Posted on 04/13/2017 1:57:54 PM PDT by ColdOne
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, in his first speech since taking over the agency, lambasted WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange -- calling the group a "non-state hostile intelligence service" that is often abetted by "state actors like Russia."
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Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pompeo called Assange a "fraud," someone with no “moral compass” and a “narcissist who has created nothing of value.”
He asserted that Assange and former National Security Agency staffer and famed leaker Edward Snowden “seek to use that information to make a name for themselves” and they “care nothing about the lives they put at risk or the damage they cause to national security.”
Asked why he would focus on WikiLeaks rather than other issues, Pompeo said he felt it was vital to inform the American people about the threat they pose.
In the case of Snowden, Pompeo said the detrimental impact of his leaks was expansive and that more than 1,000 foreign targets attempted to change their means of communication as a result of the Snowden disclosures.
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is this accurate reporting of what he said?
Interesting. If true.
Wikileaks won the election for the GOP.
Just tighten your security and man up.
Stop saying accurate things, Pompeo!!
No where is it indicated that WikiLeaks posts anything that is untrue. WikiLeaks does lead us to a more skeptical view of what we’re being told. What’s wrong with that?
WELL.... Keeping Hillary “out” has a lot of value to some folks.
Yep.
I listened as long as I could.
It’s like blaming Mickey Mantle for hitting a home run when he figured out the pitcher’s signs.
Did he pull a CNN and tell us it was illegal for us to read WikiLeaks?
Hillary Clinton won the election for the GOP when she called middle class Americans a “ basket of deplorables”
People weren’t packing trump,rallies because of Wikileaks
Wikileaks didn’t help trump win every TV debate against 16 other GOP contenders
People didn’t learn about Hillarys lies about benghazi and her compromise of intelligence via an illicit private server via Wikileaks. They got to watch and listen to her testify before Congress
Wikileaks didn’t remind people what a lech scumbag was Bill Clinton. Trumps inviting Clintons rape victims to his debate did that
For perspective, Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers were ‘heroic’.
Now
The real crooks are DNC, Hellary’s server, obama wire tapping, etc.
And, again, how did we learn of these????????
I guess there shall be no amnesty for either Assange or Snowden. But then, what did they expect?
Yes it is. Just saw him say that on cnn.
As opposed to a hostile & corrupt intelligence service like the CIA?
Wow, what a crappy pick by Trump. So much for hiring the best people around.
This is discouraging to me. How can Trump be getting accurate intelligence information if this guy is his CIA director?
Its a good thing he made it clear he was talking about Assange when he said “fraud,” someone with no “moral compass” and a “narcissist who has created nothing of value.”
Otherwise, I might have thought that he was talking about at the CIA.
Doesn’t he have something better to do, like overthrowing a democratically elected leader somewhere or teaching foreign governments how to pull out fingernails and drill holes in people’s skulls with power tools?
Government is too big and out of control.
More worried about that than WikiLeaks.
Trump is one man in one branch of government as I see it, the rest has a lot of rot in it.
GO WikiLeaks.....
THE FAKE NEWS MSM COULDN’T PROVE WIKI LIED ABOUT ANYTHING.
THEY COULDN’T PROVE ASSANGE GOT HIS INFO FROM RUSSIA EITHER.
ASSANGE HAS DNC SOURCES, HACKERS AND WHISTLE BLOWERS. NICE TO GET THE TRUTH. MEANWHILE COMEY HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING DJT FOR 9 MONTHS MOST OF THAT TIME DENYING HE WAS, AND PROVING NOTHING WE DIDN’T KNOW.
TIME FOR SESSIONS AND NUNES TO UN RECUSE THEMSELVES AND WRAP UP AND ISSUE A FULL REPORT.
TIME TO PIN THE TAIL ON THE DEM DONKEYS, ER, JACKASSES.
DEMS POISONED THE POSSIBILITY FOR US TO WORK TO DESTROY ISIS WITH RUSSIA FOR PURELY POLITICAL SELFISH DEM ENDS.
NOW 2 NUCLEAR SUPERPOWERS ARE AT EACHOTHERS THROAT.
HILLARY LOST BECAUSE SHE WAS ALL FACADE AND NO SUBSTANCE.
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