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Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of the new documentary 鈥淲e Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,鈥� joined the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Ben Wizner to talk whistleblowers, accountability, and government efforts to plug leaks.

The start of the Bradley Manning trial this week comes against the backdrop of a broader crackdown on journalists and their sources, who play a critical role in exposing the government鈥檚 growing arsenal of secrets. Gibney and Wizner discuss the charges against Manning, and whether recent investigations鈥攊ncluding both those against Fox News reporter James Rosen and WikiLeaks鈥攊ndicate a creeping criminalization of the journalistic activity that is critical for a healthy democracy.

The result, as 鈥淲e Steal Secrets鈥� demonstrates鈥攁s does 鈥�Taxi to the Dark Side,鈥� Gibney鈥檚 Oscar-winning documentary exploring the Bush administration鈥檚 torture regime鈥攊s an erosion of the mechanisms designed to make government both transparent and accountable for its mistakes and even crimes. Gibney asks, 鈥淲ithin the context of a government that鈥檚 making everything secret, there comes a point where, if there aren鈥檛 leaks, then how are we to hold the government ever to account?鈥�

(WikiLeaks, for its part, took issue with its portrayal in 鈥淲e Steal Secrets鈥濃�攔ead some of the organization鈥檚 objections .)