The latest Wikileaks drop

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This could potentially be paydirt:

"Julian Assange points upcoming megaleak: a major American bank will discover all its innermost workings exposed to the world."

hmmm wonder if people will get over it if he goes after the big bad banks, meh.

If this annoyance catches fire even the Republican may be to agree to some kind of meaningful reform in the way America does business.

ruveyn

I hope it's Wells Fargo

Transparency and Open Government
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.

Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.

Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperateamong themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.

I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA
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I hope its Goldman Sachs.

If Assange can uncover some documents where American plutocrats openly call people "oxen" or "drones" or "paperweights" or some other indication that these people are evil that will be even better - or proof that the game is always rigged, or something like that.

Like we didn't already now that?

ruveyn

who desires to expose that which the mainstream news sources dare not.

Except that the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde have all published the Wikileaks documents, and every other news source in the West has reprinted those accounts. It's not a matter of daring to expose the information; it's about getting the info which only Wikileaks was able to do on its own.

Now, we have a Republican Congressman pushing to have Wikileaks declared a terrorist organization because they are an accessory to leaking these documents. Is he also in favor of having the New York Times labeled a terrorist organization and shut down?