WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made it clear during an interview Sunday that he plans to release additional emails from Hillary Clinton when she served as U.S. Secretary of State.
The emails will be released into WikiLeaks' searchable database, previously launched in March 2016. It houses about 30,322 emails and email attachments sent to and from Clinton’s private email server during the time she served the United States as Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents date from June 30, 2010 to August 12, 2014, and 7,570 of the documents were sent by Clinton.
More emails are on the way. "We have emails related to Hillary Clinton that are pending publication," Assange said, speaking to ITV's Robert Preston.
Assange said it is highly unlikely the U.S. attorney General Loretta Lynch would indict Clinton. “She’s not going to indict Hillary Clinton; that’s not possible," he said. "The FBI can push for concessions from a new Clinton government in exchange for an indictment."
In published email, Hillary Clinton told her staff to remove the classified header of a classified document and send it by non-classified FAXs. During the Preston interview, Assange said that Clinton instructed her staff to violate the classified U.S. procedures.
"Of course I think a lot of these procedures are ridiculous, but Hillary Clinton has been pushing to prosecute others -- and so has Barack Obama -- who violate technically these procedures," Assange said.
When asked whether he prefers Donald Trump as a U.S. president, Assange said: "Trump is a completely unpredictable phenomena. You can't predict what he would do in office. You can predict a bit more of what the Republican Party might do."
Assange views Clinton as a bit of a problem when it comes to "freedom of the press." "In relation to wars, the emails we revealed about her involvement with Libya and statements by Pentagon generals shows that Hillary overrode the Pentagon's reluctance to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi because they predicted that the post-war outcome" would evolve into what we see today, he said, calling Clinton a "liberal war hawk."
Oh, the irony of it all. Illegal hacker standing up for hide-bound processes.