Yesterday, it was reported Wikileaks may soon expose a major US bank. Today, Rawstory is suggesting it could be Bank of America.
“At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange told the technology site Computer World in an article published on October 9, 2009.
The Wikileaks chief continued: “Now how do we present that? It’s a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it.”
The bank’s stocks fell today amidst speculation it might be the target.
The bank’s stock was down 36 cents, or 3.2 percent to $10.95.
In an interview published in the latest issue of Forbes magazine, the founder of the whistle-blower organization, Julian Assange, said he plans to release tons of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year. “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 told Forbes. “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron e-mails.”
All this information is exciting and worthy of Hollywood but what do we do once we have proof of corruption and malfeasance? How do we ensure our regulatory agencies and justice departments act?
