US banks nervously await next WikiLeak

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Back when WikiLeaks wasn’t a household name, editor Julian Assange mentioned to ComputerWorld magazine that he had 5 gigs of information from a Bank of America executive’s hard drive. Then last week, Assange mentioned to Forbes that he has something that may take down ?a bank or two,? refusing to specify which ones.

Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for our partner The New York Times, joins us for more on the story.

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