

Mr Assange denied the information from the emails was obtained by Russia. "They are trying to say that President-elect Trump is not a legitimate president." They're trying to delegitimise the Trump administration as it goes into the White House. "So, why such a dramatic response? Well, the reason is obvious. But that's not the allegation that's being presented by the Obama White House.

In an interview due to be broadcast on Fox at 10pm on Tuesday (Wednesday 3am GMT), Mr Assange said: "Our publications had wide uptake by the American people, they're all true. Mr Trump at the time said blaming Russia was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material contained in the emails - although he had previously challenged Russia to "find the 30,000 emails that are missing" from Mrs Clinton's private server. Podesta email leak: Journalist warns 'cycle of money issues could bring down Hillary Clinton and destroy Democratic Party'.Democrat strategist Robert Creamer resigns after video suggests operatives staged protests and incited violence at Donald Trump rallies using paid agitators.CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile after emails show debate questions given to Hillary Clinton in advance.Clinton Foundation donors Saudi Arabia and Qatar give Isis clandestine financial and logistic support, says Hillary Clinton in leaked emails.The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious US pressure.” “This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the. “While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region,” Clinton reportedly wrote. Both countries have donated to the Clinton Foundation. The exchange also showed the presidential candidate identify the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia and Qatar as “clandestine” “financial and logistic” supporters of the terrorist group Isis.

The Obama administration ended up taking similar action to that described as desirable by Mrs Clinton.
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In one thread of correspondence from August 2014 Mrs Clinton sent an eight-point plan to Mr Podesta, at the time a counsellor to President Barack Obama, outlining a strategy on how to defeat terror group Isis which involved supporting Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq with military advisers.

WikiLeaks subsequently published more than 19,000 internal emails from the DNC, days before the Democratic convention was starting. WikiLeaks editor Assange, who has been living at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012 for fear of being extradited to the US, was speaking to the Fox News channel's Sean Hannity after Barack Obama identified Russia as almost certainly being responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Julian Assange has accused the Obama administration of trying to "delegitimise" Donald Trump's impending US presidency over the alleged hacking of election emails.
