In an two hour Forbes interview, Julian Assange claims to be sitting on a trove of public and private revelations that include a major US bank. As Wikileaks has become more well known the influx of documents has increased exponentially but feeding it back to the public is proceeding more slowly.
Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.
One can’t help but hope it might be Goldman Sachs but referencing Enron raises the question of financial health and GS is presumably very healthy.
In a rare, two-hour interview conducted in London on November 11, Assange said that he’s still sitting on a trove of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector. And WikiLeaks’ next target will be a major American bank. “It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” he said, adding: “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron emails.”
