Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history. The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy. The whistleblower said the leak of 11.5m documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had triggered a "new, encouraging global debate," thanks to the publication last month of stories by an international consortium of newspapers, including the Guardian. The source gave Suddeutsche Zeitung leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca's internal database in real time installments. The papers included details of the beneficial owners of offshore companies, passport copies, and emails. The source said they decided to act after understanding the "scale of the injustices" the documents described. Mossack Fonseca denies wrongdoing and says its operations in Panama and elsewhere are "beyond reproach." Intriguingly, the source said they originally offered the documents to "several major media outlets." Editors reviewed the Panama Papers but in the end "chose not to cover them," they alleged. It is unclear which media organizations declined the material. The anonymous whistleblower also approached WikiLeaks -- again without success. "Even WikiLeaks didn't answer its tip line repeatedly," the source complained, adding: "The media has failed." The source used the name "John Doe" when they approached Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

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At first Hitler refused to do air bombing runs at night on England because he only wanted his pilots to hit military targets -- and at night you can't to target very well. The English, heavily influenced by rich hateful Zionists, would destroy Germany by any means necessary and thus were bombing Germany at night indiscriminately hitting civilian and military targets alike. Only after suffering much of such an attack, it became clear to Hitler that this wasn't a war against Germany's political and military machine, but against German People in general. Then Hitler authorized bombing runs at night, to return the attack in kind. The English wouldn't sign a cease fire because they signed a deal with Zionists to bring America into the war. The price the Zionists demanded to bring their USA puppets into the war was the creation of Israel.

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