The powerful law firm at the center of the WikiLeaks plot - War Room. One of the big outstanding questions in the story of the plot to undermine WikiLeaks and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, as well as a separate plan to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce, is the nature of the role played by the large international law firm Hunton & Williams.
Hunton, which brags it employs 1,000 lawyers in 18 offices on three continents, has worked for both the Chamber and Bank of America. The company is nervous because WikiLeaks is reportedly planning to release internal bank documents, and Bank of America apparently connected with Hunton to help respond to the crisis. Hunton attorneys in turn had a series of e-mail communications — since hacked by WikiLeaks supporters and published online — with a trio of technology firms that proposed various schemes to attack WikiLeaks, Greenwald and critics of the Chamber.
A disturbing threat against one of our own - WikiLeaks. (Updated below) We take threats against our own very seriously.
A bizarre plan for an attack on the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks and journalists construed as sympathetic to it — first reported by the Tech Herald — clearly targets Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, saying that his “level of support” for WikiLeaks “needs to be disrupted.” The report (you can download the purported final draft here) is listed as an “overview by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies,” and according to a string of e-mails also leaked, was developed following a request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm that represents, among others, Bank of America. Bank of America is the presumed next target of WikiLeaks, and has reportedly been bracing for what’s to come. For a complete breakdown of what it all means, Glenn has a thorough, illuminating report.
HBGARY. Corporate Hacker Tries to Take Down WikiLeaks - The Colbert Report - 2011-24-02. Corporate Hacker Tries to Take Down WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - The Colbert Report - 2011-24-02.