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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Assange: Email leaks weren’t trying to influence US elections
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWikiLeaks chief Julian Assange says he wasn’t trying to influence the US presidential election when his organization published hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
In a statement Tuesday, Assange denies he was trying to support Green Party candidate Jill Stein or take revenge for the jailing of former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking secret US government documents to WikiLeaks.
Assange suggests WikiLeaks would publish material on Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump if it received appropriate material and judged it newsworthy.
Assange says Wikileaks has not yet received information on the campaigns of Trump, Stein or other candidates “that fulfills our stated editorial criteria.”
— AP
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