WikiLeaks' Assange vows to release ‘significant’ documents before US election
The Wikileaks founder criticised Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, for demonising the group’s work
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 3am,” 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.
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.