WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy

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It was the biggest leak in history. Wiki Leaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family & 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 would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.

Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh & Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250, 000 secret diplomatic cables & classified files from the Afghan & 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 & Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man & the leak.