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WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on SecrecyThat said, either there is a risk or there is not. You have chosen to respond in a manner which leads me to conclude that the risks are entirely fanciful and that you are instead concerned only to suppress evidence of human rights abuses and other criminal behaviour.” The negotiations with the state department – such as they were – thus terminated. All that was left was to prepare for simultaneous publication of the biggest leak in the history. What could possibly go wrong? CHAPTER 15 Publication day Basel railway station, Switzerland 28 November 2010 “Launch! Launch! Launch!” GUARDIAN NEWSROOM It was Sunday morning at the sleepy Badischer Bahnhof. Few were around. The station sits precisely on the border between Germany and Switzerland. It is a textbook example of European co-operation – with the Germans providing the trains, and the Swiss running the cafГ©s and newspaper kiosks. This morning, however, the station would become briefly notorious for something else: a gigantic foul-up. Early in the morning, a van rolled in, bearing 40 copies of the German news magazine Der Spiegel ...» |
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