Inside WikiLeaks

“I’m sure that Julian Assange is now regarded as one of the very most dangerous men and he should be quite proud of that,” says Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers. “WikiLeaks is a powerful global force, but if there is an HQ you will not find it in Melbourne, New York or London. Its spiritual home is Iceland. ‘It is a safe haven more for journalism in general, for in particular investigative journalism and also for people that, for example, risk their lives from China or Sri Lanka to publish information about the situation, might risk being tortured or killed and their story also vanishing,’ Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of Iceland’s parliament, says.”