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business about handing people over.
They would hold to that perhaps
stronger than Britain would.
We think we've got a special
relationship with the United States.
NARRATOR:
Despite thatspecial relationship,
Assange desperately
fought extradition to Sweden
and lost every appeal.
PROTESTER:
Julian,we are with you!
NARRATOR:
His legal battledrained his finances
and trapped him in a family
farm for over a year.
Hoped for funding didn't come, and
WikiLeaks suspended operations.
His international organization
had blown apart.
In Berlin, Daniel Domscheit-Berg
quit the organization.
So did the mysterious figure who had
built the secret submission system.
Assange no longer had
a drop box for new leaks.
In London, journalist Heather
Brooke was leaked unredacted copies
of all of the State Department
cables by a WikiLeaks insider.
BROOKE:
There was the initial peoplethat Julian gave the information to
and then, how many people
did they give it to,
and then how many people
did they give it to?
NARRATOR:
Some of the cables alsoleaked to a European dictator
who used them to target dissidents
and suppress free speech.
This is at the core
of where things went wrong,
and where ultimately
WikiLeaks has lost control
over the spread of
these documents.
NARRATOR:
In the end, all of thecables leaked across the Internet
on mirrored versions
of WikiLeaks. org.
All Julian had left
was his celebrity.
[BEEPING]
How you doing,
Mr. Assange?
That's my personal
information
and you have no right
to know about it!
NARRATOR:
Julian extended his brand by hostinga chat show for Russian state television.
Where are you?
In England?
lam in England, under house
arrest now for 500 days.
Five hundred days.
NARRATOR:
One of his guests was RafaelCorrea, the president of Ecuador.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Welcome to the club
of the persecuted!
Thank you, President Correa.
NARRATOR:
A month afterthe program aired,
Assange sought asylum
[CROWD CHEERING]
ASSANGE:
This morning the suncame up on a different world,
and a courageous Latin American
nation took a stand for justice.
Embassy of Ecuador
London, England
NARRATOR:
It wasan ironic choice.
Ecuador had a record of
putting journalists in prison
and had been charged with
corruption in a WikiLeaks cable.
The United States must renounce
its witch hunt against WikiLeaks.
NARRATOR:
Despite no proofof a US-Sweden plot,
Ecuador granted him asylum.
The British government pledged to arrest him
if he left the tight confines of the embassy,
so Assange prepared
for a long stay.
[CROWD CHEERING]
ANNA:
I saw the signs"Free Bradley Manning"
and "Free Julian Assange, "
and I think it's ridiculous.
These two cases have nothing
to do with each other.
Julian, he's not
even imprisoned.
He has locked himself up
to answer a few pretty
simple questions.
BALL:
There is a phenomenoncalled Noble Cause Corruption.
Essentially,
you do things which
if anyone else did you would
recognize aren't okay, aren't right.
But because you know
you're a good guy,
it's different for you.
I suppose you can't
accuse Julian
of not setting out from
the beginning what he may do.
Mendax by name,
Mendax by nature.
DAVIES:
The sameextraordinary personality
which conceived of
and created WikiLeaks
is also the same personality
that has effectively
destroyed WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks has become
what it detests
and what it actually tried
to rid the world of.
We must get away from this understanding
that we see Julian as a savior,
as some new guru,
some new hero,
some new pop star
or whatever,
that's going to
change all of it.
The credit is undue.
Everybody celebrating Julian
as a whistle-blower.
He's not.
Bradley Manning might
have been a whistle-blower,
and, if he was,
he is the courageous guy.
He is the one
that took all the risk
and in the end now has...
ls suffering.
[PROTESTERS CHANTING]
Free Bradley Manning!
NARRATOR:
After his arrest, Manninghad been held for two months
in an eight-by-eight
foot cage in Kuwait.
Then he was transferred to the Marine
Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia.
Though Manning had not been
tried for any crime,
he was kept in solitary
confinement for nearly a year.
Shame! Sit yo' ass down!
PANELIST:
Bradley Manning, the allegedleaker is currently sitting in prison
2010 Hackers on
Planet Earth conference
for the rest of his life.
How do you feel about that?
[AUDIENCE MEMBER SPEAKING]
He could be tortured.
I think that it's
a little bit ludicrous
to say that Bradley Manning's
going to be tortured.
We don't do that
to our citizens.
[CROWD JEERING]
PROTESTERS:
Free Bradley Manning!
NARRATOR:
A high-ranking general
authorized Manning's placement in
solitary confinement on suicide watch
against the protest
of prison doctors.
His clothes and blankets
were taken from him.
Lights in his cell
were always on.
When he questioned his treatment,
guards took away his glasses
during morning roll call.
At night, guards kept him
cold and woke him frequently,
a practice that recalled the sleep
deprivation program at Guantanamo.
Manning's supporters
speculated
that the U.S. government
was trying to push Manning
to turn on Assange
and implicate him in a crime.
INTERVIEWER:
What wasyour reaction about
Bradley Manning's
treatment at Quantico?
It seemed to me that
sleep deprivation and nudity,
these were what I would call
"enhanced interrogation techniques."
They were being practiced on an individual.
[LAUGHS] No.
Look, I don't know
the specifics.
I don't know the rules
of confinement
for the Marine brig
at Quantico.
But Bob Gates is an
incredibly honorable man.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike
Mullen is an incredibly honorable man.
I defer very much
to their judgment
that whatever was done
was appropriate.
[PROTESTERS CHANTING]
CROWLEY:
The treatment thathe was receiving at Quantico,
the level of solitary
confinement,
the fact that his clothes
were taken away at night,
it was inconsistent with our
values and our interests.
It was making Bradley Manning
a far more sympathetic figure
than I see him.
When I was asked about it
in a forum at MIT,
I gave a candid answer.
JAKE TAPPER:
State Departmentspokesman P.J. Crowley
said the treatment of Bradley
Manning by the Pentagon
is "ridiculous and
counterproductive and stupid,"
and I'm wondering
if you agree with that.
Uh...
I have actually
asked the Pentagon
whether or not the procedures
that have been taken
in terms of his confinement
are appropriate
and are meeting
our basic standards.
They assure me
that they are.
I was appalled at that.
I was appalled at that with respect
to the President's responsibility
as Commander-in-Chief.
Any commander...
Any commander knows
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