There's some really interesting developments in the WikiLeaks situation. Julian Assange is promising in a recent Forbes article that the next target for a very embarrassing leak of their own incriminating documents is a large U. S. bank- he says think Enron. I'm wondering if this is in reaction to the American response to his recent release of classified government documents. Mike Huckabee thinks he should be tried for treason and hanged. Ummmm, Assange isn't a citizen of the US, so I'm pretty sure he can't be charged with treason. The man is definitely interesting, the Christian Science Monitor describes him as a new age Tom Sawyer who didn't have much in the way of a formal childhood education and moved 37 times before the age of 14! The people who have tried to pigeonhole his motives have been frustrated, is he just a hacker?, a whistle blower with a political agenda? I'm reserving judgement waiting for further developments. I do admire his goal of putting a a "reputational tax on unethical companies"! and that goal is sure to be more acceptable to the American masses than exposing sensitive diplomatic information.
It makes for very interesting news and takes my mind off my own spin cycle of problems.
And it just keeps getting stranger.
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