For a while now Wikileaks Julian Assange has been promising emails which would get her arrested, something that had been seized upon by Donald Trump’s campaign team. All eyes were on Assange when he appeared by video conference in Germany today where he was expected to spill the beans.
But it turned out he had nothing new to provide.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his website has no intention of damaging Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the US Presidency.
Assange was speaking via videolink at the Volksbuhne Theatre in Berlin to mark WikiLeaks’ 10th anniversary. He acknowledged that the announcement was a bit of a damp squib. He blamed the press for misquoting him.
However, Assange said: "There's been a lot of misquoting of me and Wikileaks publications, in this particular case the particular misquoting that we intend to harm Hillary Clinton. All those are false. They've come about, it seems, from a campaign to 'personalise' [the website]."
Journalist Sarah Harrison, a prominent figure at WikiLeaks, denied WikiLeaks had become a mouthpiece for the Kremlin by publishing secret cables that have damaged Western governments, not to mention Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who owes a lot of cash to Russian businesses.
She said the organisation had published 650,000 documents relating to Russia and 2.3 million emails relating to Syrian dictator and ally of Russia, Bashar al-Assad. Although relating to Russia and being hacked from Russian servers are two different things.
US reports, citing unnamed sources, claimed that Hillary Clinton once asked the military if they could order a drone strike against Assange. In what has to be one of the dafter things we have read True Pundit, claimed that Clinton allegedly queried whether a drone strike could be used to silence Assange and Wikileaks in 2010, before the group released more than 250,000 sensitive diplomatic documents dated from 1966 up to 2010.
“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton asked at a 2010 meeting with State Department officials.
The report claimed the statement drew laughter from the room which "quickly died off" when Clinton kept talking "in a terse manner". In the end they didn't have to. Assange's own ego and attitude to women sank him just as cleanly as a sidewinder from a drone and while not delivering him to the afterlife packed him off to irrelavance which is the sort of place someone like him can't stand.
