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Wikileaks' Julian Assange: My next leak will force a major bank executive to resign
By Ben ReiningaDecember 21st, 2010, 12:31 pmComments (5)
Julian Assange is out of prison, at least for the moment, and back on the offensive. In a statement today to a British paper, he claimed that his organization's next leak will target giant banks. The information he plans to release, he says, is damaging enough that it will force the resignation of at least one high-level executive.
It's speculated that the leak will target Bank of America, specifically. Last year, Assange claimed to have a massive trove of Bank of America documents. Plus, the giant bank just stopped processing payments to Wikileaks' accounts, which might mean payback is in order.
It will be interesting to see how the public reacts. Assange's been a polarizing figure, especially in the last few weeks, when he's been called everything from a rapist and a terrorist to a soldier protecting free speech. I can imagine big banks, however, turning out to be a more popular target. No one's life will be in danger this time, and he won't be anti-military, just anti-rich-banking-exec.
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I cannot wait!
"he won't be anti-military, just anti-rich-banking-exec" They can be the same thing.
Obviously has an agenda. Which is to get even with anyone who disagrees with him. The US isn't perfect, but where's all the leaks on China's human rights abuses? What about North Korea, or Iran? How about human rights abuses in the Muslim world? All conveniently missing, and why? Because those nations control information, the press, their citizens in a more abusive manner than the US. It's easy to drop leaks on the US. Mr Assange go out and make an effort to show you care more about the people of the world as a whole than tearing down the US.
Actually, you can't know whether the leaks about the bank will harm individuals (i.e., non-bank personnel). Banks collect all kinds of confidential information about customers, from credit scores to social security numbers to, heck, bank account numbers themselves. One could easily imagine someone getting ahold of confidential customer information and releasing it much to the customer's injury.
Xt8Ufj Internet is written with the capital letter in a sentence, by the way. And hundredths are written not with a point but with a comma. This is according to the standard. And actually everything is very good..!