A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who is close to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told the Daily Mail that Russia didn’t leak emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic staffers to the anti-secrecy organization.
Craig Murray, who describes himself now as a WikiLeaks operative, told the tabloid that he flew to Washington, D.C. to receive files from a source, whom he described as a Democratic Party whistleblower. He said that there were no hacks involved, as has been claimed by CIA sources in several new media reports—namely one from Washington Post that claimed Russia-backed hackers swayed the election in Donald Trump’s favor over Hillary Clinton.
“Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,” said Murray on Tuesday. “The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”
