April 08, 2013 < Previous Entry | Next Entry >     Watch Part 1
of Interview  AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,
democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report, as we turn to part
two of our conversation with Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of
the Icelandic Parliament who played a critical role in
WikiLeaks’ release of the "Collateral Murder" video, which
showed a U.S. military helicopter—it was July 12th, 2007—as it
killed 12 people and wounded two children. It was the video made
by the Apache helicopter itself, from the vantage point of,
well, being in the helicopter, so it broadcast—it recorded both
the voices of the soldiers, cursing, laughing, and you saw the
target. The video shows the targeting of the people below.  This
trip marks Jónsdóttir’s first to the United States since a
secret grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, began its
investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Birgitta
Jónsdóttir has also been the center of a closely watched legal
case. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court ruled the