We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Page #6

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Photographs taken by US soldier

NARRATOR:
The Army

claimed it was engaged in

"combat operations

against a hostile force."

But it also began

a criminal investigation.

It turned out

that the driver of the van

had been a father taking

his children to school.

SOLDIER 1:
I think I just

drove over a body.

SOLDIER 2:
Really?

SOLDIER 1:
Yeah.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

JONSDOTTIR:
The curtains

were drawn.

But I never had any sense that we

were being watched, not physically.

But we joked a lot about it.

We were becoming

super paranoid.

It wasn't really

cloak-and-dagger stuff,

it was just yet

another cool project.

Everybody thinks that we were sort

of huddled over the computers

and it was all very serious.

We actually had

an incredible time.

The second last night

we all went out

and we were all wearing the same

silver snowsuits. [LAUGHING]

MAN:
WikiLeaks!

[ALL LAUGHING]

Lava-leaks!

JONSDOTTIR:
It was

an incredibly intimate time,

because we were all working closely,

we were working on something

that we knew that could get us

all in very serious trouble.

And we were all willing

to take that consequence.

So my name

is Julian Assange.

I am the editor of WikiLeaks.

Could you spell your name?

Julian, with an A.

Assange.

MANNE:
What's clear about him

is he became a public figure

extraordinarily quickly.

It was really April 2010

where he went from

relative obscurity

into an absolutely

central world figure.

And he did it deliberately.

He knew what he was doing.

He decides to take on the

American state, in public.

NARRATOR:
The team posted the unedited

video on the WikiLeaks website.

They also posted

a shorter version

edited for maximum impact.

Julian titled it

"Collateral Murder. "

And no surprise, it's getting

reaction in Washington.

Our military will take

every precaution necessary

to ensure the safety

and security of civilians.

ASSANGE:
The behavior of the pilots is

like they are playing a computer game.

Their desire

was simply to kill.

The Pentagon says that it sees no

reason to investigate this any further.

Its own inquiry found that

the journalists' cameras

were mistaken for weapons.

But the rules of engagement

were followed.

If those killings were lawful

under the rules of engagement,

then the rules of

engagement are wrong.

Deeply wrong.

HAYDEN:
You've

got this scene.

Some may be ethically

troubled by the scene.

Frankly, I'm not.

But I can understand someone

who's troubled by that

and someone who wants the

American people to know that,

because the American

people need to know

what it is their government is doing for them.

I actually share that view.

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