We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks - (2013) A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history. 
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Drawing on the testimony of more than 20 witnesses (though not Assange, who fell out with everyone, Gibney included), the film creates an astonishing picture of the complex new world of internet communications, intelligence and the ever-expanding web of post-cold war secrecy. It's into this fragile, ill-managed china shop that Assange, Manning and Lamo, the raging anti-establishment bulls, so recklessly charged, raising enough moral and ethical issues to occupy philosophers and political scientists for decades to come. The film's title is provided by the plausible General Michael Hayden, who spent a decade between 1999 and 2009 as director of first the NSA and then the CIA. "We steal secrets. We steal other nation's secrets," he genially confesses. "We cannot do that above board and be very successful for a very long period of time."