Thread by @jamesdoleman

Goetz said in 2011 he worked on the case of a German citizen Mr El Mazri who said he was "kidnapped" in Macedonia by the US military, which "has now been confirmed to be true."

The witness says through "complicated research," he found out the names of the CIA staff who had kidnapped El Masri, which led to the Munich state prosecutor issuing 13 arrest warrants.

Later, when he saw the Wikileaks diplomatic cables he saw the US government had put pressure on the German government not to issue the arrest warrants in America, warning of "serious consequences."

Goetz says Wikileaks to careful care to keep unredacted documents safe, using secure servers and encryption, says the system was "robust"
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Witness says there was a conference call with the US State Department who gave them the numbers of the documents they had concerns over, names were then removed from the ones they had mentioned.
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Judge tells Summers he is nearly "out of time"
(she ruled earlier the defence would only be allowed 30 minutes on examination in chief)
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Summers asks about a book by two Guardian journalist's, David Leigh a Like Harding, which, the witness says revealed the password for Wikileaks secure servers.

James Lewis QC for US Government rises to cross-examine Mr Goetz
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Goerz says that Wikileaks did publish some unredacted cables in 2011, but these had already been put online after the Guardian journalist's book revealed the Wilileaks password.
Says they were on a website called Cryptome.
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Prosecution counsel disagrees that they were all already online and says WikiLeaks published a week before Cryptome.
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Goetz asks Lewis if he has a specific example of a sensitive name being released by WikiLeaks?

The prosecution QC says he will later.

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The witness says wikileaks had invested time and money in screening the documents, a process he found "frustrating" at times.

Lewis asks if it was not true that Der Spiegel had condemned the release of the unredacted documents.
Goetz replies "It did," before adding after a pause, "But I wasn't working there at the time."
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Witness says as far as he is aware WikiLeaks never published the 15,000 unredacted documents.

Lewis now asking about comments made by Julian Assange's mother that he was "funny and humourous,"
He says he agrees.
Lewis ends, court takes a 10 minute break.