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April 14, 2017

CIA Director Pompeo: WikiLeaks a "Hostile Intelligence Service"
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CIA chief Mike Pompeo blasted Wiki Leaks Thursday as a "hostile
intelligence service," in a stark reversal from his previous praise for
the group. Pompeo made the remarks at a Washington, D.C., think tank in
his first public address as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mike Pompeo: "It's time to call out Wiki Leaks for what it really is: a
nonstate hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like
Russia. ... In reality, they champion nothing but their own celebrity.
Their currency is clickbait; their moral compass, nonexistent; their
mission, personal self-aggrandizement through destruction of Western
values."

Pompeo went on to call Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange a "narcissist"
and a "fraud" who would have sided with dictators in the 1930s, '40s and
'50s. Last July, then-Congressmember Pompeo praised Wiki Leaks for
publishing emails hacked from the servers of the Democratic National
Committee, writing in a tweet that has since been deleted, "Need further
proof that the fix was in from Pres. Obama on down? BUSTED: 19,252
Emails from DNC Leaked by Wikileaks."


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