Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy

On April 5, 2010 WikiLeaks released cockpit video footage from a U.S. helicopter gunship in Baghdad. The footage, which documented the killing of 12 people, was released in two versions: the full, original video and an edited video. Critics of WikiLeaks charge that the edited video misrepresented events; Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has responded that “it’s ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context.”