Senate Calls Julian Assange to Testify on Russia

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has called Julian Assange to testify as part of their Russia investigation, according to a letter published by Wikileaks.

Signed by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA), the letter reads: “As part of the inquiry, the Committee requests that you make yourself available for a closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually agreeable time and location.”

Wikileaks says that its legal team is “considering the offer” but the “testimony must conform to a high ethical standard.”

The organization followed up with a tweet linking to a list of 10 Democratic Senators who demanded in late June that Assange’s asylum be revoked in violation of international law.

In August of last year, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher traveled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London with journalist Charles Johnson to meet with Assange, after which Rohrabacher revealed that the Wikileaks founder offered “first hand” information that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the election.

Trump would subsequently deny he had knowledge of the meeting in London, sending Rohrabacher into a tantrum as he accused Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, for constructing a “wall” around President Trump by “people who do not want to expose this fraud,” as Zero Hedge notes.

Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, seeking asylum from possible extradition to the US for publishing leaked government documents.

During the run up the 2016 presidential election, Assange’s Wikileaks publish a trove of internal Hillary Clinton Campaign Emails which exposed DNC and mainstream media collusion in framing the election in the democratic party’s favor.

The email leak also revealed that the DNC was seeking was seeking recommendations on “oversamples for polling” in order to “maximize what we get out of our media polling,” suggesting they were willing to push weighted polls to sway public perception.

Assange has repeatedly denied that the Russian government was the one to give the Democratic campaign emails to his organization. “Our source is not a state party. So the answer — for our interactions (with Russia)– is no,” he said.

Citing US intelligence sources, the Obama administration had accused Russia of orchestrating the hacking of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in an attempt to influence the election’s outcome.

If Assange makes his way to Capitol Hill for testimony, the “first hand” information which congressman Rohrabacher was offered by Assange may come to light. This revelation could be coffin nails to the idea that Russia hacked the election, making it appear at the Mueller investigation is truly a witch hunt, as repeatedly claimed by President Trump.

So, who really was behind the leaked Hillary Campaign emails in the run-up to the election? Well, there must be a reason Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for solving the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.

“Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. As a 27 year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” Assange in August 2016.

“That was just a robbery, I believe. Wasn’t it?” Assange was asked.

“No. There’s no finding. So… I’m suggesting that our sources take risks,” he said.