WikiLeaks founder warns of huge leak as last resort

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WikiLeaks founder warns of huge leak as last resort

Sun Jan 30, 7:14 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – WikiLeaks founder n Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to

release a deluge of secret documents should the whistleblower website be

permanently shut down.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News's " 60 Minutes, " Assange said his group

had a " system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to

publish. "

" There are backups distributed amongst many, many people, 100,000 people, and

all we need to do is give them an encrypted key and they will be able to

continue on, " he said.

The WikiLeaks founder, who is currently under US criminal investigation over the

leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret military reports and diplomatic

cables, said the key would only be released as a last resort.

" If a number of people were imprisoned or assassinated, then we would feel that

we could not go on, and other people would have to take over our work, and we

would release the keys, " he said.

In the same interview the 39-year-old Australian denied he was motivated by

anti-Americanism or other political agendas, describing his group as " free press

activists. "

" It's not about saving the whales. It's about giving people the information they

need to support whaling or not support whaling, " he said.

" That is the raw ingredient that is needed to make a just and civil society. And

without that you're just sailing in the dark. "

Assange refused to discuss the Swedish sex crimes allegations that have him

largely confined to a house in the British countryside on bail pending

extradition proceedings, and he refused to discuss future publishing plans.

He chuckled when asked about possible plans to release information on Bank of

America, refusing to confirm or deny them.

" We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them, " he said.

" When you see abusive organizations suffer the consequences as a result of their

abuse, and you see victims elevated... that's a very pleasurable activity to be

involved in. "

Assange claimed in an interview with Forbes magazine in late November that a

" megaleak " by the website would target a major US bank early this year.

He has previously said that he has a treasure trove of documents on Bank of

America, the largest US bank, whose shares tumbled more than three percent on

November 30 shortly after the Forbes interview was released.

[Guest guest]

While some of the info that was leaked was certainly secret, a lot of it was

not, but most people never paid attention to the public stuff when it originally

came out on the news.

So take public information, surround it with an air of mystery, and the public

takes an interest in it and believes the world's governments are conspiring

against them when in fact there was openness and transparency from the very

beginning.

Administrator

Earlier I saw a few news reports that linked the Tunisian uprising to Wikileaks

but then no more. I also saw reports some time before that said this creature

wanted to foment chaos around the world so a new order could be established.

Prior to that it had been seen at various socialist and communist groups

meetings around the world. Not little neighborhood groups but the big

international groups. If it does turn out that these troubles are linked to

Assange and especially if it causes large numbers of death and global economic

upheaval because of oil price pressures, then it and all its henchmen should be

rounded up, along with as many of those 100,000 that it keeps harping about, and

do things to the lot that will require new definitions for words some of the

more unpleasant words in the human vocabulary. What else would it deserve for

causing so much chaos, misery and death?