Bank of America blocks WikiLeaks donations
Julian Assange arriving before the High Court of London for his bail, hearing last week. It has since been aging and is in "Judgment Mansion" in the British Photo campaign: AP
"Joins the American actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Bank Visa Europe and others to discuss no transactions of any type we have reason to believe are destined for WikiLeaks,"the largest U.S. Bank stated in a press release.""
"This decision is based on our grounds reasonable to believe that the WikiLeaks can be engaged in activities which are, among other things, incompatible with our internal policies for the treatment of payments."
Spokesman Scott Silvestri America Bank has refused to comment beyond the official statement.
Previously, he had a documents on Bank of America, whose shares tumbled treasure trove over three percent on 30 November, shortly after the interview Forbes was released.
M. Assange Saturday denounced a "new kind of company McCarthyism" to United States after the decision of BOA and said that the move is intended to try to "deprive this organization funds that it needs to survive."
WikiLeaks said on Twitter: "is your company doing business with the Bank of America?" Our advice is to place your funds somewhere safer. ?
The action is the last blow against website, which has been exposing classified diplomatic cables U.S. reveal embarrassing assessments of global leaders and provide a rare glimpse into the work of the embassies of the United States scores.
To the United States criticized with anger release documents, saying that it endangers national security, and the Attorney General of the United States has launched a criminal investigation into the site.
But Mr. Assange received support from a collection of anonymous "databases" - hackers, who, on behalf of freedom of expression, used to target institutions that refuse to deal with the Web site.
On Saturday, they issued a statement calling for a boycott of the OIO.
"We ask all people who love freedom close their accounts at Bank of America", the group called "Anonymous" said on his blog AnonOps Communications.
On the websites of visa, MasterCard and other cyber attacks after - part of what they call "Operation recovery" - losing-knit group has tried in vain Thursday to hit retail giant Amazon.com offline.
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