The powerful law firm at the center of the WikiLeaks plot

[Joanne98]

Hunton & Williams represents big energy companies like Koch Industries -- and also schemed against WikiLeaks

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. (One typical idea was to provide labor activists with false documents in order to discredit them.)

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/15/hunton_williams_wikileaks_chamber/

[sabrina 1]

1. The DOJ recommended the firm of Hunton and Williams to BOA

Did they know they were about to conduct a smear campaign against Wikileaks when they did that, and were they, the DOJ helping them do it? If so, this DOJ itself needs investigating.

[glinda]

2. I also said that and part with sarcasm because who could investigate them?