ROBBY MOOK: What?s disturbing to us is that we?experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that they are?the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump. I don?t think it?s coincidental that these emails were released on the eve our convention here. We also saw last week at the Republican convention that Trump and his allies made changes to the Republican platform to make it more pro-Russian. And we saw him talking about how NATO shouldn?t intervene to defend?necessarily should intervene to defend our Eastern European allies if they?re attacked by Russia. So, I think when you put all this together, it?s a disturbing picture.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Robby Mook citing experts saying the DNC emails were leaked by the Russians. You were the one who released these 20,000 emails, Julian Assange. Where did you get them?
JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, what?s not in that clip there by Robby is that, just afterwards, he was asked by Jake Tapper, "Who are these experts? Can you name them?" The answer was no, a refusal to name the experts. But we have seen one of the experts, so-called experts, that the Democratic Party is trying to base its incredible conspiracy theory on about WikiLeaks. And that is this?what we jokingly refer to as the NSA dick pic guy. He?s a former National Security Agency agent who started to produce conspiracy theories about us in 2013, when we were involved in the Edward Snowden rescue, as a means to try and undermine the Snowden publications, subsequently embroiled in some amateur pornography scandal. That?s why they don?t want to name their experts, because they are people like this.
In relation to sourcing, I can say some things. A, we never reveal our sources, obviously. That?s what we pride ourselves on. And we won?t in this case, either. But no one knows who our source is. It?s simply speculation. It?s, I think, interesting and acceptable to speculate who our sources are. But if we?re talking about the DNC, there?s lots of consultants that have access, lots of programmers. And the DNC has been hacked dozens and dozens of times. Even according to its own reports, it had been hacked extensively over the last few years. And the dates of the emails that we published are significantly after all, or all but one?it?s not clear?of the hacking allegations that the DNC says have occurred.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Robby Mook citing experts saying the DNC emails were leaked by the Russians. You were the one who released these 20,000 emails, Julian Assange. Where did you get them?
JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, what?s not in that clip there by Robby is that, just afterwards, he was asked by Jake Tapper, "Who are these experts? Can you name them?" The answer was no, a refusal to name the experts. But we have seen one of the experts, so-called experts, that the Democratic Party is trying to base its incredible conspiracy theory on about WikiLeaks. And that is this?what we jokingly refer to as the NSA dick pic guy. He?s a former National Security Agency agent who started to produce conspiracy theories about us in 2013, when we were involved in the Edward Snowden rescue, as a means to try and undermine the Snowden publications, subsequently embroiled in some amateur pornography scandal. That?s why they don?t want to name their experts, because they are people like this.
In relation to sourcing, I can say some things. A, we never reveal our sources, obviously. That?s what we pride ourselves on. And we won?t in this case, either. But no one knows who our source is. It?s simply speculation. It?s, I think, interesting and acceptable to speculate who our sources are. But if we?re talking about the DNC, there?s lots of consultants that have access, lots of programmers. And the DNC has been hacked dozens and dozens of times. Even according to its own reports, it had been hacked extensively over the last few years. And the dates of the emails that we published are significantly after all, or all but one?it?s not clear?of the hacking allegations that the DNC says have occurred.
