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Maurizi, Stefania

 
9780745347622: Secret Power: Wikileaks and Its Enemies

Synopsis

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism and Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award 2022*

'I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.'

It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organisation WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.

Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organisation for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.

With complex and disturbing insights, Maurizi's tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and cover-ups.

At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and truthtellers.

Foreword by Ken Loach

Translated by Lesli Ann Cavanaugh-Bardelli

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À propos de l?auteur

Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the daily 'Il Fatto Quotidiano', having previously reported for 'La Repubblica' and 'l'Espresso'. She began working with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in 2009 for her newspaper. Among international journalists, she is the only one who has worked on the entirety of the WikiLeaks secret documents and the only one who has conducted a multi-jurisdictional litigation to defend the right of the press to access the full documentation on the WikiLeaks case.

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9780745347615: Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0745347614 ISBN 13 :  9780745347615
Editeur : Pluto Press, 2022
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