Bank of America Cuts Off Wikileaks Transactions

Chaonici writes "The first actual bank to do so, Bank of America has decided that it will follow in the footsteps of PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, and halt all its transactions that it believes are intended for WikiLeaks, including donations in support of the organization. 'This decision,' says the bank, 'is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.' Coincidentally, in a 2009 interview with Forbes magazine, Julian Assange stated that he was in possession of the hard drive of a Bank of America executive, and that he planned to release information about a major bank early next year."

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Scheming American bastards

[Anonymous Coward]

The actions of Americans to hide what they have truthfully and secretly said to their kin disgusts me.

The whole insular and antagonistic country needs to go and d.i.a.f. and leave the rest of the world to live their lives in peace.

Americans espouse freedom of speech... until it gives them a red face, then they show their true colours. A country of warmongers.

Re:Our advise is to place your funds somewhere saf

[cvtan]

So Wikileaks has carefully read 250000 documents to insure that everything it releases concerns malfeasance by those in power. I don't think so. Normally I would support them, but now it seems that EVERY government secret is evidence of something bad. This just isn't true. They are not carefully releasing evidence for any particular evil plot, but releasing so many items no one can possible digest them in a sensible way. If all secrets are bad, then I want Assange's credit card numbers. And if I can't have them, he must be hiding something...