The president-elect appeared to support Assange's claims over those of the intelligence agencies.
President-elect Donald Trump on Podesta leaks: 'Why was DNC so careless?'
Democratic Party decision to focus on hacking is a 'stupid manoeuvre,' Assange said.
The apology came after Assange appeared on Fox to say that the DNC hack source was not the Russian government.
Assange refuted allegations of Russia being WikiLeaks' source.
Founder Julian Assange is slated to participate in a live Reddit AMA session later in the week.
In his latest interview, the WikiLeaks founder confirmed that his 'internet has been returned'.
Ryan McKnight says that the aim of his campaign is 'pure and simple - transparency'.
The damaging emails from Podesta's personal account were steadily released by WikiLeaks until Election Day.
During the election campaign WikiLeaks had published Hillary Clinton's campaign chief John Podesta's emails.
From FBI prank calls to a lack of cybersecurity know-how – how did it come to this?
The hackers used fake Gmail warnings to infiltrate accounts of political figures.
Intelligence sources believe Russia covertly worked to help elect Donald Trump.
McFaul claims Putin believes Clinton interfered in a Russian parliamentary election in 2011.
The petition follows calls for clemency from the ACLU and a letter from Manning herself.
The president-elect told Fox News he blamed the Democrat party for the "ridiculous reports".
Baywatch star also called for Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to be released.
In 2010, OVH chief Octave Klaba hosted a mirror site for WikiLeaks after the original site was taken down.
Trump's team says, 'These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.'
The 19-page testimony is a detailed account of events from Assange's point of view.
Michael Hayden praises defence picks, but says Trump's claim Russia isn't behind hack on Democrats is not reality.
'Unless we establish some kind of deterrent, this is going to be unending,' Adam Schiff said.