WikiLeaks Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

David Leigh, Luke Harding, Ed Pilkington, Robert Booth, Charles Arthur, Richard Powers

eAudio - 2011

A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked.The extraordinary twists and turns of WikiLeaks have been closely followed by the Guardian newspaper ever since the website launched in 2006, and Guardian journalists have had unprecedented access to all the major players, from angry and embarrassed politicians and diplomats to the extraordinary figure of Julian Assange himself. At different times Assange hid at David Leigh's homes. Here they reveal the many strands—legal, ethical, security related—of a story that continues to dominate world headlines. They loo...k at the Internet culture and technology that made the mining of secret information possible and at the fanatical hackers who set up WikiLeaks. They explore the ... more