WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denounced the US intelligence community’s recent report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election as a “press release”.
American officials, including outgoing President Barack Obama, have accused the Kremlin of carrying out cyberattacks against US political organizations to help Republican candidate Donald Trump win the White House.
On Friday, the US intelligence community released an unclassified 25-page report claiming that the Russian government directed hackers to target various Democratic Party organizations and operatives to influence the outcome of the election.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Assange called the report politically motivated and damaging to the intelligence community’s reputation.
“It is not an intelligence report,” he said. “This is a press release. It was clearly put out for political purposes.”
Assange said the US intelligence provided no…