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- Thank you.

- Whoo!

Thank you so much.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

So, what do you want to drink?

He's like an octopus.

He's everywhere

at the same time.

Yeah.

Come on, Daniel!

You need space

to let your ego flow!

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.

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.

Excuse me.

Um...

Call me.

- Okay.

- Cool.

Look at you! Groupies.

She's a reporter.

She's certainly working

an angle.

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.

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?

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.

Hey.

Ask for my help, Daniel.

Welcome back to

the most news in the morning.

Yeah.

No. No. Keep your men on.

All right, thank you.

...detailing nearly 500,000

pager messages reportedly sent

- on September 11th, 2001.

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,

Petroper, Bank Julius Bar.

Right, we just indicted

the bankers.

Do they have an agenda?

Truth, justice,

the American way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank you, thank you.

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.

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 personal 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.

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

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