| Title | CIA Director Mike Pompeo Calls WikiLeaks a "Non-State Hostile Intelligence Service" | |
| Date | Saturday April 15 2017, @06:39PM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the everybody-is-somebody's-enemy dept. | ||
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"?
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