Thursday on the Sean Hannity’s radio show, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said the Russian government was not his source for the hacked emails they released from both the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign John Podesta.
Assange said, “Our source is not the Russian government.”
Hannity asked, “In other words, let me be clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC?
Assange replied, “That’s correct.”
Assange said his group has a strict policy against commenting on its sources, but he wanted to dispute allegations that Wikileaks was involved in a Russian-orchestrated campaign to swing the election for Donald Trump.
The CIA believes the Russian government gave Wikileaks hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's campaign Chief John Podesta to intentionally damage Hillary Clinton. But that view has been questioned by the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence, who say there is not enough evidence to determine Russia’s motivation and whether it gave the documents to Wikileaks.
Assange declined to confirm or deny comments from former UK Ambassador Craig Murray – a close Wikileaks associate – who told Dailymail.com this week that the group's email sources were American and that he met with one of them in Washington, D.C.
'We don’t comment on sourcing,' said Assange. 'Craig Murray is a former UK ambassador. He is a friend of mine. He is not authorized to speak on behalf of Wikileaks.'
Murray told Dailymail.com that he traveled to Washington, D.C. in September and met with a Wikileaks source in a wooded area near American University.
'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'
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