We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Page #5

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NARRATOR:
Julian teamed up

with Birgitta Jonsdottir,

a poet turned politician,

to hatch a plan to turn Iceland into

a haven for freedom of information.

But Julian was also preoccupied

with a new source,

one with access to classified

U.S. government materials,

and a willingness

to leak them.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

See all those people

standing down there...

There's more that keep walking

by and one of them has a weapon.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

We have five to six

individuals with AK-47s.

Request permission to engage.

NARRATOR:
It was an on board video of an

Apache helicopter gunship on patrol in Iraq.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

I can't get 'em now because

they're behind that building.

NARRATOR:
A half-mile above the ground, it

was invisible to the people down below.

[APACHE PILOT SPEAKING]

That's a weapon.

He's got an RPG.

We got a guy with an RPG.

I'm gonna fire.

SOLDIER:

You are free to engage, over.

[APACHE PILOT SPEAKING]

Light 'em all up.

[GUNFIRE]

Keep shooting.

[APACHE PILOT SPEAKING]

Keep shooting.

[GUNFIRE CONTINUES]

Keep shooting.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

Oh yeah, look at those

dead bastards.

NARRATOR:
Two of the men killed

worked for the Reuters news agency.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

Nice.

NARRATOR:
What had looked

like a weapon from the sky,

turned out to be

the long lens of a camera.

APACHE PILOT:
Bushmaster.

We have a van that's approaching

and picking up the bodies.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

Yeah, we're trying to get

permission to engage.

SOLDIER:

This is Bushmaster-Seven.

Roger, engage!

APACHE PILOT:
One-Eight.

Engage. Clear.

APACHE GUNNER:
Come on.

[GUNFIRE]

APACHE PILOT:

Clear.

[GUNFIRE]

Clear.

APACHE GUNNER:

We're engaging...

Oh, yeah, look at that.

Right through

the windshield!

[LAUGHS]

NARRATOR:
Inside the van

were two children,

who were wounded in

the hail of cannon fire.

[APACHE GUNNER SPEAKING]

It's their fault for bringing

their kids to a battle.

APACHE PILOT:

That's right.

NARRATOR:
In March 2010, Assange

and a team of Icelandic activists

holed up in a rented

house in Reykjavik

to edit and prepare

the video for publication.

We did most

of our work here.

This was

the operational table.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

McCARTHY:
It was chaotic and hectic and

all sorts of varyingly frayed nerves.

Eventually I went out and

bought a bunch of Post-its

[LAUGHS] and kind of tried to figure

out what it was we needed to do.

My horrific task was to go

through the entire movie

and pull out the stills

to put on the website.

And at the same time I was

learning who these people were

that I could see their flesh

being torn off their bodies.

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