Swedish prosecutor to interview Julian Assange, says Ecuador president

Earlier on Wednesday Assange had warned that his anti-secrecy campaign will release new documents concerning Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, which could be “significant” for the election. Speaking to Fox News, Assange, who has been sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 while fighting extradition, said WikiLeaks was combing through thousands of pages of material.

A variety of documents from various institutions that are associated with the election campaign had yielded “some quite unexpected angles, that are quite interesting, some even entertaining,” he said. Assange reported the documents would “absolutely” be released before the November 8 election.

Asked whether the leaks would be a game changer for the vote, Assange said: “I think it’s significant. It depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.”

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention last month, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 emails gleaned by hackers who apparently raided the accounts of seven DNC leaders. The emails showed the nominally neutral party staff trying to undermine Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign and caused the resignation of Democratic Party leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz.