In an interview with Der Spiegel published yesterday, former Wikileaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg dropped the bombshell that he has destroyed more than 3,500 documents that were otherwise destined for publication on the controversial whistle-blower site.

Among the files shredded were a copy of the United States government’s so-called No-Fly list, internal communications stolen from twenty neo-Nazi organizations, data intercepts from more than twenty Internet companies, and the fabled 5GB of data on Bank of America.

In other words, Julian Assange was lying when he said months ago that he had the Bank of America documents. He didn’t have them at all. Domscheit-Berg did.

Domscheit-Berg says that he destroyed the files to “protect the sources” because he didn’t believe that Assange would handle the information responsibly.