it kind of forced us to our knowledge it's you know we couldn't ignore him. he's an idealist he's on a mission he's on a mission to harm. us and the information. ministry. but this comes with the prime. loan isn't being charitable he's been while he was in the ecuadorian embassy for the 8 years 7 or 8 in. a long time he spent in prison for basically and that now he's being fair many months in the present. there are a lot of people that want him in prison a lot of the very powerful this department is conducting a thorough aggressive investigation to determine how this leak occurred to identify the person or persons responsible.

person. and i think. that's what he's facing trying to much of. it will. be any reason to suggest that he's not he's trying to it's the crimes that. the. i don't think you can really understand julian assange. or wiki leaks without seeing an aspect of his life that formed him and that was absolutely here in melbourne and it formed him not only in terms of his ideas. his personality his expertise but also his conceptual thinking about forming software projects including what.

so melbourne in the late eighty's and early ninety's became the center of the a strain underground which included various and experimenters and also how there is not just in the sense of people who broke into things illegally but also people who just experimented with. it didn't take long for australia's hacking community to embrace the young julia song those teenagers they spent most of their time online but did occasionally venture out and when they did they'd meet in this square in central melbourne. this is the historic it's right town hall and it was the site along with some other historic town halls in melbourne. it's. still a massage and other members of that technology community were here in their late teens and early 20 stopping for a computer bits and exchanging ideas and information about how to experiment with hardware and software.

versus. men and women. on the computer. capacity. to use to memory and understanding. and i didn't. just write that he would pay for a short while. one of the world's most. it's very interesting the hacker mentality from this time period they one of the thrill of getting into the system that was to have the. and the more procedures the in the. the more thrilled they got so if they could break into

a nasa computer these were the smartest people stay with people who would put man on the moon really if you could break into their systems then you could prove to yourself you're a 17 year old boy you 2 are very smart. the u.s. space agency nasa is one of the victims of the melbourne computer hacking syndicate american investigators including the f.b.i. contacted a strange you know thorough jeez with these suspicions. of the 16th $989.00 nasa was attacked by what was known as the virus that caused a space shuttle launch in florida to be postponed and was traced to australian hackers in melbourne the wenck worm was one of the 1st ever worms that had been written and it was certainly the 1st politically motivated wireman that carried a political message that message was a quote from the midnight oil song and that quote was you talk of times of peace

for all and then prepare for war. this thing that was the way. it emerged from a sort of deep dark forest you got a glimpse of it and then disappeared again and the authors have never been found although some see this might be one of jewel in a songes. people have lots of different views on these things. julian was very lucky growing up in that although he grew up in a fairly poor family canonically it was very rich intellectually. julian's father is a very clever and creative person and quite sensitive i think he's been enormously important to julius development as. young adult. as

a young man julian was. a daughter her choice. his nickname was wizard because he would always be hard to come up with a new approach to things or a new way of looking at things. what a number of person have said to me is that. they get a different perspective on the world from the systems they've been in and that's because they are able to see the actual information these are. directly contradicting what an organization may say publicly or someone a politician may say publicly they understand that the public is being told something that is just not just a little lie often it's a very big lie that helped maybe develop enjoins mind. the super importance of media organizations being able to port accurately

on information. and during result my place and we were having a cup of tea i think it was. until 2006 or something like that required. and julian said. i'd like to stop and we can do. this week he would concern it so certainly. and we reduce 3 toll as an anonymous for people who want to actually information. that information or. did you try to warn him about anything at that. world which is a young man on the cusp of life who don't care warnings very well how can i hope. i've always taken nature's aphorism.

to hard to live dangerously. live dieters don't creep around place being frightened of shadows. do what you have to do them 1st the consequences and best you can. let me remind. them that this is the. balance. the. teams. want to. hear that we have burst out. so free.

i 1st heard about with nixon you know aside. from the helicopter putting in iraq the famous for she was where we saw. the helicopter shoot people on the ground but all of. them on. the helicopter shot up some civilians and in the process shot to royce's jonas to local forces jones and they also shot up some children in a car. a minor. no no i go around the. american military personnel misidentified civilians and rebels. from a. and it looked as though one of the men had a gun. but it was just

a reuters camera man holding. that they saw the collateral but mortar b.t.o. is that if we know for get. us again because a school it was what the 1st time and i was screaming loud at my office this. souldiers are. dissed emotional detachment as they were playing video games and now with the lives of people in such a cool way. here is actual shocking video footage fact irrefutable evidence of what happened and what has been described to me by one retired military person actually here in australia as undoubtedly a war crime i want to welcome i want to go after the shooting of july 13th 2007

u.s. military commanders justified the attack claiming that its troops had been in battle with hostile forces. approaching and picking up the body. but 2 children well that they were in a van when their father approached the scene of the shooting to help to mr horn we have individual going. to monitor. during. a fire. that was really fascinating for me was when i saw an interview with an american soldier who was there on that spot after. they. killed them and shot them

and it was the young. army officer who went to the van and discovered there were 2 children there that will wounded he said the little girl couldn't blink because her eyes were full of glass and he tried to remove the cross from her eyes when he spoke to his supervisor and wanted to take her to a decent hospital he was told wash out your vagina. for the 1st time we understood. the civilian casualties the innocent people who were killed in both afghanistan and iraq and this was all kept from the public. showed real bravery in being willing to publish frankly and fearlessly that is idio and i think that there are people within the us military who have never forgiven

him for it. that helicopter attack resulted in 12 deaths 2 children one that. no one from the american military has ever been held accountable. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own personal those spread. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.

i can't show you my face but i'm going to tell you my story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week which is 10 to 23 hours. out that had to serve to. get abby very. confined within 4 gray walls he finds he was in hot turn all to help him to leave death row. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes i'm up with strike and put these attacks was that the r.u.c. the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were

active participants in the burning of whole streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more. i was surprised about the extent. to which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. i think it went to the very very top i think if he goes across the water where all the taishan skew. and give the go ahead. to 2 months ago most of them are going to start this is. near easier if you're

interested in hearing from our consumers the only analyst on credibility of revelation around the weakening one side she and soon to move some of the least of the unions on after collateral mother julian assange revealed his identity had was known i mean it was front page news all over the world at that point. only to julian assange has become a hot global topic but he'd found a way to publish classified information man made it available to anyone who wanted to share someone else's secrets the idea of developing an anonymous digital dropbox and applying it to a media organization that is wiki leaks that was the 1st people hadn't really done that before that was that was julian assange. it enabled the whistleblower who were at low cost with just the right d.v.d. and they use of the right tools to anonymously. blow the whistle by transmitting

like large amounts of data. the day we release over 287. documenting the reality of the international mass surveillance industry. here has. been has a blackberry. he uses e-mail. well you're all screwed. what is this place and where were all those files actually kept . their talent is somewhere. julian magically brought together. computers digitalize ation and information and put before the public.

when someone called you know songs knocked on the door of the frontline club and i was quite pleased to see him i was quite keen that we would have somebody who was making the news. my name's form smith i'm a journalist. but more i run something called the frontline club which i founded which is a press club and. it all happened in this room i mean julian literally turned off and knocked on the door and literally only announce he knocks on the door 2 days before that press conference saying i want a press conference on today an assumption quite literally so and so we arrange the press conference for him and it was on a monday morning he was standing to him. he was up here and we had a podium we had that podium and we had it him and he was standing here and it's from this position he raised up the guardian front page. and you know that's when the whole thing started so this is the guardian from this morning 40. 40

pages about this topic. also you can correlate in the spiegel 17 pages. just a couple of months after the video of the baghdad helicopter attack against civilians was published yet mullen revelations appeared this time it was the afghanistan and iraq dossier as. the afghanistan and iraq does the us classified pentagon files on u.s. and allied military activity in afghanistan and iraq from 2004 to 2009. these were logs that were written by members of the military who might be out at the front door but trolling an area and might be things they've seen or exciting they experienced on their shift or patrol so it was almost a sort of. a very detailed war diary. by the americans and the british in but it

didn't occur to me that it could be so informative. the because it was a huge data sets 400000 classified reports field reports by the u.s. army this is the most accurate description of the war it is it would be released into the historical record we are counted now 122000 soon total teams are in the war is nearly no street corner in baghdad that didn't have a body found that being killed 3 violence of one form or another from what we found out from iraq and afghanistan dossiers the u.s. and its allies allegedly under reported civilian casualties prisoners of war was subjected to violent acts of torture of u.s. military personnel who were reportedly involved in child prostitution.

when you have publishes publishing secrets the government starts losing control of the narrative that had a narrative in iraq. no civilian. and then they lost control of that narrative because we found out the truth. that's the power of. the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops our allies and their afghan partners and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world and one of the main criticisms that's being leveled at you is that you have published the village is that the names and some cases the g.p.s. coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and a u.s. official has called it a potential hit list for the taliban what's your response to that is there was a piece of the mostly arena where we're looking at the mission seriously to see

where that is true or purge the white house to all stand her sister in syria during before we published the war you know it's hard to accept that request they always say old they have blood on their hands and they get people in danger but i think if anyone would have been killed because they would have directed the person in front of the camera all proved it taken against the soldiers i think it's just a blatant lie is it possible that the 1st tranche from the afghan war logs could have been better redacted yes quite probably they could have been better protected had anyone ever done this before no there was no road back. i mean killing the sludge and wiki leaks they were bushwhacking through a thick forest to try and figure out how to do this. the afghanistan and iraq don't see just what the biggest leak of a. war crimes allegedly perpetrated by the u.s.

can do. no one from america's military has ever been held accountable. and. a little bit over 10 years ago i was contacted by. a person. who or i didn't know at that point in time at all. wanted to meet with me and i met a. person who spoke with a very strong australian accent and he told me that he had a problem program of the wanted to do a project. when we met. my initial. feeling was that this was. completely outlandish that there was nothing to it so we parted way but we kept contact and a little bit later. came the publications of the collateral murder video where you

could see helicopter gun him down that's a u.s. helicopter in iraq gunning down reuters journalists on an open street and so when i realized that he was serious about isn't ever. julian assange invited yohannes to work with him on a new collection of classified documents that had fallen into wiki leaks hands. this time correspondence from the united states diplomatic service. to the diplomatic cables. that we can leaks published a little bit later they were a set of internal briefings if you put it this way or analysis. that all of the american diplomats. wrote and delivered back to the state department. leaked u.s. diplomatic cables published on november 28th 2010 it contains u.s.

diplomatic correspondents from $966.00 to 2010 and includes 100000 documents marked confidential and $15000.00 marked secret. we have to understand the scale of all this release of information so you if we took these cables and we printed them out into end they would go betweens in petersburg and moscow it is that much material i could give you a simple example of what was interesting in those cables in regard to sweden because i worked with the materials that were related in these documents we could see here and that's which politicians are going to come to the u.s. ambassador and they ask for services for the services they would ask for would be. we have a problem with the swedish public opinion they would say and the swedish public opinion doesn't like the war in afghanistan and they don't want us to participate

in the war in afghanistan could you please help us there by inviting him some afghani women here to sweden and we'll put them on the swedish t.v. so they can talk about the good things that we're doing there suddenly you we found out that. swedish politicians and swedish public servants undercutting the way that would be democracy is supposed to function and they're doing that together with them with you this diplomats contrary to the interests of the swedish people one of the hopeful things that i've discovered. is that really every war that is thought of. as being a result of. mediocrity what does that mean. that means basically populations don't like. and populations have to be fooled into will. be. treated as an enemy combatant which really should be closed down

permanently and decisively reduced in the broken every law unit being elitist was wiped off the intelligence that we were going on. no the answer is not that so given the current good vision of. beauty and was at his height of popularity when sweet. vats he attracted. i'm a slave. it's understandable that he would be attractive to young men and he's. a young man and. his ambition is very high and noble noble and. so that made him even more attractive.

geysers financial survival. when customers go by you're just applying. to now well reduce some lower. that's undercutting but what's good for markets it's not good for the global economy. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. this is not pretty you know the moves through but in your circles modesty.

and you can do for the much for the good little girl with your marriage to do more of the. good. the white and good sort of put. but.

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