United States vs. Manning

2010-12-03

Hunton and Williams meets with Bank of America about WikiLeaks

		The law firm had a meeting with Bank of America on December 3. To prepare, the firm emailed Palantir and the others asking for '...five to six slides on WikiLeaks - who they are, how they operate and how this group may help this bank.' Hunton and Williams were recommended to Bank of America's general counsel by the Department of Justice, according to the email chain viewed by The Tech Herald. The law firm was using the meeting to pitch Bank of America on retaining them for an internal investigation surrounding WikiLeaks. 'They basically want to sue them to put an injunction on releasing any data' an email between the three data intelligence firms said. 'They want to present to the bank a team capable of doing a comprehensive investigation into the data leak.' Hunton and Williams would act as outside counsel on retainer, while Palantir would take care of network and insider threat investigations. For their part, Berico Technologies and HBGary Federal would analyze WikiLeaks. 'Apparently if they can show that WikiLeaks is hosting data in certain countries it will make prosecution easier,' the email added. In less than 24-hours, the three analytical companies created a presentation filled with publicly available information and ideas on how the firms could be 'deployed' against WikiLeaks 'as a unified and cohesive investigative analysis cell.'
	Name(s:)	Steven Ragan
	Title:	Reporter
	Agency(ies):	Tech Herald
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