
uh amazing transformation uh of Hillary
00:31:52
Clinton and the Democratic Party uh into
00:31:55
being uh the National Security Party and
00:31:58
the National Security Candidate in the
00:32:00
American Liberal press uh in falling
00:32:03
over themselves uh to defend Hillary
00:32:05
Clinton are erecting a demon uh that is
00:32:09
going to put nooes around everyone's
00:32:11
necks uh as soon as she wins his
00:32:12
election, which he is almost certainly
00:32:14
going to do.
00:32:17
From spring 2016, tens of thousands of
00:32:21
emails from Hillary Clinton and her
00:32:23
collaborators were published online. But
00:32:25
the most sensitive documents don't come
00:32:27
from Wikileaks. Hillary Hillary Clinton
00:32:30
may have violated federal recordeping
00:32:32
rules.
00:32:41
They are revealed by a socalled Gassifer
00:32:44
2.0. O when Gusifer appears on the web,
00:32:47
Wikileaks partners with the mysterious
00:32:50
source to get more information. On June
00:32:52
the 22nd, 2016, Wikileaks sends him this
00:32:57
private message on Twitter.
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[Music]
00:33:05
New message, the 6th of July.
00:33:21
US investigators claim to have traced
00:33:23
the trail of the hackers behind this
00:33:26
fictitious character, allegedly the
00:33:29
Russian secret service. Could Wikileaks
00:33:32
be complicit in an attempt to
00:33:34
destabilize the situation?
00:33:40
It is a a wrongful depiction. Julian has
00:33:43
stated that the the source of the
00:33:45
information was uh uh neither Russian
00:33:48
nor a state entity. Where the material
00:33:51
came from doesn't change the fact of the
00:33:54
material. I mean you get information and
00:33:57
you analyze the information and you
00:34:00
decide to publish if it's newsworthy.
00:34:03
That is the core of of of journalistic
00:34:06
practice. So
00:34:09
saying that you that that that Wikileaks
00:34:11
or Julian is is some friend of of of of
00:34:13
Russian interests or follows Russian
00:34:15
interest is is is absurd. It doesn't
00:34:18
hold up any scrutiny.
00:34:20
There is one, however, who revels in the
00:34:22
news about Hillary Clinton.
00:34:28
I'll tell you this Wikileaks stuff is
00:34:30
unbelievable. Wikileaks. Wikileaks that
00:34:33
came out on Wikileaks.
00:34:34
Wikileaks. I love Wikileaks.
00:34:40
[Applause]
00:34:44
destabilized, the Democratic candidate
00:34:46
retorts as best she can in a debate with
00:34:49
Donald Trump.
00:34:54
The Kremlin, meaning Putin and the
00:34:56
Russian government are directing
00:35:00
the attacks, the hacking on American
00:35:03
accounts to influence our election and
00:35:07
Wikileaks is part of that as are other
00:35:09
sites.
00:35:11
In November 2016, Donald Trump was
00:35:14
elected president of the United States.
00:35:18
I pledge to every citizen of our land
00:35:21
that I will be president for all
00:35:23
Americans and this is so important to
00:35:27
me.
00:35:28
[Applause]
00:35:30
President Trump did not remain pro-
00:35:33
Wikileaks for too long. In 2017, the
00:35:37
site publishes new findings from the CIA
00:35:40
and consequently his administration's
00:35:43
attitude towards Wikileaks changes
00:35:45
dramatically.
00:35:48
We at SEAF find the celebration of
00:35:50
entities like Wikileaks to be both
00:35:52
perplexing and deeply troubling.
00:35:55
Because while we do our best to quietly
00:35:57
collect information on those who pose
00:35:59
very real threats to our country,
00:36:00
individuals such as Julian Assange seek
00:36:03
to use that information to make a name
00:36:05
for themselves. It's time to call out
00:36:07
Wikileaks for what it really is. A
00:36:09
non-state hostile intelligence service
00:36:11
often abded by state actors like Russia.
00:36:17
[Music]
00:36:18
In France, suspicions have raised that
00:36:21
Wikileaks might have joined forces with
00:36:23
Russia to destabilize the French
00:36:26
presidential elections.
00:36:28
[Music]
00:36:46
[Music]
00:36:53
The end of Emmanuel Macron's campaign at
00:36:55
headquarters. Hands are full, preparing
00:36:58
for the second round of the presidential
00:37:00
election. But a rumor is out. The
00:37:04
inboxes of certain arm marsh
00:37:06
collaborators have been hacked. It's May
00:37:08
the 5th, 2017,
00:37:11
7:30 p.m.
00:37:16
[Music]
00:37:30
rumors Twitter.
00:37:40
[Music]
00:37:52
document.
00:38:03
The emails are posted on a website
00:38:05
called Forchan by an unknown source. One
00:38:10
and a half hours later, Wikileaks
00:38:12
publishes this tweet referring to the
00:38:14
documents. This message makes Macron
00:38:17
leaks the front page of the
00:38:19
international press.
00:38:24
Marsh movement has been the victim of a
00:38:26
massive and coordinated email
00:38:31
now surfacing everywhere online. It
00:38:34
comes just hours before
00:38:36
thousands of emails, but most with
00:38:39
little or no information of interest and
00:38:42
sometimes even fake documents.
00:39:18
No evidence was ever found about
00:39:20
Wikileaks involvement in this operation.
00:39:22
They did not publish anything before
00:39:24
election day and the French police found
00:39:26
nothing on Wikileaks nor formally
00:39:28
identified the hacker. But Russian
00:39:31
hackers are heavily suspected.
00:39:34
As of now, Julian Assange has been
00:39:37
living locked up for 5 years.
00:39:41
[Music]
00:39:43
[Applause]
00:39:47
[Music]
00:39:51
A rare look inside the Ecuadorian
00:39:54
embassy in London.
00:39:55
A private security firm that allegedly
00:39:58
spied on Assange during his asylum in
00:40:00
the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
00:40:01
In surveillance video obtained by
00:40:03
Spanish newspaper El Pais, he's seen in
00:40:06
shorts and a tank top skateboarding.
00:40:09
[Applause]
00:40:13
[Music]
00:40:26
The video
00:40:44
Forever
00:40:54
[Music]
00:41:08
[Music]
00:41:13
Rafael.
00:41:15
President
00:41:16
[Applause]
00:41:19
Lenn Moreno.
00:41:40
presenting
00:41:43
[Music]
00:41:57
Julimo.
00:42:18
Julian Assange is monitored 24 hours a
00:42:21
day. On the job, a small Spanish
00:42:24
security company UC Global
00:42:29
His
00:42:31
[Music]
00:42:38
movements, his conversations, everything
00:42:41
is recorded. Everything is noted and
00:42:44
reported minute by minute. Here the
00:42:47
meeting between the client, Julian
00:42:49
Assange, and his lawyers, including
00:42:52
Baltazar Gazison.
00:42:55
11:20 a.m. The client, his wife Stella,
00:42:58
and his attorney head to the lady's
00:43:00
bathroom for a meeting.
00:43:10
He is the man who manages UC Global,
00:43:13
David Morales, a former marine commander
00:43:16
of the Spanish Army.
00:43:18
[Music]
00:43:22
Absolutely.
00:43:50
North American.
00:44:34
thanks to the information provided by
00:44:36
intelligence services.
00:44:38
The United States now knows details on
00:44:40
Julian Assange's defense strategy to
00:44:42
avoid his extradition.
00:44:50
In 2018, the founder of Wikileaks is
00:44:54
officially accused of espionage.
00:44:56
American pressure on Ecuador is
00:44:58
increasing.
00:44:59
[Music]
00:45:02
Julian Assange becomes a priority
00:45:05
target.
00:45:06
[Music]
00:45:08
On April the 11th, 2019, Ecuadorian
00:45:12
President Lenin Moreno appeared on
00:45:14
national television.
00:45:19
[Music]
00:45:42
The same day, the police arrest Julian
00:45:45
Assange within the compound of the
00:45:47
Ecuadorian embassy. The United States
00:45:50
immediately calls for his extradition.
00:45:54
I'm too good.
00:45:57
[Music]
00:46:09
Absolute
00:46:14
equilibrium.
00:46:49
In February 2020, the British judicial
00:46:53
system got involved for the first time
00:46:55
in Julian Assange's extradition request.
00:46:58
his supporters gathered and his father
00:47:01
was of course present.
00:47:06
Good morning to speak to Julian last
00:47:08
night.
00:47:09
Uh no, we didn't have a chance but I'll
00:47:11
come out and say something. We just
00:47:12
registered to get in first and then I'll
00:47:14
come out. Is that cool with you?
00:47:16
That's fine.
00:47:17
Thank you.
00:47:18
Good morning everybody.
00:47:19
Morning.
00:47:24
Good morning.
00:47:27
Good morning. Hey, thank you very much,
00:47:29
sir. Thank you.
00:47:33
Exceptionally, the hearings take place
00:47:35
inside the prison.
00:47:42
[Music]
00:47:48
Fore
00:47:56
[Music]
00:48:02
[Music]
00:48:07
mechanic.
00:48:13
[Music]
00:48:15
Absolutely.
00:48:55
among Julian Assange's unwavering
00:48:57
supporters is Bradley Manning, now
00:49:00
Chelsea Manning.
00:49:02
All right, cool.
00:49:03
Good afternoon, everyone. Uh, so two
00:49:06
months ago, the federal government,
00:49:07
the former soldier, spent a total of
00:49:09
seven years behind bars, released,
00:49:12
incarcerated, then released again. The
00:49:15
justice system hopes to force her to
00:49:17
testify.
00:49:18
Facing jail again, potentially today
00:49:21
doesn't change my stance.
00:49:24
The prosecutors are deliberately placing
00:49:26
me in an impossible position. Go to jail
00:49:29
or
00:49:31
in the alternative for, you know,
00:49:33
forgoing my principles, the the the
00:49:35
strong positions that I have that I hold
00:49:37
dear. So, it doesn't matter what the
00:49:40
what it is or what the the case is. I'm
00:49:42
just not going to comply or cooperate. I
00:49:45
think that's it. All right. Thank you,
00:49:47
everybody.
00:49:49
These statements will get Chelsea
00:49:50
Manning once again several months in
00:49:52
jail. Her determination does not pacify
00:49:56
the Assange case.
00:49:58
If extradited to the United States, the
00:50:00
founder of Wikileaks risks 175 years in
00:50:04
prison.
00:50:06
175 years for publishing information of
00:50:08
public interest.
00:50:16
There is only one journalist that is
00:50:18
detained and held in prison for doing
00:50:20
his job as a journalist in Western
00:50:22
Europe and that is Julian Assange.
00:50:42
[Music]
00:50:46
Breaking news out of London this
00:50:48
morning. Wikileaks founder Julian
00:50:50
Assange cannot be extradited to the
00:50:53
United States. On January the 4th, 2021,
00:50:57
the British courts ruled that due to
00:50:59
Assange's psychological state, he would
00:51:02
not be extradited. A half-hearted
00:51:04
victory for his supporters as the United
00:51:06
States is still not giving up.
00:51:08
The lawyers for the US government
00:51:10
indicated they would appeal the
00:51:12
decision. They should not. And there
00:51:15
should be a call out and pressure on the
00:51:19
US side to drop the appeal to say enough
00:51:24
is enough.
00:51:25
Julian Assange is not in the clear just
00:51:28
yet. The Wikileaks founder is still
00:51:30
facing extradition to the United States.
00:52:03
Free
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Free
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free free
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ass
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free free
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[Music]
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ass free free
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