CIA Director Mike Pompeo slams WikiLeaks as 'hostile intelligence service abetted' by Russia

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The self-described transparency organization WikiLeaks is a "non-state, hostile intelligence service" that is often "abetted by state actors like Russia," CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday.

"WikiLeaks  walks like a foreign intelligence agency and talks like a foreign intelligence agency," Pompeo said during an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He added that "it's time to call out WikiLeaks what it is."

He then blasted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as "a fraud" and "a coward, hiding behind a screen," and he criticized National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden for championing "nothing but his own celebrity."

http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-mike-pompeo-wikileaks-assange-2017-4

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