WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets

[sasha031]

Source: Forbes

In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business.
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.
When? Which bank? What documents? Cagey as always, Assange won’t say, so his claim is impossible to verify. But he has always followed through on his threats. Sitting for a rare interview in a London garden flat on a rainy November day, he compares what he is ready to unleash to the damning e-mails that poured out of the Enron trial: a comprehensive vivisection of corporate bad behavior. “You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” he says, refusing to characterize the coming release in more detail. “But 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.”

This is Assange: a moral ideologue, a champion of openness, a control freak. He pauses to think—a process that occasionally puts our conversation on hold for awkwardly long interludes. The slim 39-year-old Wiki Leaks founder wears a navy suit over his 6-foot-2 frame, and his once shaggy white hair, recently dyed brown, has been cropped to a sandy patchwork of blonde and tan. He says he colors it when he’s “being tracked.”

Read more: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/wikileaks-julian-assange-wants-to-spill-your-corporate-secrets/

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I have been hoping and waiting for this would happen.

[bemildred]

1. Awesome. FUD for corporations is long overdue. nt

[David Zephyr]

14. +1.

Too bad he wasn't leaking corporate secrets before 2008 when we melted down.

[tabatha]

19. I think whistleblowers have only come forward

after the initial releases - where it became clear how they could blow the whistle.

[bemildred]

24. Yep, I think the snowball is rolling down the hill now.

One may expect other parties to copy Wikileaks now too.

[pokercat999]

2. Giving Assange the American Medal of Freedom would at

last give some meaning to the medal.

[sasha031]

5. I love this guy

:applause: :applause:

[digitaln3rd]

3. Breaking News!

Julian Assange is a douchebag!

Oh, wait, we already knew that.

[Hissyspit]

4. No.

We didn't.

And we still don't.

[Earth_First]

7. Happy with the current situation?

:shrug:

[villager]

11. oh, your news is "broken" alright...

n/t

[Yeahyeah]

20. Jealousy's a bastard.

[flyarm]

27. the hell we did..he is a hero to me! Thank You Julian for having guts and integrity!

If I was your mom, I would be damn proud of you!

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Bank of America or Citibank?

Is Chase part of Citibank or on its own? I can never remember who has gobbled whom or leaped into bed with whom these days. Kind of hoping it's Bank of America. I have a particular loathing for them.

[DJ13]

8. How about THE biggie..... Goldman Sachs

[Hissyspit]

12. The failure of WaMu was a biggie.

Largest bank failure in U.S. history, if I recall correct.

[Hissyspit]

9. Chase absorbed WaMu who had absorbed Providian.

Chase is JP Morgan, too.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Chase = JPMorgan Chase

[sasha031]

13. there was a video I watched

think youtube...
Julian exposed all the criminal activity on the bank in Iceland. There network news, which is unlike ours ran the whole story.
If I am correct Iceland never bailed out their banks, my guess is because of Julian.

I have been looking for that video for awhile so I can post it here, can't find it, the interview was brilliant though.

[Kaleko]

23. Iceland let its banks fail, that is correct.

If that was because of Assange's disclosures, I can't say.

[Yeahyeah]

15. Awesome.

[burnsei sensei]

16. Wikileaks will transform the world.

nt

[iandhr]

17. NOW THATS A WORTHWHILE TARGET

The State department is not

[sasha031]

18. I don't think Julian's going anywhere

He's on the front of this months issue of Forbes? of all places...

[bemildred]

25. Me either. nt

[katandmoon]

21. Uh-oh... now that's REALLY going to piss Obama off!

[KT2000]

22. Monsanto - please, please

Dow chemical, Bayer inc., all the pharmaceuticals.
Can't wait.

[Synnical]

26. I'm surpised he gave an interview in the UK

There is no "first amendment" protection nor shield laws for journalists in the UK.

He must certainly be the Most Wanted Man in the Western Hemisphere.

Hope he stays safe.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[jannyk]

28. Dupe - this was posted in LBN a few hours ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4634277

[glinda]

29. add Health Insurance Industries to that