“In an exclusive interview earlier this month, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes that his whistleblower site will release tens of thousands of documents from a major U.S. financial firm in early 2011. Assange wouldn’t say exactly what date, what bank, or what documents, but he compared the coming release to the emails that emerged in the Enron trial, a comprehensive look at a corporation’s bad behavior.
“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 me.
Read Forbes’ full interview with Assange and our cover story on what he and WikiLeaks means for business here.
“You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” Assange added. “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.”’
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I LOVE this guy! Let’s hope he doesn’t get “disappeared” before it’s released. Just waiting for the story that he “ran off, and nobody can find him” in the next couple of months. I hope he has very good security.
This is exactly what we need: more transparency and accountability. Looking forward to see where this goes…
