The founder of Wikileaks refused to disclose who gave the website a trove of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Security experts and some within the DNC have blamed Russia for the hack, but the head of the CIA said Friday that it is too early to jump to conclusions about who is responsible.
The fallout from the emails, which showed DNC officials appearing to advance Hillary Clinton’s campaign in a heated primary with Bernie Sanders, led to the resignation of Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The emails were released by Wikileaks on the eve of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia about a week ago.
Julian Assange, founder of the organization, which leaks classified information, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can’t divulge whom he got the emails from.
“We don’t give anything away as to who our sources are,” he said.
Host Chuck Todd pressed Assange as to whether he accepts information and leaked documents from foreign governments.
“What we publish is guaranteed to be true. That is what we are concerned about,” said Assange, speaking from the Ecuador embassy in London where he has resided for about four years. Assange still faces extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges.
Assange did say that WikiLeaks would accept information from U.S. intelligence.
