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Risk (2016) is a powerful and controversial documentary film directed by Academy Awardβwinning filmmaker Laura Poitras, offering an intimate and revealing look into the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the complex world of global transparency, cyber warfare, and political exposure.
Originally filmed over several years, Risk explores the moral contradictions, personal struggles, and high-stakes consequences faced by individuals involved in leaking classified information. The documentary follows Assange and his inner circle as tensions rise between activism, journalism, and global intelligence agencies, creating a gripping real-life political thriller.
Through rare access and raw behind-the-scenes footage, the film highlights the conflict between privacy, power, and truth in the digital age. Risk (2016) is both a biography and an investigative documentary that challenges viewers to question authority and the ethics of information freedom.
Movie Information
π¬ Title: Risk (2016)
π₯ Director: Laura Poitras
β Starring: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum
π Genre: Documentary, Biography, Political, Crime, Thriller
π Country: United States / Germany
π Release Year: 2016
Why Watch Risk (2016)?
β Deep dive into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
β Award-winning documentary filmmaking
β Real-life political and cyber-espionage drama
β Exclusive behind-the-scenes access
β Explores freedom of information vs government secrecy
β One of the most talked-about political documentaries
If you are interested in true stories, political documentaries, cyber warfare, WikiLeaks history, journalism ethics, and real-world conspiracy investigations, Risk (2016) is a must-watch film.
Originally filmed over several years, Risk explores the moral contradictions, personal struggles, and high-stakes consequences faced by individuals involved in leaking classified information. The documentary follows Assange and his inner circle as tensions rise between activism, journalism, and global intelligence agencies, creating a gripping real-life political thriller.
Through rare access and raw behind-the-scenes footage, the film highlights the conflict between privacy, power, and truth in the digital age. Risk (2016) is both a biography and an investigative documentary that challenges viewers to question authority and the ethics of information freedom.
Movie Information
π¬ Title: Risk (2016)
π₯ Director: Laura Poitras
β Starring: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum
π Genre: Documentary, Biography, Political, Crime, Thriller
π Country: United States / Germany
π Release Year: 2016
Why Watch Risk (2016)?
β Deep dive into WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
β Award-winning documentary filmmaking
β Real-life political and cyber-espionage drama
β Exclusive behind-the-scenes access
β Explores freedom of information vs government secrecy
β One of the most talked-about political documentaries
If you are interested in true stories, political documentaries, cyber warfare, WikiLeaks history, journalism ethics, and real-world conspiracy investigations, Risk (2016) is a must-watch film.
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00:00:04Shhhhhh
00:00:06Shhhhhh
00:00:19I don't know.
00:01:17Most people have very strong principled stances that don't survive for long, actually.
00:01:26We all want them to survive for long, but they don't survive for long.
00:01:30And do much at the same time.
00:01:37There are many times in Wikileaks evolution where I've had to be ruthlessly pragmatic.
00:01:45So it is to understand the medium term or the long term goal in principle, but in fact,
00:01:54not corrupt your principles in the short term, but be quite willing to balance one for another
00:01:58in order to actually survive the moment.
00:02:21Ukraine?
00:02:27Egypt?
00:02:29You got it?
00:02:30Yeah.
00:02:31Zimbabwe?
00:02:36Iraq.
00:02:42All they can see is that we've put it on the web, which looks irresponsible.
00:02:57Have you got the US ambassador yet?
00:02:59No.
00:03:00Well, please do that.
00:03:05Are you recording?
00:03:07Yep.
00:03:17Oh, hello.
00:03:18Can I please speak to Hillary Clinton?
00:03:23I'm calling from the office of Julian Assange.
00:03:25It's very important.
00:03:30Yep.
00:03:31So Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks.
00:03:35Okay.
00:03:37And all of the US Department of State cables, we have intelligence that they are about to
00:03:46be put on the web unredacted, not by us.
00:03:49And I would like to speak to her about this.
00:03:54Sarah.
00:03:55She might be busy with the meetings.
00:03:58Find out who is her second income.
00:04:02Yes?
00:04:05You need to call me back.
00:04:12This is an emergency.
00:04:17You're the emergency line and it will take a while.
00:04:21Okay.
00:04:21Would you want to do that right now and I'll wait.
00:04:31He would like to speak to her about that.
00:04:33Yes.
00:04:35Okay.
00:04:35Well, let me start by giving you my phone number.
00:04:37One minute, please.
00:04:43More details other than the entire unredacted cable set is about to go on the internet.
00:04:48I mean, literally, it's about to happen.
00:04:50I don't understand why you are not seeing the urgency in this.
00:04:54Just put him on.
00:04:56Who is he?
00:04:57Okay.
00:04:57Who is he?
00:04:58Hello.
00:05:01G'day, Chad.
00:05:01This is Julian Assange.
00:05:04To try and make it clear, we don't have a problem.
00:05:07You have a problem.
00:05:08And we are trying to help you solve your problem because we are indirectly connected to your problem.
00:05:16I would like to speak to the most senior person available who can execute an action quickly to send someone
00:05:25to location here in Norfolk.
00:05:29Okay.
00:05:31Okay.
00:05:32Bye-bye.
00:05:42Hello.
00:05:43See you tomorrow.
00:05:44Are you off?
00:05:46Dinner's on the side, sir.
00:05:48What's for dinner, sir?
00:05:49Lamb chops, rose potatoes, vegetables, creme brulee, and raspberries.
00:05:55Thanks.
00:05:57Thanks.
00:06:00Thanks.
00:06:01You're good.
00:06:09Production journal.
00:06:11I had a strange dream about Julian.
00:06:14I was moving between two spaces.
00:06:17One doing an insider expose, the other at a hidden location.
00:06:22I didn't tell Julian what I was working on in the dream.
00:06:26The anxiety must be a fear of betrayal and my worry about how Julian will react.
00:06:34With this film, the lines have become very blurred.
00:06:38Sometimes I can't believe what Julian allows me to film.
00:06:43Ego, yes, but also brave.
00:06:47He is managing his image, but also being vulnerable.
00:06:52It's a mystery to me why he trusts me, because I don't think he likes me.
00:06:57Jordan?
00:07:08Hello?
00:07:10Hello, is this Miss Harrison?
00:07:12Speaking.
00:07:13Hi, Miss Harrison, this is the State Department Operations Center.
00:07:16We spoke yesterday.
00:07:18If Mr. Assange is available, I have one of the Secretary's lawyers on the line, who has been
00:07:24asked to return the call on the Department of State's behalf.
00:07:26The Department of Secretary's lawyers on the state's call.
00:07:29Good day, Cliff.
00:07:30Thank you for calling back.
00:07:34Have you been briefed?
00:07:38I believe so.
00:07:39We had understood that you and perhaps Sarah have been trying to reach out both to the Department
00:07:45and that there had been some calls.
00:07:47Yeah, so the situation is we have intelligence that the Department database archive is being
00:07:56spread around and our view is that it's more your problems than it is ours.
00:08:01But what we want the State Department to do is to step up its warning procedures, which it
00:08:07was engaged in earlier in the year and like last year, to State Department sources that
00:08:16are mentioned in the cables.
00:08:17Well, I truly can understand that when you're talking about this volume of material, that
00:08:22even with the best efforts of the United States government, that we are able to protect all
00:08:28or even a significant amount of sourced equities in them.
00:08:32There's also national security material throughout the classified cables that also causes us harm.
00:08:39I mean, as you know, Mr. Assange, we had in our public statements tried to dissuade WikiLeaks
00:08:45from doing its releases on the same ground, and I don't know why we would fare any better
00:08:56with what we did with you.
00:08:58Well, I understand you need to make that statement for legal reasons, and you understand
00:09:03that I need to make the following statement also, that we make sure that there is no harm
00:09:10to the interests of the United States, and rather the news benefit is paramount in everything
00:09:16that we do.
00:09:17I have to say, from our perspective, a lot of this happened as a result of the overbearing
00:09:26pressure by the United States.
00:09:29This is an example of when you push people into a corner, they stop behaving in a step-by-step
00:09:40methodical manner because of the threats that they are under.
00:09:56I was stopped at the border again.
00:09:59My detentions have become more aggressive since I began filming WikiLeaks.
00:10:04The U.S. agent at Heathrow wouldn't tell me his name or who he worked for.
00:10:11At JFK, they collected all my electronics and asked if I had any hidden USB drives.
00:10:19When I got home, my apartment door was open.
00:10:22Did I forget to close it, or are they sending me a message?
00:10:45Can we start?
00:10:47You need to be able to talk about exciting projects without giving anything away.
00:10:51Those of you who can, because some of you will want to be sort of covert.
00:10:56Cover stories for various people.
00:10:58That's what he means.
00:10:59So Joe and Sarah are already very publicly visible, dear Joe and Sarah.
00:11:03I want each person to give their story and you can correct it, because then we hear it
00:11:07from them, and then if other people ask us who they are, we've heard it in their voice.
00:11:11Who are you?
00:11:13I'm a Swedish journalist, and I'm a good friend.
00:11:18Okay.
00:11:20Renata, what's your name?
00:11:22Are you Renata?
00:11:23I'm Renata, and I'm from Guatemala.
00:11:26I'm a lawyer, and I have been researching the last years about freedom of information,
00:11:31human rights issues in general, and many of the issues I work with converge with the issues
00:11:38of the organization.
00:11:40Are you a lawyer for Julian?
00:11:42Are you a lawyer for WikiLeaks?
00:11:43Are you what?
00:11:45What should I say?
00:11:46I don't know.
00:11:46I think you should say that you are a lawyer for WikiLeaks.
00:11:52Okay.
00:11:54Renisa?
00:11:55My name is Renisa.
00:11:57I'm leaving.
00:12:23I would like to introduce Jacob Applebaum, the speaker of WikiLeaks.
00:12:28He's an independent security specialist.
00:12:32Thank you so much for having me.
00:12:34I really appreciate it.
00:12:35I guess I'd like to start off by saying that the best indicator for telling the future is
00:12:40to look at the present and to understand how the past informs on the present.
00:12:46So for example, a major security threat is internet filtering and censorship.
00:12:52And several people on this panel represent companies that during the revolution, they
00:12:58censored the internet quite heavily, most respectfully TE data blocking Twitter.
00:13:04I was actually accessing computer networks from the United States that were located here
00:13:09in Egypt.
00:13:10And now you look at the pamphlets around here.
00:13:13You see that the companies at ICT, and I mean this with all due respect, are saying
00:13:18that they powered the revolution.
00:13:20What they actually powered was the regime.
00:13:23And now that the regime has fallen, they want to exploit the revolution for corporate
00:13:28profits.
00:13:30Jacob, can you define censorship in your terminology?
00:13:33Absolutely.
00:13:33So censorship in this case is restricting access to a particular website.
00:13:36I had a list of all of the servers that Twitter runs, and all but two of them were blocked
00:13:43by TE data.
00:13:44And this meant that Twitter was not able to be used.
00:13:48Yeah.
00:13:48But specifically, I have data.
00:13:50It's extremely dangerous to talk with inaccurate information in such matters.
00:13:55Well, I have accurate data.
00:13:57So I mean, we can also talk about the propaganda SMS sent by the mobile phone provider.
00:14:02So we can get to that later.
00:14:03I have data, independent data from Egyptians, and that I gathered myself.
00:14:08So while it might be dangerous to have this conversation, I'm happy to talk about it because
00:14:12it's truthful.
00:14:13For example, did someone hold a gun to the heads of your engineers and said, block these
00:14:17sites?
00:14:17Because NOR did not do this blocking.
00:14:21The NOR ISP did not do this.
00:14:22So why did TE data collaborate with the Mubarak regime and block these sites and try to stop
00:14:28the revolution?
00:14:31Jacob, do you want to build a future?
00:14:33Will you agree to stand against all censorship?
00:14:35Will you abide by the Egyptian constitution?
00:14:40I ask you, wait, wait, please.
00:14:42I ask you right now, since you're here, every person, Vodafone, Nokia, who collaborates
00:14:48with the Iranian dictators and apparently Mubarak for a year.
00:14:51So I'd like to know, will you all agree to stand against censorship on the internet and
00:14:56to abide by the Egyptian constitution?
00:14:58Will you do it?
00:14:59Is that a yes?
00:15:01Just a minute, please.
00:15:02Will you agree to stand against censorship?
00:15:18We'll come back.
00:15:19Jacob, we'll come back to the panel.
00:15:20He's got the microphone.
00:15:21I just like to ask.
00:15:22We'll come back to the panel.
00:15:23It's okay.
00:15:23He can say yes because he believes in the right of the Egyptian people.
00:15:26We'll come back to the panel.
00:15:27We have a question there.
00:15:28Okay.
00:15:28We have someζΏζ²».
00:15:34Let them not see us.
00:15:41Ladies and gentlemen, WE APP Irene!
00:15:45Let them not catch our evangelicals 200 years.
00:15:48thrust hunger for a foreign mob.
00:15:50Let them not have INTERVIEW one hour.
00:15:52Let him get into this!
00:15:53Oh my God!
00:15:54Let him not get the intended sonstig!
00:15:55Let him not catch our bullshit!
00:15:57We will hang again!
00:15:58Assad, I'm left.
00:15:58We come back to this man.
00:17:57Light them all up.
00:17:58Come on, fire.
00:18:02Hey, Roger.
00:18:03Keep shooting.
00:18:05Keep shooting.
00:18:12He's getting up.
00:18:14Any other weapon on his hand?
00:18:15No, I haven't seen one yet.
00:18:36Manning is being held in solitary confinement and stripped naked each night before bed.
00:18:41Ultimately, the treatment of Private Manning, who has yet to be brought to trial, is prompting
00:18:46some questions that are now making it up to the president.
00:18:48With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures
00:18:53that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards.
00:19:01They assure me that they are.
00:19:13How are you?
00:19:15How are you?
00:19:16Did you see the news?
00:19:19I'm just, oh, I'm just actually in the car with Dan Ellsberg and Laura.
00:19:23I'll put you in.
00:19:25Julian, hi.
00:19:26It's outrageous that this court-martial is continuing,
00:19:29given the president's proclamation that he's guilty already.
00:19:34It's impossible to get a fair military trial.
00:19:36Here we go.
00:19:37Did you get all that?
00:19:40Oh, my God, we're driving past the Pentagon.
00:19:42I don't know this.
00:19:44Just in brief.
00:19:46They said that they found an Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan's computer
00:19:50that had the WikiLeaks Afghan documents downloaded onto it.
00:19:54They showed a video of Al-Qaeda's media service showing an Al-Qaeda leader
00:20:00talking about jihad and how they ought to use WikiLeaks in their efforts towards jihad.
00:20:06And the argument they're making is that Manning has,
00:20:09by providing information to WikiLeaks has materially aided the enemy
00:20:13because by posting it on the internet,
00:20:16WikiLeaks is providing information to the enemy,
00:20:18to terrorist organizations.
00:20:20It was unbelievable.
00:20:22The whole, it was just, we were sitting there thinking,
00:20:25are they serious?
00:20:26And it even says the free internet is a tool for jihad.
00:20:42The police said concerns about his safety and the fact he might commit suicide.
00:20:48Now, there's been condemnation from around the world,
00:20:50an investigation by the UN's torture investigator into those conditions.
00:20:54But the military and the US government is continuing to press this case.
00:20:57The most serious charge is one of aiding the enemy.
00:20:59Now, prosecutors in this case have said they won't seek the death penalty.
00:21:02So, if found guilty, he would face life in prison.
00:21:08There he is.
00:21:13He's smiling.
00:21:33When I was 20 in my first court case,
00:21:36my two co-defendants both ratted me out to the police under pressure.
00:21:43They both became crown witnesses.
00:21:52And I refused under principle.
00:21:57But it's not that I even think about it.
00:22:01I don't believe in martyrs, I don't think.
00:22:06There are very rare exceptions that people should be martyrs,
00:22:09but I think people should certainly take risks.
00:22:14Understand carefully what the risks are,
00:22:17what the opportunities of the situation are,
00:22:19and make sure these are in balance.
00:22:22Sometimes the risk can be very high,
00:22:24but the opportunity can also be extremely high.
00:22:27And by opportunity, I mean for things that you care about.
00:22:31We need to keep things in perspective.
00:22:33The risk of inaction is extremely high.
00:22:38And every day you live your life,
00:22:39you lose another day of life.
00:22:43That's the risk of just sitting there.
00:22:45You just lost a day.
00:22:47You just died a day.
00:22:49You don't have that many.
00:22:58If you're not fighting for the things that you care about,
00:23:00and every day is disappearing,
00:23:02then you are losing.
00:23:13There you are.
00:23:14That's your machine.
00:23:18It's up here, it's up here.
00:23:21You get up so it doesn't go somewhere else.
00:23:22Shit.
00:23:24And then you just rip, pick it up and press the gun.
00:23:32Yes, you called on this box.
00:23:39Julian Assange?
00:23:41No, I was in the house.
00:24:00The bridge is falling apart.
00:24:01You're λΉοΏ½ passa by a computer.
00:24:11Don't shit, I mean.
00:24:15It's worth choking on that here.
00:24:16It's worth collecting that in there.
00:24:16So I mean, everything is a goodrier bag.
00:24:16I mean, we had to throw a mess shop in your house,
00:24:16so we're losing everything and not having to me.
00:24:16Then yourHave bed a little rage.
00:24:26And if I ever had to be trouble with it,
00:24:32It's about you getting your mind into not using language that sounds hostile to women
00:24:38or to suggest that in general women are absolutely entitled to bring cases against men who rape.
00:24:43Your position is I'm not one of them, you know?
00:24:46So you have to sort of find the language that helps you to explain that, other than
00:24:54sounding as if you're somebody who thinks that, you know, that this is all a mad feminist
00:25:01conspiracy. I don't think that's helpful to you.
00:25:04No, to say it publicly is not helpful.
00:25:06I know, but I'd like to persuade you that it isn't true as well.
00:25:10Privately it's a social democratic party plus general influence from the government.
00:25:18It's just a thoroughly tawdry, radical, feminist, political positioning thing.
00:25:28It's some stereotype.
00:25:33And you stumbled into this nest of...
00:25:37Yes. She started the lesbian nightclub in Gothenburg.
00:25:41I mean, you know, but what people would say is, you know, what's her setting up a lesbian nightclub
00:25:47got to do with the price of fish?
00:25:48You know?
00:25:49No, no. She's in that circle. That circle of...
00:25:53She's, you know, the fact that somebody is a feminist, and even a radical feminist, doesn't mean...
00:25:58You have a Krenz, the policewoman. I have been running as a tag team.
00:26:01Which, when you say, I'm going to stop you using that kind of language of saying they were running as
00:26:05a tag team, and so on.
00:26:07Because, you know, it's making it as if...
00:26:09I mean, in public, I just...
00:26:09Yeah, but I mean, you...
00:26:16An actual court case, I mean, is going to be very, very hard for these women.
00:26:21They'll be reviled forever by a large segment of the...
00:26:27A little population. And so...
00:26:33I don't think it's in their interest...
00:26:36To proceed that way. If...
00:26:37If I was them, I would go...
00:26:40They need to save face.
00:26:42So they would do something like...
00:26:44We'd do a deal where...
00:26:47I would apologise for anything that I did or didn't do that...
00:26:52Hurt their feelings.
00:26:54Yeah.
00:26:55And they would say, enough is enough.
00:26:58We didn't want...
00:27:02We absolutely didn't want to...
00:27:03We didn't intend to file a complaint.
00:27:06And that's publicly agreed.
00:27:07And this is...
00:27:08Too severe.
00:27:11Part of the problem in this case is that there's...
00:27:13There's two women.
00:27:15And the public just can't even keep them separate.
00:27:23So if there was one...
00:27:25You could go...
00:27:26She's a bad woman.
00:27:28Okay.
00:27:29I think that would have happened by now.
00:27:32This...
00:27:33This person is a bad character.
00:27:35Bad faith.
00:27:36And...
00:27:36His evidence of points for...
00:27:38Because there's two, it's...
00:27:39It's much harder.
00:27:53Can I try and look as much like the judges as possible?
00:27:56Yeah.
00:27:57It works.
00:28:11You're really out.
00:28:17Here we are.
00:28:18Here we are.
00:28:28Hi.
00:28:32Turn, turn.
00:28:33How do you feel?
00:28:34Turn!
00:28:35A man whose been involved in exposing the crimes of the US Empire...
00:28:39is under threat of potentially being a striker to the United States it seems
00:28:44very likely to be a malicious prosecution against him and that's why I'm here to
00:28:48see my solidarity but what if it happens that he did assault a woman would you
00:28:53change your views of him? if he assaulted the woman then that's a different case
00:28:56and it's important that he answers to that and has to answer to her but as at
00:29:02the moment I don't know and whatever he did there I still support what he's
00:29:05doing with WikiLeaks
00:29:52production journal this is not the film I thought I was making I thought it
00:29:59could ignore the contradictions I thought they were not part of the story I was
00:30:05so wrong they're becoming the story
00:30:29so quick save
00:30:54you're in a region that is extremely valuable to wiretap and you were almost
00:30:58certainly being monitored in Tunisia we know that this is happening yeah that's
00:31:03true for all of us right now no question and if you look you can see that this is
00:31:07the case because some websites are blocked so in Syria they use devices
00:31:10called blue code they record everything that goes in and out of Syria so every
00:31:14time you send an email they report the entire thing think about it in terms of
00:31:18safe sex right and this is the same thing people are practicing unsafe computing
00:31:24sometimes in some places the result of that is death so you have to make those
00:31:28choices and know that there are options just like condoms they can break yeah and
00:31:33you're in a world of hurt that's maybe not the greatest and most culturally
00:31:37appropriate analogy
00:31:42well I'm glad one of you did that's awkward
00:31:48good times
00:31:54technology can always be used in two ways isn't the inner interest in an
00:31:59infrastructure one that can be used to spread the idea of freedom but also to
00:32:03control people yeah of course the infrastructure as we build it to the way
00:32:08that has never been possible before well I don't know I mean it depends I
00:32:13think the scary thing is the control thing there's control that is afforded
00:32:16now that is unlike anything else that has ever happened at the same time the
00:32:21avenues for communication are everything we had before plus this maybe
00:32:25that allows for us to build new alternatives that previously were not
00:32:29possible without the internet I think that that is the case that's what we think
00:32:32that we're doing with tour and don't you give bad guys a hideout no I mean not
00:32:40anymore than for example roads help terrorists to travel or or trains or
00:32:45something like this or airplanes I mean what we do is we ensure that every
00:32:48person not one person excluded has the right to read and the right to speak
00:32:53freely with no exceptions
00:33:05I'm sorry what happened in Egypt they did use all these completely insecure communications
00:33:10mechanisms but they did it quickly so they're able to communicate quickly because they use insecure
00:33:17mechanisms and so you whip a political situation was whipped up and evolved much
00:33:23faster than their opponents could see it understand it and act on it so I think the general principle you
00:33:31have there is true
00:33:32but I don't think that it actually is the case that in the long run all of those insecure technologies
00:33:38will actually benefit them in Tunisia we were told that people in Syria were killed
00:33:43how many people are you willing to sacrifice in order to get the political gain or if you're one of
00:33:50those people how much of your own life are you willing to risk in order to get that political gain
00:33:57well part of that actually actually you may be out you might be willing to risk rather a lot
00:34:03and if you slow everyone down such that you're not going to get the political gain at all
00:34:08yes you might protect people but on the other hand you're not are you protecting people by
00:34:13permitting a situation to continue where you have 20,000 political prisoners
00:34:16it's not protecting people either
00:34:19it's just that I'm not clear if they understand what will happen I think most people don't understand data retention
00:34:24I don't think it works like that actually I think you have a short-term crisis when you decide that
00:34:29the ability to activate quickly and en masse is more important than preventing the internet from forming a long-term
00:34:37profile on them
00:34:37people just don't understand the threat model
00:34:40there's two different threat models here there's one where they know who you are and they're going to spend a
00:34:47certain amount of resources on targeting you
00:34:50and following you physically and the other is they don't yet know who you are
00:34:56so as long and as long as you keep your anonymity you don't end up in this first category
00:35:01once you're in this first category it's very hard
00:35:04I'm in this first category
00:35:08you're in this first category
00:35:22if you're in this first category
00:35:24I don't care very much
00:35:25do you wanna do that?
00:35:26it's tripping
00:35:27I don't care very much
00:35:38do you wanna do that?
00:35:38That's out there
00:35:41Can you look at the Octopoe London photo?
00:35:43And make sure the sound's out
00:35:56So you can get it in the short video
00:36:01No, I don't want to put it too short in the back
00:36:09I feel like it shows Alex
00:36:12Don't worry
00:36:18Julia, you just need to wash his mouth
00:36:22Cut it extra
00:37:00Three guys arrived and they approached him and they say FBI
00:37:05They asked about my name
00:37:07Yeah, about your name and his involvement with you
00:37:10And they said you were involved with Wikileaks, right?
00:37:15And we have been following you
00:37:17They admitted that they have been following you
00:37:20And we are contacting you because we want to ask you some questions
00:37:23Like what?
00:37:25Well, very general stuff
00:37:27Like we want to know your relationship with Julian Assange
00:37:31General stuff like that
00:37:38That's a bird
00:37:43Three guys
00:37:46Shall I continue?
00:37:48Let's go over there
00:37:50Just have a look there, Laura, to see
00:38:10This question about communication with Manning, for example
00:38:12That's clearly the most important question I've heard so far
00:38:17I said, did they mention Jacob?
00:38:20And she said, no, no, they didn't mention Jacob
00:38:22They just mentioned Julian
00:38:24Because they mentioned you again
00:38:26Wikileaks and Julian Assange
00:38:27Because of the Manning case
00:38:28When the three spooks
00:38:32Yeah
00:38:32When they were trying to make him answer the questions
00:38:36Because the metro was closed
00:38:37That what they could do is give him a ride
00:38:41On the car
00:38:42To the house that he was staying at
00:38:44Because he...
00:38:44And he said to them that he was staying alone in the house
00:38:50Such a fucking idiot
00:38:51Get into a car with three FBI guys
00:38:53Yeah, alright
00:38:54Yeah
00:38:54Yeah, yeah
00:38:55And I said, what you have to do now
00:38:57Is to call this and this and this and this and this person
00:39:06That's his... that's his security
00:39:21I bumped into four people I knew in Sweden
00:39:23They all say the same thing
00:39:26That...
00:39:27WikiLeaks has lost ground because of you
00:39:30Doesn't matter when you go, yes, but you know
00:39:32WikiLeaks is him
00:39:33It's all his ideas and all that
00:39:35That almost puts him off even more
00:39:38You... I mean you're toxic then
00:39:41They all say
00:39:43Apologise
00:39:45I'm not telling you this is what I'm saying
00:39:47I'm just passing...
00:39:49I'm just passing on...
00:39:50500 days of detention without judge
00:39:54Yeah
00:39:55The only person who put it differently
00:39:57Was Thomas
00:39:59Also
00:39:59Who said, you need to address the issue
00:40:03He said, what you do is you need to
00:40:05Address...
00:40:06The girls
00:40:07Say, I'm sorry you felt that way
00:40:10I wasn't disregarding you
00:40:11Da da da da da da
00:40:13That sort of thing
00:40:14Sure, just fly her over
00:40:15I'm sure she'll be happy to have a private meeting
00:40:18Who, SW?
00:40:20Yeah
00:40:21Are you being sarcastic?
00:40:23No
00:40:26If you can demonstrate
00:40:28That due process hasn't been followed
00:40:30That will really upset the Swedes
00:40:32Because they're a stickler for process
00:40:33No, they're not
00:40:34They're not a stickler for process
00:40:36They're a stickler for pretending
00:40:37Yeah
00:40:40We have been demonstrating again and again and again
00:40:43Yes, I know, that's why I said I disagree
00:40:44And they said, well, you know
00:40:47That's why they hate me
00:40:50Anyway, then they said
00:40:51Yeah, I thought they much prefer to fuck me
00:40:54And have no whimpering sounds
00:40:56This is my debrief
00:40:58So can you keep quiet?
00:41:00Go on
00:41:01Because every time I say, well
00:41:03They're like, he should've
00:41:04He should just come back and say
00:41:06Say, and you know, get the
00:41:07Get into that prison cell
00:41:09Yeah
00:41:36Hi, I'll put them on
00:41:40Hello
00:41:44Hello
00:41:45Yeah, of course
00:41:45You need to say that
00:41:47These are weasel words
00:41:51Fuck that
00:41:53You don't need to worry about that
00:41:54The US is having an active
00:41:55It has an active grand jury
00:41:57With FBI agents detaining people at airports
00:42:04I don't know that they're not
00:42:05That's a lie
00:42:07It's a grand jury
00:42:09All you have to do is
00:42:10No, no, no, no, no
00:42:12All you have to do is
00:42:13What was in the Sydney Morning Herald
00:42:16From the Australian Government's own material
00:42:18Which is, it cannot be confirmed on the record
00:42:23I.e. it can be confirmed off the record
00:42:26Witnesses who have been dragged in
00:42:27Have released the subpoenas
00:42:29Have been on the steps of the grand jury
00:43:08Julian runs the organization like an intelligence agency
00:43:11Using codenames, denial and deception, compartmentalization
00:43:19He's teaching me things about secrecy
00:43:21I didn't realize I needed to learn
00:43:25I don't know what he's planning
00:43:28I'm only able to see one step ahead
00:44:04What he does
00:44:11Is there any time
00:44:11To else
00:44:11The first was
00:44:11He put me
00:44:11The next was
00:45:46And, yeah, any journalist will tell him to bugger off.
00:47:26We're right back.
00:55:5258 degrees a minute.
00:56:23Production journal.
00:56:27I had a nightmare that hung with me for days.
00:56:31Julian was being detained at a US military base.
00:56:37I've been off the radar since I started editing.
00:56:42I should check in with Sarah so they don't freak out.
00:57:04You see, my profile didn't really take off until the sex case.
00:57:09No, it was very high in media circles and intelligence circles and so on.
00:57:16But it didn't really, really take off as that I was a globally recognised household name.
00:57:24It wasn't until the sex case.
00:57:26So I was joking to all about people.
00:57:30Sex scandal every six months.
00:57:34I think that was me you were joking to and I died a little bit inside.
00:57:39It's the waiter.
00:57:41That's going to keep my profile up.
00:57:42Isn't it Sarah?
00:57:43Sarah, big grin.
00:57:44I was like, please, please, please don't.
00:57:46I will kill you on every level available.
00:57:48Oh my God.
00:57:50It's a platform.
00:57:52You know a platform.
00:58:04Oh, they didn't move.
00:58:06This is incredible.
00:58:13Those are the guys I can encourage to let you go.
00:58:15So, you know, please don't.
00:58:17Sure.
00:58:17Don't share this with anybody.
00:58:19Not a single soul.
00:58:20But, you know, let's talk about it and figure it out.
00:58:22But this is clearly a man in the middle, right?
00:58:23We tried to connect to Tor Project's web server.
00:58:25It says that it's five hops upstream and then it closes the connection.
00:58:31I'm going to give you a whole bunch of stuff.
00:58:32What you need to do.
00:58:33Very quickly, because I have an idea.
00:58:35So, if you prepare me...
00:58:35What the fuck is that?
00:58:37You don't even have a bathroom that fits you?
00:58:39Do we need to go shopping for you?
00:58:41No, no.
00:58:42Does it say Boston?
00:58:44Yeah.
00:58:44If you prepare me a portable USB or external drive with an insert, it goes to a shell to get
00:59:00on this network and you can do the tests.
00:59:04Give me a computer and I want to do that.
00:59:07Okay.
00:59:08We should build that.
00:59:10Please get in the shower. You have ten minutes, please.
00:59:18It's like you're in college.
00:59:22Where do you sleep?
00:59:25Outside the bookshelf.
00:59:27What?
00:59:27Yeah.
00:59:28This is your room?
00:59:29Yeah, we're not mine.
00:59:30If I get to go home at night.
00:59:35I want you to look like you just took your shirt off and you're at home, you know?
00:59:38You should just be in your...
00:59:39In that...
00:59:40Like something like that.
00:59:41Like a dirty fucking t-shirt, like a rebel.
00:59:43We're just staying on it.
00:59:45Yeah.
00:59:46Yeah.
00:59:50What's your favorite kind of food?
00:59:57Well, I went to Malaysia.
01:00:00Well, first of all, first of all, let's not pretend for a moment that I'm a normal person.
01:00:07I am obsessed with our political struggle.
01:00:11I'm not a normal person.
01:00:13Right.
01:00:13I just would really like for you to tell me how you feel.
01:00:18Because I've been trying to get that out of you.
01:00:20Why does it matter how I feel?
01:00:22Well, I mean, who gives a damn?
01:00:24I don't...
01:00:25See, I don't care how I feel.
01:00:30Do you ever feel like just fucking crying?
01:00:33No.
01:00:34Never?
01:00:35Never.
01:00:35Even when you're happy?
01:00:37So you love your mom?
01:00:38Yeah.
01:00:39How about your dad?
01:00:41My dad is much more abstract.
01:00:44So...
01:00:45No.
01:00:46Nothing like you then.
01:00:47I'm just kidding.
01:00:50Who is after you, Mr. Assange?
01:00:54Formally, there are more than 12 United States intelligence organizations and biscuit dip organizations
01:01:01that are...
01:01:02What are they?
01:01:03...after.
01:01:03So, I mean, those include, most importantly, the FBI, the Department of Justice,
01:01:09the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense and subsets of the Department of Defense,
01:01:17CENTCOM, sections of the U.S. Army, including CCIU, the U.S. Army's Computer Crime Super-Sketic Unit.
01:01:25Those include, in Australia, various...
01:01:29So, a series of institutions.
01:01:31So, there are...
01:01:32And, of course, the State Department, the Diplomatic Security Service, here within the United Kingdom,
01:01:37the Home Office, the Exhibition Squad, the Serious Crime Soccer, Serious Organized...
01:01:45So, basically, a whole bunch of fucking people in America.
01:01:48Um...
01:01:49Now, what about in the rest of the world?
01:01:51So, in the rest of the world, the Australian government started up what it called the whole
01:01:57of government investigation that included the Internal Intelligence Agency, ASIO, the External Intelligence Agency,
01:02:03ASIO, the Attorney General, the Department of Premier and Covert, the Department of Defense,
01:02:08the US-Australian Federal Police, the Swedish Prosecution Authorities,
01:02:13that includes the Foreign Ministry, run by Carl Bilt, some aspects of the Swedish...
01:02:22It's become a national issue now.
01:02:24Um...
01:02:24So, a lot of people?
01:02:26A lot of systems?
01:02:27Well...
01:02:27A lot of systems?
01:02:28There's more...
01:02:28The Scientologists...
01:02:30There's a lot of...
01:02:31The Scientologists...
01:02:31There's a lot of friends...
01:02:32There's a lot of friends of friends...
01:02:33A lot of friends of friends doing things to put you in this position that you are now in,
01:02:39correct?
01:02:40Sure.
01:02:53...
01:02:56And...
01:02:57Seven,
01:02:59Six...
01:03:00Five...
01:03:00Four...
01:03:01Three...
01:03:02Two...
01:03:02One...
01:03:03Seven...
01:03:04Six...
01:03:05Five...
01:03:06Four...
01:03:07Three...
01:03:08Two...
01:03:12One...
01:03:14Good,μλ...
01:03:15QuziΔ Mister...
01:03:19Quick...
01:03:20That's good...
01:03:21Go...
01:03:36I've been contacted by an anonymous source.
01:03:40He claims to have documents about illegal NSA spying.
01:03:45I wonder if the FBI is trying to entrap me, Jake, or Julian.
01:03:49Julian. Julian would be the likely target.
01:04:00I haven't told him about the source.
01:04:27Okay, um, I need you to move the cameras left for a moment.
01:04:31Give me that bag.
01:04:43Julian contacted me after I published the video.
01:04:47He said Snowden isn't safe in Hong Kong.
01:04:50I told him I can't assist with Ed's asylum.
01:04:53The risks are too high.
01:04:57When they investigate this leak,
01:04:59they will create a narrative to say it was all a conspiracy.
01:05:03They won't understand what really happened.
01:05:06That we all kept each other in the dark.
01:05:11Speaking news this hour,
01:05:13Weakily explains one of its legal advisers
01:05:14accompanying Snowden after the whistleblower organization
01:05:17secured a safe exit.
01:05:18Who reportedly has Snowden aboard,
01:05:20scheduled to land in the Russian capital within minutes.
01:05:23As you may have heard,
01:05:25there is a CIA agent
01:05:27who has revealed a lot of information
01:05:30and he is now trapped in the airport in Moscow.
01:05:35We managed to get him out of Hong Kong.
01:05:37But when he landed in the Moscow airport,
01:05:41the American government had cancelled his passport
01:05:45to try and grab him.
01:05:46We are trying to arrange a private jet
01:05:49to take him from Moscow to Ecuador
01:05:54or perhaps maybe Venezuela
01:05:57or maybe Iceland countries where he would be safe.
01:06:01But there isn't much time.
01:06:04This is the problem.
01:06:05We need to raise the money for the jet.
01:06:10Well, the quotes coming back
01:06:12are somewhere between $120,000 and $300,000
01:06:16for the private flight.
01:06:20And one of our people is accompanying him.
01:06:25Today, we've had information from the official Russian news service Interfax
01:06:29that at the Moscow airport,
01:06:31Edward Snowden applied for asylum there
01:06:32with the help of Sarah Harrison.
01:06:34You see her there on the right.
01:06:35The British national says that her lawyers
01:06:37have advised her not to return to the UK
01:06:40because she risks arrest under the terrorism act.
01:07:02Not guilty on aiding the enemy.
01:07:05But specification one, charge two,
01:07:07on wanting participation, guilty.
01:07:09Afghan war, darren espionage, guilty.
01:07:12Spec 8 on the Gitmo file.
01:07:13Guilty, which is 10 years max.
01:07:15Cable gate, guilty.
01:07:1710 years.
01:07:19Reykjavik cable, 2 years max.
01:07:21Guilty.
01:07:23God.
01:07:25It goes on.
01:07:2610, 20, 30,
01:07:2990, 100,
01:07:31102, 112.
01:07:36Yeah, so far, 142 years.
01:07:39Maximum possible sentence.
01:08:04I spoke to Julian for the first time in months.
01:08:07He is furious and feels betrayed.
01:08:11He wants me to give him NSA documents
01:08:14and accuse me of dividing the community
01:08:16by not publishing with WikiLeaks.
01:08:19I tell him I can't be his source.
01:08:24I don't tell him that I don't trust him.
01:08:28He's still yelling when I hang up the phone.
01:08:30He's still yelling when I hang on the phone.
01:08:32I'm still yelling when I'm headed for the phone.
01:08:48I'm still yelling when I hang up the phone.
01:08:54So what are you saying?
01:08:59is known through the defense community
01:09:01as a documentary filmmaker who's anti-U.S.
01:09:05So she's known in the Wicke community,
01:09:07the anti-U.S., anti-government monitoring community.
01:09:11When we were pursuing Snowden,
01:09:13we went balls to the wall to try to get this guy.
01:09:15We were able to revoke his visa
01:09:17the day before he boarded the plane from Moscow.
01:09:20So they get the guy on the plane, he ends up in Moscow.
01:09:22And then, therefore, at that point, we realized
01:09:26we lost him, we're probably not going to get him back.
01:10:11How's it going?
01:10:40It looks almost certain now that it's going to be Hillary versus Trump.
01:10:45Basically it will be Hillary versus Trump unless one of them has a stroke or is assassinated.
01:10:53So that's quite a bad outcome in both directions.
01:10:57We have a definite warmonger in the case of Hillary who's done it for us and in the case
01:11:05of Trump we have someone who's extremely unpredictable.
01:11:09I've discovered quite a lot of interesting stuff in relation to Hillary.
01:11:14Unfortunately for Trump there's not so many known interesting documents and you would
01:11:21think with these business ventures all over there must be a whole bunch of stuff.
01:11:24I don't know.
01:11:26I don't know.
01:11:37I don't know.
01:11:39I don't know.
01:11:52I don't know.
01:12:08I don't know.
01:12:09I don't know.
01:12:36I don't know.
01:12:46I don't know.
01:13:01I don't know.
01:13:02I don't know.
01:13:14I don't know.
01:13:27I don't know.
01:13:30I don't know.
01:13:31I don't know.
01:13:39I don't know.
01:13:41I don't know.
01:14:15I don't know.
01:14:20I don't know.
01:14:35I don't know.
01:14:43I don't know.
01:14:45I don't know.
01:15:42I don't know.
01:15:45I don't know.
01:15:45I don't know.
01:16:15I don't know.
01:16:44I don't know.
01:17:08I don't know.
01:17:11I don't know.
01:17:12I don't know.
01:17:30I don't know.
01:17:33I don't know.
01:17:34I don't know.
01:17:35I don't know.
01:17:40The Swedish prosecuting office will make a decision as to whether to carry the investigation
01:17:46or possibly bring charges against Julian Assange or perhaps drop the investigation altogether.
01:18:32whatever he wants to do.
01:18:34I don't know.
01:18:43I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of
01:18:49our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere
01:18:54in the 2016 presidential election.
01:18:57And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated
01:19:03with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between
01:19:09the campaign and Russia's efforts.
01:19:12Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
01:19:13I just want to follow up with a few questions.
01:19:15Dr. Comey, are you aware that Roger Stone played a role in the Trump campaign?
01:19:20I'm not going to talk about any particular person here today, Mr. Schiff.
01:19:23I'm going to continue to ask these questions because I want to make sure you are aware of
01:19:27these facts, whether you're able to comment on them or not.
01:19:29Are you aware that Mr. Stone also claimed that he was in touch with an intermediary of
01:19:33Mr. Assange?
01:19:35Same answer.
01:19:37This is a question I think you can answer.
01:19:39Do you know whether the Russian intelligence services dealt directly with WikiLeaks, or
01:19:44whether they too used an intermediary?
01:19:47We assess they used some kind of cutout.
01:19:49They didn't deal directly with WikiLeaks in contrast to Guccifer 2.0.
01:19:54There is evidence, is there not, of a break-in of the Democratic headquarters by a foreign
01:20:00power using cyber means?
01:20:02Yes, there was.
01:20:03And there was an effort by the Russians to cover up their break-in by using cutouts like
01:20:08WikiLeaks to publish the stolen material.
01:20:10Isn't that right?
01:20:12Certainly to cover up that they were the ones releasing it.
01:20:42Like, the Russian intelligence is not allowed to capture it.
01:20:44To be a citizen of the United Kingdom, I'm going to be able to port the reinstine.
01:20:44Everyone who knows that I'm doing this, they want to know why.
01:20:49The motivation.
01:20:52So if we actually, if I don't try and make an excuse, but rather...
01:20:57Or sound hate or anything, but really why?
01:20:59If I don't... Let me close that door.
01:21:08I don't feel there's even a choice in the matter.
01:21:10I was in a lucky position that the new thing...
01:21:18That element which is really causing the world to globalise.
01:21:23That element which is producing most of the changes that we see, including the bad ones.
01:21:31I was an expert in.
01:21:33If you see the global problems that we have as a global civilisation.
01:21:40You actually see them and understand them.
01:21:45Then acting locally is completely inconsequential.
01:21:49Relative to what you understand.
01:21:52So the only way to then act...
01:21:59To make the world the way you want it.
01:22:03To remove those features which you do not like.
01:22:06Is to act globally.
01:22:09Because the features that you are concerned about are a global phenomenon.
01:22:17I understand what you're saying on a tactical level.
01:22:20But like really the motivation.
01:22:22That is the motivation.
01:22:23I mean it's...
01:22:24But isn't it also something about power?
01:22:31If you're...
01:22:32Let's say your perception was limited to your garden.
01:22:35And so you spend your time going...
01:22:37Well I don't like...
01:22:41I don't like to have...
01:22:43Weeds.
01:22:44I like to have flowers in my garden.
01:22:45I like my garden to be healthy.
01:22:48Then you spend your time doing that.
01:22:50If your...
01:22:52Perception has been globalised.
01:22:58Then...
01:23:01This...
01:23:01Perception of your garden.
01:23:03I mean...
01:23:04Perhaps I have a god complex right?
01:23:06But...
01:23:06Perception of your garden.
01:23:09My perception of what...
01:23:11My environment is.
01:23:15The area that I care about is the...
01:23:18The whole world.
01:23:19The whole world.
01:23:36Julian texted me...
01:23:37After I showed him a cut of the film.
01:23:41He said...
01:23:43Laura...
01:23:44I ask that you cease putting into press releases...
01:23:47And interviews...
01:23:48That we have fallen out.
01:23:52After the screening...
01:23:53We will continue to try and find a path...
01:23:55Of mutual interest.
01:23:59However...
01:23:59Presently...
01:24:00The film is a severe threat to my freedom.
01:24:03And I'm forced to treat it accordingly.
01:24:05The film is perfectly determined...
01:24:35That's fine...
01:25:06The Attorney General said he is focused on prosecuting leaks, and the Justice Department is taking steps to do that.
01:25:13We are going to step up our efforts on all leaks.
01:25:17Whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail.
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