"(BEEPING)" "(TYPEWRITER BELL DINGS)" "FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT:" "Let me assert my firm belief... that the only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." "NEIL ARMSTRONG:" "That's one small step for man..." "This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom." "President Kennedy died at 1 p.m., some 38 minutes ago." "(NEWS REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) ...who are trying to make a boogey out of us..." "RICHARD O. COVEY:" "Go at throttle up." "TOM MINTIER:" "This vehicle has exploded." "They are here in the thousands." "They are here in the tens of thousands." "NIK GOWING:" "Diana, Princess of Wales, has died." "FEMALE REPORTER 1:" "This just in." "Television viewers across the country watch in astonishment..." "MAN 1:" "Oh, my goodness." "MAN 2:" "Oh, God." "FEMALE REPORTER 2:" "There was a huge explosion sound." "(N EWS REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(DIALING)" "NICK:" "Der Spiegel is begging for more time." "The Times wants to go." "Let me talk to Rosenbach." "ALAN:" "Christ, it's like herding cats." "HOLGER:" "No, I don't want to have to scroll down for the Task Force 373 story." "Holger, I've got Nick." "Ah, great." "Five minutes?" " We have to go." " Five more minutes." "Yes, Bill, I know." "But Nick just spoke to Rosenbach." "They need at least another few minutes." "No more delays, Alan." "You said twelve 0' clock." "ALAN:" "I know, but the point is to publish together." "You know the Germans." "They need to dot all the "I's" and cross all the "T's."" "Go." "Now." "(BEEPING)" "It's live." "The Times is live." "Well, there you go." "Patience, humility, all American virtues." "Yes, Bill, thanks very much for not giving a shit." "Go." "Of course, our top story this morning... the White House blasting the release of over 90,000 U.S. military records." "It came from an organization that didn't exist five years ago, WikiLeaks." "The New York Times, Britain's Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel... coordinated in publishing... what some are comparing to the Pentagon Papers, back in the Nixon years." "MALE REPORTER 1:" "They include civilian casualties and special forces killing squads." "The most serious allegation is that some soldiers committed war crimes." "BARACK OBAMA:" "I know much has been written... as a result of the substantial leak of documents from Afghanistan." "What is this website, "WikiLeaks"?" "And who is Julian Assange?" "Assange has made WikiLeaks a global force." "And for better or worse... exposed what he considers some of the world's darkest secrets." "MALE REPORTER 2:" "The eyes of the world are on the Frontline Club in London." "FEMALE REPORTER:" "Julian Assange is a man without a home who lives the life of the hunted... changing his appearance, using false names... and encrypted cell phones to avoid detection." "The U.S. government argues there's nothing noble about Assange." "A U.S. official describes him as very Anti-American." "(LINE RINGING)" "(REPORTS CONTINUE INDISTINCTLY)" "Come on!" "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" "It's Daniel." "Shit." "JULIAN:" "Uh, good morning." "I assume most of you have read, uh, this morning's papers." "Um... (IN HALES) This is..." "The Guardian." "Um..." "Fourteen..." "Fourteen pages about this topic." "Also, concurrently, Der Spiegel..." "The New York Times..." "These are revelations which pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding this war... painting a more complete portrait of events we thought we understood... but we may not have known at all." "(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES)" "SUPERVISOR:" "Mr. Berg." "(WOMAN SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Have you seen this?" "They're pouring out of every printer in the office." "I guess someone's pissed you made New Year's Eve a work day." "Well, as our resident computer genius... could you please find out who that someone is?" "Whoever it was disguised his IP address." "According to this, the print jobs are coming from... your computer." "It's thousands of pages." "You'll have to manually reboot it if you want it to stop." "Where are you going?" "I need you to finish the Opel job." "I costed out GM, too." "In case you need something to do on New Year's Eve." "Charlie in maintenance said you left this by the scanner." "Happy New Year." "(ALL TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(CHICKENS CLUCKING)" "Daniel Berg." "I volunteered to sell shirts tomorrow." "JULIAN:" "We must be on the schedule somewhere." "My associate Jay Lim sent in our proposals months ago." "I'll be back in a minute." "We didn't get anything from Wikileakers." ""WikiLeaks."" "Wiki-whatever." "This is ridiculous." "Who's in charge here?" "DANIEL:" "Julian?" "JULIAN:" "Huh?" "It's Daniel." "Daniel Berg." "(SCOFFS)" " I contacted you over chat." "Daniel." "Thank God." "I've got people waiting, here." "JULIAN:" "Can you help me with this prick'?" "His organization is super cool." "They've been doing crazy shit in Kenya." "The least you could do is put us on your program." "The small conference rooms are all booked." "What about the auditorium?" "It's empty until the talk about hacking video games." "(SIGHS) Okay, you can have that for half an hour." " Thank you." " But nobody's gonna show up unless you print some flyers." "Well, that shouldn't be a problem." "Daniel..." "God forbid we give out free toner to human rights activists." "(JULIAN GRUNTING)" "Sorry." "I totally spaced out on that proposal." "Mind you, I was a bit busy in Nairobi." "Oh, by the way, that report we leaked... shifted voting 10% in the presidential election." "You might want to mention that when you introduce me." "Sure." "Shredded my power cord in Mombasa." "I assume the club won't mind making a small donation." "I'll pay for the cord if you actually get it to work." "Well, when you're taking on global corruption... you need a few super powers." "(PRINTER WHIRRING)" "El' voila'!" "(BLOWS AIR)" "I'm a mathematician by training." "When I was a grad student in Melbourne..." "I became interested in..." "MAN:" "Okay, send us the camera now!" "...how..." " Excuse me, a little bit more!" "(CLEARS THROAT) I became interested in information..." "MAN:" "Okay, switching!" "...and how it ?" "ows through society." " And how..." "(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) when new information comes to light, it can bring about great change." "(TUTS)" "Excuse me." "Two people... and a secret." "The beginning of any conspiracy and of all corruption." "MAN:" "Otto..." " Otto, what is he doing?" " And as it grows more lies, deceits." "More people... and more secrets." "But... if we can find one moral man... one whistleblower..." "Someone willing to expose all these secrets." "That man could topple the most repressive of regimes." "What the hell?" "Otto, my talk is in 10 minutes!" "And there's the problem." "He just ruined my entire presentation!" "Retribution." "Whistleblowers are afraid to come forward because they fear retribution." "But what if we could remove that fear'?" "Twenty years ago, I bought my first modem and joined a legion." "Cypherpunks, fighting for freedom, for privacy... for the right to remain concealed in clouds of code." "Today's hackers take it for granted, but they surf the Internet... because of the programs we created to hide data... to... to hide our identities." "Even then, I knew this technology... could hold the key to a whole new form of social justice." "Hundreds of volunteers work on the documents we are sent." "But we've honed our technology... to a point that even I don't know the identity of our sources." "And if the whistleblower's identity is secret... then he has nothing to fear." "As Oscar Wilde said..." ""Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth."" "Sorry, it's going to be a few minutes." "We had some technical difficulties." "Good talk, huh?" "You think so?" "People anonymously sharing secrets..." "I mean, isn't that why we tore down the Wall?" "Believe me, no one is interested in your secrets." "Yours, on the other hand..." "It was great." "It's a shame the turnout wasn't better." "One convert at a time." "By the way, I can soup up the graphics if you want." "What's wrong with the ones I've got'?" "Nothing." "I'm sure they would have blown people away in the '80s." "DANIEL:" "Hey... do you want to check out the talk on microcontrollers?" "The guy who invented TV-B-Gone is speaking." "It's a remote." "You walk into a bar and turn off... all the TVs." "Don't you get bored spending your time with all these wankers?" "Building antennae out of Pringles packets... reading Neuromancer and playing Call of Cthulhu." "What a waste!" "Capable generous men, men of purpose." "That's what the world needs." "All this?" "(TUTS) It's not what we fought for." "(SCOFFS) Shit." "Come on." "(WOMAN WHOOPS)" "Hurry up, Daniel." "(PEOPLE WHOOPING)" "DANIEL:" "Where are we going?" "JULIAN: (PANTS) To church." "A government destroyed by tyranny... rebuilt under a glass dome so the whole world could look in." "There's an ideal to aspire to." "Just look at it, Daniel." "Risen from the ashes." "A whole city, once ruled by fascists, now overrun by artists, by anarchists..." "and crows and snowstorms..." "(CHUCKLES) and transparency." "My father took me to the dome when they first built it." "I was 13." "He wasn't quite so eloquent." "Yeah, well, when I was 13, my mum started dating this guy... from a nasty Australian cult called The Family." "They believed in blue auras and cleansing souls... and the strict discipline of children." "Severe beatings... starvation diets... regular closings of psychiatric drugs." "My mum knew the guy was a wanker... but by the time she came to her senses they had a kid together and..." "We spent the next three years on the run." "They chased us all over the country." "That's terrifying." "Why do you think my hair is white?" "Come on." "I want to show you something." "DANIEL:" "It's called the Tacheles." "It's an artists' squat." "They were going to tear it down in the '90s... but some painters occupied it." "J U LIAN:" "Cool." "Listen, I better get to work." "DANIEL:" "Now?" "JULIAN:" "Life on the run, Aussie jet lag." "You stop distinguishing between night and day." " Sorry." "(MAN EXCLAIMS)" "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "So what are you working on?" "Look, today was cool, but these are sensitive documents." "People's lives are at stake." "You can trust me." "JULIAN:" "Yes, and quiet." "There's a new leak on the submission platform." "In my twenties, I created a tool called Rubberhose." "It hid sensitive information beneath layers and layers of fake data." "WikiLeaks is based on the same idea." "Take any message." ""Are you safe?"" ""Are you safe?"" "(VOICES OVERLAPPING)" "J U LIAN:" "We constantly upload fake data from fake sources... to make it impossible to monitor our real sources." "And their very presence is infinitely deniable." "The system makes leaks untraceable." "They simply turn up on the submission platform." "Ever heard of Julius Baer?" "DANIEL:" "It's a big Swiss Bank, right?" "JULIAN:" "Huge." "Manages 400 billion dollars for the ultra-rich." "It uses offshore secrecy laws to hide money for fat cats... wealthy assholes in Germany, Switzerland, U.K." "(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "DANIEL:" "The leak is from someone inside the bank?" "I don't know. (LAUGHS)" "See the beauty of it?" "(WOMAN SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Let me guess." "Secret plans for the revolution?" "Jay Lim and the volunteers in Switzerland will analyze the docs... but I need you to verify that they're real." "The metadata should contain a list of authors." "Extract it and confirm that these people work at the bank." "What?" "Did you think we just threw what we got up on the website?" "No, but... you're just giving me the docs?" "You said I could trust you." "You can." "I know." "I'm a good judge of character." "Stay offline when you're working on the docs." "And buy yourself a cryptophone." "(PHONE RINGS)" "Julius Bér Bank, Ralf Zilke's office." "I'm sorry, I must have the wrong extension." "What division is this?" "Personal Wealth Management." "Who were you looking for?" "I was actually looking for Ms. Leisal Grop." "Ms. Grop is down the hall in Client Services." "Can I transfer you?" "DANIEL:" "Yes, please." "Thank you." "(LINE RINGING)" "(DISCONNECTS PHONE)" "(COMPUTER CHIMES)" "(COMPUTER BEEPS)" "(CHUCKLES)" "(COMPUTER BEEPS)" "(DOOR OPENING)" "(SCOFFS)" "What are you doing in here?" "Um..." "Sensitive research." "You're playing World of Warcraft aren't you?" "We're investigating corruption in a Swiss Bank." "Of course." "Well, then I guess I can cover for you." "(WOMAN ANNOUNCING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE OVER PA)" "(PHONE CHIMES)" "(PHONE CHIMES)" "HANS:" "I worked for these assholes for years... before I understood the extent of the deception." "It's a massive tax dodge." "Last year, those diagrams... cheated your country alone out of 30 billion in tax revenues." "And you'll explain them to us?" "You understand I won't just be exposing the bank." "They have hundreds of clients from New York to Moscow... who will go to great lengths to hold on to their money." "We understand the risks." "We've got incredible infrastructure." "Hundreds of volunteers, people who've dealt with these threats." "Our process is totally secure." "We don't even know your real name." "(CHUCKLES) You're damn right." "I'll explain the documents, but you never met me... and when the shit comes down, it's on your house." "Are we clear, Mr..." "Schmitt." "Daniel Schmitt." "The bank has a huge network." "JULIAN: (OVER PHONE) Right, I'm sure." "They've got billions of dollars buried in the Caymans." "Well..." "Yeah, but by this time tomorrow the whole world's gonna know about it." "And I can tell you, the response to this... is gonna be absolutely colossal." "We're gonna nail those bastards." "You know, our friend was pretty jittery." "Of course he was." "Hey, Julian, let's go." "How fast can you get Bellman a summary?" "I'll stay up until it's done." "All right, Daniel." "Remember, courage is contagious." "(MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "MALE TV ANCHOR 1: (ON TV) They marched from the townships, from the slums." "Opposition supporters determined that this would be the day... they would expose Kenya's elections as a sham." "Delivering an empathic message... to the president whose reelection they reject... and the outside world." "But this was what they discovered." "Riot police with orders that no mass demonstration was to be allowed." "(PEOPLE SCREAMING)" "This was not a day for debate." "The argument, settled decisively." "(TROLLEY BELL RINGING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Ralf Zilke's office." "(CLICKING MOUSE)" " Mr. Zilke?" " Yeah." "I'm sorry, I just got an odd call from the tech department." "I sent you the link." "They say there's a report on this website." "Get me Friedrich." "And wake up our lawyers in California." "And in New York." "And London." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(CURSING)" "(BEEPING)" "So, their lawyers are threatening you?" "Julian says you can spend your life in cushy cubicles or you can march." "You can breathe the tear gas and brave the truncheons or..." "Take a girl to dinner?" "He'!" "" "(WHISPERS) Hey." "(CHUCKLES)" "Sorry, I didn't want to wake you up." "It's okay." "I've just never had a guy try to sneak out of his own apartment." "(CHUCKLES)" "The bank got a judge in California" "to shut down our site." " What?" "I thought the Americans put free speech up there with mom and apple pie." "(CHUCKLES) So did we." "Julian wants to meet right away." "You know, this isn't how I imagined our first, um..." "How did you imagine it?" "(CHUCKLES)" "(CHUCKLES)" "Uh..." "Do you have a cryptophone?" "Uh..." "No. (CHUCKLES)" "But that might be the best excuse" "I've ever heard for not calling." "(CHUCKLES)" "(WOMAN ANNOUNCING IN GERMAN OVER PA)" "DANIEL:" "We've got to get the story out on blogs, Twitter, they're defrauding the world." " We can't let them do this." " JULIAN:" "Exactly." "It's impossible that one judge in California can make it all disappear." "It's out now." "J U LIAN:" "Well, remember what Solzhenitsyn said." ""No one can bar the road to truth."" "DANIEL:" "And Solzhenitsyn didn't even have Twitter." "I mean, whoever thought that we'd need extra servers... to fight censorship attacks from the bastion of free speech." "I sent leaks to our mirror sites." "You should..." "Having fun making history instead of reading about it?" "Yeah." "And there's a new WIRED blog you should post as well." "(KEYBOARD CLACKING)" " Let's have a look." "(DANIEL CHUCKLES)" "JULIAN:" "Yeah, but if Julius Bér really believes that censoring one website... will solve their problems... they just don't understand how information ?" "ows in the 21 st century." "I mean, look..." "Our mirror sites make it impossible... for the bank to put the genie back in the bottle." "Of course, we're happy that the EFF and the ACLU are behind us." "But to be honest, the court of public opinion... has already ruled in our favor." "Some French hackers donated domains." "JULIAN:" "Mmm." "Send the links to Bellman, he'll blast the LISTSERV." "Yeah, no." "But, with an organization the size and scale of WikiLeaks... grassroots support is vital." "ALAN:" "Move the U.S. primaries to page three to make room for the Diana inquest." "Yes, yes, yes." "Diana still sells newspapers." "Can't afford reporters?" "Grab a story off the wire... give it a little scrub, drop it in the paper." "Twenty-first century churnalism at its finest." "Is this how you're chatting up the totty in your golden years?" "Well, I certainly can't impress them... with some of the stories rattling around the mainstream media echo chamber." "The women I meet are smart enough to know what they're missing out on." "I assume you're gonna tell us what that is?" "I'll leave that to Mr. Assange and his merry band of programmers." "We have to help them, Alan." "DANIEL:" "The Guardian, The Times, CBS are all linking to our mirror sites." "Listen to this." ""The Bank's injunction has brought an obscure group" ""of dreamers to prominence..." ""paradoxically generating more attention..." ""for their apparently uncensorable leaking machine." ""And the bank's clients may now face prosecution" ""in Germany, the US..."" " Can you believe it?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Actual justice for those assholes." "That's great." "That's great." "(COMPUTER CHIMES)" "(KEYBOARD CLACKING)" "Wow." "The judge must have lifted the injunction." "Look, we're back online." "Holy shit." "(GASPS)" " We won." " Mmm-hmm." "We took down a billion-dollar bank." "(BOTH CHUCKLE)" " This is crazy." " I know." "We have to celebrate." "JULIAN:" "Yeah, we should, uh..." "We should..." "I don't know, order some beers or something." "No, with everyone." "With Bellman, Jay Lim, everybody else." "This was a team effort." "We should get on Skype or something." "Oh, I don't know." "It's quite late, actually." "Come on." "I just got an email from Bellman." "And I was chatting with Jay Lim 15 minutes ago." "Okay, it's probably time that you met everyone face-to-face." "Maybe not in here." "Let's go inside." "(CHUCKLES) -(JULIAN CLEARS THROAT)" "(SKYPE WINDOW OPENING)" "(TYPING)" "(SKYPE DIALING)" "(SKYPE RINGING)" "DANIEL:" "I don't get it." "It says I called..." "Are you Jay Lim?" " And Bellman?" " Yep." "How many volunteers do we have?" "Hundreds." "We have hundreds of volunteers." "(ALL TYPING)" "(COMPUTERS BEEPING)" "What?" "We have hundreds of email addresses." "That's not the same thing." "Look, every startup exaggerates its size." "Otherwise, why would people leak us confidential information?" "Two freaks with a single server?" "We only have one sewer?" "Hmm, not as far as the outside world is concerned, no." "Look, Castro started a revolution with 82 men." "It does not matter how small you are... as long as you have faith and a plan of action." "I lied to dozens of reporters." " Pff." " Our source at Julius Bér." "J U LIAN:" "Necessary fictions." "If Julius Bér knew that they were up against an army of two..." "What?" "They would rub us out?" "They're a bank, they're not the mob." "Why have you been using an alias, then?" "Come on, Daniel." "It's a hack, an inelegant solution." "It could've been so simple." "I've got a hundred friends I could have called." "This is bullshit!" "(STAMMERS)" "Friends, you can call friends." "Okay, I've got to... show you something." "Where is it?" "Where the hell is it?" "Open it." "Read it." "Read what's inside." "There were three of us." "Mendax, Trax, Prime Suspect." "Three boys with cartoon names, off on a series of harmless adventures." "Subversives, one and all." "And when the federal police finally caught up with us..." "Trax pled guilty... and Prime Suspect, he turned Crown Witness against me." "I remember waiting for that verdict in this little room... and pacing backwards and forwards in a figure eight like a demented bee." "And I knew what life would be like in a tiny cell and... (SMACK LIPS)" "Stressful." "For real, why my hair turned white." "You don't get far in this world by relying on others." "People..." "People are loyal until it seems opportune not to be." "(TUTS)" "The tyrants we're up against have men, money and guns... and I don't have an army to fight them with." "All I've got is a website, a couple of fake email addresses and..." "And you." "(EXHALES)" "(STAMMERS) Do I have you?" "MALE TV ANCHOR 1:" "The firewall of Chinese censorship was punctured this week... as WikiLeaks published 35 videos of the Tibetan protest... which quickly went viral." "MALE IV ANCHOR 2:" "Following the fire at the Monju reactor... officials played down the extent of the damage... and denied the existence of any footage of the sodium spill." "The video, now streaming on the WikiLeaks site." "FEMALE TV ANCHOR:" "The documents, the so-called Bibles of Scientology... have been collected and published on WikiLeaks... and they do little to change the minds of skeptics." "And they had elected a fellow by the name of Xemu... uh, could be spelled X-E-M-U... to the Supreme Rulah, and they were about to un-elect him." "(REPORT CONTINUES)" "I mean, this guy founded a goddamn religion." "It's gobsmacking, isn't it?" "We're trying to expose what the members have to go through." "Um, there are memos on the introspection rundowns, uh... forced isolation, you know, regulation of meals..." "FRENCH REPORTER:" "Six Apart would love to do a piece on this, sir." "Do you have a French spokesman I can follow up with in Paris?" "The hallowed Guardian, gracing us with their presence." "Look, a young Woodward and Bernstein." "(IAN CHUCKLES)" " Excuse me." "NICK:" "Now look at this." "Hustling for a story, trying to get the world to pay attention." "I should be working for him." "At the rate they're sacking journalists, you might not have a choice." "It sounds like you're trying to put us out of business." "I just want you to do your job properly." "If you can't, someone needs to pick up the slack." "Oh, is that what you're doing?" "Look, anyone can take a bundle of information... and toss it up on a website and call it news." "And people buy our papers for something a little more discerning." "People are still buying your paper?" "Look, look, look, gentlemen, we're on the same page." "This is citizen journalism, Ian." "It's like a new nervous system." "Looks like it's a bit twitchy." "Yeah, well, getting 10,000 hits an hour can do that to you." "By the way, how is your website doing?" "(BOTH CHUCKLE)" "Yes, come on." "DANIEL:" "We're down again." "We need to add new servers." "PH'!" "Well, that's the price you pay for giving the world news for free." "There ain't no money in it." "I've got a few thousand Euros saved up." "That's a half-dozen machines on eBay." "What?" "Are we not inspired, men of purpose?" "Capable, generous men?" "(BOTH CHUCKLE)" "(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)" "(HORNS HONKING)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "(BEEPING)" "(ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)" "Ah." "(BEEPING)" "(ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)" "(MUSIC STOPS) it doesn't exactly look like a data center." "He'!" "" "He'!" "" "Nice." "You know the way to my heart, huh?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Long trip" "Julian, meet Marcus, the second greatest hacker in the world." "How are you?" "Fine." "Okay, uh, just hook it up right there, next to the other old IBMs." "And do me a favor, take off all the tags... because I don't want to know which one it is." "You want to protect us from yourself?" "Well, plausible deniability is never a bad thing, right?" "Especially when there might be jackboots at the door." "A man who understands security." "MARCUS:" "I'm just basically following the tradition of some excellent hackers." "One in particular who went by this curious name." "Something out of Horace... splendide mendax, noble liar." "I'm sorry but it's just, you know... the way Daniel talks," "I suspected an illustrious past." "So I did some digging." "Wow." "Hacking NASA." "Impressive." "MILNET. (WHISTLES)" "You hacked the U.S. Defense Network?" "It, uh, was a long time ago." "Lots of backdoors, it really wasn't that difficult. (CHUCKLES)" "Delightfully deceiving." "Just like your name." "And your, uh, robust infrastructure." "(COW MOOS)" "(CLEARS THROAT) No offense, but any leet hack could see that your tech was junk." "So, good thing you're adding servers." "Mmm." "(COW MOOS WEAKLY)" "Uh..." "Your cows seem a little depressed." "Do you milk those yourself or get other people to do it for you?" "(BOTH SNICKER)" " Sometimes." "Yeah." "He can do some coding." "I don't want you to let him on the primary server." "Marcus just wants to be involved." "He's a bit of a legend in the club." " Hmm." " He could be a big help." "Yeah, well, people with that much experience tend to have a mind of their own." "(COMPUTER BEEPING)" "Holy shit." "The new server is already working." "We've got a ton of new traffic." "Look, there's at least half a dozen new leaks." "This is a Jihadist training manual." " Gang wars in the U.S. Army." " Wow." "A list of British National Party members." "Shit." "It's thousands of neo-Nazis, right in the heart of London." "Three thousand kilometers?" "Where were you'?" "It's none of our business." "Y" "Could you mind your own business?" "(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES)" "SUPERVISOR:" "Mr. Berg." "(MUMBLES)" "(PEOPLE WHISPERING)" "(TECHNO MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)" "(MUSIC STOPS) -(SIGHS)" " Hey." " You're alive?" "And starving." "The British press is going nuts over the National Party member list." "People are donating money." "Not a lot, but some." "And we're getting more leaks." "Toxic dumping in the Ivory Coast, corruption in Kosovo." "What?" "You don't like it?" "Mmm!" "It's delicious." "It's just a bit cold, but..." "Yes, it's been sitting there for an hour." "I'm sorry." "I didn't hear you." "ANKE:" "It's just the addresses I don't get." "DANIEL:" "What?" "The National Party members." "I mean, those people should be exposed... but you published their personal information." "Phone numbers, home addresses." "They were in the documents." "Yes, but why not cut them out?" "They have families, children." "Someone could get hurt." "Editing reflects bias." "Our sources, the people on the site, they trust us... because we don't screw with the documents." "As Julian says..." ""Free people must have knowledge."" "(SCOFFS)" "Or, as Orwell says, "Big Brother is watching."" "(SIGHS)" "Is this because I stayed in on Friday?" "I couldn't care less about Friday." "I had a perfectly good time with Nik and Claudia... despite the fact that Nik tried to get me to go home with him again." "Oh." "Don't look so concerned." "He bores the shit out of me." "Maybe that's exactly what you need." "(SCOFFS) Hey, I was the one who told you to quit your job." "I'm glad you did." "I'm just saying that, if you're gonna..." "I don't know... nail yourself to a cross... then you should probably know what it's made of." ""(SIGHS) -(Scol=I=s)" "Do you even remember the last time we had sex?" "I'm sure I'm gonna remember the next time." "(CHUCKLES)" "So goddamn clever." "Just a little clever." "(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)" "(ANKE CHUCKLES)" " DANIEL:" "Mmm." "(DISTANT BANG)" " What was that?" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" " Who is it?" " I don't know." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Well, neo-Nazis wouldn't knock, right?" "(KNOCKING CONTINUES)" "Jesus." "I thought you were in Australia." "Yeah." "Well, I thought it best not to, um... to telegraph my movements." "By the way, you should probably take your name off the door." "Have you seen the latest expose... by the Kenyan National Coalition on Human Rights?" "They've revealed that police are running death squads." "My friend Oscar wrote the report." "Kibaki wants to bury it." "We need to get it up on the homepage." "It details hundreds of murders, massive human rights violations." "It's like exposing Chile under Pinochet." "(SIGHS) Have you got any of that disgusting energy drink?" "It might be a long night." "He'!" "" "I'm sorry." "Am I interrupting something?" "(DOOR SLAMS)" "He'!" "" "Anke." "Anke, come on." "Come back inside, please." "It's late." " Tell him to go." " I can't." "Do you want me to come back inside?" "Tell him to go!" "Listen, we've been working on this project for months." "Julian thinks it could be the most important leak we've ever had." " He just got off the plane." " Listen to yourself!" "Why do you try so hard to be him?" "What?" "(SCOFFS)" "You'll never be him." "He's got nowhere else to stay." "Well, I do." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(sLAMs)" "Mmm." " Is that my jacket?" " Mmm." "I'm about to write a press release on death squads." "I wanted to wear something that matched the gravity of the occasion." "I have a son in Melbourne, you know." "He turns 19 next week." "I haven't seen him in a year." "It takes two things to change the world... and you'd be surprised how many people have good ideas." "But commitment... true commitment, that's the hard one." "It requires sacrifice." " What's his name?" " Daniel." "His name is Daniel." "FEMALE REPORTER 1:" "In the recordings posted on WikiLeaks..." "Perupetro vice-president, Alberto Quimper... and Romulo Léon Alegria, a prominent Peruvian politician... are heard discussing bribes in exchange for oil concessions." "FEMALE REPORTER 2:" "Hackers have broken into the email account... of Republican vice-presidential candidate," "Sarah Palin." "The hacking exposes what appears to be..." "Palm's use of a personal account for government business." "MALE REPORTER 1:" "The 238-page document... outlines standard operating procedure for prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay." "MALE REPORTER 2:" "WikiLeaks revealed that" "Iceland's biggest bank, Kaupthing... loaned billions to its own shareholders... a key contributor to the country's economic collapse." "The bank obtained a court order against network RU V.-." "but that did little good." "(NEWS ANCHOR SPEAKING IN ICELANDIC)" "We lead tonight with the collapse of the Kaupthing Bank." "Due to a court injunction, we can't bring you the whole story." "But there is an organization that can." "You'll find them at Wikileaks.org" "WikiLeaks is redefining the public's right to information." "I'd like to add whatever legitimacy I can, right after I buy them a drink." "(ALL CHUCKLING) -(CAMERAS CLICKING)" "Iceland could become a new utopia." "A refuge for whistleblowers and investigative journalists." "She's a Member of Parliament?" "Apparently, our latest spokesperson." "...for the legislative process of bringing freedom of information... expression and speech, into the 21 st century." " Thank you." " MAN:" "Whoo!" "(ALL CHEERING)" "Thank you so much." " Thank you." " DANIEL:" "Thank you." "So, what do you want to drink?" "(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING) -(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "He's like an octopus." "He's everywhere at the same time." "Yeah." "Come on, Daniel!" "You need space to let your ego flow!" "(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(WOMAN WHOOPING)" "(WOMAN EXCLAIMS CHEERFULLY)" "(WOMEN LAUGHING)" "(HORNS HONKING)" "(NEWS ANCHOR READING NEWS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "The report posted on Wikileaks, which details shocking police misconduct, was dismissed by government spokesman Alfred Mutua" "as a front to raise money from the west." "What is this guy talking about?" "Just leave it alone." "You know he's a clown." "The Students' Union are planning a protest at the university next week." "It might take that long to get there." "(CHUCKLES) -(GUN FIRES)" "(GRUNTING AND COUGHING)" "(WOMAN SCREAMING)" "(PEOPLE CLAMORING)" "(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)" "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "DANIEL:" "We've exposed death squads in Kenya, a nuclear accident in Iran." "In Iceland, the government has taken over the Kaupthing Bank." "And the 9/11 pager leak will have huge privacy implications." "...our enemies." "Um, WIRED wants a longer piece." "Can you make time for a one-on-one session?" " Absolutely, yeah." " Great." "(PHONE RINGING)" " Excuse me." "Um..." "Call me." " Okay." " Cool." "(CHUCKLES) Look at you!" "Groupies." "She's a reporter." "She's certainly working an angle." "(MARCUS CHUCKLING)" "KNN NEWS ANCHOR:" "The victims, Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu... had worked closely with the Kenyan Commission on Human Rights... on a report documenting complicity of the Kenyan Police in over 400 murders." "The report gained notoriety after it was published on the WikiLeaks site." "It can't be just some mealy-mouthed press release." "Kibaki had them murdered." "The language needs to be stronger." " It's already quite strong." " Give me the damn computer." "They left their names in the report." "They wanted the world to know they stood behind it." "Yes, they wanted the world to know." "It was a damn fine story." "We put it on the front of the website... and we couldn't even get a single paper outside of Kenya to pick it up." "We're not breaking through." "Those were my friends." "If we had publicized the report better... then... they would have been heroes." "And there would be too high a political cost to murdering them." "Kibaki wouldn't have dared." "(SNIFFLES)" "He's a tyrant, Julian." "I don't think more publicity would have..." "Oh, what the hell do you know about publicity?" "I mean, outside of sucking up to reporters." "It's disgusting." "The woman from WIRED?" "I was selling her a story." "Yeah, well, why don't you just leave that to me?" "MARCUS:" "Don't take it personally." "He's just scared." "You should be, too." "Our operating system is secure, our other sources are safe, we're fine." "Really." "What?" "Do you think our site is vulnerable?" "I think you're taking on presidents, kings, kingpins." "People that can easily afford the kind of black hats... that get off on breaking into a "secure" operating system." "And believe me, if your OS is anything less than secure... it's not gonna take them long to identify the rest of the sources... and to hunt them down." "He'!" "" "Ask for my help, Daniel." "ALI VELSHI:" "Welcome back to the most news in the morning." "SARAH:" "Yeah." "No." "No." "Keep your men on." "All right, thank you." "...detailing nearly 500,000 pager messages reportedly sent" "on September 11th, 2001." "(TV BEEPS)" "SAM:" "Sarah." "I thought if I sent you to Cairo," "I'd have a moment to myself." "The President is busting my nuts about this UN speech." "Turn on CNN." "WikiLeaks will not say if the source was in government, law enforcement... industry, or is a private citizen with the capability to intercept messages." "Privacy experts are not pleased to see personal communications released... and even less pleased that they were collected... and then stored for these eight long years." "At 8:45, the first plane hit the World Trade Center." "By 8:50, the first texts indicating something is wrong." "WikiLeaks says it has verified some of the texts... and believes they all are authentic." "These are the guys that skewered Palin?" "And the Iranian nuclear program," "Petroperú, Bank Julius Bär." "Right, we just indicted the bankers." "Do they have an agenda?" "Truth, justice, the American way." "(CHUCKLING)" "Sam, it's half a million text messages." "Who has the capacity to track that many pager services?" "You think the leak came from us?" "The CIA's concerned, they have a man on it." "We think it's time we get the Pentagon involved." "SAM:" "Why are you guys at State always so trigger-happy?" "It's just a website, right?" "It's not a terrorist cell." "Why don't I call Justice?" "Justice will tell you there's a First Amendment issue." "And even if there weren't... this site has mirrors outside the U.S. It's beyond the law." "I don't even know what that means." "It means that the transfer of information is too easy, Sam... and we are not prepared." "I mean, you work for the goddamn White House." "Can you call the Pentagon, please?" "Thank you." "(SIGHS) Okay." "I'm gonna be called into this Mubarak meeting as soon as we land." "Can you brief me on this source?" "Yeah." "Tarek Haliseh." "Yeah." "Senior defense advisor to Gaddafi." "MARCUS:" "The program code is a mess." "There are ways to trace your sources." "They aren't protected nearly as well as you say they are." "You let him on the primary server?" "He could have hacked it himself." "That's the point." "We need help." "We need to be careful who we trust." "I've known Marcus for years." "We knew Birgitta all of five minutes" "when you asked her to..." " I asked her." "I have experience with these things, and I don't make mistakes." "Well, at least not usually." "We made a promise to our sources..." "You made a promise to me!" "Hey." "You might want to get backstage." "There are two guys sniffing around, real Patriot Act types." "DANIEL:" "According to The Guardian, we had more scoops in three years... than The Washington Post has had in 30." "We have exposed corruption in dozens of countries." "Have a look." "(INSPIRATIONAL ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)" "(CROWD APPLAUDING)" "Thank you, thank you." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "It's working." "Please." "I grew up in the East." "Even if you wrote a letter about a broken sewer pipe... we were watched." "Maybe interrogated, thrown in jail." "I think, Mr. Assange... if we had someone like you... the Wall would have come down years before." "(APPLAUSE)" "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "This lady really defines the essence of what we're trying to achieve." "Privacy for the individual, transparency for institutions... with your persona!" "safety as a whistleblower... guaranteed through anonymity." "Of course, when you seek to protect, there are those who seek to destroy." "But we..." "We make a promise to our sources." "Which is why we are continually adding qualified partners... to strengthen our team." "You can change the world with a great idea... but you can't do it alone." "You need people." "People willing to put themselves on the line." "(APPLAUSE)" "(REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) if you just email Daniel." "Thank you so much." "Look at the PayPal account." "It's thousands of euros." "Oh, we should buy some mistletoe to celebrate under." "Or we can upgrade servers and get new laptops." "Or we could do that." "Yawn, yawn." "See you guys at the party" " Mr. and Mrs. Berg." " Hello." "Daniel didn't tell me you were coming." "We kept reading about you in the papers." "Can you join us for dinner?" " Julian is very busy..." " I'd love to." "DANIEL'S FATHER:" "That's marvelous. (CHUCKLES)" "(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY)" "DANIEL'S MOTHER:" "That was taken in Belgium." "I organized the competitions." "We traveled to Dusseldorf, Geneva..." "DANIEL' S MOTHER:" "Remember that boy he beat in Prague'?" "He was so big." "She means he was fat and slow." "By the way, have you seen these?" "Papa..." "Schmitt!" "Don't ruin my papers." "Get off that!" "Always sitting on my papers." "He's been keeping all the articles." "There was this one piece on Julius Bér in the F.A.Z." "(SIGHS) it was really wonderful." "We don't really bother with the local papers." "It's a national paper." "Some collection you've got there." "Yeah." "Quite the anarchist, hmm?" "(EXHALES)" "Oddest thing." "I didn't meet my biological father until I was in my twenties." "I walked into his house, and there on the shelves..." "Kafka, Kropotkin, Solzhenitsyn." "All these books I'd spent years trying to discover on my own." "Perhaps you'd like to borrow one." "Where's the bathroom?" "Over there." "He takes his backpack to the bathroom?" "Security." "(DOG BARKING)" "Let's eat." "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)" "(JULIAN SPEAKING IN DISTINCTLY)" "He'!" "" "That wasn't cool." "(SIGHS)" "Sorry." " See you later." " Later!" "GIRL:" "Bye!" "Yeah." "I clean lost my appetite." "But you have to admit they are a bit suffocating." "What?" "Oh, you haven't picked up on that?" "Well, I suppose we all have our own unique way of viewing the world." "For example, here's an interesting one." "Did you see it, the new WIRED piece?" ""Cofounder Daniel Schmitt got involved" ""with WikiLeaks prior to launch."" "I didn't say that." "Julian, the reporter screwed up." "Maybe you're used to people exaggerating your successes... but while you were out winning judo trophies with Mutti and Vati..." "I was studying information systems in a shitty squat outside Melbourne... obsessing over code in a hot little flat in Paris... and holding schizophrenic meetings with myself... the chairman, the secretary, sole volunteer, and founder... of an organization no one had even heard of!" "Including you." "Oh, no, wait, Daniel, but there's more to this." "It gets better." ""Daniel Schmitt, he won't give his real name." ""No, instead, he adopted the nom de plume 'Schmitt'" ""after his cat."" "To think, I spent weeks reading Horace to find the right nom de guerre... when all I needed was a fucking cat." "Sorry." "Uh, you're the leaks guy, right?" "From the Congress?" " You need volunteers?" " Hmm." "Oh, we have hundreds of volunteers." "But we could always do with more loyal followers." "Oh, great." "I'm Ziggy." " Good to meet you, Ziggy." " Good to meet you." "(TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING)" "(MAN LAUGHING)" "(MARCUS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Hey, Daniel." "Listen, I just need five minutes." "I'll be all right." " DANIEL:" "Don't worry about it." " Just a cup of coffee." "But Julian wants me to take you guys to the airport!" "Julian can go fuck himself!" "(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "This represents the full stockpile?" "There's been some effort to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention... but there is no way they will be able to destroy it all before the deadline." "Is this Gaddafi dragging his heels, or his son?" "It's not clear." "But Mutassim is ambitious." "His brother is out of favor... and this could be an attempt to cast himself as a possible successor to his father." "That's just what we need." "Another madman with mustard gas." "(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Do you remember that New Year's Eve party in Sharm el-Sheikh?" "I'd just started my Fulbright, I'd had a bit to drink." "A lot to drink." "Your brother begged you to leave the drunk American at the party... but you stayed." "Someone had to keep an eye on her." "D.C. is a nice place to raise a child." "You have a family now." "I want you to do what's best for your family." "Tripoli is my home." "I am doing what's best for my family." "Why don't we order something?" "HILLARY CLINTON:" "The spread of information is forming a new nervous system for our planet." "We recognize that the world's information infrastructure... will become what we and others make of it." "So, you think this is good intel, huh?" "I've known Tarek for over 20 years." "Okay." "Write up a cable." "I want everybody on the Middle East desk up to speed." "(LAPTOP KEYPAD CLACKING)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "He'!" "" "I never thought you'd become a rock star." "I think rock stars have cooler tattoos." "You should have heard Julian." ""Compensating for something?"" "I didn't care." "It wasn't for him anyways." "(SIGHS)" "He's an asshole, Daniel." "He's a manipulative asshole." "(SIGHS) He must be." "Why else would I have given up everything I cared about?" "What you've done... it's staggering." "But you did it together." "Sure, Julian is the mad prophet, but he needs boundaries." "He needs a line." "You're that line." "(SIGHS)" "NICK:" "We all want information to be free." "But investigative journalism is pricy." "And when newspapers get squeezed, it's the first thing to go... which is why providers of first-rate source material... like WikiLeaks, are so important." "Nick, is Assange ever gonna show?" "I had a message, I think he's been delayed." "Passport control can be such a bore." "Apparently, they're not big fans of first-rate source material, so... (CROWD LAUGHING)" "(APPLAUDING)" "(BOTH SPEAKING IN DISTINCTLY)" "J U LIAN:" "What we witnessed was the brutal breakdown of the rule of law... and destruction of public property as acted out by the police." "I was so frightened, I thought my hair might turn white." "(ALEX CHUCKLES)" "The only way we could actually get back into the compound... was to ask the police, that we were trying to expose as being corrupt, to let us in. (CHUCKLES)" "The real reason I was late today was, uh... we have it on good authority that we're being tracked by CIA operatives... and there were definitely two types." " Oh." " Which we had to shake." "An international man of mystery, huh?" "(NICK CHUCKLES)" "I've used that line." "Next he'll be telling you the spooks kidnapped his partner." "Partner?" "Daniel, the German chap." "The grounded one." "The one who helps you distinguish fact from fiction." "(CHUCKLES)" "WikiLeaks has hundreds of volunteers." "It's very difficult to keep track of any single one." "Well, do try to keep track of me." "Excuse me." "So, what's this new leak you're sitting on?" "It must be big if it's piqued the interest of the CIA." "(SCOFFS)" "So, you do believe me?" "No, no, no." "I didn't." "Until I noticed your friends." "Let's not attract attention." "The American spooks are relatively civilized." "It's the Russians you should be keeping an eye on." "Room 376." "When Ms. Lang returns, bring her up, they'll assume you're in for the night." "That will give us plenty of time to find a way to slip you out of the hotel... and for you to show me what it is that's got their knickers in such a twist." "Anyway." "Good night." "Good night. (CLEARS THROAT)" "Good night." "(SNIFFS)" "(CELL PHONE CHIMING)" "(SIGHS)" "(CELL PHONE BEEPS)" " Yeah?" "I need you." "Can you get on the first plane to Reykjavik?" "Christ, I'm surprised they don't have more men on you." "I thought you were in Norway." "It's not safe for me to stay here anymore." "DANIEL:" "What's going on?" "They'll have a taxi here in 20." "It'll be by the back entrance." "The Americans are out front." "Julian, Julian, you should work with us on this." "Why?" "So that The Guardian can pick up some more awards?" "(ALEX STAMMERS)" "ALEX:" "What are you doing?" "(ALEX LAUGHS IN DISBELIEF) if I'm gonna get out of this hotel," "I'm gonna need a disguise." "ALEX:" "Oh." "U.S. SOLDIER 1: (ON RADIO) That's a weapon." "U S. SOLDER 2'." "I see your element." "You got about four Humvees out along this..." "U.S. SOLDIER 3:" "You're clear." "U.S. SOLDIER 4:" "All right, firing." "U S. SOLDER 2:" "Let me know when you get them." "Light 'em all up." "U.S. SOLDIER 5:" "Come on." "Fire." "(MACHINE GUN FIRING)" "U.S. SOLDIER 6:" "Roger." "Keep shooting." "(CONTINUES FIRING)" "Keep shooting." "Target hit." "It was a missile." "U.S. SOLDIER 7:" "Appears to be wounded, trying to crawl away." "U.S. SOLDIER 6:" "He's getting up." "U.S. SOLDIER 7:" "Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?" "U.S. SOLDIER 6:" "No, no, I haven't seen one yet." "I see you guys go!" "that guy crawling right now on the curb?" "U.S. SOLDIER 5:" "Yeah, I got him, I put two rounds of..." "U.S. SOLDIER 8:" "Individuals going to the scene..." "Jesus." "...possibly picking up bodies and weapons." "Coming around." "Clear." "U S. SOLDER Q"." "Roger." "I lost them in the dust." " U.S. SOLDIER 10:" "I got 'em." "(MACHINE GUN FIRING)" "(U.S. SOLDIERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "U.S. SOLDIER 9:" "Oh, yeah, look at that, right through the windshield." "Look at those dead bastards." "Were they even armed?" "With cameras, mainly." "Two of the victims were Reuters employees." "A cameraman and his driver." "The military said they died in a battle between U.S. forces and insurgents... and the press just bought it." "Didn't Reuters chase the story?" "The Pentagon stonewalled them." "It's a massive cover-up." "This is huge." "I think this is gonna change everything." "Traffic, donations." "I want to call it "Collateral Murder."" " That's a bit loaded." " Don't you think it should be?" "Let's not get ahead of ourselves." "We have to make sure it's legitimate." "Where did you get it?" "A guy showed up in the chat, said he was U.S. military." "But we should track down the families of the victims." "In Baghdad?" "Yes, in Baghdad." "We are journalists." "We have to verify our sources." "Maybe you should look into flights." "We'll have to preprocess, improve resolution." "We can use FFmpegs and toss it into Final Cut." "I know some guys who've done this thing, at RUV." "Good." "U.S. SOLDIER 1: (ON RADIO) Target 15 coming at you." "It's a guy with a weapon." "Good." "Now add some buzz over that." "Twenty, again." "Radio frequency in the military comms." "Okay" "U.S. SOLDIER 2:" "All right, firing." "U.S. SOLDIER 3:" "Okay, I got it." "U .8." "SOLDER 4:" "Last conversation, Hotel..." "U.S. SOLDIER 5:" "Roger, Hotel Two-Six." "(WIND BLOWING)" "I've heard people say that I dangle on the autistic spectrum. (CHUCKLES)" "It's probably why I lean so heavily on those around me." "Yeah." "We need to set up a media launch." "Yeah." "Ziggy is planning something at the Parliament building." "Ziggy?" " Mmm-hmm." "You want to launch the biggest leak we've ever had in Iceland?" "Let's take the fight to them." "Courage is contagious." "Right?" "JULIAN:" "The video shows the brutal slaughter of two Reuters reporters." "Here, we have firsthand evidence of the barbarity of war." "A man, going to drop his children at school... sees another man bleeding to death on the pavement." "He stops to aid this civilian and in the process is killed." "And his vehicle turned 180 degrees... by the sheer force of the Apache helicopter's" "30-millimeter bullets... ripping into the side of the vehicle... miraculously not killing the two children inside." "The website is calling this "Collateral Murder."" "Captain Nash, is that a fair description of the job our troops are doing?" "If you are embedding with terrorists in a combat zone... and those terrorists get engaged and you get killed, it is not murder." "(REMOTE CONTROL CLATTERS) if you don't want ugly pictures, you should stay out of ugly wars." "(DOOR OPENS)" "I've got the Deputy NSA for you." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "(PHONE BEEPS)" "Twelve million people have seen that video on YouTube." "Do you still want to tell me you think it's just a little website?" "General Thomason is reviewing intel." "I told him to pull you in." "I'm on in five, do you have anything for me?" "The guy on Fox is pretty good." "Maybe you should use some of his material." "(SCOFFS)" "Sam." "This is Jim." "Just tell them the truth." "The soldiers were following protocol." "This is computer geeks looking at the war through a pinhole." "Well, these computer geeks are starting to become a real nuisance, Jim." "Welcome to the revolution." "(BEEPS)" "(DOOR OPENS)" "JULIAN: "Assange, disheveled like a bag lady" ""walking in off the street..." ""He smelled as if he hadn't bathed..." ""Changes cell phones daily."" "I mean..." "A couple of days of serious analysis... and then it's just all about how weird I am." "(CHUCKLES) You must have enjoyed Keller's diatribe on your filthy white socks." "Yes, but I hadn't figured... that, you know, brutal slaughter and the state of my socks... would get equal billing in The New York Times." "(DANIEL'S CELL PHONE RINGING)" "(ALL CELL PHONES CHIMING)" "Hello." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Ziggy" "Christ, they're gonna kill us." "Get off Skype." "Get off everything, now." "MAN:" "Turn the phones off!" "(COMPUTER BEEPING)" "Guys, we're going to have to shut down everything right now." "You all have five seconds to save." " Five seconds!" " What's going on, Marcus?" "We cannot let them trace us." "I just spoke to Kim Zetter." "She said the U.S. Military arrested a private for leaking secrets to us." "The video?" "This is the guy who leaked the video?" "BIRGITTA:" "She said it was more than that." "Half a million classified U.S. Army documents and hundreds of thousands... of internal communiqués from the U.S. State Department." "This is the biggest leak of classified information in history." "(COMPUTERS CHIMING)" "Oh, my God." "You're telling me that this private stuck a thumb drive in a computer?" "It was a CD." " Excuse me?" " It was a blank CD." "It was marked "Lady Gaga."" " SAM:" "Where's the Secretary?" " Jim's calling her now." "Do we know which documents Manning leaked'?" "He's refusing to talk." "We think it's war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq." "And cables from the NCD database." "Which cables?" "Which cables?" "He may have leaked the whole database." "That's a quarter of a million cables." "(SCOFFS)" "They can read like the diary of a 12-year-old." "You know, personal, frank, rude comments... about every president and prime minister alive." "This is a diplomatic nightmare." "Excuse me, but who gives a shit about diplomacy right now?" "The military logs expose hundreds of informants." "There are lives at risk." "Sam, he's right." "A 22-year-old private with a history of mental instability... and a Lady Gaga CD... and we're on the verge of a major international crisis." "MARCUS:" "He bragged about it in a chat room." "What the hell was he thinking?" "He's a kid." "He's 22." "Are you sure they can't trace us?" "I'm adding another Tor circuit." "Wipe my portion from the hard drive." "Well, if you have them, then they know about it." "I know." "I got to go." "(PHONES BEEP)" "(SIGHS)" " Are we back up yet'?" " Just a few more proxies." "The whole mission is to protect sources." "We can't protect them from themselves." "We're online." "See if Julian's on chat." "(FLIGHT STEWARDESS SPEAKING IN DUTCH OVER PA)" "Shit!" "He's got them." "How did he not tell us?" "That is three gigs of text." "This is crazy." "Tell him we can't dump the data." "It's too dangerous." "Tell him!" "(SIGHS)" "We need time to go through it all." "Prick." "Come on." "(LAPTOP KEYPAD CLACKING)" "Fuck you, you disloyal fuck!" "(LAPTOP CLATTERING) -(ALL MURMURING)" "(GRUNTS)" "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "Shit!" "Guys, look at this." "Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism." "He should be treated as an enemy combatant." "WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively." "(CELL PHONE CHIMING)" "Nick, how can I help you?" "Can you put me in touch with Julian?" "Julian's not available." "Daniel, we both know you're sitting on the biggest story on the planet right now." "And if you're thinking of going to ground on this, it's too late." "The cat's out of the bag." "Bradley Manning's future and yours depend on how this material is handled." "Now, I want you to tell Julian" "I'm already working on a story... to paint this as the next Pentagon Papers." "But you need our help." "It's the biggest thing you've ever done." "And if you think they spun you on the Collateral Murder video... wait till you see what they do here." "Tell Julian this is all about survival." " I'll get back to you." "(PHONE BEEPS)" "Where's Julian flying in to?" "Julian." "Did anyone follow you?" "No, no, no, I don't think so." "What's he doing here?" " I told you to come alone." " You need to hear him out." "They're looking for us, and they got people everywhere." "JULIAN:" "Daniel Ellsberg put out a statement." "He said they're coming after us." "We need to publish now." "It's hundreds of thousands of pages of sensitive material." "It's not like the video." "The docs are full of jargon, they're totally impenetrable." "We wouldn't know what the hell we were publishing." "So, we let the historians decide." "I thought the whole point of this organization was to publish in full." "I thought the point was protecting whistleblowers." "(MAN ANNOUNCING OVER PA)" "Can I speak to Nick Davies, please?" "NICK:" "Don't get me wrong." "You should still keep an eye out for men with poison umbrellas." "But if the U.S. has any foresight, they know they need to do more... than kill you." "They need to delegitimize everything you stand for." "You represent a terrifying future." "Right now, the most powerful media machine on the entire planet... is planning a smear campaign like nothing you've ever seen." "(SCOFFS)" "Amazing how someone could talk for 10 minutes without actually saying anything." "You said you would hear him out." "What are you proposing?" "An international media coalition legitimizing you as a news organization." "Let the U.S. attack." "We print the news." "And if we put you on the moral high ground... with Mother Teresa, with Nelson Mandela..." "No one will be able to fuck with us." "But they'd still get their exclusives." "Look, finding stories in all these documents... that's a lot of work, it's a lot of time." "You can't expect us to do it without an incentive." "And then what?" "We set a date?" "You run your stories, we post the raw data." "Obviously, all these documents have names, sources, U.S. informants." "You'll need to redact them." "But WikiLeaks doesn't edit." "That's all very well, but The Guardian cam be seen to condone... publishing something that puts lives in danger." "And morals aside, it's about how you're perceived." "(SIGHS)" "You're starting an information war with the United States Government." "You mustn't hand them ammunition." "I suppose it is just a name search." "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" "Well, look, that's my editor." "What should I say?" "How secure are your phones?" "(CONTINUES RINGING)" "Alan." "So, do we have a deal?" "No, no, no, it's a complete cock-up." "He won't talk to me." "Let me talk to him, then." "I can't." "Listen, I'll get back to you." "Julian... this kind of coverage gets people's attention." "It could be the culmination of everything we've done." "JULIAN:" "This is a code to a temporary site." "I'll send you the link in 24 hours." "You'll find the war logs there." "So, it's a deal?" "We publish, you publish." "We redact, you redact." "We'll put out the war logs in six weeks." "If you behave, we'll move on to the cables." "Great." "ALAN:" "Well, a coalition government will have a certain honeymoon period." "But, selling off the post office'?" "I mean that..." "Good morning, everyone." "The meeting is over." "Alan, I'm sorry." "I told Nick." "Get me Bill Keller at The Times, and what's-his-fuck at Der Spiegel." "Alan?" "I'm sorry, folks, we're gonna have to break this up." "(COMPUTER BEEPS)" "Door?" "Yeah." "(SIGHS)" "He's pretty slow for a tech wizard." "He said it's 91,000 logs from Afghanistan alone." "I imagine that might take a second." "(COMPUTER CHIMES)" "All right, here we go." "Look at that." "Keren, get me Bill Keller at The New York Times." "And let's be discreet." "HOLGER:" "The spreadsheet is enormous." "I'm sure it contains the scoop of the century... but we simply cannot access it." "Are you working in Excel?" "Every time I open the damn thing the system crashes." "You have to parse the data in a text editor... and then script it into a searchable database." " MARCEL:" "Are you getting this?" " Yeah, that helps." "I blew off a profile with McChrystal in Kabul." "This better be good." "Do you know what "E.O.F." stands for?" "It's "Escalation of Force."" "Can you see that?" "Yeah, got it." "E.O.F. is "Escalation of Force."" "Which I believe means more dead civilians." "The Espionage Act?" "You can't be serious." "If the Attorney General can show... he tried to convince a source to leak classified information..." "You mean like every journalist who's ever covered the Pentagon'?" "They could indict us under that rubric." "I wouldn't be surprised if they do." "Nothing draws people to a cause like a celebrity martyr, Alan." "IAN:" "That's good, Daniel." "Uh, look... can you email a list of whistleblower prizes you're putting Manning up for?" "No emailing." "But I can fax you." "Right, of course." "But we need it by Friday so we can run it in his bio." "Will do." "Thanks, Ian." "HOLGER:" "And this Task Force 373 has a hit list with more than 2,000 names." "MARCEL:" "Yes, they refer to it as "stopping birthdays."" "These civilian casualty numbers are devastating." "It's a shit show." "I've got the U.K. ambassador saying the campaign isn't under proper supervision." "(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "HOLGER:" "Do you want to talk to Marcel?" "Hold on." "(INDISTINCT TALKING CONTINUES)" "Well, you can sleep here if you want." "No, no." "T-minus four." "Are you getting excited?" "Sure." "He must be exhausted." "I mean, the redactions alone... it shouldn't take that long." "It's just a name search." "That's what we initially thought." "But a lot of it is context." "Nick told Julian... a tip from the "goat herder in the red house,"" "in small villages... that's as damning as a name." "We're only posting a few hundred of the logs and we're swimming." "You'd need an army to go through all 91,000." "Thank God you have one." "The story on the generals would typically be the lead... but everything's going out at once in case there's a gag order." "We're struggling to keep it to 14 pages." "It's talking points for the morning interviews." " Julian." " What the hell?" "I've been trying to reach you for hours." "I was just sending you a list." "The URLs need to be standardized, torrents need seeding." "We need to..." "The redactions." "That was on my list." "DANIEL:" "It's 91,000 documents, and our site is publishing in four days." "JULIAN:" "Let's go." "DANIEL:" "What the hell were you thinking?" "JULIAN:" "Editing reflects bias." "We make a promise to our sources to publish in full." "You lied to everyone we're working with." "You lied to me." "It's funny, you know, I don't remember you objecting... to us publishing the names and addresses" "of every BNP member." " This is different." "These sources are fighting for the very thing we're supposed to stand for." "And remind me what that is, exactly." "Hmm?" "Transparency for powerful organizations... exposing corruption and conspiracy wherever it exists." "We're going to have to push back publication." "There's no way we can release in four days." "Fourteen pages in The Guardian, twelve in The New York Times." "This is more coverage than all the leaks we have had, combined." "We are winning an information war... which goes beyond any short-term alliance we have with the mainstream media... and you want to throw it all away because you fear... that some U.S. Government informant might come to harm?" "These are human beings, Julian, and their lives are at stake." "What about the lives of the soldiers... and the civilians involved in these conflicts?" "Death squads, unreported civilian casualties, countless incidents of friendly fire." "This is information the world needs to know." "So, the next time you find yourself lecturing me about this organization... please try to remember why I created it." "And why I hired you to help me." "(SCOFFS)" "Well, that's funny." "I don't remember you hiring me." "I don't recall a contract or a salary." "But I guess I should have known when I met Jay Lim." "There is no organization." "There's just you and your ego... and the lies you tell to get whatever the fuck you want." "(SIGHS)" "You know, it's incredible... how much time you can spend with a person... and still have no idea who they are." "You're suspended." "Effective immediately." "MARCEL: (OVER PHONE) Those are the most revealing docs." "Do whatever you can to keep them off the site." "Okay, thank you, Marcel." "Bye." "Rosenbach said the bulk of the identifiable sources... are in the threat assessments." "It's 14,000 documents." "But, if you hold those, there are a lot fewer names in the rest." "Yeah, I got it." "(COMPUTER CHIMES)" "DANIEL:" "And remember, don't tell Julian that we were talking." "Are you seeing the ridiculous crap he's spouting on the chat?" "MARCUS:" "Danny, he's completely out of his mind." "And if he keeps doing this, we're going to have to quit." "All of us." "Just take care of the documents, okay?" "ANKE:" "Daniel, have you seen this?" "(SIGHS) He's on Twitter." "He says that you are FBI, and that I'm CIA." "Look." "This is crazy." "NICK:" "Der Spiegel is begging for more time." "The Times wants to go." "Holger, I've got Nick." "Ah, great." "Five minutes?" " We have to go." " Five more minutes." "ERICA HILL: (ON TV) Our top story this morning... the White House, blasting the release of over 90,000 U.S. military records." "They tell a story that some veterans of the region know full well." "More civilian deaths than are ever reported." "Unexplained American deaths, questionable battlefield tactics." "The leak has forced the White House to defend its Afghan strategy." "Open and transparent government... is something that the President believes is truly important... but the stealing of classified information and its dissemination is a crime." "The United States strongly condemns... the illegal disclosure of classified information." "What's worse for national security?" "WikiLeaks or bad U.S. policy?" "MALE REPORTER 1:" "Following the release of the Afghan war logs..." "WikiLeaks announced it is sitting on over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables... and plans to release them shortly." "(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "I've got a source in Colombia we're gonna have to extract." "Christ, Putin's gonna go ballistic." "How many more sources do we have to notify in the Middle East?" "We're still trying to reach our contacts in Tehran." "Okay, good." "Keep it up." "I just talked to Libya, they have real concerns about the ambassador." "We're pulling the ambassador." "All right, everybody, listen up!" "I need at least 10 names... of high priority sources who could be harmed... if and when these cables are put out." "If we can claim that Assange has blood on his hands... we can turn this thing around." "Hi." "Do you think the President of Turkmenistan... will be more upset that" "I called him a practiced liar... or that I called him vain?" " I'm sure he's heard worse." " Hmm." ""President Berdymukhammedov does not like people" ""smarter than him." ""Since he's not very bright," ""he's suspicious of a lot of people."" "Well, he's been around for a long time." "I don't think he's worried about the opinions of a mid-level foreign attaché" "That's why I signed Hillary's name to it." "I'll see if The Times will hold it." "No, I've got bigger issues." "No, Sarah, I am collecting cables from the head of every foreign desk." "Okay, you tell me..." "You tell me, then," "(STAMMERS) what do I ignore?" "This?" "This destroys the Sudanese peace talks, this screws a source in Amman..." "The Times will redact the names." "Yeah, but, what about him, will he?" "And don't you tell me that your friend Keller's got him under control." "He's bigger than The Times." "He can do whatever the hell he wants." "Just like he did with the war logs." "(SIGHS) God." "Any word from Tarek?" "SARAH:" "He's named in at least a half a dozen of these." "JAMES:" "Let's bring him in." "(MEN CONVERSING IN ARABIC)" "So have you decided about St. Harts'?" "It's a lung flight for a baby." "That's what a nanny's for." "You don't have to convince me." "(MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(PHONE RINGING)" " Hello?" " SARAH:" "Doctor Haliseh?" "(SARAH SPEAKING IN ARABIC)" "Remember the trip we once spoke of?" "Gentlemen." "Welcome." "Please..." "Tarek?" "I left the estimates in the ear." "You need to go home." "She's cooking dinner." "Now!" "She needs to go now!" "We need to pack." "(DOG BARKING)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Everything." "SAM: (ON TV) There are names, operations." "This leak puts Americans' lives, and our allies' lives at risk." "There is blood on their hands." "Pentagon officials are saying today that this has been their fear all along." "That, if those names were revealed, those people would become targets." "MIKE MULLEN:" "Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes... about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing... but they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier... or that of an Afghan family." "FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR:" "For more, we're joined here in our New York studio by Daniel Ellsberg." "DANIEL ELLSBERG:" "In terms of "blood on their hands"..." "I'm sorry to say a lot of actual blood has been spilled... as opposed to this hypothetical blood." "HEATHER BROOKE"." "This is all speculative harm... and what's not being talked about is the actual harm... and that's what has been exposed through this leak." "So, I think that's important for us to think about." "At least he kept part of the bargain." "250,000 diplomatic cables, right here." "Amazing." "So, the bugger came through." "Nick was right." "It's huge." "It's a window into every government on the planet." "Already I've got a dozen page ones." "Gaddafi lying to his people," "Putin arming Georgian separatists." "Damning assessments of leaders in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia." "Are you still focused on yesterday's news?" "On the high priest of truth bragging about a redaction process that didn't exist?" "I wouldn't call that yesterday's news." "Sorry, wasn't he your messiah?" "Yes." "Yes." "Just like the rest of them." "Feet of clay." "So he's a liar, a callous little zealot, just like every other oddball source." "NICK:" "Mmm." "Seventeen little keystrokes, and anyone in the world can read what he publishes." "And now we've given him a bloody megaphone, they will." "He's not a source." "He's the head of a huge media empire that's accountable to no one." "And we put him there." "(MAN SPEAKING IN ARABIC)" "(CONTINUES SPEAKING OVER HEADPHONES)" "(CONVERSING IN ARABIC)" "What is the purpose of your trip?" "He is a guest lecturer at University of Cairo." "What are you lecturing about?" "Petroleum geology." "DRIVER: (OVER PHONE SPEAKER) We've crossed the border." "Can you put them on?" "Sarah?" "(GASPS)" "(SNIFFLES) You're safe." "What do we do now?" "Where do we go?" "JULIAN:" "We have tried hard to make sure... (CLEARS THROAT) that this material does not bring innocents to harm." "We're familiar with groups whose abuses we exposed..." " Did you reach him?" " No." "If we both plug in." "We should be able to do it while he's speaking." "We have a harm minimization process." "We don't do things in an ad hoc way." "All the material is over seven months old..." "Daniel, we both know he's never going to step aside." "He can't be trusted." "We need to shut him down." "If you want to do this, we have to do it now." "JULIAN:" "...whose abuses we exposed... is attempting to criticize the messenger, to detract..." "It takes two things to change the world... and you'd be surprised how many people have good ideas." "But... commitment, true commitment... it requires sacrifice." "Good journalism exposes powerful abusers... so that often leads to backlashes, but... revolution is... the struggle between the past... and the future." "And the future has just begun." "(INAUDIBLE)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "I guess that Turkmenistan comment didn't go over too well with the Secretary, did it?" "Actually, Berdymukhammedov himself called for my early retirement." "I'm sure he called for a lot more than that." "But there's diplomacy for you." "Well, let's drink to diplomacy." "(CHUCKLES)" " At least while we still can." "(SIGHS)" "Okay" "You know, I was..." "I was watching him give an interview while I was packing up." "He was talking about all the leaks he'd put out in the last six months alone... and I started thinking." "Two advanced degrees, a Fulbright." "Five diplomatic posts, 14 years abroad." "All those nights, I stayed up worrying... if the slightest turn of phrase would send the whole world to hell in a hand basket." "And right now, at this very moment..." "I don't know which one of us history is gonna judge more harshly." " MALE REPORTER:" "Julian!" "(REPORTERS CLAMORING)" "Contact us online," "I'll have my press person get back to you." "Thank you." "(APPLAUDING)" "That was amazing." "Genius." "Have you seen Time?" "Forbes?" "We've got interview requests" "from Larry King, BSkyB..." " ZIGGY:" "Julian." "Julian!" "What is it?" "There's something wrong with the submission platform." "It's disabled." "Completely." "(BREATHING HEAVILY)" "No one will be able to submit." "(CHILDREN LAUGHING)" "DANIEL:" "You know, he dyes his hair." "I saw it once." "We were at a conference, and he went up to the hotel room." "The cult he was in, The Family... they made the kids dye their hair white." "I guess everyone has secrets." "Scars." "Moments in time that shape them." "(BOTH SNICKER)" " Some we can get past." "(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Some we can't." "There was a moment when everything was possible." "We changed the world." "He changed the world." "But then he made it all about him." "It always was." "Only someone so obsessed with his own secrets... could have come up with a way to reveal everyone else's." "(SCOFFS)" "You know, there was a time when British papers... couldn't report on parliamentary debate." "But then a few very brave men... started printing pamphlets and leaking these debates." "And, uh, well, I believe the men were hanged." "But the public saw these pamphlets, and demanded access... and the modern fourth estate was born... from the passion and the vision... of these few brave souls." "Who were hanged." "Who were hanged." "(CHUCKLES)" "And now, we find ourselves in the same position." "A new information revolution... infinitely more powerful than the last." "A fifth estate... seemingly hell-bent on destroying its predecessors." "All the old models, dying faster than the new can replace them." "Which is why we need more brave souls." "You and Julian have charted a course through all this chaos... pointed at the truth." "And yes... the tyrants of this world should beware." "(PEOPLE SHOUTING SLOGANS)" "(PEOPLE YELLING)" "NICK:" "Knowing that now, we have the power to demand the information that one day soon... will wash them all away." "(CHUCKLES)" "How's that?" "So, where should we start?" "Well, most good stories start at the beginning." "PROTESTERS: (CHANTING) Free Julian Assange!" "Free Julian Assange!" "JULIAN:" "There is no proof... that anyone came to any harm as a result of the full disclosure... of the unredacted documents published on the WikiLeaks website." "Not one shred of evidence." "We're taking on large, powerful groups... with vast and powerful lobbies to protect them." "So, of course, we're going to be attacked in all sorts of manners." "My goodness." "Well, I know the mainstream media is biased... but this is absurd." "These allegations are without basis... and their issue is deeply disturbing." "As an organization, of course of course we, uh, have made mistakes." "Um..." "Uh..." "There are perhaps a number of individuals..." "An individual, perhaps, that we should not have employed." "Um..." "That is possibly the greatest mistake." "A WikiLeaks movie?" "Which one?" "Oh, that one." "Mmm." "Well, that one is based on the two worst books... full of lies and distortion, like all bad propaganda." "Look, urn..." "A WikiLeaks movie..." "It's more like the "anti-WikiLeaks" movie." "If you want to know the truth... no one is going to tell you the truth." "They're only going to tell you their version." "So, if you want the truth... you have to seek it out for yourself." "In fact, that's where the real power lies... in your willingness to look beyond this story... any story." "And as long as you keep searching, you are dangerous to them." "That's what they're afraid of." "You." "It's all about you." "(CHUCKLES)" "And a little bit about me, too." "(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)"