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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.43,0:00:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the scoop of the century.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.60,0:00:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,WikiLeaks lifts the curtain on the secret communications between Washington
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.83,0:00:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the diplomats that we have stationed all over the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.66,0:00:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not aware of any release of information in human history comparable to the amount that was released via WikiLeaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.64,0:00:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were cables that show the super power's secret thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.76,0:00:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was hard for me to look Secretary Clinton in the eye when she was like, "How did this happen?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.93,0:00:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A quarter of a million US diplomatic messages apparently stolen by one of their own soldiers;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.36,0:00:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turned into a global sensation by a whistle-blowing website and it's controversial founder, Julian Assange.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.46,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like crushing bastards.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.96,0:00:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think every diplomat around the world would have one overwriting thought, "Thank God! It wasn't me," and "Thank God! It's not us."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.38,0:01:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first in-depth television analysis of the secret cables,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.81,0:01:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we lift the lid on how the world's greatest super power does business and how it gets what it wants.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.31,0:01:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We reveal a super power on a mission to change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.76,0:01:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a super power that sometimes fails to live up to its own ideals.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.58,0:01:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a complete outrage --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.74,0:01:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diplomats stepping in to attempt to obstruct the course of the criminal investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.74,0:01:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over a year has passed since the leaking of the cables.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.76,0:01:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Protests]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.59,0:01:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we assess what the impact of the leak has been in the US and beyond.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.77,0:01:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we ask, can American Diplomacy ever be the same again?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.49,0:01:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't trust you anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.08,0:01:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of them don't, and it will take a long time, I think, to recover that trust.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.61,0:02:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WIKILEAKS: The Secret Life of A Superpower]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.72,0:02:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's late November 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.77,0:02:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two journalists arrive at the US State Department in Washington DC --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.32,0:02:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The enormous ministry that controls America's relationship with the rest of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.77,0:02:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not here for a friendly chat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.41,0:02:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're about to blow the lid on America's diplomatic secrets.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.93,0:02:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were maybe a dozen senior officials and, behind them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.41,0:02:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, at least a dozen more minions taking notes on laptops and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.71,0:02:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They represented not just the State Department
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.11,0:02:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but all of the intelligence agencies and the defense department.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.44,0:02:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not look happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.73,0:02:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US State Department was facing a crisis unlike any other.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.97,0:03:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A quarter of a million internal messages or cables between Washington and US embassies all over the world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.13,0:03:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had found their way into the hands of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.78,0:03:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, from there, to five major newspapers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.98,0:03:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their message at the opening of the meeting, in uncertain terms, was "You've been given stolen material -- classified material.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.04,0:03:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There would be grave consequences if you publish any of it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.84,0:03:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that meeting, one of the people leading the state department's response to the crisis was P.J. Crowley.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.50,0:03:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These stories resulted from a crime.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.49,0:03:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us, this was still classified material.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.72,0:03:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was our responsibility to, you know, continue to protect them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.55,0:03:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The State Department was right to be worried.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.75,0:04:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cables reveal what American diplomats say when they think the world will never know --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.89,0:04:04.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who they trust and who they mock,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.79,0:04:06.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they want and how they get it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.48,0:04:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Some inside the US government dismiss [Berlusconi] as feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.24,0:04:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Merkel is risk averse and rarely creative."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.48,0:04:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Gaddafi relies heavily on his long-time Ukranian nurse, who has been described as a 'voluptuous blonde."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.82,0:04:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Detailed records from thousands of secret meetings and conversations involving US diplomats
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.63,0:04:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were about to become a media sensation.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.85,0:04:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Bank of England Governor Mervyn King expressed great concern about Conservative leaders' lack of experience."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.73,0:04:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It was related that King Abdullah remains a heavy smoker, regularly receives hormone injections, and 'uses Viagra excessively."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.63,0:04:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here were records of American diplomats' secret plans and strategies, their uncertainties and fears.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.68,0:04:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We should aim at influencing the narrow group of individuals that surround him."