Teh One Who Knocks
10-04-2016, 10:59 AM
FOX News
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Tuesday that his website will publish information regarding the presidential election “every week for the next 10 weeks.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assange?src=hash">#Assange</a>: Regarding upcoming publications... We hope to be publishing every week for the next 10 weeks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikileaks10?src=hash">#wikileaks10</a></p>— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/783235313615405056">October 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Assange addressed reporters via a video link in Berlin on the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks.
Although Assange didn’t release the highly anticipated “October Surprise” for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, he did preview some of the leaks that he will be publishing. He said he would publish documents regarding at least three governments before the end of the year.
“The documents themselves are revealing, but also the government/state reactions to the releases are revealing also,” he said.
Assange denied that he was specifically targeting Clinton with his document dumps, insisting that some of his statements have been misconstrued. He added that WikiLeaks will publish leaked documents on war, oil, Google and mass surveillance in addition to the U.S. election.
Assange also announced changes in its funding and organization. He called upon readers to donate to WikiLeaks and urged his followers to join the WikiLeaks Task Force to help defend the whistleblowing website.
The 45-year-old Assange originally had planned a dramatic London balcony address, but changed it last minute after WikiLeaks developed "specific information" regarding Assange's safety.
Assange has teased “major scoops” that could influence the presidential elections. He told Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly in August, “It’s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining.”
In a subsequent interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity last month, Assange said his next round of revelations was coming “reasonably soon.”
“The first batch is reasonably soon,” he told Hannity. “We are quite confident about it now.”
Assange has already played a key role in the presidential race, with the release of 20,000 internal emails that indicated the Democratic National Committee appeared to conspire to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination. Those revelations surfaced in August, just before the party’s convention, proving embarrassing to Clinton’s campaign. They also led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Though no recent public revelations directly tie to Assange's security fears, various U.S. officials and pundits have made threatening statements directed at him in the past. WikiLeaks on Monday tweeted an alleged quote from a 2010 State Department meeting at which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked if Assange could be killed in a drone strike. That same year, former Democrat strategist Bob Beckel said on Fox News Channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff."
Assange also has hinted that deceased DNC staffer Seth Rich may have been a source for WikiLeaks. Rich, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the back at a Washington, D.C., intersection in July. He died soon thereafter. Authorities believe Rich was the target of a botched robbery, but his death has inspired conspiracy theories.
WikiLeaks has published more than 10 million leaked emails, including sensitive information about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a cache of diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies around the world.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Tuesday that his website will publish information regarding the presidential election “every week for the next 10 weeks.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assange?src=hash">#Assange</a>: Regarding upcoming publications... We hope to be publishing every week for the next 10 weeks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikileaks10?src=hash">#wikileaks10</a></p>— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/783235313615405056">October 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Assange addressed reporters via a video link in Berlin on the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks.
Although Assange didn’t release the highly anticipated “October Surprise” for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, he did preview some of the leaks that he will be publishing. He said he would publish documents regarding at least three governments before the end of the year.
“The documents themselves are revealing, but also the government/state reactions to the releases are revealing also,” he said.
Assange denied that he was specifically targeting Clinton with his document dumps, insisting that some of his statements have been misconstrued. He added that WikiLeaks will publish leaked documents on war, oil, Google and mass surveillance in addition to the U.S. election.
Assange also announced changes in its funding and organization. He called upon readers to donate to WikiLeaks and urged his followers to join the WikiLeaks Task Force to help defend the whistleblowing website.
The 45-year-old Assange originally had planned a dramatic London balcony address, but changed it last minute after WikiLeaks developed "specific information" regarding Assange's safety.
Assange has teased “major scoops” that could influence the presidential elections. He told Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly in August, “It’s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining.”
In a subsequent interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity last month, Assange said his next round of revelations was coming “reasonably soon.”
“The first batch is reasonably soon,” he told Hannity. “We are quite confident about it now.”
Assange has already played a key role in the presidential race, with the release of 20,000 internal emails that indicated the Democratic National Committee appeared to conspire to prevent Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination. Those revelations surfaced in August, just before the party’s convention, proving embarrassing to Clinton’s campaign. They also led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Though no recent public revelations directly tie to Assange's security fears, various U.S. officials and pundits have made threatening statements directed at him in the past. WikiLeaks on Monday tweeted an alleged quote from a 2010 State Department meeting at which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked if Assange could be killed in a drone strike. That same year, former Democrat strategist Bob Beckel said on Fox News Channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff."
Assange also has hinted that deceased DNC staffer Seth Rich may have been a source for WikiLeaks. Rich, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the back at a Washington, D.C., intersection in July. He died soon thereafter. Authorities believe Rich was the target of a botched robbery, but his death has inspired conspiracy theories.
WikiLeaks has published more than 10 million leaked emails, including sensitive information about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a cache of diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies around the world.