Secret Power

900 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 11h15min.
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo 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 Introduction: The Man Who Stood Up to Secret Power 1. The Wikileaks Revolution 2. The Exceptional Courage of Chelsea Manning 3. Afghanistan: The Faraway War 4. The Cypherpunk 5. A Database from Hell: the Iraq War Logs 6. Rattling Power at the Highest Levels: Cablegate 7. Guantanamo: The Black Hole of Civilisation 8. "The Huffington Post gang is driving me nuts" 9. From Sweden to Ecuador 10. No Place for Protection 11. My Trench Warfare to Unearth the Truth 12. Arbitrarily Detained 13. A Russian Connection? 14. The Fury of the CIA 15. Under Siege 16. The Final Attempts 17. In the Would-be Guantanamo 18. 175 Years for the Crime of Journalism 19. Only Kafka 20. A Monstrous Injustice 21. Secret Power Acknowledgments