The Fifth Estate Page #7

I'm gonna need a disguise.

Oh.

That's a weapon.

I see your element.

You got about four Humvees

out along this...

You're clear.

All right, firing.

Let me know when you get them.

Light 'em all up.

Come on. Fire.

Roger.

Keep shooting.

Keep shooting.

Target hit. It was a missile.

Appears to be

wounded, trying to crawl away.

He's getting up.

Maybe he has

a weapon down in his hand?

No, no,

I haven't seen one yet.

I see you guys got that guy

crawling right now on the curb?

Yeah, I got

him, I put two rounds of...

Individuals

going to the scene...

Jesus.

...possibly picking up bodies

and weapons.

Coming around. Clear.

Roger.

I lost them in the dust.

- I got 'em.

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.

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.

All right, firing.

Okay, I got it.

Last conversation, Hotel...

Roger, Hotel Two-Six.

I've heard people say

that I dangle on the autistic

spectrum.

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?

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.

if you don't want

ugly pictures,

you should stay out

of ugly wars.

I've got the Deputy NSA

for you.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Hello.

Ziggy.

Christ, they're gonna kill us.

Get off Skype.

Get off everything, now.

Turn the phones off!

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?

She said

it was more than that.

Half a million classified

U.S. Army documents

and hundreds of thousands...

of internal communiqus from

the U.S. State Department.

This is the biggest leak

of classified information

in history.

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."

- 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.

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 sh*t

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.

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.

- 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.

Sh*t! 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!

We need time

to go through it all.

Prick.

Come on.

F*** you, you disloyal f***!

Sh*t!

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.

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

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