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As if it were orchestrated to coincide with this last week’s information leak regarding Verizon Wireless and the National Security Administration, Director Alex Gibney’s latest documentary detailing the odd life and times of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning hits theatres this weekend; Assange, the developer of Wikileaks, the seemingly indestructible website responsible for the release of top secret U.S. military documents allegedly supplied by private Bradley Manning who’s currently still awaiting trial at Guantanamo Bay (so much for a speedy trial). Crafted with meticulous detail Gibney efforts sources from around the globe to put the pieces together on this ironic and twisting schadenfreude where no one ends up with a clean getaway. Smart, insightful, and now with potentially new chapters as this review is being written, how the final chapters will play out remains a mystery. Worthy of your time as we boldly charge towards what feels like a real life Orwellian plot of our own. What secrets are worth keeping, what does and should our government know, and more curious still, who is it that’s really responsible for spilling the beans and what might they in fact be hiding themselves? We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks is rated R.