Julian Assange: Next Leak of Hillary Clinton Emails Will Be Enough to Indict Her, but …
The WikiLeaks founder says that although he plans to publish "very strong material" on the former secretary of state, the FBI will let her off the hook to gain favor should she become president. The WikiLeaks founder says that although he plans to publish "very strong material" on the former secretary of state, the FBI will let her off the hook to gain favor should she become president.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has long been a critic of Hillary Clinton’s politics. (screenshot via ITV)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his organization’s upcoming leak of more Hillary Clinton emails should be enough to indict her—but doubts the FBI will do so.
As the presidential race heats up, there has been increased attention on the FBI investigation into Clinton’s emails as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has begun to use the scandal as an offensive strategy against his Democratic opponent. Clinton is under investigation by the FBI because of her reliance on a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, breaking multiple department rules on cybersecurity.
WikiLeaks, an organization created to publish classified information, made major waves in March when it published a searchable archive of Clinton’s emails. Now, Assange is promising another leak of emails that he believes could serve as sufficient evidence for the FBI to indict her. Speaking via video in an interview on Britain’s ITV network, he noted that WikiLeaks “had a very big year ahead.”
“We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton,” he said. “We’ve accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton. We could proceed to an indictment.”
Assange said, however, that in his opinion, the FBI would choose not to indict her in hopes of gaining favor with a Clinton administration. “The FBI could push for concessions from the new Clinton government,” he said. But, he added, “there’s very strong material, both in the emails and in relation to the Clinton Foundation.”
As The Guardian notes, Assange has long been a critic of Clinton’s politics. He once said that “she has a long history of being a liberal war hawk,” and last week he even accused Google of manipulating search suggestions to help her campaign.
Watch the full interview here.
—Posted by Emma Niles
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