WikiLeaks
to target major US bank next
Tuesday November 30, 2010 06:57:00 AM ,
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Washington:
WikiLeaks plans to release thousands of internal documents from a
major US bank in early 2011, Forbes magazine reported Monday.
Julian Assange, the founder of the self-proclaimed whistleblower
website, told Forbes: "We have one related to a bank coming up,
that's a megaleak."
"It's not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it's either
tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you
define it." He compared the planned release to emails unveiled
after the collapse of energy giant Enron Corp.
The website's latest expose was the release of more than 250,000
secret US documents Sunday, which exposed years of diplomatic
communications and provided candid assessments of world leaders.
"You could call it the ecosystem of corruption," Assange told
Forbes during an interview in London, but refused to provide
details about the bank.
"It's also all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye
to and supports unethical practices: The oversight that's not
done, the priorities of executives, how they think they're
fulfilling their own self-interest."
Forbes, which described Assange as a moral ideologue, a champion
of openness and a control freak, said he pondered on a "cute name"
for these "big-package releases," finally settling for "megaleaks".
"These megaleaks ... they're an important phenomenon. And they're
only going to increase," he claimed.
The site that first went public in late 2006 is by now used to
making headlines the world over - first with the release in July
of 92,000 secret documents that detailed six years of the war in
Afghanistan; next in October after publishing nearly 400,000
classified US military documents related to the war in Iraq; and
Sunday with the leak of more than a quarter million documents
detailing communications between the State Department in
Washington and more than 270 worldwide outposts.
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