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Title: CIA Director Accuses Wikileaks Of Being A "Hostile Intelligence Service" (And so Donald Trump flips on yet another issue.)
Source:
Zero Hedge
URL Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- ... e-hostile-intelligence-service
Published: Apr 13, 2017
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2017-04-14 14:19:25 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 937
Comments: 9
And so Donald Trump flips on yet another issue. One day after the President reversed his core stance on a broad range of policies including the US Dollar, interest rates, the futures of Janet Yellen, the Ex-Im bank, the obsolescence of NATO and whether China is a currency manipulator, on Thursday afternoon he took aim at Wikileaks and Julian Assance, when CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, in his first public appearance since taking the top intel post in the Trump administration, called the whistleblower organization a "non-state hostile intelligence service" abetted by state actors like Russia. "It's time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia" Pompeo said. "WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service," Pompeo told an audience at a Washington think tank, adding that Russia's GRU intelligence service had used the anti-secrecy group to distribute hacked material during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Pompeo took aim at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden during his first major public appearance since leaving Congress to serve in the top intelligence post in Donald Trump’s administration. He also said that disclosures by Assange and Snowden have done "great harm to our nation’s national security and they will continue to do so in the long term." And to think that just 6 months ago, Trump, i.e., Mike Pompeo's boss, said he loved Wikileaks... On Thursday, Pompeo cited the intelligence community’s January report concluding that the GRU, Russia’s foreign military intelligence unit, went through WikiLeaks to released hacked emails from the DNC to influence the presidential election. The report concluded that Russia’s state-controlled media outlet RT actively collaborated with WikiLeaks in the influence campaign against the election. Pompeo called Assange "a fraud, a coward hiding behind a screen," skewering him for exposing information about democratic governments rather than authoritarian regimes. Which is ironic for Pompeo to say when just last July, Pompeo was quite keen on using the information disclosed by this "fraud and coward" for his own political purposes, when he was sharing Wikileaks documents on his Congressional Twitter account less than a year ago Mike Pompeo was sharing Wikileaks documents on his Congressional Twitter account less than a year agopic.twitter.com/cl5P6vnXSE Pompeo also accused Snowden of committing "treason" by leaking top-secret National Security Agency files, adding that his disclosures have made it more difficult for U.S. intelligence agencies to track terrorists and given them tools to hide in "digital forests." “He was no whistleblower," Pompeo said. Trump's latest reversal means that any hope Julian Assange may have had of being pardoned despite - at least according to Hillary Clinton and now the CIA - winning the election for Trump, is now officially gone, and should Assange ever be evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, his fate will be anything but pleasant.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
He can't commit treason against the USA unless they made him a US citizen and neglected to tell him about it.
As far as I know - Snowden still is an American citizen. Apparently his passport was revoked, but that in itself does not mean he is no longer a U.S. citizen. He would need to attend at a US mission outside of the US and make a formal renunciation of his US citizenship in front of a State Department officer. I don't think he has actually done that. Ah... correct. Subject changed from Assange to Snowden. Snowden is certainly still a US citizen.
As far as Assange - he is not an American citizen, so theoretically he can not be charged with treason. But that hasn't stopped them from trying. What's amazing is how the Trump administration has flip-flopped on WikiLeaks. Assange was almost a hero when he was dishing dirt on Hillary, Podesta, Obama and the whole crew. Now - not so much. Take a look at some of the Freak Republic posts from 2010 compared to now. Can Julian Assange, A Foreign Citizen, Be Guilty Of Treason Against America? (2010) Here are the most important data items exposed by wiki leaks so far (2016) I don't get where you're coming from. At the time, Snowden was a Booz-Allen contractor with a high level security clearance. I always thought he was a US citizen with a hot looking girlfriend. He opened eyes as to how no privacy exists in this county, so I'm not accusing him of treason.
Deckard corrected me. I thought the treason statement was directed at Assange, who is Australian.
Things change rapidly in the real world so get used to it ace. Funny you never posted many articles about obama. HMMMMMMM
Pompeo is just echoing the spook community's opinion of Wikileaks. What else would you expect? And once appointed, a Senate-confirmed appointee does have a certain amount of leeway in holding their own opinions that can differ from the president who appointed them. I don't think Trump was elected for anything he said about Wikileaks. Nor is it clear that Trump is out to apprehend Assange and other Wikileads actors. At least, not yet.
Swell ! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Pompeo also accused Snowden of committing "treason" by leaking top-secret National Security Agency files
#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
#4. To: Pinguinite (#3)
(Edited)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Pinguinite (#1)
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#5)
I don't get where you're coming from.
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
#8. To: Deckard (#0)
#9. To: Deckard (#0)
" CIA Director Accuses Wikileaks Of Being A "Hostile Intelligence Service" (And so Donald Trump flips on yet another issue.) "
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