  We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks  Dir/scr: Alex
Gibney. US. 2012. 127mins  One of the surprises in We Steal
Secrets, the latest nonfiction movie from the ever-prolific
filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), is that it’s not
the story of Julian Assange. While the infamous white-haired
Australian hacktivist and Wikileaks founder is the star of this
political documentary thriller, the film expands its reach to
feature two important supporting players, most notably Bradley
Manning, the US private who leaked massive amounts of classified
documents to Wikileaks, as well as Adrian Lamo, the hacker who
betrayed Manning’s trust.   Fans of Assange might be surprised
to find that We Steal Secrets comes down fairly hard on the
revolutionary figure, ostensibly blaming him on the
organisation’s downfall.  We Steal Secrets lacks the emotional
weight of Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of
God, about child abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church, but
it has the same high level of exhaustive