Day six of the Assange Trial (Wednesday, Sept 16) Live updates will be threaded here for ease of access and sharing.

Today's first witness is John Goetz, who was present during the Guardian interviews and refutes claims that JA said "informants deserve to die". His testimony is expected to be shorter than previous witnesses. Below is his signed affidavit on the matter.
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Proceedings are ready to start.
Witness is already video linked in, here is hoping all goes well with the feed for once.
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Goetz opens talking about his background. He is an award winning investigative reporter for Der Spiegal (Germany), who met with Assange in 2010 over information on the Afghanistan war.
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Together, he and Assange researched the Afghan War Logs, leading to the revelation of a secret US military assassination team.
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Goetz says Assange forced everyone to use encrypted devices and was extremely concerned about making sure names were properly redacted so no one came to any harm.
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Through the NYT, they contacted White House admin and redacted over 15,000 documents in order to protect innocent people.
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Goetz says Der Spiegal published first with other outlets following *before* wikileaks published them, and to his knowledge; no one was able to obtain sensitive names through this process.
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Goetz says that, so concerned was WL about innocent people being harmed, that they ended up delaying publishing materials on Iraq due to the numerous amount of redactions they made.
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By the time WL had released the Iraq War Logs, quite a few of their redacted documents had been released in full by the U.S. government, unredacted.
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Goetz is now discussing his work in 2011 on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA in Macedonia, although he was innocent of any charge. An estimated 3000 were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA between 2001 and 2005.
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Goetz tracked down the CIA kidnappers, who admitted to, among other horrors, forcefully sodomizing El-Masri.
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An arrest warrant was prepared over the matter in Germany. Later on, Leaked US gov cables revealed that the US gov. had forcefully pressured Germany not to arrest the responsible parties, and to bury the issue.
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Witness again discussing WL redactions process.
Says Initial partners saw everything, *sorry audio is muffled here* they then disseminated it in part to multiple parties all over the world who had strict confidentiality agreements with WL who helped redact portions.
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Witness says initially, the US Gov would contact them with pages they were concerned about being released, so WL could redact, but that eventually this stopped because the WH felt it was pointing them to interesting stories.
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Defense has asked about why there were unredacted cables then, and has asked Goetz to comment in the book by David Leigh, which contained an apparent code word to said unredacted cables.
Witness is speaking ...
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DoJ interupts and says because it is not in the Witness's witness statement, he is not entitled to answer this question, the judge agrees, the question is withdrawn.
(good old DoJ preventing truth from being heard yet again)
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DoJ now doing cross-ex for Goetz
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Goetz testifies that although the unredacted cables were published, it was only after they had been put online by a Guardian "Journalist" who had revealed WL secure server password. They were hosted on a site called Cryptome.
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DoJ and witness are scuffling over timing of unredacted cable release. DoJ pointing to prosecution claims that WL published a week before; witness disagrees with their assertion.
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Witness (Goetz) asks if DoJ has an actual example of a sensitive name released by WL. DoJ says no, but that they will later on.
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Goetz is discussing his own frustrations with WL redactions process, that it was time-consuming and expensive, although effective.
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Documents could be held by WL for over a year in order to protect sources and names and ensure proper redactions were made. Slow rollouts bothered him (Goetz)
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DoJ asks witness if his employer (Der Spiegel) had approved of the unredacted release. Witness says no that they publicly condemned the unredacted cables published by WL; but he was not working for them at the time.
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DoJ cites a WH email asking WL not to publish the 15,000 documents, but that WL released them unredacted anyways.
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Witness clarifies for DoJ that in fact those were different documents entirely. Unrelated to the Afghan war logs.
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DoJ asks about Julians demeanor, if he "has a sense of humor and is likeable".
Witness replies he is unsure really but would assume so and has heard that yes.
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Prosecution rests and we have a short ten-minute break.
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Court is back. Defense is now talking to witness Goetz.

Defense questions if any sensitive names were leaked into public from redacted cables WL published in 2010-2011
Witness says not that he is aware of.
Def questions if Witness was present.
Witness says yes.
Def asks if Leigh was present.
Witness says yes.
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Documents that had been marked "strictly protect" are being discussed.
Witness says they referred to cables that had a politically sensitive nature for the US Gov.
DoJ objects and says labels were for names contains within, not docs.
Witness disagrees.
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Defense is asking witness about Ken Dilanian who was fired for talking to the CIA before reporting on a story about them (he would send them draft stories and mop up for then when needed. mockingbird style).
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Witness brings up Manning trial and says that it already showed the releases didnt actually harm anyone specifically.
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Defense again asks if WL releases from 2011 were classified or unclassified.
Witness again replies unclassified.
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Defense presents to witness an article showing that Cryptome published the unredacted information first, proving the DoJ claim about WL doing it first is unequivocally false.
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Witness says wikileaks at the time tried to prevent people from having access to the unredacted materials (for fear of innocent people being hurt), and attempted to prevent publishing a Die Freitag article that pointed to the unredacted information on Cryptome.
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Defense and DoJ are arguing over whether El- masri (CIA kidnapping and torture victim) statement by witness can be read aloud to the court.
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DoJ relents in a childish manner saying it will waste half an hour to do so but go ahead.
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Defense began to read El-Masri statement but then the Judge objected and now DoJ is saying they mlneed to argue over its admissibility.
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Judge orders recess for an hour while this is discussed.
Court rises.
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