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Airdate: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

ABC2 doco looks at Julian Assange's controversial website which facilitated the largest security breach in US history.

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On Sunday ABC2 screens We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, a documentary looking at Julian Assange’s controversial website which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S history.

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) details the creation of
Julian Assange’s controversial website WikiLeaks – which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history – and traces the roots of Assange’s activism. Considered a hero and a martyr by some, Julian Assange was instrumental in uncovering abuses of power such as a devastating 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad, that killed 12 innocent people including two Reuters employees, to the release of thousands of classified State Department foreign policy documents. The issue transcends WikiLeaks into transparency and ultimately, into who controls information.

8:30pm Sunday on ABC2.

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