Facing WikiLeaks Threat, Bank Plays Defense

[harvey007]

Source: New York Times

By the time the conference call ended, it was nearly midnight at Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., but the bank’s counterespionage work was only just beginning.

A day earlier, on Nov. 29, the director of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and reveal an “ecosystem of corruption” with a cache of data from an executive’s hard drive. With Bank of America’s share price falling on the widely held suspicion that the hard drive was theirs, the executives on the call concluded it was time to take action.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/business/03wikileaks-bank.html?src=busln

[Newsjock]

1. Good. Let them be scared shitless.

After what they've done to ruin the lives of so many Americans, they deserve to spend every remaining day wondering whether this will be the day that their misdeeds will be exposed to all.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. The fat bankers are corrupt

so it is time to expose them.

[Mz Pip]

3. I hope it is B of A

I had more grief and hassles from B of A than I have ever had from any government agency. I always amazes me when conservatives condemn the government but seem to be willing to tolerate all kinds of bullshit from corporations.

[sabrina 1]

6. Either them, or I'd take Goldman Sachs. Both would be

fantastic. It's time to break up these corrupt too-big-to-fail institutions. Should have been done as soon as the melt-down became obvious.

The interview in which Assange talked about the banks was in Forbes in November. After that attacks on him and Wikileaks intensified.

Funny how they more or less dismissed the Iraq and Afghanistan War Logs where evidence of crimes were all too obvious. But exposing the corruption in the financial industry, that is what they fear the most.

Nice to think of them sweating over the holidays, wondering which corrupt corporate greedheads are about to go down.

[DBoon]

4. BofA goes down, I will celebrate

worst. bank. ever.

[Lugnut]

5. I'll join you in celebration.

Let the sunshine in.

[rpannier]

7. It would overjoy me no end if it was more than one bank. In addition to BofA

Citibank and Chase were in there as well

[Hubert Flottz]

8. If they never did anything wrong why would they care?

[boppers]

9. That's my favorite part about this.

Nobody knows *which* bank, and yet, some banks seem to be freaking out more than others.

Gee, I wonder why that could be the case.

[mainer]

10. that was my thought, too

it's why I dumped my BofA stock a few weeks ago.

[JBoy]

11. LOL. "Counterespionage" = Asscovering.

[tex-wyo-dem]

12. I'm rather enjoying seeing them twist...

No, scratch that...I'm REALLY enjoying seeing them twist!

Wikileaks can sit on the info as long as they want to, as far as I'm concerned. The more angst it causes for the corrupt banksters, the better :)