julian assange believed he had >> reporter: as a teenager, julian assange believed he had the right toto 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 locatio

video kept hidden until someone leaked it to julian assange. 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 in the beginning entitled the video "collateral murder." what did you think of julian assange titling this "collateral murder"? >> he has an agenda to meet and he doesn't understand what he's talking about. >> reporter: i met retired brigadier general to read through the video. >> it is my understanding that this unit on the ground had been engaged in combat probably for the last couple hours. >> he's got an rpg. i'm going to fire. >> reporter: this clip is where they, i believe, they identify an rpg. it turns out it was a long lens telephoto camera held by a reuters journalist. you can see. that reuters photographer, his assistant, and the men around him, were all gunned down. >> this photographer should not have been walking around with an instrument that looks li

in their chats, manning mentions julian assange. m a high-profile source, and i've developed a relationship with assange. but, assange continually denies knowing manning. >> we don't know if this guy is our source or not. >> reporter: manning's 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 julian assange. soon, the press would pick up the set. >> 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. anananananananannou] this...is the network. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ i don't always have time

you know that enemy as wikileaks led by julian assange. mission to change the world, but his critics say that by exposing state secrets, he's endangering lives. now a new cnn documentary takes a hard look at the whistle blower, it's called "wiki wars, the mission of julian assange." here is kaj larsen. >> congressman anthony weiner is not the only high-profile figure to be facing some impending legal charges. the u.s. justice department has handled out several subpoenas in a grand jury investigation to wikileaks associates so that signals a potential legal problem here in the united states for julian assange. i've been looking into the subject for months and here's a preview of my longer investigation into the wikileaks subject. in october, 2010, wikileaks releases the mother lode. nearly 400,000 secret u.s. documents on the iraq war. >> the start of the iraq war involved very serious lies, which were repeated and amplified. >> reporter: the stories reveal troubling new details about the war. numerous cases of torture and abuse of iraqi pr

the book does touch on the organization and julian assange who i know and who's spoken at personal democracy forum twice and so i do weave that into the story but i do think the larger story is the age that we're in is one where two big changes are happening at the same time and combining. and the first one is, that activism has become more social. it is a much more spontaneous phenomenon and one that anybody can start. you don't need permission to create something that the potential to go global. you need something excelling and thanks to the network, with the small n, not the old networks like abc, cbs, and so on. if your message is compelling, it will spread and the effects of that where we're living in constantly now. the other thing that's changing

newspaper to meet up with some of the journalists who were holed up for weeks in a bunker with julian assangesecret cables and documents that were eventually to become known as the iraq and afghanistan war box. what were your impressions of assange the man when you first met him? >> he didn't behave like earthlings, you know. he would stay up all night tapping away at his laptop. and suddenly he would keel up and the button the jacket up to the neck and crash where he lay. >> reporter: the more than 90,000 documents revealed a side of the afghanistan war hidden from public view. >> we started coming across really interesting information about collusion between the pakistani intelligence service and the taliban. so this was rich stuff that was buried in this database. >> you want the 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 we published it. all of us had the experience of bringing this to his attention and being told by him in effect in an afghan coalition

of misconduct, and he is fighting extradition there, but lesser known and more threatening to julian assange.s. justice department has launched an inquiry and there are grand jury subpoenas of wikileaks supporters as of late, and that is more daunting for assange. >> you and i have talked before about assange and bradley manning who may have or may not have given him this information and what do we know about private bradley manning and the relationship with assange? >> well, what we know comes from chats with conversations of bradley manning and another former hacker, and so all of the information comes from those chats, but you have gotten to the critical point here. bradley manning is the linchpin of the case against assange. if the u.s. government can prove that assange solisted this information from bradley manning then he is in a deeper pool when it comes to his legal jeopardy. >> and the whole picture comes apart completely. >> yes, because assange can say he was acting as "the new york times" does or any other media public when they get classified information. >> so what is determine

if theyley manning to assert that julian assange solicited this information from here, assange no longere of just being a publisher. >> remind the viewers who manning is. >> manning is the alleged leaker, the army private who allegedly leaked all of these secret documents to assange. 's currently been moved to a brig, military penitentiapenite ft. levinworth, kansas. >> what is the future of wikileaks. we saw these guys in the masks, they're an anonymous group. what can they do in the future? >> we don't know. the big picture, 50,000 foot view, that the leaking landscape is becoming decentralized. there's actually -- julian assange has first mover advantage but there are many other organizations that are starting their own wikileaks, if you will, open leaks is a rival organization and even some media organizations are starting their own leaking websites. >> looking forward to seeing this over the weekend. really excellent work. thanks. on sunday night, cnn takes you inside the private world of wikileaks founder julian assange. watch "wikiwars the mission of julian assange." cnn sunday ni

>> two quick things, you mentioned that you thought julian assange hacked a superpower. my understanding is he just got a whistle blower to dump some information to him. he actually didn't break through the superpowers firewalls and whatnot which is what we -- >> metaphorfully. >> great hackers, they talk about social hacking and the way you open the codes you open the desk drawer and you open up the codes -- >> the more important thing i want to talk about your neighbor, you know, the progressive neighbor whom you're concerned about he looks about -- he looks at wikileaks, you know, and assange and he says kill the guy. he's looking at it black and white or all black. you on the other hand are looking at it all white. i think the world is more gray and what assange did with that irresponsible dump of info was he did dump some useful info that we needed to know about but he dumped a lot of info that wasn't necessary to dump, that caused problems that weren't necessary to cause. he put people's lives at risk and he -- he caused our diplomatic service. they were talking ab

even julian assange, it's a household name. did he really expect it to become this? the man himself, he had gotten into legal trouble outside of anything related to wikileaks, sexual assault allegation. where is he now and is he able to, quite frankly, continue with the work is he doing with wikileaks, given his legal situation? >> physically he's at a mansion in london, owned by a man named von smith, who is a well-respected journalist. whether he can be effective running we can key leaks is the important question because his name is synonymous with wikileaks and has both the investigation in sweden and potential impending investigation here in the u.s. so his ability to run wikileaks is damaged. >> can it survive without him? i mean, did he get something started here that can kind of go on its own even if he's not running? >> it's unclear whether wikileaks can persist without julian assange but there are other copycats. >> wow. all right. kaj larson, it's sunday night. we have that graphic that we're going to put up. there it is. if you're selling people on why the

hearings in the wiki leaks case continues today so what will the justice department dig up against julian assange and is it a all part of a larger war against whistleblowers. all you need to know this a major development in the wisconsin labor battle lasting last night yesterday evening as governor scott walker's union busting bill is now the law of the land so what exactly happens now although a lower court did decide to block a walker's budget repair bill from going into effect the wisconsin supreme court yesterday evening decided to overturn that ruling effectively making it completely illegal for state workers in wisconsin to collectively bargain now don't forget that we're talking about was sconce and here this is the birthplace of collective bargaining rights now while this is is in fact a major blow to the workers' rights movement we should be surprised after all the deciding judge in the high court's forty three ruling was none other than justice david prosser a familiar name since he was the same guy who conveniently won a reelection after twelve thousand missing votes mysteriously turne

>> 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 the world stage. the final chapter of the wikileaks saga has yet to be written. its fate is inextricably linked to the man at the center of the radioactive storm, but for now, julian assange's war against julian assange's war against secrecy wages on. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> there's not a man alive who hasn't wished he could be hugh hefner for just a single day. >> a lot of people think they know everything about me, but they don't. >> i think age is just a number but the more numbers, the better. >> hugh hefner may not be slowing down but he's definitely settling down for the third time, and he says the last time, marrying his 24-year-old girlfriend, crystal harris. >> it's just a very good time to be alive. >> tonight, hugh hefner on his life behind closed doors at the playboy mansion. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> i want to welcome my special guest of this evening, hugh hefner.

you thought julian assange attacked a political system. he didn't actually breakthrough the superpowers fire walls which is what we think when talking about, you know, hacking. >> they talk about social hacking. in the old days, you get a code in the desk drawers. >> this was a high-tech whistle-blower kind of thing? the more important thing is i want to talk about your neighbor, the progressive neighbor you're concerned about. he looks at wikileaks and wants to kill the guy. you look at it all white. i think the world is more gray, and what assange did with that irresponsible dump of info was he did dump useful info we needed to know about, but he dumped a lot of up foe that was not necessary to dump that caused problems not necessary to cause. he put people's lives at risk and caused the diplomatic service. they talked about people's personal info. what was the point of that? it made our functions more difficult to do. my point is the guy who wants to shoot him, he sees him black, not right. your point, everything is beautiful, full tran

we start off with a fox news alert julian assange now jailed in london on charges. sexual misconduct in sweden pictures from monday when julian assange the founder of wiki leaks being rebuked. his lawyers have maintained that he denies all of these allegations of the sex crimes in sweden and that they have found the entire swedish legal process to be very unusual rick. yes there in lies the problem if it has to do with sex or infidelity or rape allegations or winter breaks then the mainstream media is all over it but this brings up questions about government transparency or morality in the rule of law the value of truth that's where the mainstream media always seems to me. now there's a lot of big news today when it comes to the wars that america is waging a brought to the u.s. has reportedly been stepping up air strikes in yemen over the last few weeks with drones and fighter jets on an attempt to keep al qaeda in the arabian peninsula from gaining any ground as for now president saleh has left the country after being injured in an attack and the war against libya

they ran a story anti-wikileaks and anti-julian assange. message don't mess with giving information to people who want it and, therefore, they attack pbs to make a point. >> all right. sending a message, punking an organization. let's take a look, though, at the cia site. it's a public site. not the internal site. when you look at that hack job, how much of a threat is it really since it wasn't the internal site, but, rather, the public site? >> reporter: the reality is the cia is correct in the sense that attacking the public website is not in and of itself a threat. what the real worry needs to be here is that it's exposing the fact that there are vulnerabilities in the government's systems and if you're an attacker who wants to do some true criminal damage or attack the security of the country, for example, an enemy foreign nation state that may be watching and they are all watching right now, that is the place to worry about and that is why the more secure defenses you have, the better it is to send a message, a real message that don't

. >> on frontline, julian assange. >> julian assange is calling the shots. >> bradley manning. >> thedealistic no soldier who felt out of place in the army. >> over a half a million leaked documents. >> come on! >> it was news that was going to shock the world. >> clear. >> for the first time, the whole story... >> this hemorrhage has touched every country we deal with. >> ...from the inside. >> the best way to keep a secret is to never have it. >> "wikisecrets"-- a frontline investigation. >> frontline continues online. watch "the meth epidemic" again. more on how meth works on the brain. >> it gets most of its effect via dopamine. >> answers to frequently asked questions about methamphetamine. read the "oregonian's" award- winning series on meth, and there's much more on frontline's website. watch more than 100 full programs; explore interactive timelines and follow frontline on facebook and twitter or join the discussion on pbs.org. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. ma

but for now, julian assange's but for now, julian assange's war against secrecy wages on. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> there's not a man alive who hasn't wished he could be hugh hefner for just a single day. >> a lot of people think they know everything about me, but they don't. >> he's still the playboy's playboy. the man is nearly 85. >> i think age is just a number but the more numbers, the better. >> hugh hefner may not be slowing down but he's definitely settling down for the third time, and he says the last time, marrying his 24-year-old girlfriend, crystal harris. >> it's just a very good time to be alive. >> tonight, hugh hefner on his life behind closed doors at the playboy mansion. this is "piers morgan tonight." >> i want to welcome my special guest of this evening, hugh hefner. hugh, could i call you hugh? hef? what do you like to be called? >> hef. >> hef. what do you make of what's going on in the world right now? you've been through so many things, the cold war, the vietnam war, the end of the russian revolution. what do you make of what we're seeing now? >

confidentiality of their bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two discs to julian assange on the disks contained information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested that the people mentioned on the disks were dodging taxes but they want to do it and they go it quickly like that again basically. in order to thank god it's investigating and making a decision on a elmos actions of course and face to face with a swiss court of law the former bank employee may face serious prison time for releasing the confidential data. one of the journalists investigating theft the secret banking information is yen's brown bush of the financial times the first scandal of this kind broke in germany in two thousand and seven the german government had acquired a disk from anonymous individuals it contained information about germans hiding their money in foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes in germany. there were seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german names on it some of them had to go to court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand an

amendment and now facebook is providing it with a new tool to crack down as wiki leaks founder julian assange himself said right here on r.t. facebook in particular. is the most appalling spying machine because it would be. he we have the world's most comprehensive database of people their relationships the interests of their locations communications we can talk to relatives all within the united states all accessible u.s. intelligence. because the first amendment specifically protects the right to freedom of assembly which means you can hang out with who you want the government or ference any release of information they could threaten that freedom would be in violation unless of course there's a compelling reason for the government to have that information for a criminal investigation and in which case they need a court order a warrant or subpoena which you can easily obtain from any judge with a simple bribe or blackmail but the precedent for this balance between your rights and the needs of government go back to the one nine hundred fifty eight case of the delta n w c p versus alabama and

. >> i think we talked about that with julian assange.ind may den disrobed, none of this would have happened. >> it builds up, and then suddenly in your 30s or 40s you are a congressman and you say now i am sleeping with every girl that turned me down. >> i think one of the reasons i don't have the compulsions is the first night i delivered pizza when i was 16 years old i saw two naked women. >> and maybe because you are married and you actually have a moral compass, maybe. >> andrew, that was a movie you were watching. >> lover boy. >> by the way, to be fair to asae, he was frustrated because all he wanted to do was dance. bless your heart for explaining the proper use of y'all. >> you are welcomement bless your heart. >> all y'all can learn from her. >> i love how the long island jew is telling us how to use y'all. >> all y'all is the pleur form of y'all. >> i learned the proper usage when i was in the army. >> what else did you learn? >> the only time you use y'all is when you talk about these nascar races. >> no, you are thinking of s

interviewing julian assange right when wikileaks became the big story. it is not a movie that has a ton of talking heads, which that interview is. it is it fascinating to see, particularly as a historical document. we have bill keller and very candid moments discussing the layouts that took place at the end of 2009 with a much different tenor that was all there. there was a real sense of apocalypse across the media, particularly in the newspaper world, when i started shooting. i think that sort of tension pervades the whole film. >> when is your documentary officially going out to the public? >> it is opening in new york on june 17 and in los angeles on june 24 pre it it goes nationwide july 1. it is 91 minutes. >> let's watch the trailer which you send out to the movie houses before, to see the difference in what your able to show and what we are able to show. >> the old newspaper model is dying. >> this is about wikileaks, which is a website. they just dropped off on youtube and waited for everybody else to find it. >> the bottom line is, wikileaks doe

subject of quasi sex scandals how would you like to have lunch with international man of mystery julian assangeing 8 people the chance to dine with its founder and front man as part of a fundraiser. bids started monday at about $600 a head. they jumped up to $800 today. bidding will close next week. guests will dine july 2 at, quote, one of london's finest restaurants with assange and a slovenian marxist philosopher [ indiscernible ] assange is on bail in britain's fights extradition to sweden on allegations of sexual misconduct. >>> so four guys walk into a bar. [ laughter ] >> no. it's not the start of a joke. no, it is the beginning of a project that earned an east bay man this week's jefferson award. >> we want to have fun no matter what we're doing. >> how their fun has become a great provider for charity. >>> and while we can't see it in our corner of the world still quite a show. what made this eclipse more spectacular than most. >>> why this week's golf tournament is more open than it is u.s. i'm kim coyle. and the bears got an early wake- up call. next stop, omaha in the college world

but for now, julian assange's war against secrecy wages on. >>> fairy tales don't always end happily ever after. just ask sarah ferguson. the dutchess of york had it all, the handsome prince, the perfect wedding, the glamorous life in the royal family and two beautiful daughters. then it all came crashing down. a nightmare of scandal, divorce and yet more scandal. all of it playing out for all of the world to see. >> i feel so totally ashamed, and i feel as though i'm so out of control. >> i've known the dutchess for more than 20 years. tonight you're going to meet the real sarah ferguson. >> it still is a fairy tale because it just has a very modern, different ending. >> my primetime exclusive with the dutchess of york. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> sarah ferguson tells a story in the new book "finding sarah" which comes out june 28th and a series of the same name premiering this sunday at 9:00 eastern on the own network. sarah, the dutchess of york, joins me now. i don't know whether to call you sarah or the dutchess to me. to me, you are fergie. >> at last, someone remembers

group bombarded a swiss bank and mastercard for trying to shut off funds to the site's founder, julian assangeand more broadly, computer attacks on both government and private systems have been growing worldwide. over the weekend, defense contractor lockheed martin said it had been the target of what it called a "significant and tenacious" hack, but managed to thwart it in time. the company would not reveal the origins of the attack, but it said in a statement: and google reported today that hackers likely based in china tried recently to enter e-mail accounts used by senior u.s.c< government officials. other attacks have inflicted serious damage to companies and their customers. in late april, sony had to cut off 100 million user accounts from its playstation video game system's online network. the company later acknowledged a hacker had gained access to personal data of users, potentially including credit card information. sony says it has made considerable security enhancements since the incident, but congress will want to hear more tomorrow when sony representatives appear at a house heari

inextricably linked to the fate of the man at the center of this radioactive storm, but for now, julian assange's war against seek say rages on. . -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> fary tales don't always end happily ever after. sara ferguson, the ditch es of york had it all. perfect prince, perfect wedding, glorious life in the royal family and two beautiful daughters. then it all came crashing down, a nightmare of scandal, divorce, and scandal playing out for the world to see. >> i feel so totally ashamed. and i feel as though i was so out of control. >> i've known the duchess for more than 20 years. tonight you're going to meet the real sara ferguson. >> it just has a very modern, different ending. >> a prime time exclusive with the duchess of york. this is "piers morgan tonight". >> sarah ferguson telling the story in the new story "finding sarah" the duchess of york joins me now. can i call you sarah or duchess of york. but you are fergie. >> at last someone remembers fergie. on my wedding day more people walking the dogs calling me fergie. i remember walking through the park "fergie"

the going to go away the first time some critical need says you have to release that or some julian assange to pay -- >> so a couple things to remember about this very case. now, everything we do in the electronic environment is traceable by somebody, and google may actually be low on the list of potential problems here. and i say that because, first of all, google has done what it could do under our laws to keep federal investigators away from fishing expeditions in their data. unfortunately, for us and for google our laws are on the side of the government, right? so that's the problem with our government and not for google. and i think this is a really important part of this, right? we've become so dependent on companies behaving well, right? we've become so dependent on us demanding that the companies we use in our lives, um, treat us well and are possible is that -- responsible that we forget that sometimes it's not up to them. the fact is our leaders wrote some really bad laws that not only give investigators way too much power that has no real oversight and accountability embedded in

. >> julian assange book tea he is sam dorrance, publisher of potomac books helping us to preview theooks that are coming out. what is potomac books? >> an independent publisher, family-owned. we have been publishing since 1984. we publish books about political science. we published books on international relations, insurgency and counter-terrorism. and sports. >> we want to talk about two books in fall and 2011. i want to talk about this one. >> bob kemper was with the chicago tribune at the time of the 9/11 attacks. during the course of covering the response of the bush administration to the 9/11 attacks he became disturbed about the response of the administration to the families of the victims and became very close with many of the family members of 9/11 and the various organizations and groups that they formed and he has followed them closely for the past ten years. so the book is the story of what they have done individually and collectively to get a commission to investigate, to get compensation. everyone knows the grooves don't often agree with one another. it is quite a remark

media, journalists, you're not doing your job, specifically when it comes to wikileaks, you see julian assangeecause i stand with congressman ron paul on that. we have every right to know what the government does because we pay their salaries. i have every right to know what my taxes are spent on. and this book that bothers me, that my taxes are spent on some of the things that i discovered doing this book. but getting back to wikileaks, the most important thing i think congressman paul said on the floor of the congress and i've dedicated the book to him because of this. he said, supposedly in a free country, when telling the truth means people are going to charge you with treason, we're hurting. when the truth equals treason, that's ridiculous. >> i want to get to your dedication for a minute. that's something that jumped out at me first and foremost. 854,000 american citizens have top secret clearances and that's also where you get the 16 million documents classified as top secret. why do you think governor ventura, that the government keeps so many documents classified so that you and i can

the wiki war, mission of julian assange. >>> let's check news across the country.g a law to verify students' stats. the critics say the law will survive. >> we want anybody who wants to make their home here to do that. we want every one of them to do it the right way through legalized immigration. through processed employment. we don't think that's asking too much. >> now, police in brooklyn new york are searching for the triggerman in yesterday's shooting. on the brighten beach boardwalk, a teenage girl died, four men were hurt. two weeks after the final oprah winfrey show aired, there's report of impending pink slips at harpo studio for unspecified studios. >>> a delta 2 rocket is to launch into space carriage a satellite that monitors the saltiness in the ocean. ke in companies embracing the cloud-- big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that's why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds means more than ever. [ fe

host: julian assange -- valerie wilson. would you -- how would you rate that?: that was different. she was not leaking the material. she was the one put under the gun, so to speak. it seems there were reasons for them to have attacked joe wilson. he gave an accurate report as to raising questions about what was -- about weapons of mass destruction. the bush administration was going after him because they did not find support for their war in iraq. wilson and plame proof to be on the right side of history, -- proved to be on the side of history -- right side of history. host: i apologize, i misspoke. it should have been valerie plame. caller:, as does the conflict, in terms of escalating -- how much does the conflict, in terms of escalating the war, have to do with it? the federal reserve and the fact that he wanted an israeli lobbying group to register as a foreign agent -- what do you think about those things coming out in the pentagon papers, maybe? guest: i have never heard that kennedy was assassinated because of anything to do with israel or the federal re