Our source is not the Russian government — RT News
Neither the Russian authorities nor “a state get together” was the supply of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged in an unique interview with Fox News.
“We can say, we’ve stated, repeatedly that during the last two months that our supply shouldn’t be the Russian authorities and it’s not a state get together,” Assange said, talking from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
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Assange famous that for some purpose, “the phrase WikiLeaks” was lacking in current statements from the FBI and White House, even when US President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats in what he stated was Washington’s “response to the Russian authorities’s aggressive harassment of US officers and cyber operations aimed on the US election.”
“It’s very unusual,” Assange advised Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Asked whether or not he thought Obama lied to the American folks about Russia’s involvement, Assange replied that the outgoing president has been “appearing like a lawyer” together with his allegations.
“If you take a look at most of his statements, he doesn’t say that. He doesn’t say that WikiLeaks obtained its data from Russia, labored with Russia,” Assange stated.
Julian Assange stated “a 14 12 months previous may have hacked Podesta” – why was DNC so careless? Also stated Russians didn’t give him the data!
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017
The 45-year-old Australian stated the Obama administration was in the meantime making an attempt to “delegitimize” US President-elect Donald Trump forward of his inauguration.
“They are attempting to say that President-elect Trump shouldn’t be a authentic president,” Assange stated.
There is “zero proof” that Russia influenced the US presidential election, incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated on Fox News on Tuesday, including that it might be “irresponsible to leap to conclusions” earlier than receiving a closing intelligence report.
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Spicer famous that the preliminary report, revealed on Thursday, was mainly simply “a how-to handbook for the DNC as to how they’ll enhance their IT safety.”
“The approach the mainstream media is enjoying this up is that [Russia] had an affect on the election,”Spicer added.
Earlier, CIA Director John Brennan stated the forthcoming intelligence report would set the file straight. “I might recommend to people that haven’t but seen the report, who haven’t but been briefed on it, that they wait and see what it’s that the intelligence neighborhood is placing ahead earlier than they make these judgments,” he advised PBS on Tuesday.
The “Intelligence” briefing on so-called “Russian hacking” was delayed till Friday, maybe extra time wanted to construct a case. Very unusual!
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) 4 января 2017 г.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump stated briefing he was because of obtain on Russia’s alleged hack assaults and meddling with US elections was unusually delayed till Friday, making the President-elect ponder whether there was sufficient “intelligence” to “construct” the case within the first place.
Trump beforehand expressed skepticism in regards to the US intelligence neighborhood’s evaluation of Moscow’s involvement in hack assaults and its alleged makes an attempt to affect presidential elections. “I simply need them to make sure as a result of it’s a fairly critical cost,” Trump stated on December 31, recalling the US invasion in Iraq was primarily based on flawed and false intelligence. “If you take a look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a catastrophe, they usually had been mistaken,” he added.
