1.
Rattansi: Julian Assange, thanks for agreeing
for this Interview. Aren’t you worried that you’re on this channel, RT, after
being accused by Hillary Clinton basically of working for the Russian Government?
“We know Russian Intelligence Agencies hacked into the DNC.” WikiLeaks is now
publishing all the hacked emails.
2.
Assange: I don’t think WikiLeaks can be
constantly worried about PR. I’ve been called a Mossad
agent. It got so bad, in fact, that the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, had to
put out a press release denying that I was a Mossad agent. I’m not sure actually that that’s particularly helpful. Cat-torturer, CIA agent, et cetera. It’s expected with
our Publications. RT is obviously of interest to People that are interested in
Russia, and Russia has been brought up by Hillary Clinton, most recently just a
few days ago on Fox, so I think it is necessary to address what WikiLeaks feels
is its Perception of its own Publication to the RT audience.
3.
Rattansi: When you started WikiLeaks, obviously
the Afghan War Logs, these different leaks that you presented to the World,
give us a context about the so-called War on Terror, the Atrocities by UK-,
US-backed Forces. Did you ever think WikiLeaks was going to change the outcome
of a US presidential Election?
4.
Assange: Our proponents argue that we have
shifted outcomes in approving Election, Kenyan Election, with being involved in
removing the Intelligence heads in a number of Countries as a result of our Publications
and the public Accountability that has come from it. I think it remains to be
seen. The upcoming WikiLeaks Publications to do with the presidential Election,
those can go either way.
5.
Rattansi: Hillary Clinton says she has Proof
that it comes from a Russian hack. Is that-
6.
Assange: She is very sneaky. She made a sneaky
statement on Fox which contains elements which are simply, strictly false and other ones where
she’s sort of trying to push the Truth through a very small gap.
7.
Rattansi: Hillary Clinton just said, “We know
Russian Intelligence Agencies hacked into the DNC. We know they arranged for
emails to be released.”
8.
Assange: Actually she has a slight variant on
the “We know.” I don’t think she says emails. I think she says “some documents”
because the difference here is that do State actors hack are the political Organisations
of different Countries. Does the United States Government
do it? Absolutely. Of course, it hacks the political Parties of many different Countries.
Does French Intelligence, Chinese Intelligence, Russian Intelligence hack
political parties in order to collect Intelligence? Yes. Did they hack the DNC?
Has at least one State actor hacked the DNC? Probably. Now this is a
separate Question to the release of our emails. In the US Media, there’s been a
deliberate conflation between DNC leaks, which is what we’ve been publishing,
and DNC hacks of the US Democratic Party, which have occurred over the last two
years by their own admission a number of times.
9.
Rattansi: You’re not going to sue for Defamation,
though, given all the People saying that you were endangering the Lives of People
and all manner of Accusations about this set of DNC leaks that have come out.
You don’t plan on taking legal Action?
10.
Assange: We look carefully. I mean we sometimes
do take legal Action where there’s a strict Liability and when we can show that
someone knew that what they were saying was untrue. If it gets too bad in this
case, then unfortunately that’s what you have to do, because if there’s no
incentive to encourage People to say the Truth and they won’t do it by
themselves, then unfortunately you have to take Action. I think this statement
by Hillary Clinton on Fox really does need to be tackled because it concerns us
directly and our Publications. What she is attempting to do is to conflate our Publication
of pristine emails, knowing the Democratic Party argues, that even a single
email is not completely valid. It hasn’t been done. The head of
the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is rolled as a result. Whatever hacking has
occurred of the DNC or other political Organisations in the United States by a
range of actors. In the middle, we have something which is the Publication by
other Media Organisations of Information purportedly from the DNC. It seems to
be the case. So that’s a series of word documents and PDFs published by The Hill,
by Gawker, by The Smoking Gun. This is a completely separate batch of
documents compared to the 20,000 pristine emails that we have released. In this
batch of documents released by these other Media Organisations, there are
claims that in the metadata, someone’s done a document to PDF conversion, and
in some cases, the Language of the Computer that was used for that conversion
was Russian. That’s the circumstantial Evidence that some Russian was involved
or someone who wanted to make it look like a Russian was involved with these
other Media Organisations. That’s not the case for the material that we
released. The Hillary Clinton Campaign has a serious
problem in trying to work out how to counterspin the Publication. Why do they
have such a problem? Because the emails are unarguable. WikiLeaks has a perfect
10-year history of having never got it wrong in Relation to what we have
published. That means that what we have published is trusted. But even so,
across the whole 20,000 emails, no one in the DNC, no one even in the Hillary
Clinton Campaign, is saying, “Ah, look, that word there; I did not say that.”
It’s accepted that they are all legitimate. So what is the source of the
emails? I can reveal the source of the emails. The source of the emails is the
Democratic National Committee. It is the president, Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
it is the communications director, Luis Miranda, et cetera, et cetera.
11.
Rattansi: I think that’s not what they’re
asking.
12.
Assange: They wrote them. We know they’re
accurate, we know who the source is, we know who the publisher is. From our
perspective, that’s all that’s important. Now there’s an attempt to
bring in a metastory, and the metastory is, did some hacker obtain these
emails? People have suggested that there’s Evidence that the DNC has been
hacked. I’m not at all surprised it’s been hacked. In fact-
13.
Rattansi: Clinton says it’s the Russians.
14.
Assange: If you read very carefully, they say it’s
been hacked many times over the last two years. Our sources say that the DNC Security
is like Swiss cheese. The DNI, the Director of National Intelligence of the
United States, several months ago said that both the RNC, the Republicans, and
the DNC were being attacked by a range of actors from philosophical opponents
to States engaged in espionage. Now, the head of the DNI, James Clapper, who’s
responsible for all US Intelligence Agencies, he’s the boss of the boss of the
CIA. If anyone knows what the US Intelligence Agencies knows, he knows. On
Friday, he had to come out and say that there’s a lot of Media
hyperventilation, that they have no idea as to what motivation is even if they
did know who it was. So that’s the head of the DNI dampening down Ideas that
they know who it is. Despite that, Hillary Clinton is saying untruthfully that she knows
who the source of our emails are. She didn’t quite say our emails. She’s
playing some games, because there have been other Publications by The Hill,
by Gawker, of the US Media, of different documents, not emails. So we have to
separate the various DNC or RNC hacks that have occurred over the years. Who’s
done that? The source. We know who the source is. It’s the Democratic National
Committee itself. And our sources. Who
gave these materials and other pending materials to us? These are all different
Questions. Clinton is playing a fairly effective game at trying to
distinguish these. We say, “Look, can journalists count to two?” It’s not hard
to count to two. We have DNC leaked emails that we have published, and we have Questions
about the hacking of the DNC over a number of different years by a number of
different actors. These are different Questions.
15.
Rattansi: Any Russian connexions between Hillary
Clinton and Russia? Any Russian connexions there?
16.
Assange: Hillary Clinton has done quite well
strategically to try and draw connexion between Trump and Russia, because she
has so many connexions of her own. My analysis of Trump and Russia is that
there is no substantial connexion. Why do I say that? Because Trump was trying
to invest in Russia before Putin in the 1990s, after Putin, and in fact nearly
all the way up to the present moment, and he’s had no success. He’s not managed
to build hotels and so-on in Russia, so that shows how insubstantial his
contacts are. Now if you look at Hillary Clinton on the other hand, you see that
Hillary Clinton was involved in approving the Sale of 20% of the United States’
Uranium-reprocessing Market to a Russian Company. That’s just an incredible Thing
when you think that Uranium is part of the US Nuclear Weapons Complex. In fact,
it is the origin.
17.
Rattansi: Is a Russian Government funded Company.
18.
Assange: Now American Uranium is being shipped off
to Russia and potentially used in the Construction of Russian Atomic Weapons or
at the very least displacing the use of Russian Uranium, so there’s more spare Uranium.
19.
Rattansi: Your involvement is through John
Podesta, who’s her Campaign manager?
20.
Assange: The involvement is in a number of
areas. So there’s donations, large donations, going into the Clinton Foundation
while Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State at the time that she is making the Decision
as to whether to permit the Export or not. And through John Podesta, Hillary
Clinton’s Campaign manager, there’s an extremely well-documented pattern of
when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, those People, Companies, Governments,
who wanted a Decision by the Secretary of State in their favour, making large
donations to the Clinton Foundation or in some other cases Business-deals with
the People around Hillary Clinton. Now one particular
instance is the approval by Secretary Clinton of selling 20% of the US Uranium Reprocessing
Rights to a Russian Company to be exported to Russia. At that time, a large Donation
was made by those Russian interests to the Clinton Foundation. In addition,
Clinton’s Campaign manager, Podesta, was on the board of a Company called Joule Unlimited, and Joule
Unlimited held some of these Rights and received a $35 million Investment from
Russia.
21.
Rattansi: That’s a Russian Government Company,
so Hillary Clinton is-
22.
Assange: From a Russian Government Company, and also
Russians were on the board also with Podesta.
23.
Rattansi: So the kind of email revelations from
WikiLeaks reveal that Hillary Clinton is a Kremlin stooge?
24.
Assange: I wouldn’t say Kremlin stooge, but
there is a much deeper connexion on record with Hillary Clinton and Russia than
we are presently aware of with Donald Trump.
25.
Rattansi: Is this Revenge for Hillary Clinton overseeing the Torture of
Chelsea Manning, of obviously seeking continuing Grand Jury against
yourself, perhaps extrajudicial Killing of yourself, let alone the death
penalty for yourself if you were tried in the United States? Is that why you’re
attacking Hillary Clinton?
26.
Assange: I just find it quite amazing. WikiLeaks
is doing what it’s always done. That’s what its mandate is for the past 10
years. In 2009 we published 50,000 donors from the Norm Coleman, Senator Norm
Coleman, Campaign. He was a Republican. That’s what WikiLeaks. Just think, would WikiLeaks turn down tens of thousands of
documents from a political Party in an Election? I think the interesting
Question is would another Media Organisation turn it down? These Questions
about the motivations of an editor or a proprietor, actually I think they’re
fair. I think it is fair to ask those Questions. I don’t think the answers are
very fair. But do you ever hear those Questions asked about Phil Griffin, the
President of MSNBC, or Comcast or Time Warner?
27.
Rattansi: So whoever the source is, they couldn’t
trust those Companies to be able to publish the Information because they’re
already so partisan?
28.
Assange: I mean I assume that’s why the source
came to us because of that Belief. When we were strategising our rollout, which we had
to really work hard to do a rollout before the DNC, it was a lot of Work
to try and meet that deadline, but we thought, “Okay,
well, who should we choose as, you know, Media partners in the United States
who, you know, perhaps they know the backstory of some of these characters like
Debbie Wasserman Schultz better than we do?” And we thought, “Actually, there
is basically no one that we can trust to do an impartial job on this issue”
because the Election has polarised everyone. You basically have in the
US Media Market, Fox going mostly with the Republicans, it’s actually a bit
unclear whether they’re going to stay with Trump towards the end, and then everyone
else with Hillary Clinton. So who can you choose to work with in that
environment? You can’t. The most impartial way of doing things is just to
publish it ourselves and invite everyone to the table. That’s what happened.
29.
Rattansi: Some journalists would argue that it’s
actually the subject of the revelations that’s more interesting to the American
voter about the Election while the Media is, of course, fascinated about
whether the Kremlin is working with you, whether you work for the Kremlin
basically.
30.
Assange: No, but it’s very. I think it’s a
genuine Question. You should ask the sources of Information. The least,
however, in the case of WikiLeaks Publications. Why do I say that? The
principal reason why you want to know the source of some statement is to
understand whether it’s true or not. What are the motivations by the source in
creating some Allegation or whatever. We don’t publish Allegations. We know
what the source is. The source is the DNC, the source is Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, the source is the head of finance, the source is the communications
director, Luis Miranda. So we know who the source is. The Question is who is
the intermediary. We know who the publisher is; that’s WikiLeaks. So for our Publications,
it’s a lesser issue. It is a big issue in the case of other Media Organisations
who are simply making claims and not publishing original documents. I’ll give you an example, a very, very interesting example. I’ve
done some research on the Turkish Coup. It’s not spoken about in the West, but
within Turkey, the Turkish newspapers are publishing elements of a Theory that
the United States was directly involved in the Coup, that US Intelligence
backed Fethullah Gülen, who’s based in Pennsylvania as the head of the
Gülen cult that has been implicated in the Coup.
In fact, according to the Turkish Government, is the leading actor in the Coup.
31.
Rattansi: Who’s wanted by President Erdogan?
32.
Assange: Yes, and they’ve put out Extradition
requests and so on. One of the key independent points of Evidence not coming
from Interrogation in Turkey where People might have been placed under Duress,
is that in the middle of the Coup,
NBC published that Erdogan was on his way to Germany to seek Asylum. They say
this was told to them by a US Military source, so what the hell is going on
there? Because that went all the way around the World and was used to further
the chance of the success of the Coup within Turkey. Because if the President
has fled, then he has lost control.
33.
Rattansi: NBC had close supporters, so Trump
supporters would say, of Hillary Clinton, so would a Hillary Clinton presidency
endanger the NATO alliance and the Ability to store American Nuclear Weapons at
Incirlik
Air Base and use it as a base to bomb Iraq and Syria under Hillary
Clinton?
34.
Assange: I think either Government is
potentially a Problem because of that Coup in Turkey was very serious Business.
Hundreds of People have died. That a hundred thousand People have been fired or
arrested in the post-Coup Purge, opportunistically in some cases of political Enemies
of Erdogan, in other cases trying to purge the Society of the Gülen movement.
35.
Rattansi: Okay, but for an American viewer of
this programme right now, Donald Trump is being castigated for undermining
NATO. You seem to be saying that the Turkish alliance within NATO-
36.
Assange: I think regardless. Perhaps not the
broader NATO Alliance but the Relationship between the United States and Turkey
is seriously compromised.
37.
Rattansi: Back to the democratic process in the
United States. Basically the first batch you released showed. At least you
could admire Wasserman Schultz for resigning very quickly after the WikiLeaks Publication.
There was a dirty tricks Campaign
against Bernie Sanders, so Democratic primary voters didn’t really understand
what was going on during that process. Because the Clinton Foundation’s major
donors include members of the Gülen movement that Erdogan says were responsible
for the attempted Coup d’État.
38.
Assange: Right. I mean Erdogan’s going to look
at that and treat Clinton suspiciously. Regardless of
who becomes President of the United States, you have an extremely large Intelligence
Bureaucracy that has its own mind in things. Unless Trump is elected and
engages in a significant purge of the CIA, for example, I think Erdogan will
continue to view it very suspiciously. Especially as long as we’ve got
Fethullah Gülen being protected in Pennsylvania.
39.
Rattansi: The vice presidential pick for Clinton
...
40.
Assange: So go back. Hillary loses the primary
process against Obama. At that point, Tim Kaine was the head of the DNC, the Democratic
National Committee. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was Hillary Clinton’s Campaign manager. Then some kind of deal is
done whereby Debbie Wasserman Schultz becomes the head of the DNC and Tim Kaine
steps down. If you’re Hillary and you’re thinking strategically that you’re
going to run again in four years or eight years, have your Campaign manager as
head of the DNC, controller of the, if you like, the regulator who’s regulating
the nomination Competition, is a huge strategic Advantage. Now let’s wind
forward. The 20,000 DNC leak emails that we released. They’re from Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, head of the DNC, and six other prominent People, Finance, Communications,
and so on. What they show is that
within the DNC, there was a unity of the most senior People, including Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, to act against Bernie Sanders in the nomination process and
for Hillary Clinton. What particular Actions were performed? There’s a lot of Discussions,
so Discussions about we can use a captive reporter and push out the fact that
Bernie Sanders might be an atheist and not a Jew, and this is going to cost him
in the South.
41.
Rattansi: Which Organisation? Sorry to
interrupt. CNN, I think, was the name, was it?
42.
Assange: No, they didn’t mention the reporter in
that particular case. Where MSNBC
on its most influential morning programme, Morning Joe, was defending Bernie
Sanders, then Debbie Wasserman Schultz called up the president of MSNBC.
Amazingly this is not reported in the US Media. It is reported in the US Media
that they called up Chuck Todd, who’s the host of Meet the Press. Something
much more serious is not reported, that Debbie Wasserman Schultz herself personally
called up the president of MSNBC to apply pressure in Relation to positive
coverage about Bernie Sanders on Morning Joe, their big morning TV programme. Then
to my mind what is the most serious from an evidentiary point of view is the
communications director, Luis Miranda, making an instruction to his staff to
pump out a black Propaganda story against Bernie Sanders saying that his
supporters were violent and to put this out in a quote unattributable unquote
manner. Why do I say that is the most serious? Because it is an Instruction
given through the Chain of Command to staff. It’s not a Discussion, it’s not
any one Person calling up to another Person. It is to depict Bernie Sanders
supporters as violent. That is not just a critique. That is not just to give
Sanders a break here or make things a little bit harder for him there. It is to
demonise a Democrat in the eyes of the Public. Democratic Party demonising a
Democrat in the eyes of the Public through covert means. Why did Hillary
Clinton appoint Tim Kaine, this kind of a non-entity? If Hillary Clinton’s going to win, she has a
range of things she can use, but the biggest demand for her going into the
convention was to show prominently to Bernie Sanders supporters that they had
one of their guys at the table. Bernie Sanders as Vice President, one of Bernie
Sanders’ key Allies as Vice President or something of an equivalent nature.
Didn’t happen. In fact, when Debbie Wasserman Schultz
was pushed to resign, within hours Hillary Clinton put out a statement saying
that she was taking Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be the honourary head of her Campaign
and would be her surrogate and is her friend and would be used throughout the Campaign.
What kind of signal is that? Where the Person has been found to be
acting corruptly, acting against Bernie Sanders, and you’re trying to create
unity. To conspicuously display that. She could’ve waited a week. She could’ve
gone under the surface. Why conspicuously.
43.
Rattansi: Well the DNC says because they didn’t
believe Bernie Sanders would win November, which is why they would do
everything to help the Democrat Party-
44.
Assange: No, no, no. But
why did Hillary Clinton conspicuously, after Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head
of the DNC, was pushed out as a result of our Publications, why moments after
did Hillary Clinton release a press release saying that she was effectively
rehiring her? What kind of signal is that to create unity with the Bernie
Sanders supporters? It is mad. My Perception is that the appointment of
Tim Kaine and the conspicuous rehiring of Debbie Wasserman Schultz both come from
the same Phenomenon, which is Cronyism. That Clinton’s Campaign, Clinton’s
structure, is based upon these Friendships and Alliances that she has built up.
She cannot permit any signal to go out that says that she doesn’t respect these
Alliances, because that’s what the structure is based on.
45.
Rattansi: She would be endangered by breaking Relations
with those Forces?
46.
Assange: Exactly. If
she, for example, didn’t pick Tim Kaine, and there was a deal done eight years
ago for Tim Kaine to resign and put in Debbie Wasserman Schultz for strategic
purposes, and then she doesn’t give Tim Kaine whatever he was promised, perhaps
the vice presidency, then of course she’ll pay a price. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, no doubt, knows a lot about
Hillary Clinton, having been intimately involved in her previous Campaign, so Hillary
needs to keep her close. But more than
that, she needs to publicly demonstrate to all the other People, “Don’t worry.
If you take a fall for me for doing a corrupt act for me like Debbie Wasserman
Schultz was doing, then you’ll be taken care of.” So that is, creates a limit on the moves that Hillary Clinton
can take. She can’t take any move. An obvious move would be to appoint some key
Bernie Sanders Person. Vice president. That’s an obvious move. Or to not be
conspicuous about saying, “Oh, you just screwed over in a corrupt manner the
nomination-”
47.
Rattansi: You’re implying that there’s much more
Information which she’s blackmailable by these different People.
48.
Assange: Hillary Clinton does not have an unlimited number of moves she can
make. She’s confined on her chessboard as a result of these Relationships. That
may well cost her the Election. She’s not an idiot. She’s a highly intelligent
woman. There wasn’t a move available to her to unite with Bernie Sanders
supporters. That move was not available to her because those squares were
already occupied.
49.
Rattansi: There is no way, presumably, Hillary
Clinton can win if there is a link between Hillary Clinton and ISIS-Daesh. Now
I know your WikiLeaks is reviewing all these different emails. You have so many
of them and you need to look at them and who they can damage, who they can’t,
all sorts of things WikiLeaks does before releasing them. President Obama is
now bombing ISIS-Daesh positions in Libya, so it’s reported. Did Hillary Clinton use Libya as a conduit to sell arms to ISIS-Daesh
in Syria?
50.
Assange: The US Government
at the Time that Hillary Clinton was in charge of Foreign Policy did use Libya
as a conduit to get Arms to jihadists in Syria. That’s
well established, not just by a range of our materials but by the investigative
Work of Sy Hersh and a variety of other investigative reporters in the United
States, some of those even published in the New York Times.
51.
Rattansi: And any of the emails. You have
mentioned that Libya comes up in so many of the emails that you’ve been
releasing, as regards Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State-
52.
Assange: In the batch of 32,000 emails we
released a few months back, there are 1,700 in Relation to Libya, including. I
suppose that the most useful one is, which is colloquially referred to as “Hillary
Clinton’s Libya Brag Sheet.” She was documenting all the ways in which she led the Invasion of
Libya in a political and to a degree an organisational sense. Pushing it within
the US Government, bringing in the European partners, et cetera, et cetera.
Even going herself personally.
53.
Rattansi: Anything to add to reports that,
according to the French Papers, the big French industrial conglomerate Lafarge, which has
been donating Money to the Clinton Foundation and has got. The reports
in the French Press were it was relating funds with ISIS-Daesh. Any Information,
any emails that connect up Hillary Clinton to ISIS-Daesh through Lafarge?
54.
Assange: Well most of this Work was done by Le
Monde, so
that’s the New York Times equivalent of France. What they show is that
Lafarge, which is a giant, amongst other things, a giant Concrete Company,
transnational Concrete Company, was involved in Syria. There’s interestingly
more than 350 Lafarge-related emails in our Syria emails release, so that’s two
million emails that we’ve published about Syria, including the Personal emails
of the President Bashar al-Assad. The Investigation by
Le Monde reveals that they paid ISIS-Daesh Money, Taxes, if you will, for their
Operations in certain Areas. Yeah, they engaged in a variety of Business
dealings.
55.
Rattansi: They donated to the Clinton
Foundation-
56.
Assange: And Hillary
Clinton’s involvement is that Money from Lafarge in 2015 and 2016 went to
Hillary Clinton Foundation, so that’s recent. You ask why does it go to a Foundation?
Actually there’s a long-term Relationship between Lafarge and Hillary Clinton.
She was a member of the board, for example.
57.
Rattansi: Okay, let’s go to Venezuela, the
Country with the biggest Oil Resources on Earth. Obviously there was an
attempted Coup d’État by the United States a while back. People are now
predicting. Anything in your email cache to suggest Hillary Clinton has been
involved in sabotaging the Economy of Venezuela? Or the DNC?
58.
Assange: You mean our pending emails or our
present?
59.
Rattansi: Both, of course.
60.
Assange: Pending emails I can’t talk about. Yes,
there’s a lot of material that we have published: cables, emails-
61.
Rattansi: But some are saying People are starving to Death in Venezuela because
of the sabotaging of their Economy via Sanctions with Hillary Clinton and the
DNC involved.
62.
Assange: There have been a range of attempts by
the US Government to undermine the Venezuelan Government, the Venezuelan State,
for years. Our Publications document that, going back to at least 2005, so I
don’t think Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State was especially
unusual. It’s
a continuation of US policy going back at least to 2005 of attempting to
marginalise in a variety of ways the Government of Hugo Chávez and now the Government
of Maduro.
63.
Rattansi: I know we don’t have time to go
through every Country in the World, but Hillary Clinton’s involvement, of
course, in the overthrow of the democratically elected President Zelaya of Honduras.
Any other emails that suggest that we can get more Information how Hillary
Clinton tries to overthrow democratically elected Governments? I know that her
brother, Tony Rodham, was implicated in Haiti with Mining licenses via the
Clinton Foundation.
64.
Assange: Bill Clinton as well. Bill Clinton basically became the Overseer
or Governor of Haiti. I mean Clinton’s intimately involved. There’s reports back from quite an amazing report back
from Chelsea Clinton, which we have already published, describing her trip to
Haiti, but that’s a kind of ingenuine, naïve description. Chelsea Clinton is
not, from what I have been able to read, she’s not involved in the dirty Work
of the family. Like some daughters of powerful families, they’re treated
like princesses to try and keep them away from that.
65.
Rattansi: I was actually talking about the
brother, Tony Rodham. He got some licenses, and he actually is on the record
for saying I get licenses via the Clinton Foundation. “I deal through the
Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with Haitian officials.” So it is
this foundation which is central-
66.
Assange: Yeah.
67.
Rattansi: I know you can’t comment directly
about the pending email releases from WikiLeaks, but do you expect more about
the Clinton Foundation?
68.
Assange: Yes.
69.
Rattansi: I have to also get to Yemen, because
Saudi Arabia does crop up in some of the emails you’ve already released. 20
million People now facing humanitarian disaster. There was no mention of the
Clinton Foundation at the DNC conference, noticeably, at all about the Good Works
it does. Do you think part of it is that connexion to Saudi Arabia, let alone
the 28 pages of connexion with 9/11 to Saudi Arabia? What is the connexion
between Hillary Clinton and Saudi Arabia that certainly got Israel angry?
70.
Assange: It’s extensive. There are Relationships between
Hillary Clinton and Saudi Arabia, between the Clinton Foundation and Saudi
Arabia. Saudi Arabia is probably the largest single donor to the Clinton
Foundation. You can see Clinton’s Arms Export policies while she was Secretary
of State favouring extensively Saudi Arabia. It’s not just Hillary
Clinton. Even before Hillary Clinton, a variety of US policies shifted by Saudi
Arabia. Saudi Arabia extensively hires consultants-
71.
Rattansi: But as President, would President
Hillary Clinton be more likely to do the bidding of Saudi Arabia than President
Obama, or actually does it make any difference?
72.
Assange: I’m not sure it makes a difference
compared to Obama. I’m not aware of significant Relationships between Trump and
Saudi Arabia. He would probably, I imagine, develop
those Relationships rather swiftly once he was in Office. There’s a
turning point in the United States, potentially a turning point in Relation to
Saudi Arabia policy, because the United States is about to become a net
exporter of Oil because of Shell. So the dependency on Saudi Arabia is no
longer there. In fact, Saudi Arabia is a oil competitor or soon-to-be oil
competitor to the United States. The existing financial and personal ties and Arms
Export ties to Saudi Arabia, those will still be there, but the Relationship
can go to one of a deep embrace in dependency to a more independent kind of Relationship.
Arguably, that has already started to happen. The Iran Deal, it’s part of Obama’s
and Kerry’s legacy phase, probably couldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for
those changing nature of the Oil Relationship between the two Countries.
73.
Rattansi: William Binney, the whistleblower who’s
been on our show, says that the NSA can easily get access to all these emails,
so if there is illegality in the pending emails of your release or malfeasance
in the ones you’ve already released, President Obama could presumably act on it
and get Hillary Clinton charged, regardless of whether you’re about to release
an email, which would mean that James Comey of the FBI would have no
alternative but to arrest Hillary Clinton.
74.
Assange: Our View,
which we have already stated, is that the Evidence that the FBI has is enough
for a Grand Jury to indict already. That’s not hard. It’s actually a
saying that a Grand Jury would indict a ham sandwich if you instructed it to do
so. Because I have a Grand Jury myself, a federal Grand Jury in Washington, DC,
I’m well aware of what they’re like. The prosecutor has to ask the Grand
Jury to indict. If the prosecutor doesn’t ask, the Grand Jury won’t indict, so
that’s the basic problem.
75.
Rattansi: Do you believe she can win given the
emails you’ve so far-
76.
Assange: Can she win the Election? That’s an
interesting Question. I wouldn’t be willing to say so far we’re releasing a
number of-
77.
Rattansi: Will it be up to Media to be covering
WikiLeaks properly for her to lose?
78.
Assange: There has been some decent coverage, to
be fair. There’s also a very fast turnaround. It’s interesting to see how these
Things go. You’ve got. News Organisations want an Audience, so initially People
think, “Is that newsworthy?” Then there’s a rush, a Competition for Audience. Then you have the
more politically connected People, the more senior Management in News Organisation
going, “You know, this is not helpful for our industrial Interests or political
Interests.” And you have some of those Interests calling up and going, “What
the hell are you doing?” Which is one of the things that came out in our
emails, Debbie Wasserman Schultz calling up Phil Griffin, head of MSNBC.
79.
Rattansi: You’re giving Trump the Election, in
effect.
80.
Assange: Hmm?
81.
Rattansi: “What the hell are you doing” also in
terms of you’re giving Trump the Election, presumably.
82.
Assange: Yeah, calling up and saying, “Are you with
us or against us? What’s going on?” Then you see a kind of turnaround in
coverage over the next few days. We’re quite used to that with many different Publications.
83.
Rattansi: Just one last Question away from the
US presidential Elections. It’s five years since Mark Duggan was shot to Death
by British Police. Of course, Black Lives Matter in the United States has come
to the fore partly because of Evidence gained via Technology, well, phone
footage. What message would you have for Black Lives Matter, both in the United
States and here in Britain?
84.
Assange: It’s transparency. Transparency in Relation
to DNC leak which took the head of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the
Democratic Party, that came from us presenting to the public pristine, original
documentation of what People were doing. Black Lives Matter movement has come
up, yes, by hard Work for activists, but the core of what is driving it is
footage that is undeniable. It’s not a matter of “Do you believe the Police? Do
you believe the friends of the Person who were shot, the Witnesses?” No, there’s
undeniable footage of exactly what has occurred, and that is what is
stimulating the ... Probably, it’s what’s not only stimulating parts of the
black Community. I think the black Community has understood this for all too
long, actually. But it’s stimulating enormous acceptance and sympathy outside
the black Community because their Argument is proven.
85.
Rattansi: Julian Assange, thank you.
86.
Assange: You’re welcome.
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