Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, said Sunday that his organization would release new emails related to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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“We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton … We have emails pending publication, that is correct,” Assange said during an interview with ITV. He did not specify when or how many emails would be published.
In March, WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive of more than 30,000 emails sent to and from Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state. The documents are from June 30, 2010 to August 12, 2014, and include more than 7,500 documents sent by Clinton.
Assange and his organization have been staunch critics of Clinton, uncovering her role in Libya and other interventions by the U.S. during her tenure as Washington’s top diplomat.
On Sunday and in light of the Orlando shooting, WikiLeaks pointed to Clinton’s role in the rise of the Islamic State group. “ISIS linked gunman slays more than 50 in Florida. Will attention now turn to Hillary's role in fomenting ISIS?” the group said in a tweet using an acronym for the extremist group.
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Clinton is currently under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over allegations that she used her private email to conduct official communications despite being repeatedly warned against that. Assange, however, said he doubted that she would be charged.
The WikiLeaks founder has been confined to the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since July 2012, when he sought asylum to avoid extradition. Assange is wanted in Sweden over allegations of rape dating from 2010, which he denies.