Gather the Villagers! 0
Light the torches! Get the pitchforks!
It is time to storm the Wikileaks castle Domain Name Servers once more:
The data – which is not yet available on the Wikileaks website – was held on two discs handed over by Rudolf Elmer at a press conference in London.
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Although it was not confirmed what activities might be covered by the data, the Wikileaks head noted that previous data from Julius Baer provided by Mr Elmer had shed light on tax evasion, the hiding of proceeds of criminal acts and “the protection of assets of those about to fall out of political favour”.
The data covers multinationals, financial firms and wealthy individuals from many countries, including the UK, US and Germany, and covers the period 1990-2009, according to a report in Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag.
Atrios predicts the reaction:
Frankly, I suspect that those particular disks will never be seen again unless they are backed up in multiple secure locations.
