Secret Power

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WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

By Stefania Maurizi

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In Secret Power, investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi chronicles her decade-long exploration into WikiLeaks and the shadowy realms of secret state power. Beginning in 2008, she delves into encrypted information and clandestine meetings, uncovering state criminality and a pattern of impunity surrounding atrocities. The book offers an intimate look at the persecution of whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange, revealing the heavy price paid by those who dare to expose the truth.
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Ideal for readers interested in politics, investigative journalism, and contemporary discussions around government secrecy, transparency, and whistleblowing.

An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745347615

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Contributors:

Translated by Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli
Foreword by Ken Loach

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 368

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Stefania Maurizi

About the Author

Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, having previously reported for La Repubblica and l'Espresso. She began working with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in 2009 for her newspaper. Among international journalists, she is the only one who has worked on the entirety of the WikiLeaks secret documents and the only one who has conducted a multi-jurisdictional litigation to defend the right of the press to access the full documentation on the WikiLeaks case. Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton. After a brief spell in the theatre, Loach was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This launched a long career directing films for television and the cinema, from Cathy Come Home and Kes in the sixties to Land And Freedom, Sweet Sixteen, The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2006), Looking for Eric, The Angels’ Share and I, Daniel Blake (Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2016).