Could the pending Wikileaks bank documents trigger another recession?

[kevinquinnyo]

No. Those are both bad choices,.... but letting him continue to get and release documents would be less bad. The problem is that Assange is a figurehead; killing Assange wouldn't stop the leaks, and would add credibility to the leaks (since someone obviously took the information seriously enough to kill for it).



Moving the goalposts much? INRM's rather silly suggestion was that "the bankers" would get their friends in the CIA to kill him. The suggestion is rather silly for several reasons -- "the bankers" are unlikely to act as a unit; if they did act as a unit, they wouldn't want to assassinate him, and even if they wanted to, the CIA wouldn't play along, because it's a stupid move.

That's not to say that the North Koreans wouldn't want to kill Assange precisely because it would hurt the CIA. But the idea that the CIA would shoot itself in the foot like this because "the bankers" want to shoot themselves in the foot and need the CIA to pull the trigger,.... well, I'm not sure if it's within forum rules to call an irrational paranoid conspiracy fantasist an irrational paranoid conspiracy fantasist.

LOL i wish there was a "like" button for comments here

 

[Toke]

Even if you're that stupid, the bankers aren't. There's nothing Assange could release that would be more damaging than trying to stop him from releasing them by committing an obviously-criminal act.

So, "The pelican brief" were not a documentary?


I my experience people at large companies are very careful about what they put in writing. Because they know that it can come back to bite them.

 

[Arthur Mann]

I my experience people at large companies are very careful about what they put in writing. Because they know that it can come back to bite them.

Is this another way of saying you can never get a straight answer from them?

 

[Toke]

Is this another way of saying you can never get a straight answer from them?

Depends, a dodgy answer from a boss may mean that you are supposed to do something questionable (with deniability for the boss).

 

[dudalb]

No. I predict the bank documents might make some bank officials look scummy, but that will be about it.