WikiLeaks
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WikiLeaks

Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

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eBook - ePub

WikiLeaks

Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

About this book

Published to coincide with the forthcoming film, The Fifth Estate, starring Beneditct Cumberbatch, this tie-in edition contains two new chapters on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and a foreword by Alan Rusbridger.

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate echoed around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.

And Assange's actions continue to be felt, in the trial of Bradley Manning and the flight of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.

Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding were at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. (At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh's London house.) Now, together with the paper's investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak, and bring the story dramatically up to date.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. CAST OF CHARACTERS
  6. INTRODUCTION: Alan Rusbridger
  7. CHAPTER 1: The Hunt
  8. CHAPTER 2: Bradley Manning
  9. CHAPTER 3: Julian Assange
  10. CHAPTER 4: The rise of WikiLeaks
  11. CHAPTER 5: The Apache video
  12. CHAPTER 6: The Lamo dialogues
  13. CHAPTER 7: The deal
  14. CHAPTER 8: In the bunker
  15. CHAPTER 9: The Afghanistan war logs
  16. CHAPTER 10: The Iraq war logs
  17. CHAPTER 11: The cables
  18. CHAPTER 12: The world’s most famous man
  19. CHAPTER 13: Uneasy partners
  20. CHAPTER 14: Before the deluge
  21. CHAPTER 15: Publication day
  22. CHAPTER 16: The biggest leak in history
  23. CHAPTER 17: The ballad of Wandsworth jail
  24. CHAPTER 18: The future of WikiLeaks
  25. CHAPTER 19: The Simon Bolivar of SW1
  26. CHAPTER 20: The court martial
  27. EPILOGUE: Top secret
  28. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  29. INDEX
  30. About the Authors
  31. Copyright