Thread by @JuanLPassarelli

Back in court, the lawyers are present, we are waiting for the Judge, and still 40 political observers like @amnesty are banned from being able to monitor the case via a video link that was provided to them and access removed on the first day of proceedings.
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Judge comes in and John Sloboda is saying the oath via video link.
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Sloboda is the co-founder of Iraq Body Count, recognized as an authority in civilian deaths by Governments and international organizations.
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Sloboda: The reason of monitoring of civilian deaths is important, it gives dignity for those who are killed and gives information that may reveal patterns is trends that may help in investigations as well as being a fundamental human need to know how deaths have taken place.

Sloboda: Before the Iraq Logs, it was possible to harvest all public domain information of civilian deaths in Iraq. But the Iraq Logs was the largest single contribution of the Iraq war which helped us discover about 15 thousand previously unknown civilian deaths.

Sloboda: The Iraq Logs gave us far more detail that was previously known about the instances and situations about civilian deaths in Iraq.
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Sloboda: We suggested to #JulianAssange that we joined the partnership of media consortium that had access full access to the dataset.
Defence: Was there redactions?
Sloboda: Mr. Assange was very careful to make sure that redactions would be done for risk minimization.

Sloboda There was a technical process in the redactions. They took a simple English dictionary and then redact everything that wasn't in this. This caused over-redactions and acronyms and other information had to be put back in and make sure things like occupations were taken out

Sloboda: Assange had the position that the documents could not be published until everybody was satisfied about the redaction process was complete and safe.
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Sloboda: The extent of redaction was that they were over-redacted when published.
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Media partners put significant pressure on #JulianAssange to publish, but he held strong and refused to publish until the full redaction process had been done.
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Sloboda: There was a huge public interest in these documents, in fact there have been around 40 thousand articles written about the civilian deaths discovered by the War Logs.
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Lewis starts cross-examination. He starts by discrediting the witness as usual.

Prosecution: Is he an actual expert? What was the vetting process from WikiLeaks? And nonsensical questions that are unrelated to the actual case.
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Camera focuses on Julian, he seems to be following proceedings and is wearing a mask.
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Sloboda is being led into saying that it is irresponsible to publish names, and is being asked about the Afghan logs even though he did not participate in the Afghan Logs publication.
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Prosecution argues that a human would have to go back to the logs to check if the redacting software actually worked. Did this happen.
Sloboda: I cannot answer this as I'm not an expert in the software.

Prosecution rests. 10 minutes break.
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