EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki harbors no doubt about who came out the victor in the protracted legal battle between the U.S. government and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange . He says Assange prevailed over the most powerful country in the world.

In Jarecki’s Oscar-contending documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man , the director explores the stunning classified information Wikileaks exposed over the years, like the “collateral murder” video that showed U.S. military personnel in Apache helicopters firing on innocent people in Iraq in 2007, killing a dozen people including two Reuters journalists. And he documents the twists and turns in the American government’s legal case against Assange that charged him with violations of the Espionage Act and conspiracy related to compu

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