. >>> daniel ellsberg he's said you're in danger of bodily harm. do you believe that julian? >> we've taken security precautions to ensure i'm not in danger, or our other volunteers or employees. there was a period early on where some private signals coming out of the u.s. administration were not too pleasant. the public messages were not so bad. there does people to be a mergener the private and public rhetoric. so what we're hearing now, at least last week, just before this material came out is a bit more reasonable. we're having quite a few surveillance events. there was according to a canberra national times report and a former diplomat, a request by the united states, formal request by the government of australia to try and seize or aggressively investigate us in australia, that our request was largely rejected. so there is some sort of significant pressure coming on us as an organization. however, i think it's being seen now in part from statements like the one from daniel that it is not politically feasible to interfere with us at a high level. >> could i comment on th

administration too because you know one of the great heroes of the people who supported obama it was daniel ellsberg the person who leaked the pentagon papers now the u.s. government is condemning we kill leaks so this could have political consequences for the obama administration as well and you know it really shows that the media really is not what it used to be it's not just a few major newspapers but smaller players can have a big impact in the media landscape. you are with r.t. live from moscow and in a few moments once last year was the fastest growing european economy now many people there have to rely on charities for the bare necessities. or fresh e.u. sanctions against iran have come under fire from moscow russia's foreign ministry has said the move falls outside the scope of the latest u.n. restrictions and undermines collective efforts to resolve the iranian nuclear issue on monday the e.u. adopted tougher sanctions against iran's energy sector in an attempt to prevent the islamic republic from acquiring nuclear weapons measures include a ban on the sale of equipment and technology iran

well i think it's very credible i think that this is a bombshell i think it's the equivalent of daniel ellsberg release of the pentagon papers in one thousand nine hundred ninety it's the beginning of the end this is a war that's already been lost the politicians know it's been lost what these documents reveal is that they've concealed that fact from the american people and they're sending more and more troops tens of thousands more troops to kill and to be to be killed in a war that they know can't be won and the reason they're doing it is that they don't want to take responsibility as nixon did not want to take responsibility in vietnam for a military setback and millions of people will be paying some kind of price in national treasure of course the blood loss for afghan civilians for american g.i.'s i think this will have an explosive effect on her on the american public which already has turned against the war well i guess i'm surprised as we heard just now the white house has accused wiki leaks of putting american soldiers who are currently in afghanistan in danger do you think that is jus

in the past i mean there was all of this rigamarole about the pentagon papers we got to jail daniel ellsberg he's on these enemies list but when they came out they really didn't change things i mean it was almost like this julian knows that it doesn't really change the policy because when the stuff comes out. so you know the president's not going to say oh my god the information comes out i'm going to have to change policy it's almost like a drop in the bucket the war is over the leak itself not what's being leaked we kind of all do what are you said pakistan's kind of. in this and that the other thing this is people in the seventy's knew that the vietnam war was a little shady and there was some weirdness going on well i'm just worried that enough people won't really take into account just the this should really just make you get it doesn't pages where it should i don't know if well chris thanks so much for being there you now. talking about the subject actually you see we took a broad look today at the rise of wiki leaks at the character of the mysterious white haired australian julian a s