WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm

[Turborama]

Source: Reuters

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.

"I think it's great. We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them," Assange told the CBS television program "60 Minutes" in an interview.

CBS released a partial transcript on Friday ahead of Sunday's broadcast of the full segment.

Bank of America Corp shares fell more than 3 percent on Nov. 30 on investor fears that the largest U.S. bank by assets would be the subject of a document release.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/idINIndia-54494520110129

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Does he enjoy making DUers squirm with this long drawn out non-release of the bankster docs, too?

[gateley]

1. I enjoy it, too. They loved to make us squirm for many years. Time for their comeuppance. nt

[malaise]

8. + a gazillion

Squirm robber barons squirm.

[xchrom]

2. I can be patient. And the banksters deserve all

The discomfort that's coming to them.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Bankers squirming is OK

but I want to see bankers taking the perp walk. Enough with the drama already! Name names!

[Dover]

4. I wouldn't get your hopes up too high. It doesn't sound like their info will have

any immediate revelations. The reasons are explained here by one of Assange's advisors. -


WikiLeaks unlikely to release Swiss bank data soon


...Two sources familiar with the material said it was dense and not self-explanatory. One of the sources said the material contained a handful of names that might be recognizable.

Even in cases where names seemed familiar, the source said, there is no way to be sure from the material supplied to WikiLeaks of the identities of account holders and further investigation would have to be done to confirm the account holders' identity.

Jack Blum, a former Congressional investigator and Washington lawyer who has been advising Elmer, said Elmer would not be releasing any names or corporate names from the data cache because the account data outlined financial "structures" which are "difficult to figure out what is going on."

Blum also cautioned that even if account holders' identities can be confirmed, this does not constitute evidence that such people are engaged in offshore tax evasion.

Blum said government investigators would be in the best position to confirm the identities of people involved in transactions documented by Elmer's material.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/18/us-wikileaks-swiss-idUSTRE70F0TF20110118

[Turborama]

5. What about the stuff from a bank's hard drive he apparently has?

He was going to release it this month, wasn't he?

[Dover]

6. I haven't stayed on top of this so don't know the details, sorry.

But having learned a little bit about how complicated these off shore shell company operations can be leads me to guess that the information is, as the article said, "dense" and difficult to string together without serious investigative work.

[sendero]

7. As a BIG supporter of Assange..

... I have to say that if doesn't release info on HIS SCHEDULE (January) then his credibility is starting to suffer.

[jimlup]

9. kic and rec but I have to say...

I misread the title as "Wikileaks founder enjoys making banks sperm". Perhaps that too. Sorry, my sense of humor in the morning is a bit odd.

[CJvR]

10. And he is surprised...

...that the banks don't mind to much about helping the goverments to put the squeeze on him. ;-)

[bemildred]

11. How can you not like that?

Accountability, it's not just for the little people anymore.
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