WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pledged on Tuesday to publish “significant” new material on the US election before the November 8 vote speaking on the 10th anniversary of the online leaking platform.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pledged on Tuesday to publish “significant” new material on the US election before the November 8 vote speaking on the 10th anniversary of the online leaking platform.
Mr Assange said there were “enormous expectations in the United States” about the material and that “some of that expectation will be partly answered”, with “a lot of fascinating angles” in the documents.
“Do they show interesting features of US power factions Yes, they do,” he said, addressing an anniversary event in Berlin via videolink.
On why WikiLeaks was holding back for now, he added that “if we’re going to make a major publication in relation to the United States at a particular hour, we don’t do it at 3 am,” referring to the time in the eastern United States.
He also said that “we hope to be publishing every week for the next 10 weeks,” promising documents on the subjects of war, arms, oil, Google and mass surveillance.
Assange — speaking from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has been holed up for over four years to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face rape allegations — hailed WikiLeaks for releasing 10 million documents over the past decade, exposing state and corporate secrets.
He pledged that WikiLeaks would seek to expand its activities with extra staff and new media partnerships, with plans to hire 100 more journalists over the next three years.
“We're going to need... An Army to defend us from the pressure that is already starting to arrive,” said Assange, wearing a black T-shirt with the word ‘truth’ on it.
