Book description
It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's
greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and 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 and Luke
Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that
involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and
classified files from the Afghan and 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 and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.
WikiLeaks
has been written by a team of top
Guardian
journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper's investigations editor whose
work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of
secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper's
Moscow correspondent.
