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WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange says his next leak will virtually guarantee an
indictment of Hillary Clinton.
In a recent interview with ITV, Assange said the whistleblowing website will
soon be leaking documents that will provide “enough evidence” for the
Department of Justice to indict the presumptive Democratic nominee. WikiLeaks
has already published 30,322
emails from Clinton’s private email server, spanning from June
30, 2010 to August 12, 2014. While Assange didn’t specify what exactly was in
the emails, he did tell ITV that WikiLeaks had “accumulated a lot of material
about Hillary Clinton, which could proceed to an indictment.”
Assange hinted
that the emails slated for publication contain additional information about
the Clinton Foundation. He also reminded ITV’s Robert Peston that previously
released emails contained one damning piece of communication from Clinton,
instructing a staffer to remove the classification settings from
an official State Department communication and send it through a “nonsecure” channel. Assange then pointed
out that the Obama administration has previously prosecuted numerous whistleblowers for
violating the government’s procedures for handling classified documents.
In regard to
the ongoing FBI investigation, however, Assange expressed a lack of confidence
in the Obama administration’s Justice Department to indict the former Secretary
of State.
“[Attorney
General Loretta Lynch] is not going to indict Hillary Clinton. It’s not
possible that could happen. But the FBI could push for new concessions from the
Clinton government in exchange for its lack of indictment.”
WikiLeaks has
long been a thorn in the side of the former Secretary of State, who called on President Obama to prosecute the whistleblowing site after
its 2010 leak of State Department cables. Julian Assange remains confined to
the Ecuadorian Embassy in downtown London, as Ecuador has promised to not hand
over the WikiLeaks founder to US authorities.
H/T EndingTheFed
