Julian Assange: Where you approached by the British Government or the US Government?
Alan Rusbridger: Before November 29th ? We had... It was decided that the New York Times would approach the US Government proactively. Separately we had two sets of communication with the American Government. One was via the Embassy in London who came along to see what we could tell them which was not very much because we already had the channel through the New York Times. The second channel was a phone call setup by the State Department but also involved other agencies. Their primary aim was to discover what documents we were going to use.
