WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fuck. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One-eight, engage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Clear, come on! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Clear. Clear. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Julian Assange]: Why do it? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well there's two reasons. One, because it's fun to kill people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if you've been in that environment 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's a video game, you want to get a highscore. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The other is, they brag after a kill streak about how many people they killed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They go back to base and go "Hey, killed thirteen today". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Oh yeah, look at that right through the windshield. Ha!] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Oh yeah look at those dead bastards] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Nice] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: When the ground troops arrive they see that there are children in the car 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Well it's there fault for bringing kids to a battle - That's right] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 After viewing the video hundreds of times, it became almost an obsession 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to get the identity of the people there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We knew the identity of Namir Noor Elden and Samir Chmagh the Reuters employees 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but for me it was important to establish the identity of the other people there 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 especially the children in the mini-van, we decided it was worthwhile to go there and interview them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: It turns out that the children survived the attack 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hrafnsson flies to Baghdad in search of more facts. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (on this corner in the Alamir district of Baghdad on July 12, 2007...) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: He traces the whereabouts of the children and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 shows the helicopter film to the victim's family. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (He had children in the car, not weapons) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (He got out to help a wounded man. You could see that from the helicopter.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think we could fairly establish fairly well from the journalists point of view 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that the reason why the mini-van was there was basically a coincidence 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that the driver pulled up on the scene because he was driving his kids to tutorial 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (My husband did nothing wrong when he tried to help an injured man.) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (He had the kids with him in the car!) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (For what crime did they shoot him and our innocent children?) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: On the fifth of April 2010, Wikileaks publishes the collateral murder film 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the impact is no less that extraordinary. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Disturbing footage apparently showing civilians being killed by the US military in Iraq. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It was leaked from within the defence community to a website. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (The controversial video was published on WikiLeaks). 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (WikiLeaks has been called a power factor in the new media landscape). 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: By putting all their resources into the helicopter video, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 WikiLeaks have managed to attract the attention of some of the biggest players in the news business 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is precisely what Assange needs to help him handle the rest of the leaked US material 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Julian Assange]: I had been looking at this release and studying it and understand how to 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 come up with a way to deal with such a tremendously large volume of material 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that would actually not simply drown any one organisation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: Assange precedes to contact the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he manages to persuade the chief-editors of these globally respected papers to publish 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 his material in a coordinated fashion, with Assange pulling the strings. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Julian Assange]: What is new is us enforcing cooperation between 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 competitive organisations which would otherwise be rivals. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 To do the best by the story as opposed to simply 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 just doing the best by their own organisation. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: In late July 2010 the Afghanistan reports are published at the same time and day. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (One of the biggest leaks in military history has triggered outrage). 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One of the biggest leaks in US military history has exposed several coverups 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 over the war in Afghanistan. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The real story of this material is that it's war. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's one damn thing after another. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: The publication material is met with praise, as well as strong criticism. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The defence department demands that WikiLeaks returns immediately 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all to the US government all versions of documents obtained 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 directly or indirectly from the Department of Defence databases or records 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Narrator]: For the first time WikiLeaks are now facing criticism that they're 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 finding hard to respond to. The material includes names of civilian Afghanis, putting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 them at risk of being targetted by the Taliban. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 potentially severe, and dangerous. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldiers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or that of an Afghan family.