On 5 April 2010, in a room at the National Press Club in Washington, a small organisation most reporters had never dealt with played a US military video to the world's press. This section covers how that happened and what followed: the war logs, the diaries, and the argument about whether any of it should have been published at all.
Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder and publisherHe ran the organisation that decrypted, edited and published the footage, and presented it himself in Washing…