WikiLeaks founder: DNC email leak source an ‘interesting question’

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday declined to name the source of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leak amid speculation that Russian state actors were behind it.

{mosads}”I do think it’s an interesting question, of course, as to who our sources are,” Assange said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“But as a source protection organization that many sources from across the world of many different types rely on to protect their identity, their rights, to communicate the truth to the public. And that’s all we’re talking about here: communicating the truth.”

Assange said it was a “security matter for us as to who our sources are.”

U.S. officials and cybersecurity experts have speculated Russia could be behind the email leaks to help GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.

Assange said Sunday that WikiLeaks doesn’t have any concern about who becomes president.

“We don’t have any concern as to whether [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary [Clinton] is elected or Trump is elected. We are concerned that the material we publish is always accurate, on the one hand, and that our sources are protected on the other.”

Nearly 20,000 emails from DNC officials were released a day before the Democratic National Convention began last week in Philadelphia. Some of the emails showed DNC officials plotting to undermine the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Clinton’s rival during the primary race.