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CIA director rips Assange, defends foreign surveillance

CIA director rips Assange, defends foreign surveillance

April 14, 2017

Via: FCW
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In his first public remarks as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo slammed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, defended the agency’s foreign surveillance work and said he intends to review the agency’s recent reorganization.

“We steal secrets from foreign adversaries, hostile entities and terrorist organizations,” Pompeo said at a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And we make no apologies for doing so. It’s hard stuff and we go at it hard.”

Pompeo said he could not comment on the specifics of the recent WikiLeaks “Vault 7” release of alleged CIA hacking tools, but stated that Assange and Edward Snowden have aided terrorists around the world who are now better able to evade detection by the CIA and other agencies.

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