We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Page #12

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a David and Goliath moment.

Do you consider your organization and

your website to be under attack?

Yes, all week it's

been under attack.

NARRATOR:
The WikiLeaks website

came under cyber attack

and kept falling offline.

In response, WikiLeaks supporters

began to mirror the site

on over 1,000 servers

around the globe.

It was impossible to remove

WikiLeaks from the Internet.

The Internet

in a digital era

lets governments get more

information and more power

and more communication

than they've ever had before.

But, it lets citizens

do the same.

Governments are more powerful

and more vulnerable

at exactly the same time.

The fight on our hands is

who gets to control the Internet,

who gets to control information.

ELECTRONIC VOICE: Hello. This is a

classified message from Anonymous.

After numerous attacks on the

truth-spilling platform of WikiLeaks,

ANONYMOUS hacker

collective video

including the shutdown

of its financing,

we have already

made it very clear

that we will fight for freedom

of speech and the free press.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

NARRATOR:
In response to the

financial blockade on WikiLeaks,

the hacker collective Anonymous

launched cyber attacks,

taking down the websites of

VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal.

Free Julian Assange!

Free Bradley Manning!

End the war.

Off the road, please!

Off the road.

[OFFICER CONTINUES SHOUTING]

[PROTESTER 1 SHOUTING]

Political prisoner!

OFFICER:
You've been

warned already!

[PROTESTER 2 SHOUTING]

We love you!

[PROTESTER 3 SHOUTING]

Free speech!

NARRATOR:
One week after the

arrest warrant was issued,

Assange surrendered

to police in London.

Deemed a flight risk,

he was ordered held in jail,

pending a bail hearing.

STEPHENS:
Many people believe

Mr. Assange to be innocent,

and many people believe that this

prosecution is politically motivated.

[PROTESTERS CLAMORING]

NARRATOR:
Assange's arrest

had become a mythic moment,

but what was really going on?

Was Sweden acting as an

agent of the United States?

Would extradition to Sweden mean

a one-way ticket to Guantanamo?

Or had the mission of

WikiLeaks become confused

with a private matter

between one man and two women?

INTERVIEWER:
Talk about why

we're altering your appearance

and filming you in this way.

AN NA:
The reason I felt it

was important to be obscured

is mainly because of all

the threats I've received.

And I know that different

media have published my face

without my consent.

And a lot of online

communities

started to have wild

speculations about who I was

and who the other girl was.

I feel that the less

my face is shown

and the less people

can recognize me,

the safer I will be.

NARRATOR:
Anna has been

advised not to talk

about any of the details of her

sexual encounter with Assange

until the legal case

has been resolved.

But there are a few facts

on which everyone agrees.

An organizer for a WikiLeaks

seminar in Stockholm,

Anna invited Julian to stay at her

apartment while she was out of town.

Then she decided

to come back early.

[CAMERAS CLICKING]

The following day

at the seminar,

Julian was approached by

another WikiLeaks volunteer.

Her name was Sofia.

[BOSTROM SPEAKING]

Sofia wanted to see Julian,

wanted to touch Julian

wanted to be close to Julian.

Honestly, I think

he was a rock star

and he was picking the fruit.

The truth is the

first casualty of war.

One week after the seminar

Anna called me

and said, "Donald..."

"I was very proud to have

the hottest man on the planet"

"in my apartment,

in my bed even."

"But then something happened

I didn't like."

"He tore the condom."

"I feel very uncomfortable

about it."

And then she told me

Sofia called her

about the same thing.

She was very concerned

she's pregnant or catch HIV

because Julian had sex

with her without a condom.

They said if Julian

takes an HIV test

we won't go to the police.

I tried actually

to tell his friends

that we can get this over

with fast and with no fuss

because I really didn't want

this to be in the papers.

But he chose to make

a big deal out of it.

DAVIES:
Julian had repeatedly

refused to have the test.

When he had finally changed his mind

and agreed to, it was too late.

By that time, the women had

already got too frustrated

and too angry with

Julian's refusals,

and they'd gone

to the police.

ASSANGE:
They found out that

they were mutual lovers of mine,

they had had unprotected sex,

and they got into a tizzy

about whether there was possibility

of sexually transmitted diseases.

Ridiculous thing to go

to the police about.

NARRATOR:
When the women went to the police

to try to force Assange to take an HIV test,

their testimony raised questions

about possible criminal charges.

The police, on their own,

decided to investigate further.

The refusal to use a condom

took center stage.

If Assange had HIV and knew it,

it could be a case for assault.

...Assange...[was] firmly holding [Anna's]

arms and prying her legs open...

Anna is convinced that Assange...

broke the condom...

...and...continued having sex with

a subsequent ejaculation.

The testimony of the women

raised another issue.

Did Assange refuse

to use a condom

because he wanted to

make the women pregnant?

Some pointed to the fact that he

had already fathered four children

with four different women

around the world.

This is a man

who's elusive,

he's always flying around the

place, he doesn't have any roots.

And he's got a number

of kids.

There might be some sort

of primary impulse in him

to want to just reproduce,

to want to have some sort

of bedrock in his life.

This is the ultimate

digital man,

and actually you can't just

live in a digital world.

"...[Sofia] was woken by the feeling

of [Assange] penetrating her."

"He was already inside of her

and she let him continue."

"She immediately asked 'Are you wearing

anything' and he replied 'You."'

ASSANGE:
I have never said

that this is a honey trap.

I have never said that

it is not a honey trap.

He was claiming that he

didn't know who we were,

and that's not true.

He knew very well

who we were,

and he knew we were going

to the police before we went.

ASSANGE:
There are

powerful interests

that have incentives

to promote these smears.

DAVIES:
What Julian did was to start

the little snowball rolling downhill,

that this was some

kind of a conspiracy.

And that was all he

had to do at that stage.

It rolled and it

picked up speed.

AN NA:
A lot of rumors were

made up and pure fantasies.

The wildest story of all

was that I was a CIA agent.

And I was like,

I couldn't really believe

that anyone would believe

such a weird story.

[BOSTROM SPEAKING]

From outside I can understand

it must be a conspiracy.

But, I was in

the middle of it.

Sorry to say it was not

two girls in short skirts

sent in from

the CIA or whatever.

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