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WikiLeaks Says It Holds Documents From Bank of America Executive

Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Cali Carlin reports on major newsmakers in today's Movers & Shakers. (Source: Bloomberg)


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Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discusses the release of classified documents by WikiLeaks.org and its potential implications for U.S. foreign policy. WikiLeaks has posted on its website what it says are secret, confidential or in some cases unclassified U.S. embassy cables written from December 1966 to February 2010. Chertoff, chairman of the Chertoff Group, speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told Forbes magazine that he’ll release documents from a U.S. bank next year, said in 2009 that his group had a hard drive from a Bank of America Corp. executive.

“We are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange said in the Oct. 9, 2009, interview with Computerworld magazine, referring to five gigabytes of data. “To have impact it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search and get something out of it.”

WikiLeaks plans to release “either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in a Nov. 11 interview with Forbes. He said the release would occur early next year and would include “some flagrant violations, unethical practices.”

WikiLeaks.org, a nonprofit group that releases information governments and businesses want to keep confidential, yesterday began posting on its website what it says are secret, confidential or in some cases unclassified U.S. embassy cables written from December 1966 to February 2010.

Mark Stephens, a London attorney for WikiLeaks, didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment. Scott Silvestri, a spokesman for Bank of America, declined to comment.

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