Posted on 10/26/2010 6:02:03 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
Moscow
The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia, the website's founder, Julian Assange, told a leading Moscow newspaper Tuesday.
"We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen," Mr. Assange told the pro-government daily Izvestia. "But not as much as we'd like... We will publish these materials soon."
He then dropped a hint that's likely to be nervously parsed in Russia's corridors of power: "We are helped by the Americans, who pass on a lot of material about Russia," to WikiLeaks, he said.
Russian security experts say there probably won't be anything comparable to the huge archives of US military secrets from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that the website has recently published.
'A lot of interesting facts' about Russia
Assange and another WikiLeaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson, who talked to the daily Kommersant Tuesday, refused to provide details. "Russians are going to find out a lot of interesting facts about their country," Ms. Hrafnsson told Kommersant, adding that WikiLeaks would soon be targeting "despotic regimes in China, Russia, and Central Asia" in a series of fresh document dumps.
"If they are going to disclose details of secret bank accounts and offshore businesses of the Russian elite, then the effect will be shocking," says Stanislav Belkovsky. president of the Kremlin-connected Institute of National Strategy. "Most Russians believe that political leaders and others have siphoned off billions of dollars into foreign accounts, but proof of something like that would be dynamite."
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Ping.
My exact thoughts, this guys an idiot.
Ping.
Or they could be really cruel, not shoot him and then dump him in Siberia.
To school boys everywhere, you might soon be able to return to the playground in safety. Mr. Julian’s about to take a long dirt nap. Sure fool around in Uncle Sam’s underwear drawer, take a swipe at the Maid Sweden, but screw around in the woods with the Bear, you get the teeth!
"they're going to disclose a database of secret documents on Russia?
Yeah it would be really shocking to find out that our government is using some kind of an electronic document management system!"
Assange is a deluded idiot. Probably a soon to be dead one. Kicking the US in the face is one thing, esp when our “leader” hates us and the US. Kicking the rulers of Russia in the face is a good way to get killed.
I for one won’t shed a tear.
He’s messing w/ the Russkies? I predict he will be taking a dirt nap, soon. Too bad WE don’t do that anymore.
yah...the Russians are likely to drill him several new anuses all over his head...he had best tread lightly.
Russians are not as understanding as Americans.
A rash of poisoning like Yushchenko and his Dioxin laced soup.
Julian may be enjoying a cup of plutonium tea or leaning too far over a high hotel balcony in the near future. Pootie’s KGB and/or the Russian mafia would not be my choice of enemies.
Me too I wish we would have taken him out long ago
he then will be flaming for sure
Assange has a death wish for even to just threaten to release stuff on the Russians.
Very true. Very true. And I wouldn’t put it past them.
Taking your suspicions a small step forward...is this guy being played all along? The fact that he's still around suggests it. Certainly, from day one (and quite possibly before) any of these "wikileaks" every self respecting spy agency has mulled over which documents to make available to this new tool.
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(Anything more classified than that will end little hackerboy's life in about dva seconds).
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