One interesting thing I’ve noticed since Wikileaks exploded out of its relative obscurity: I keep finding myself of things which I wish someone would leak to them.
So, after FIFA awarded the World Cup to Russia and Qatar in what is widely asumed to be a more-or-less bent bidding process, I thought ‘there must be someone who has some dirt on Sepp Blatter and the FIFA organising committee, someone who knows where the bodies are buried… be nice if they leaked that to Wikileaks’. And today, when we learn that no charges will be brought following a probe into phone hacking at the News of the World, I thought ‘those nasty fucks have got away with it again… there must be someone who has the evidence that Andy Coulson knew what his reporters were doing and could send it to Wikileaks’.
Because the powerful have so many ways of suppressing information, the simple idea of an avenue for people to anonymously release information is rather intoxicating. And the higher-profile Wikileaks becomes, the more likely it will be that individuals within organisations like FIFA, or the News of the World, or the Metropolitan Police, will feel able to get that information out.
Interesting times.
2 replies on “More thinking about Wikileaks”
Yes, I was especially keen on the idea that they are currently sitting on some info that will cause an enron scale scandal at a major wall street bank. If only it was those nice people at Goldman Sachs.
There seems to be some suggestion it’s Bank of America, although if they have detailed enough documentation, I guess it could very easily implicate quite a lot of other people as well… it makes for a good spectator sport, if nothing else.