The current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, has described WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service":
Russian military intelligence used Wikileaks to distribute hacked material during the US election, he added. Earlier this month Wikileaks published details of what it said were CIA hacking tools. The FBI and CIA have launched a criminal investigation into the leak.
"WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," Mr Pompeo said, speaking at a Washington think tank. "It overwhelmingly focuses on the US, while seeking support from anti-democratic countries and organisations," he added.
Wikileaks responded by posting a screenshot of a tweet sent by Mr Pompeo last July, in which the then member of the House of Representatives referred to material contained in the Wikileaks release of Democratic party emails. The tweet has since been deleted.
Does that make the CIA a "state hostile intelligence service"?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:13AM
Yeah, wikileaks has some hate for the USA. It was really obvious from the "Collateral Murder" title and the really unfair editing on the short version of the video. But also...
6. The consequences are minor. If you tried this with Russia, you'd drink polonium tea. If you tried this with North Korea, you'd get the nerve agent face massage. The US might, possibly, put you in prison.
7. The US is really incompetent at background checks, largely due to political correctness. We give clearances to people who were not born in the USA. We give clearances to Muslims and Jews, despite numerous spy issues with both. (we don't even ask about religion -- you can be a cult member) We don't ask about politics either. Basically, we have taken obvious criteria out of consideration.