In a special interview with John Pilger aired by RT, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dismissed the allegations of Hillary Clinton’s camp that Russia was responsible for the revelations made by the whistleblowing website, which recently published a bunch of emails discrediting Clinton’s campaign.
“The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of publications. That’s false. We can say that the Russian government is not the source,” Assange said.
The WikiLeaks website has recently published over 43,000 emails from the hacked account of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. The website promised to publish a total of 50,000 before the US elections take place on November 8.
In March, WikiLeaks created a searchable archive for emails sent to and from Clinton’s private email server, while she served as US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Clinton has come under significant criticism for using a private server and email address for official business during her tenure as the head of US diplomacy. In July, WikiLeaks published almost 20,000 pages of hacked Democratic National Committee emails that appear to demonstrate a concerted effort by top committee members to undermine US Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign in favor of Clinton.
Speaking during the final presidential debate in October, Clinton accused the Russian government of allegedly carrying out cyberattacks to influence the US elections. The Russian foreign ministry called such accusations absurd and ungrounded.
Pilger’s interview with Julian Assange was possible due to the courtesy of Dartmouth Films.
