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WikiLeaks' Next Target: Wall Street

"Just the beginning..."

In an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange reportedly told Forbes that leaked classified documents from the U.S. State Department and Pentagon are "just the beginning."

Forbes reports that early next year, Assange claims that a major American bank will "suddenly find itself turned inside out."

Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.

When? Which bank? What documents? Cagey as always, Assange won’t say, so his claim is impossible to verify. But he has always followed through on his threats. ...

Assange calls the shots: choosing the media outlets that splash his exposés, holding them to a strict embargo, running the leaks simultaneously on his site. Past megaleaks from his information insurgency over the last year have included 76,000 secret Afghan war documents and another trove of 392,000 files from the Iraq war. Those data explosions, the largest classified military security breaches in history, have roused antiwar activists and enraged the Pentagon.Admire Assange or revile him, he is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency. Having exposed military misconduct on a grand scale, he is now gunning for corporate America. Does Assange have unpublished, damaging documents on pharmaceutical companies? Yes, he says. Finance? Yes, many more than the single bank scandal we’ve been discussing. Energy? Plenty, on everything from BP to an Albanian oil firm that he says attempted to sabotage its competitors’ wells. Like informational IEDs, these damaging revelations can be detonated at will.

With the latest dump of highly classified documents, WikiLeaks is everywhere -- television, newspapers and the internet.  This rise in notoriety is feeding the fire, according to Assange.  “Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises,” he says.

And with technology expanding to make the transfer of information faster and more anonymous, it looks like WikiLeaks will continue expanding this profile, leaving untold secrets exposed in their wake.

Click here for Forbes' interview with Assange.

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