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CIA Director Pompeo Denounces WikiLeaks As 'Hostile Intelligence Service'
This is the same Mike Pompeo who was sharing Wikileaks documents on his Congressional Twitter account less than a year ago. Funny how that hypocrisy thingy works.By RICHARD GONZALES
April 13, 2017
CIA Director Michael Pompeo. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, slammed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in a full-throated public denunciation Thursday before an audience for foreign policy specialists in Washington, D.C. "WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," he said in prepared remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Assange is a narcissist who has created nothing of value," Pompeo said. "He relies on the dirty work of other to make himself famous. He is a fraud — a coward hiding behind a screen. "And in Kansas, we know something about false Wizards," said the former Kansas congressman in his first public remarks as CIA director. Pompeo accused "Assange and his ilk" of making common cause with dictators as "they try unsuccessfully to cloak themselves and their actions in the language of liberty and privacy."
The CIA director said the U.S. intelligence community determined that Russian military intelligence used WikiLeaks to release information obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. He also described the Russian state-owned television network, RT, as that country's "primary propaganda outlet" and said it actively collaborated with WikiLeaks. Pompeo said "there is no quick fix" to the challenge posed by WikiLeaks and other "hostile non-state intelligence agencies," adding that addressing the problem would be a long-term project. "We can never truly eliminate the threat but we can mitigate and manage it," he said.
