WikiLeaks appealed Tuesday for leaked
White House documents before President
Barack Obama leaves office, as its founder
Julian Assange again denied Russia was
the source of hacked Democratic party
emails that hurt Hillary Clinton's bid for the
US presidency.
" System admins: Don't let the White House
destroy US history again! Copy now, then
send to WikiLeaks at your leisure, " the secret-
spilling website announced on Twitter, shortly
before Assange gave an in-depth interview to US
network Fox.
"We are issuing a US$20,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest or exposure
of any Obama admin agent destroying
significant records," the tweet said.
Assange gave Fox an extended interview at the
Ecuadoran embassy in London where he sought
refuge in June 2012 to escape extradition to
Sweden for questioning about an alleged rape.
He shed no light on who provided Wikileaks with
thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic
National Committee and from Clinton campaign
chief John Podesta .
WikeLeaks released the documents during the US
election campaign in what US intelligence
reportedly concluded was an attempt by Russia
to tip the election in favor of Clinton's
Republican rival, Donald Trump, who went on to
win the White House.
Assange insisted, however, that no Russian
government-linked party was the source of the
hacked material.
"The source is not the Russian government.
It is not state parties, " the 45-year-old
Australian told Fox.
Pressed as to whether he thought the leaks of
the Podesta and DNC emails led to Trump's
election in November, he said: “Who knows, it’s
impossible to tell."
"But if it did, the accusation is that the true
statements of Hillary Clinton and her
campaign manager, John Podesta, and the
DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, their
true statements is what changed the
election.”
He said his organization was not political in
nature but aimed to provide facts governments
do not.
"We have a perfect record, authenticating
the information we publish, " Assange said.
"We try to preserve that reputation. What
else do we have a record for?"
Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden
into allegations by a woman who accused him of
rape during a 2010 visit to Stockholm.
He has denied the allegation, insisting they had
consensual sex.
He has refused to travel to Sweden for
questioning, fearing he would be extradited to
the United States over WikiLeaks' release of
500,000 secret military files on the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010.
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