Can Assange turn it around for Trump? Wikileaks boss WILL release 'damaging information' about Hillary tomorrow after initially cancelling 'October Surprise' speech from embassy balcony
Julian Assange had originally planned to address the world from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Monday
He was due to speak at the tenth anniversary of the founding of WikiLeaks
Assange will instead speak video link to an event in Berlin on Tuesday
The organisation earlier released information hacked from the Democrats
It came as a new report claimed Clinton had proposed a drone strike to take out Assange in 2010
WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange cancelled a planned appearance to mark the 10th
anniversary of his organization from the balcony of the Ecuadorian
embassy in London over security fears on Monday.
He
had been planning to give a speech - amid claims he was about to
release damaging information about Clinton which some claimed could be
an 'October Surprise' which would swing the presidential election.
However,
Assange, who is wanted by Swedish authorities for questioning in
connection with an alleged rape, will make an announcement via video
link to an event in Berlin on Tuesday morning.
In
a tweet on Monday afternoon, WikiLeaks said Assange's speech in London
was moved to Berlin due to 'specific information' but did not elaborate
further.
Donald Trump's former right-hand man Roger Stone claimed the new WikiLeaks revelations would destroy Clinton's campaign.
In
August this year, Assange told Fox News that he was holding information
on Clinton which yielded 'some quite unexpected angles, that are quite
interesting, some even entertaining'.
He said he would release the information before the November 8 election.
Assange
claimed the information could alter the election result, adding: 'I
think it's significant. It depends on how it catches fire in the public
and in the media.'
Meanwhile,
a new report claims that Clinton once proposed a military drone strike
to take out Assange in a bid to silence WikiLeaks.
Clinton
discussed the possible assassination while she was Secretary of State
in a meeting with her staff in 2010 about how to prevent a WikiLeaks
document dump dubbed ‘CableGate,’ TruePundit reports.
At the time,
Assange had been declaring his intention to release 250,000 secret
cables – revealing a huge amount of damning communications between State
Department officials and its foreign allies between 1966 and 2010.
‘Can’t
we just drone this guy?’ Clinton asked during the meeting on November
23, 2010, the website reports citing State Department sources.
The
sources said that her controversial query drew laughter in the room,
but that it quickly died down when Clinton continued to speak in a
‘terse’ manner.
She allegedly called Assange a soft target as he was walking around freely at the time and not fearful of any reprisals.
Clinton
and the Obama administration feared the content of the cables would
damage US intelligence gathering operations as well as compromise
private communication and intelligence shared with foreign governments.
In
2010, Assange had already released records that divulged secret US
documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and about the war in Iraq
in October.
After
Clinton allegedly proposed a drone strike, another solution was
reportedly brought up to solve the WikiLeaks problem: place a bounty for
Assange’s capture and extradition to the United States.
Figures discussed were in the area of $10million, according to TruePundit.
And
following that meeting, one of Clinton’s top aides – Anne-Marie
Slaughter, the State Department’s director of policy planning - wrote an
email to Clinton, Clinton’s aides Huma Abedin and Jacob Sullivan as
well as Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills with the subject line ‘an SP memo on
possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.’
The 20,000 leaked emails showed how party officials had tried to undermine Clinton's rival Bernie Sanders.
The release of the emails forced the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Assange
said: 'In the case of the DNC leaks for example, we pushed as fast as
we could to try and get it in before the Democratic Nomination
Conference, because obviously people had a right to understand who it is
that they're nominating.
'The same is true here for the US electoral process.'
Tuesday’s anniversary party in Berlin will commemorate the 2006 registration of the domain name wikileaks.org.
WikiLeaks
launched in January 2007, with Assange saying it would use encryption
and a censorship-proof website to protect sources and publicise secret
information.
The site has since published more than 10million leaked documents.
It first caught the world's attention when it released manuals for prison guards at Guantanamo Bay.
But
it really hit its stride in 2010, unveiling logs of US military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a video showing a US helicopter
crew mowing down a group of unarmed civilians - including two
journalists - in Baghdad.
That
same year, it also published a cache of diplomatic cables from US
embassies around the world, deeply embarrassing Washington.
In
an interview with Der Spiegel over the weekend, Assange said: 'The most
important single collection of material we have published is the US
diplomatic cable series.'
But 2010 also saw grave blows to the organization.
Assange was accused of having sex with a woman while she was asleep after the two met at a Stockholm conference.
The
white-haired WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador,
London - which granted him political asylum in 2012 after he lost a
legal battle to block his extradition to Sweden.
The
45-year-old has always maintained the allegations are false and has
refused to travel to Stockholm for questioning due to concerns that
Sweden will hand him over to the US to stand trial for espionage.
WikiLeaks
has been accused of allowing foreign powers to influence November's
presidential election by publishing information which may have been
gathered by Russian hackers.
He
said: 'We're not going to start censoring our publications because
there is a US election. Our role is to publish. We believe in what we're
doing. The attacks only make us stronger.
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