Julian
Assange has claimed the Hillary Clinton campaign has attacked the
servers being used by WikiLeaks. Despite the Ecuadorian embassy
shutting down his internet until the US election is over, the website
will continue publishing, according to Assange. “Everyday that
you publish is a day that you have the initiative in the conflict,”
Assange said via telephone at a conference in Argentina on Wednesday.
The whistleblowing website has been releasing emails from Clinton’s
campaign chair, John Podesta, on a daily basis since early October.
Assange
claimed the release “whipped up a crazed hornet’s nest
atmosphere in the Hillary Clinton campaign” leading them to
attack WikiLeaks. “They attacked our servers and attempted
hacking attacks and there is an amazing ongoing campaign where state
documents were put in the UN and British courts to accuse me of being
both a Russian spy and a pedophile,” he added.
Ecuador’s
decision to shut down his internet was described by Assange as a
“strategic position” so that its “policy of
non-intervention can’t be misinterpreted by actors in the US and
even domestically in Ecuador.” He said he was sympathetic with
Ecuador, insisting they face the dilemma of having the US interfere
with their elections next year if they appear to interfere with the
US elections next month.
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