WikiLeaks to publish more Hillary Clinton emails - Julian Assange

[paulthompson]

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Source: The Guardian

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said his organisation is preparing to publish more emails Hillary Clinton sent and received while US secretary of state.

Assange’s comments came in an interview on ITV’s Peston on Sunday. “We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton … We have emails pending publication, that is correct,” Assange said. He did not specify when or how many emails would be published.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/12/wikileaks-to-publish-more-hillary-clinton-emails-julian-assange

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I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here yet. Regardless of what you think of Clinton's email scandal and/or Assange and WikiLeaks, this sure looks like latest breaking news to me.

[pnwmom]

1. How is it news that Assange plans to publish something in the future

that he already has in his searchable cache of emails?

He's just looking for free publicity. We don't need to give it to him.

[paulthompson]

4. Because

Because he's talking about previously unpublished emails, NOT emails already published. The mere fact that he claims to have them is news, thus the Guardian article. Whether more do get published by WikiLeaks or not, time will tell.

[cstanleytech]

10. You have a point though I doubt any of the emails are any cause for much excitement since

I suspect they would have released them long ago if they were really major.

[pnwmom]

13. Exactly. The only reason Assange needs to milk this for the publicity

is because there aren't any bombshells.

So he'll take whatever publicity he can drum up, till people realize that he's released a pile of nothingburgers.

[yallerdawg]

2. More bull shit.

The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The final PDFs were made available on February 29, 2016.

WikiLeaks put a Boolean search feature on them?

[paulthompson]

6. Sigh

He's not talking about those emails. WikiLeaks hosted a mirror of those months ago. The Guardian is just mentioning that, and a bunch of other things, to provide context. Read the article. Assange is talking about posting previously unseen emails.

Here's the direct question and answer from the interview:

Peston of ITV: Do you have any of the undisclosed emails?

Assange: We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton, which is great. ... We have emails relating to Hillary Clinton pending publication, that is correct.

[scscholar]

11. How could there be "previously unseen emails?"

Sounds like BS.

[paulthompson]

15. Unseen emails

You obviously haven't been following the news about this very much. Clinton turned over 30,000 emails in late 2014, saying those were all her work related emails. She deleted another 31,000, saying those were all personal. Since then, more of her work emails keep coming out. For instance, the recent State Department inspector general's report mentioned several previously unpublished ones, including a couple talking about hacking attacks on her server. There are others that have come out, for instance 150 work emails between her and Huma Abedin came out last month. There also were leaks of emails between her and David Petraeus, her and Sid Blumenthal, etc... - all work related and all not part of the 30,000 she turned over.

So yeah, there's lots of emails previously unseen by the public so far. Clearly, she didn't turn over all her work emails, despite signing an oath under threat of perjury in August 2015 that she did just that.

[itsrobert]

3. So this witch hunt was never about national security

It's an attempt to exploit Hillary's emails for political purposes.

We see that now.

[pnwmom]

7. +1. nt

[annavictorious]

5. Desperate attempt to reclaim relevance and kill time

Poor Julian has to do something to stay busy for the next four years while he waits out the statute of limitations on those pesky rape charges.

[leveymg]

8. Any indication if they shed light on mishandling classified information?

Glad to see they let you out of FFR Purgatory. When did that happen?

[RufusTFirefly]

9. I can't wait until June 16!

Then Assange will no longer be able to publish those e-mails.

[msanthrope]

12. Rapist says what? nt

[Skittles]

14. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[stupidicus]

17. good for him, there's much about her that hasn't been thoroughly examined

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/hillary_clintons_state_department_let_south_sudan_use_child_20160611

not that it matters given the way her supporters will forgive almost anything it seems

[RoccoR5955]

20. Yeah, you are correct.

She could murder a million people, and they wouldn't give a tinker's damn!

[JBoy]

18. It's ok. Hillary promised there were no more shoes to drop.

This, on the otherhand, sound like it could be a big freaking boot.

[RoccoR5955]

19. This hero should be lauded.

Not vilified.
He is proving that there is no openness in our government. When he points it out, as did Manning, all the powers that be want to do is to continue hiding their secrets, and lock the guy up.
They should be pinning medals on him!
I look forward to any leaks he has!

[elljay]

21. Why now?

If they have something damaging, it would have made sense to publish it a few months ago when people were still voting. If it is not damaging, then who the hell cares at this point? We already know she used her personal server, she didn't ask for the proper permission, and she didn't turn over all the emails. If it is not sufficient for her to be indicted or forced to withdraw, it is just a meaningless distraction.

[one_voice]

22. Locking..

it's the consensus of the hosts this doesn't meet SoP of LBN. It's better suited for GDP, please repost there. thanks.