Assange: Leaks were timed for opening of Democratic convention - CNNPolitics.comAssange: 'We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign'
August 2, 2016
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is boasting about how his group's release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails is affecting the US presidential election -- and says it has unreleased information about Hillary Clinton's campaign.
"We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign," Assange told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "Anderson 360" Friday night. "That is correct to say that."
Assange said release of the information was timed to coincide with the start of the Democratic National Convention.
"That's when we knew there would be maximum interest by readers, but also, we have a responsibility to," Assange said. "If we published after, you can just imagine how outraged the Democratic voting population would have been. It had to had to have been before (the convention)."
Assange also said more material is forthcoming that is "extremely interesting."
"We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign. That is correct to say that," he said. "Those are extremely interesting. We will see what will come of them."
I have generally been in favor of wiki leaks and I am all for them releasing these emails. But I am uncomfortable with this careful timing of the release. It reeks of election manipulation rather than whistle blowing. Just release them!
Assange must do something to occupy his free time in the Ecuadorean embassy. He must be sick of empanadas and Ecuadorean soap reruns.I have generally been in favor of wiki leaks and I am all for them releasing these emails. But I am uncomfortable with this careful timing of the release. It reeks of election manipulation rather than whistle blowing. Just release them!
Who knows? Assange might be just blowing his own horn.
Do you really think he knows if what he plans on leaking next will lead to Hillary's arrest? I really don't think he knows.
We'll all just have to see what comes next.
I have generally been in favor of wiki leaks and I am all for them releasing these emails. But I am uncomfortable with this careful timing of the release. It reeks of election manipulation rather than whistle blowing. Just release them!
Maybe he feels he is justified in doing so because the media has been complicit in electioneering themselves so he's acting as a counterbalance. If he doesn't time it better, then that will give the Clinton machine, and the complicit media, to snow it under by the time elections comes about.
I don't think assange has any of Hilliary Clinton's personal emails
Has he ever not come through?
I highly doubt the Russians found Hilliary clintons private emails.
Who said anything about Russians? Has Assange ever not come through with what he has promised?
I have generally been in favor of wiki leaks and I am all for them releasing these emails. But I am uncomfortable with this careful timing of the release. It reeks of election manipulation rather than whistle blowing. Just release them!
It does stink of election manipulation, and the fact it comes out a little at a time at key points, leads me to believe he probably has enough evidence to ensure hillary would not win even against satan, but he is time releasing it at critical points, most likely the bag is nowhere near empty and he will try to save the best for right before election day.
I personally would rather have all the dirt out now, so the candidates can focus on policy rather than defending themselves of past doings.
I personally would rather have the guy in jail.
I do not think he will end up in jail, infact the charges come from a country extremely lenient on prison sentences, had he turned himself in he would have already been out.
But assange has pissed off nearly every govt in the world by exposing them to the public. Him being turned over likely means he will be killed, which may be why he is hiding, rather than going to trial to sit in a country club european prison.
Has he ever lied about it in the past? As far as I'm tracking, he's pretty much always delivered. The only thing that may be a stretch is not what what is contained in the release so much as too much trust being put into our criminal justice system for the elites. No matter what comes out, it will still take AG Lynch, someone who got her first appointment from Clinton and currently works for Obama, to actually prosecute her.
Does anyone think that will actually happen? I don't think so.
If we can't arrest assange, then arrest the hacker who stole the emails.
It does stink of election manipulation, and the fact it comes out a little at a time at key points, leads me to believe he probably has enough evidence to ensure hillary would not win even against satan, but he is time releasing it at critical points, most likely the bag is nowhere near empty and he will try to save the best for right before election day.
I personally would rather have all the dirt out now, so the candidates can focus on policy rather than defending themselves of past doings.
I agree with you, but it makes me wonder what his intent is. If he has something that damaging then releasing it between now and Election Day likely hurts Hillary and helps Trump. It seems weird that he would want to help Trump. I always saw Assange as a lefty. I could see him liking Bernie over Hillary but then why not release it all before the convention? But then he may have a personal grudge against the Democrats since it is Obama that he sees as coming after him.
Maybe he thinks it would help a 3rd party win? Both Johnson and Stein have said they would consider pardoning Snowden and Manning so I could see him wanting to help them. I don't know.
The Russians interfering on behalf of Trump exclusively makes sense; in contrast to Trump and Clinton (with the former being sympathetic with Putin and openly voicing doubt over NATO/combating Russian expansionism), Bernie is incorruptible and principled while his policies towards Ukraine and NATO are incompatible with Russian objectives (while being a stronger candidate in the general than Clinton), so of course their releases would be timed after Clinton had won the nomination and the e-mail issue was settled.
With respect to Assange, it gets a lot more interesting/curious: he's politically liberal, but openly despises Clinton. That having been said though, the obvious candidate to support in that case would be Bernie, but this is not what's he's doing per the timing.
Yeah. Maybe the Russians only gave him the emails on the condition he released according to their schedule?
I agree with you, but it makes me wonder what his intent is. If he has something that damaging then releasing it between now and Election Day likely hurts Hillary and helps Trump. It seems weird that he would want to help Trump. I always saw Assange as a lefty. I could see him liking Bernie over Hillary but then why not release it all before the convention? But then he may have a personal grudge against the Democrats since it is Obama that he sees as coming after him.
Maybe he thinks it would help a 3rd party win? Both Johnson and Stein have said they would consider pardoning Snowden and Manning so I could see him wanting to help them. I don't know.
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