Obviously he’s as dumb as he looks.

“(Reuters) – The founder of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported on Monday.

Julian Assange declined in an interview with Forbes to identify the bank, but he said that he expected that the disclosures, which follow his group’s release of U.S. military and diplomatic documents, would lead to investigations.

“We have one related to a bank coming up, that’s a megaleak. It’s not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it’s either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it,” Assange said in the interview posted on the Forbes website.

He declined to identify the bank, describing it only as a major U.S. bank that is still in existence.

Asked what he wanted to be the result of the disclosure, he replied: “I’m not sure. It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume.”

He compared this release to emails that were unveiled as a result of the collapse of disgraced energy company Enron Corp.

“This will be like that. Yes, there will be some flagrant violations, unethical practices that will be revealed, but it will also be all the supporting decision-making structures and the internal executive ethos … and that’s tremendously valuable,” Assange said.”

Only one issue dumbass. You leak the materials of a private or even publicly held company and those companies – especially Banks – can file suits against you. They are not under Sunshine laws or even a “right to know” under any laws of the US. However they are protected as property rights, intellectual rights and yes, trademark. They would most likely win huge judgements and then use those judgements to go after your assets as well as those of Wikileaks.

Moreover ICANN could under a judgement cancel the domain name of Wikileaks as well.

In either case Assange is looking like he’s cashing a check that his ass can’t cash.