Reuters reports that WikiLeaks is unlikely to release the banking data, given to it yesterday by a Swiss ex-banker, soon. Sources with knowledge of the data told Reuters that the data is dense and it will take time to verify the information. The Associated Press and Deutsche Welle report that the CEO of OHB-System AG…
The NYT, ABC News, CNN, and BBC News all report that Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker with Julius Baer, passed on data containing account details of 2,000 prominent people to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks believes that it will be able to release the data in as few as two weeks and that it could shed light…
The WSJ reports that the Treasury Department has stated that it does not have enough evidence to place WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange on its Designated National and Blocked Persons List.
WikiLeaks responds to Rep. Peter King’s request that WikiLeaks be placed on the Designated National and Blocked Persons List by the Treasury Department. If WikiLeaks were placed on the list it would it would be illegal for US companies to do business with WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The Hill reports on the request by Rep….
The WSJ($) prints an oped by US Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins regarding how to prevent the next WikiLeaks type disclosure. NASDAQ reports that US Representative Peter King requesting Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to prohibit people and companies within the U.S. from doing business with the Wikileaks website by placing it on the specially…
The OMB Watch has a story on the Office of Management and Budget memo that updates the initial agency assessment ordered following the WikiLeaks disclosures. The memo “contains more than 100 questions developed by the National Archives and Records Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).” The WSJ reports…
The Associated Press reports that WikiLeaks will step up its release of secret documents while Julian Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden. Bloomberg reports on Julian Assange’s plan to give the press his arguments against extradition from England to Sweden. Further, Bloomberg reports that Assange’s lawyers plan to argue it would be a breach of…
Bloomberg reports on an interview with Julian Assange by the French language paper Tribune deGeneve in which Assange states that it will be some time before WikiLeaks publishes the banking documents it has in its possession. Below is an excerpt from the article (Translation by Google Translate): – You have announced new revelations about a…
The leading news surrounding WikiLeaks is that the US Justice Department sought the account information of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Rop Gongrijp and Birgitta Jonsdottir. Twitter fought to have order unsealed, and Salon.com has posted a copy. The NYT reports on the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, under which the US Justice Department sought…
Bloomberg news reports that the “U.S. is stepping up a search for participants in WikiLeaks-related cyber attacks on PayPal Inc. and other payment processors, raiding a Dallas company last month and coordinating a seizure of evidence with police in Germany, according to a request for a federal search warrant.” The AP reports that the ambassador…
