CIA Director Mike Pompeo (seen in the above photo) gave a speech at the Center of Strategic and International Studies and called WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence service.abetted by Russia.
We at CIA find the celebration of entities like WikiLeaks to be both perplexing and deeply troubling. Because while we do our best to quietly collect information on those who pose very real threats to our country, individuals such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden seek to use that information to make a name for themselves. As long as they make a splash, they care nothing about the lives they put at risk or the damage they cause to national security.
WikiLeaks walks like a
hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. It
has encouraged its followers to find jobs at CIA in order to obtain
intelligence. It directed Chelsea Manning in her theft of specific secret
information. And it overwhelmingly focuses on the United States, while seeking
support from anti-democratic countries and organizations.
It is time to call out
WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service
often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our
Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the
GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained
through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the
report also found that Russia’s primary propaganda outlet, RT, has actively
collaborated with WikiLeaks.
You can read the entire speech via the below link:
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