to pick him up and carry him out. were you able to witness that moment? >> i have not seen that. that i would have to see to believe. i mean, you want champions to hate losing, but good grief. i need to see that. >> yeah. it's amazing because everyone thought, everyone thought the heat was going to win. >> go, texas. >> mavs wanted it. they heart. thank you, richelle. thanks for filling in. i'm don lemon in manchester, new hampshire. thanks for watching, everyone. don't forget to watch the debate monday night right here on cnn, and thanks to everyone at st. anselm college. it's a beautiful campus and they have been so nice. have a good night, everybody.

>> holy bleep bleep. >> "the gartdian" from this morning. 14 pages. >> julian believes that if you overthrow secrecy in the world, you will overthrow the corrupt political establishments that are oppressing everybody. >> we don't see any difference in the white house's response to the case to the other group have exposed. >> for the internet generation, this is our challenge and this is our time. >> reporter: over 20 years ago, the berlin wall came down, and it marked the end of a cold war between two super powers. now, there's a new battle that is waged for control of information. the front lines aren't brick and mortar walls. it's firewalls. its weapons are computers and not computers and its warriors, hackers, activists, even anarchists.

it's an epic struggle for state secrets between institutions and individuals. and at the center of this war is julian assange. >> my function in wikileaks is to take all the heat. >> reporter: the 38-year-old australian founder of wick leeks has risen from obscurity to become a whistleblower. >> the state is surveilling, regimenting all of us, all the while, hiding behind cloaks of opaqueness. >> reporter: armed with virtual volunteers, assange has taken aim at corporations and nation. >> the material exposes an extraordinary range of abuses. >> reporter: exposing secrets that helped fuel anger and revolt in the middle east. drawing the ire of the most powerful government in the world.

and galvanizing a global following of cyber warriors ready to fight. >> we feel obligated to step out in wikileaks' defense. because if wikileaks goes down, that leaves bad implications for the rest of us. >> reporter: a maverick and a game changer, he's also under attack for his own behavior. >> he has taken aim at his foot and shot it. >> reporter: assange actually just arrived at courthouse. you can see him. he is going to come through the gated area into the courthouse. that's my first glimpse of julian assange. this is one of the most intimate portraits yet of julian assange. >> how far will this group go? location of weapons? >> absolutely. >> thanks, steven. a [ bleep ] gun pointed at me.

and he is person number 21. >> reporter: rare candid moments captured by journalist mark davis who spent months traveling with the enigmatic leader of wikileaks. >> he went from a hobo character if you like, to a rock star. >> reporter: you followed for for for months, spending time on the road with him. what is he like? >> he is private. he is a charming guy when he relaxes. he has an intense computer nerd sort of mind, but when he'ses off on that, he's very funny, droll. >> my voice will get sexier and sexier as the day goes on. >> reporter: nomadic and secretive, like the hero of a spy novel. >> he is seeing this whole thing as, i don't know, a weird kind of james bond thriller. he believes that everyone's constantly being tapped and follow. >> reporter: at his core,

assange is a hacker, an outsider mining secrets that are supposed to be off limits. his outsider persona has roots in an unusual nomadic childhood. this is magnetic island, a place of exotic wildlife and untouched beauty off the coast of australia, a place julian assange once called home. but as a boy, he was often on the move. assange claims he attended 36 different schools. julian's poe heamian mother kristine and his stepfather together ran a traveling theater company. >> i enjoyed this as a child until i was about 10, and then we had sort of a mixed experience. >> reporter: a life on the move turned into a life on the run. after his mother fled a troubled relationship, there were difficult years. but assange teams to relish his unconventional childhood. >> in fact when i speak to people, they tell me they spent

all their life in one city, i'm horrified, and to think oh, you poor thing. how did you survive? >> reporter: eventually, julian and his mother settled outside of melbourne. >> i had a horse. and i sold the horse and bought a computer and i was fascinated. >> reporter: for assange, it becomes a portal into a new world. he joins a group of hackers known as international subversives, and under the screen name mendax, he tins to tap into top secret networks, including the pentagon. by the time he was 20, assange was a sophisticated computer hacker. >> and this was before there was public access to the internet. incredibly brave thing to go out and support the world with your mind. >> reporter: authorities would

eventually bust the young assange. in 1991, he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. after a lengthy legal battle, he walked away with only a fine. but he caught a glimpse inside a hidden world. >> read the general's e-mails based on an incredible thrill. >> reporter: that fascination would grow into a mission to change the world. >> the times we are going through at the moment constitute a generational challenge. >> reporter: a mission that would expose some of america's most closely guarded secrets. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natural gas turbine technology from ge, the power that will help make our nation more energy independent is right here in america.

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julian assange believed he had >> reporter: as a teenager, julian assange believed he had the right to hack into any computer network that interested him. >> that needs to be thought about and then it needs to be set up. >> reporter: but his ambition grew from cracking codes -- >> this is the event i was talking about. >> -- to helping whistleblowers divulge inside secrets. >> when you have this information, you chose it or not. >> reporter: his cause nothing less than a new world order

where nations and corporations can no longer hide corruption and injustice. in a network of secure servers, arielle's song launches a website for whistleblowers. he calls it wikileaks. >> i hack people's minds. i get people within the organizations to release material for a just cause. >> reporter: i went to berlin to meet one of the early wikileaks insiders and one of the few people who has worked closely with assange. daniel domscheit-berg became wikileaks' spokesperson. >> reporter: i picked 'pseudonym named after my cat >> reporter: named after your cat? >> yes. >> reporter: assumed named and secret locations, assange himself, never in one place too long. >> when i met him, he was notoriously difficult to track down. there's not a lot of people that are around him for a long time.

they have a purpose for a short point in time and then move on. >> he is a very smart person. very intelligent. he doesn't really care of what other people think of him. he's actually just his very own character, and that was kind of appealing. >> reporter: what was it about wikileaks that appealed to you? >> i thought exposing secrets, exposing immoral stuff that people are trying to hide for the public eye, that this is just a very simple but genius idea. >> reporter: armed with a global troop of supporters, assange had a hidden network of servers. he was on a mission to change the world, one network at a time, starting in kenya. after a violent disputed election in 2007, wikileaks posted a report that revealed hundreds of killings at the hands of kenyan police. the expose put wikileaks on the

map, earning them an award from the human rights group amnesty international. there were leaks of everything from sarah palin's e-mails to the membership rosters of neo-nazis and then wikileaks began to turn its spotlight on the united states, and when the operating manual for the guantanamo bay prison camp was leaked, wikileaks published it. >> to defend freedom. the defense of freedom as a value is on the front of guantanamo bay. >> reporter: wikileaks soon found itself in the crosshairs of the u.s. army. this 2008 secret counterintelligence report ironically leaked to wikileaks identified it as a threat and reveals way to shut it down. assange, though, remained defiant. >> when we're attacked, that is usually the worst move that

someone can do. the information is not going to disappear any time soon. >> reporter: growing pressure drove wikileaks underground. two of its servers were moved to a james bond style bunker in sweeden. assange went to iceland. by 2009, iceland was a country on its knees. a banking crisis had brought it to the edge of bankruptcy, causing riots in the streets. banks went under, and thousands lost their life savings. >> iceland was bothered by the international banking cleanse. >> reporter: enter wikileaks n.july of 2009, they posted a secret loan book from one of the largest failed banks, revealing risky loans to its own shareholders. the bank quickly launched a counterattack. >> we got letters from the bank saying they could try to attack

us and put us in prison for a year, i said that's ridiculous. we're not going to remove it. >> reporter: the leak became the lead story across island. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: but the bank won an injunction preventing rutv from airing the story. >> five minutes before the news was going on the air, they were indicted. >> reporter: but the network had another card to play. directing the viewers to the wikileaks website. >> we had tens of thousands of icelanders descending on us to get the material. >> reporter: the expose made assange and wikileaks local heroes, pushing the government to pass some of the strongest press protections in the world. iceland became a haven for

whistleblowers and wikileaks. in a small apartment in reykjavik, arielle's song and his team became working on a secret, the most explosion it yet. >> he put the chain on and he types the passwords in his laptop, and he starts playing a film. i've never seen anything like it in my life. what's this option? that's new.

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found the missile. >> roger, i'll get it. you're clear. >> i'm firing. >> reporter: iraq, 2007. u.s. military might on display. an apache helicopter camera capturing raw images of combat and voices of war. video kept hidden until someone leaked it to julian assange. >> roger, destroyed. >> reporter: in a daring move, he crossed into enemy territory, washington, d.c., to release the video. >> we have a mission to promote political reforms by releasing suppressed information. >> reporter: assange placed a

george orwell quote at the beginning and titled the video "collateral murder." what did you think of julian assange tightling the video "collateral murder?" >> he has an agenda to meet and he is not aware what he is taking about. >> reporter: i met with a retired brigadier general to look through the video. he's read the report and together we went through the video. >> it is my understanding that this unit on the ground had been engaged in combat probably for the last couple of hours. >> he's got an rpg. >> guy with an rpg. all right. we're going to fire. >> reporter: this clip, i believe they identify an rpg. it turns out it was a long lens le telephoto camera held by a reuters journalist. you can see him as he peeks around the corner there.

that reuters photographer, his assistant and the men around them were all gunned down. >> look at those dead bastards. >> this photographer shouldn't have been walking around with an instrument that looks like a weapon. >> reporter: is the blame on the photographer? >> warfare is not perfect. there are mistakes that are sometimes made. he shares much of the blame for what happened here. >> reporter: i want to move to the van video. >> right down there by the bodies. >> reporter: and what you see is a van that's coming to help grab some of the wounded people on the ground. the apache crew asks for permission to engage. >> cop on. let us shoot. >> again, this is an active battlefield. that van could have other fighters inside of it with weapons those fighters could put our soldiers at risk, could kill

those soldiers that they are fighting. >> come on. >> we can see in this video that the young pilot in the apache helicopters have become debased in their character. >> oh, yeah. look at, that right through the windshield. >> they are playing video games with real human lives and looking for excuses to kill people. >> reporter: it turned out, there were children inside the van. >> it's their fault for bringing the kids to battle. >> reporter: i have only a decade in naval special warfare. you're obviously 30 years in the army, soldier to sailor, ground pounder to ground pounder, should these men have exercised more restraint? >> i don't think so. what we have here from everything that i have seen is that they followed the proper procedures. >> reporter: so if they did everything by the book, is there something wrong with the book? >> i don't think so. the book doesn't have every

scenario, every possible outlook. >> reporter: secret u.s. military video. a stunning wikileaks exclusive. who is responsible for leaking and it and why? military investigators soon point the finger at one of their own, private first class bradley manning who has since been arrested, but manning may never have come to their attention if not for this man. we are on our way to meet adrian ramone, who is the former computer hacker who turned bradley manning into the authorities, and lamo is kind of a character. he screens all of his phone calls. he changes e-mails and doesn't respond to messages, but he had one condition for our interview today, and that's that his location had to remain completely anonymous. adrian, what's with all the cloak and dagger stuff? >> there are people in opposition to my corporation with the government in this

case. and i want to be able to sleep soundly at night? bradley manning first approaching lamo by seng him an e-mail. >> he introduced himself by saying he was an intelligence analyst at forward operating base hammer in iraq just outside of baghdad. >> reporter: lamo and manning began chatting extensively online. lamo says he provided the chat logs to the website wired.com who eventually published about a quarter of the transcripts. during one of those chats, manning asked lamo, if you had unprecedented access to classified networks, 14 hours a day, seven days a week for eight-plus months, what would you do? alarmed, lamo contacts u.s. officials. the convicted computer hacker took action because his strong belief in government transparentsy is not without limits.

>> where i draw the line is when it comes to the point that it can cause real unortic label harm. >> we tried to get in contact with manning's attorney, but he never returned our calls. in the online chats, lamo, now a government informant, asked manning how he got the information out. manning explains that he copied classified files and video on to a cd that he labeled lady gaga. no one suspected a thing. kind of sad. in their chats, manning mentions julian assange. i mean, i'm a high-profile source, and i've developed a relationship with assange, but assange continually denies knowing manning. manning confessions to lamo have landed him at ft. leavenworth, kansas. facing a possible life sentence, manning is accused of leaking

hundreds of thousands of u.s. secrets. secrets he allegedly gave to jewel i don't know assange. soon, the press would pick up the scent. >> so i just started running around "the guardian" building saying this is the biggest story on the planet. we have to get ahold of this information. [ woman ] we take it a day at a time.

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highly security conscious. >> reporter: security conscious because assange had another weapon in his arsenal. a secret database of u.s. government documents from the war in afghanistan. assange was more and more focused on what he saw as abuses within the u.s. government. now he believed he had evidence of actual war crimes. does he operate as if he is constantly being followed, constantly being watched? >> yes, because he probably is. you know, this information was known, and eventually people, important people, knew he had this. >> more surveillance around him than almost anyone in the world. >> reporter: one of the people on assange's trail was nick davis, an investigative journalist from "the guardian" newspaper in london. he had read about manning's

alleged leak to wikileaks and sensed a big story. so you started looking for julian assange? >> he was lying very low, so it took me four or few days to find out where he was and make contact. >> reporter: at a cafe in brussels, davis finally came face to face with assange. >> so my pitch was let's create an alliance between "the guardian" and other news organizations that you get serious impact so that it becomes impossible to stop us so we're not in one jurisdiction where the government or courts may block us. we'll scattered, and he locked on to that idea. >> reporter: straight out of a spy novel, davis headed back to london with a sacred pass code arielle's song had written on a napkin. one day later, he had the database. >> all right. now this is actually pretty gooding right? >> reporter: assange invited the "new york times" and german newspaper "der spiegel" to join them. in an unprecedented

collaboration, the three newspapers began to sift through the thousands of documents. so i've come here to london to the headquarters of "the guardian" newspaper to meet up with some of the journalists who were holed up for weeks in a bunker with julian assange as they sifted through the secret cables and documents that would eventually become known as the iraq and afghanistan war logs. >> this is the famous bunker? >> reporter: david lee is another investigative journalist with "the guardian." >> these are some of the headlines that came out of of the war logs, the earlier, the first batch, about iran and afghan. >> reporter: what were your first impression of assange when you first met him? >> didn't act like earthling, stayed up all night, and suddenly keeled over and crash and sleep where he lay.

>> he started to come across information about the pakistani service and the pentagon. this was rich stuff. >> you want to see it on the map -- >> reporter: but there was growing tension with assange. >> all of us came across material which was clearly likely to lead to the death of innocent civilians, if bepublished it. all of us had the experience to bring this to his attention and tell him in effect if an afghan civilian helps coalition forces, then they deserve to die. >> reporter: does assange realize they are flesh and blood consequences to releases the documents? >> he has to have it explained to him. he is not a person with empathy to humans. and finally, he got it. and he made a rather crude attempt to make the material which he was publishing on the

website safe by withholding 15,000 documents out of a total of 92,000, but it wasn't enough. >> a direct quote. >> reporter: on the eve of the launch date, names of afghan civilians were still in wikileaks documents. >> we go at 10:00 p.m. london time tomorrow. >> reporter: on july 25th, 2010, wikileaks released over 70,000 classified documents on the afghan war. >> the material exposes an extraordinary range of abuses. >> reporter: and all three newspapers published stories on the war logs. >> within 48 hours, other news organizations were finding material on the wikileaks website which clearly was dangerous, and that meant that the political damage was done. his moral authority was reduced. he had made a terrible tactical mistake. >> reporter: the release set off a firestorm in washington.

>> the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and afghan partners. >> secret files exposes the true afghan war. >> there are a dozen camera tracks outside. surprising? >> no. i knew if we did our work right, it would have this effect. i knew the material was serious. >> you said that this is the most comprehensive history of the war. >> why the folks in print? >> are there circumstances you wouldn't publish information? >> reporter: julian assange finally had the world's attention. >> i think twitter has just gone off the roof. >> he went from a hobo character to a rock star.

it's like having a hit movie overnight, and suddenly everyone wants to see you. >> reporter: but that attention would woman with a price. the press began to grill him. >> where though will all this lead, and how far will his group go? locations of weapons? >> thanks, steve, every [ bleep ] gun pointed at me. >> reporter: still, assange seemed confident he was beyond the reach of governments. >> i'm untouchable now in this country. >> reporter: untouchable for now. but his star was about to be tarnished. this time, the leaks would be about him. and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different.

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>> reporter: by the summer of 2010, julian assange's war on secrecy is in high gear. >> the course of the war needs to change. this is "the guardian." >> reporter: the afghan war logs are making headlines around the world and making assange foumous. >> i'm a combative person. i like crushing bastards. >> reporter: but now, he is at the center of a scandal.

the swedish government had requested extradition in order to question him about allegations about sexual assault. two swedish women have come forward accusing assange of unwanted or aggressive sexual advances, which under swedish law can cobs tuite rape. as of yet, no charges have been filed against arielle's song and he denies the allegations. undistracted by what he calls a smear campaign, assange begins working around the clock on what will become his biggest leak t yet. in october 2010, wikileaks released the mother lode, near hi 400,000 secret u.s. documents on the iraq war. >> the start of the iraq war involved very serious lies that

were repeated and amplified. >> reporter: stories reveal troubling new details about the war, numerous cases of torture and abuse of iraqi prisoners by iraqi police and soldiers and cases where u.s. troops killed innocent civilians, but this time assange censors documents. >> we have redacted everything except for things that we have cleared by hand, and that approach has left black ink all over the material. >> reporter: but that doesn't ease the fears of many, including generally kimmitt. julian assange has contestantly put forward that nobody has been attacked or killed due to any of the disclosures from wikileaks. do you agree with that? >> well, i think a lot of our soldiers have been put in harm's way. there's a reason and a purpose for operational security, for protecting our tactics, techniques and procedures. we don't want to give an advantage to our enemy that that can be used against our soldiers in combat.

>> reporter: the steady leak of secrets doesn't end there. one week later wick leeks publish diplomat ic documents. the u.s. government fires back. hillary clinton is on the warpath. >> we are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information. >> reporter: what has been the government's attack to wic leeks in the cia has established the wikileaks task force known within the agency as wtf, and additionally the justice department has subpoenaed the twitter accounts of wikileaks supporters and is couplered to be marshalling an investigation that could lead to the extra digs of assange to the u.s. and then a series of blows. amazon.com kicks wikileaks off its website, paypal bars

donations and sweden issues an arrest warrant. on december 7th, 2010, assange is put in jail. an ironic twist, a leak of the sexual allegations against assange with exposed lurid details. >> by a sheer fluke, someone i dealt with in the past said, i have the police file to the swedish investigation to the assaults. are you interested? >> reporter: nick davis, a journalist with "the guardian newspaper" who worked closely with assange on the afghan war logs was given a cope of the leaked report? what are we going to do? we put it in the paper. that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: what was julian's reaction? >> he went berserk. he felt we should suppress the information because he had been a source for "the guardian" and therefore we owed it to him to

suppress it. >> reporter: cnn made several requests for an interview with assange and got no response. assange's attorney says he asked for a delay in pibl caution because assange was in prison. meanwhile, "the guardian" maintains that he was given several days to respond. he is a proponent of transparency, but he doesn't seem to walk that walk. is that true? >> yeah, that is true, certainly. >> reporter: daniel domscheit-berg, then a wikileaks insider, said assange kept him and others in the dark. >> he said it's not your business and next question. and that is one of the major reasons why i and a few others actually left the project, because that's a contradict. >> reporter: leak after leak, assange's platform grows, but his relationships are fraying. domscheit-berg and others leave wikileaks. >> you can see a pattern. he alienates the people that he works with.

>> reporter: a man who spent most of his life on the move now is farced to stay in one place and face the accusations against him. coming up, in prison but not alone. cyber warriors in support of assange go on the attack. >> we have the whole project of assange. we feel obligated to do something about it, to reach out to other people and tell them that this is their fight as well. [ woman ] we take it a day at a time.

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prison, julian assange emerges >> reporter: after nine days in prison, julian assange emerges into a crush of supporters and media. >> well, it's great to smell fresh air of london again. >> reporter: vowing to continue the leaks and fight the sexual assault allegations against him. >> i hope to continue my work and continue to protest my innocence in this matter. >> reporter: by now, wikileaks has become radioactive. paypal, visa, mastercard have all cut its financial lifeline, but a seek yet global force of cyber activists begins to mobilize a counterattack. they call themselves unanimous.

so we have actually been trying to get an interview with a member of anonymous for weeks, and we finally tracked someone down who is willing to talk to us, and these guys are committed to the cause of defending wikileaks. so we're skyping now with base and chris, two members of unanimous. base, what is unanimous? >> anonymous is an internet subculture, based around anonymity. it's the freedom of thought, the freedom of speech and the freedom of information taken to a logical extreme? >> reporter: why do you have to remain anonymous? >> we have government agencies after us. we have other people that don't appreciate what we're doing after us, stow would not be very good if our identities were exposed. >> reporter: why are you guys such ardent supporters of wikileaks? >> they expose secrets, transparency, freedom of speech,

freedom of information offer on the internet, and that resonates with us. >> corrupt governments of the world, we are anonymous. >> reporter: in december 2010, anonymous launched operation payback. >> in the beginning of operation payback we went after paypal, visa, mastercard and eventually amazon because they were the ones that publicly withdrew funding and support from wikileaks. especially paypal who actually held funds. >> reporter: anonymous unleashed a cyber attack. >> they deny server attacks. essentially you send so many requests to a server that it shuts down. >> reporter: temporarily bringing down some of the websites. do you think the government can stop groups like you or wikileaks? >> they are not going to stop wikileaks. even if the government would

take down wikileaks, they would be martyring wikileaks. the only thing they can do is turn the internet off. and that didn't stop the people in egypt. >> reporter: in some sense, it's unstoppable. part of a new reality where whistleblowers can go global and make governments quake, where a leak can add fuel to a revolution. but governments will fight back. the u.s. justice department has assange in its sights. rumor has it, building a case for conspiracy. >> if i am a conspirator to commit espionage, then all the other media organizations are also conspirators to commit espionage. thank you. >> reporter: for now, assange remains in the uk under house arrest. fighting the swedish extradition request. in february, i traveled there for his first hearing.

i've come out45 minutes outside of london to the woolich crown court. like everywhere assange goes, he seems to draw a huge media crowd. there's basically representatives from every major media organization in the world here covering just to get a glimpse of him as he walks from his car to the courthouse. assange actually just arrived, and he's going to come right through this gated area into the courthouse. >> a black box has been applied to my life, and on the outside of that black box has been written the word rape. >> reporter: he's at the center of attention. but still, very much alone. >> he is alone and he has become an island. the circle has become small. he no longer trusts anybody.

he has been betrayed by people who have come into that circle. >> reporter: to some, assange is a clear danger, a self-appointed judge of good and evil. >> julian assange has this self-proclaimed mantle that he put around himself that he can be the judge of what governments can and can't do, and it's a very dangerous assertion on the part of any sickle individual. >> good morning, sir, how are you? >> reporter: politicians have taken aim. on fox news, former house speaker newt gingrich calls assange a terrorist. >> information warfare is warfare. and julian assange has engaged in warfare. information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed, is terrorism, and julian assange is engaged in terrorism. >> reporter: hero or villain, julian assange has created a powerful platform. >> the more people get to read what really goes on in the world, the more chance they have on educating themselves on

realities. and i think realities are what we need. >> reporter: even some of assange's critics are following in his footsteps. daniel domscheit-berg has opened a new whistle-blowing website, open leaks. what is the future of wikileaks? >> it has set something in motion all over the world that cannot be stopped anymore, and it has carried this debate of what is secrecy? what must be secret and what must not be secret into the living rooms and 8:00 news to people who had never heard about this before or never thought about it before. >> reporter: julian assange, the self-appointed champion of free speech, has dared to reveal the secrets of both dictators and democracies. he dropped a nuclear warhead of information on to the world stage. the final chapter of the wikileaks saga has yet to be written.