Laura Poitras on her WikiLeaks film Risk: ‘I knew Julian Assange was going to be furious’
The Oscar-winning director made her name with the Edward Snowden revelations. In turn, that led to the opportunity to closely film Assange. But the more she filmed, the more critical she became
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/laura-poitras-wikileaks-film-risk-julian-assange
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/30/risk-review-julian-assange-wikileaks-laura-poitras
Risk review – serviceable portrait of Julian Assange's vanity
3 / 5 stars
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the WikiLeaks founder captures his creepy conceit and celebrity hauteur but leaves important questions unasked
"No one has gone from hero to zero quite as quickly or as embarrassingly as Julian Assange, and by embarrassingly I mean for those of us who once rather admired him. The man himself is unembarrassable"
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http://www.afr.com/leadership/julian-assanges-ghost-in-the-wikileaks-machine-20170626-gwz20z
Julian Assange's ghost writer opens up about the Wikileaks machine
Apart from stating claims which mostly ring true, Sarah Harrison went on record making the following partial statements:
PART A
""He's like threatened to fire me a few times," she said, "and always for crazy reasons. One of the times was literally because I had hugged another member of staff. Hugged him, like a friend hug. Julian was like 'that's so disrespectful to me' and went off on one. He said I'd said the guy smelled nice and that was humiliating. He did smell nice; he'd just had a bath. Julian was furious.
"And once he was like 'you're the new Domscheit-Berg' [Daniel Domscheit-Berg was a former colleague who Assange claimed was now writing from 'hatred'] and 'you could do some damage if you left'.
"He won't tell the others what my role is, so one time he's like 'you're my number two' but he won't say to the others. So, if I try to speak to Kristinn he's like 'who do you think you are?' because I've got no like official authority. Only Julian has that."
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PART B
"As the conversation went on you could see she was strung between loving him and being baffled. She said she knew that he was only loyal to her because they were "stuck in that house". As soon as he was free he would chase other girls.
"He openly chats girls up and has his hand on their arse," she said, "and goes nuts if I even talk to another guy." She said he couldn't stand her being away from him and didn't think she should see friends or go on holiday or "abandon" him at all.
I asked about the sex allegations. I said that in all my time with him he hadn't really clarified what happened. "It was weird," she said. "Like, why was he even staying with those girls? He didn't rape them but he was really f---ing stupid."
THIS CREDITS MY OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP. AND SARAH'S CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES. SEE MY PREVIOUS POST BELOW IN THIS WIKILEAKS COLLECTION
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GovernmentGangStalkingandElectronicHarassment/posts/EdHoqyRNQym
THE ABOVE NOTED POST WAS UPDATED ON 6-30-17 AS A RESULT OF THIS ARTICLE
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/20/laura-poitras-on-her-new-julian-assange-film-few-people-could-stand-the-pressure-he-is-under-
Laura Poitras on her new Julian Assange film: ‘Few people could stand the pressure he is under’
The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, is back with a fly-on-the wall view of Julian Assange’s bid to escape extradition
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/09/wikileaks-documentary-julian-assange-1m
WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m'
Alex Gibney's film We Steal Secrets is the first WikiLeaks documentary out of the gate – but it nearly didn't happen. The prolific film-maker talks Assange, Bradley Manning and paranoia
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/14/citizenfour-director-laura-poitras-sues-us-harassment-edward-snowden
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras sues US over 'Kafkaesque harassment'
Film-maker whose documentary about Edward Snowden won an Oscar says she has been held for hours at a time by airport officials, told she was on a no-fly list and threatened with handcuffs for taking notes
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/wikileaks-emails-hillary-clinton-campaign-john-podesta
WikiLeaks emails: what they revealed about the Clinton campaign's mechanics
Tens of thousands of emails hacked from campaign chairman John Podesta’s account have provided an unprecedented window into a presidential run
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/29/laura-poitras-wikileaks-film-risk-julian-assange
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