CIA Director Mike Pompeo remains inconsolably hostile toward whistleblower organization WikiLekas, insisting they are a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and are plotting to “take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end.”
Hostility to WikiLeaks has been a mainstay in the US government, as every administration faces the prospect of their covert misdeeds becoming a matter of public record, to their general embarrassment albeit rarely to the end of any meaningful reform.
Pompeo argued that the US needs to use the Espionage Act much more in going after leakers who aren’t actually foreign spies, though he stopped short of openly endorsing Espionage prosecutions against journalists for reporting on the leaks.
President Trump had a positive attitude toward WikiLeaks during last year’s campaign, declaring “I love WikiLeaks.” Pompeo insists he doesn’t feel the same way, and that US intelligence agencies need to find ways to fight the organization.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell
If Wilii leaks will take down America anyway they can . So will the CIA they just have the opposite agenda . we now live in a time of universal deceit
“Take down America”…what the hell does that even mean? Do these people know this isn’t a wresting show?
Rick it is a wrestling match . It is match between the people that believe in God and the people that think they are God , It is between those that believe we should fight climate change and those that do not ., IT is between those that want a world government and those that do not . It is between those that want to harm Israel and those that would rather not . It is between those that believe in the greatness of the United Nations and those that do not . It very much resembles a wrestling match .
Yes, people wrestling each other makes more sense. Except I think you’re getting things mixed up, so are those who believe in god the same that want a world government?
In any case, Wikileaks can’t do much harm to America as a whole. Not that it wants to either. But of course Pompeo has to equate the corrupt establishment with America.
A Lot of us are often wrong about some of what we think . Generally the people that believe in God don’t believe they themselves are God , They don’t want to destroy Israel , rule the world or pay a world climate tax because the climate changes . The climate tax is a tax to fund the world government . One of these sides is evil and the other side is I hope the opposite of evil . The United Nation has a position on everyone of these arguments and it is the wrong position in my judgement every time .
I welcome the “harm” wikileaks gives.
The cia are disgusting liars, murderers, and traitors.
RickR35,
Yes, it is a wrestling show. Pompous Pompeo is this clownish wrestler in an ill-fitting Uncle Sam get-up. He is relentless in front of a camera, spewing threats and blustering until he appears on the edge of apoplexy. Try as he might, he is still way down-ticket.
This shows that Wikileaks is doing something new and effective. Previous leakers exposed individual actions like foreign coups. This was embarrassing but not destructive. The foreign countries already knew that CIA was behind the coups, so it wasn’t news to them.
The Vault 7 series is exposing the MECHANISMS that CIA/NSA use in creating and spreading false facts. After the MECHANISM is opened up, it can’t be used again. Vault 7 is disarming the intel agencies, not just embarrassing them.
Remember too that the CIA hacked illegally into the U.S. Senate’s computer system who were investigating them on torture. Nothing at all happened to Brennan.
The US made Wikileaks a major enemy, not least going after the head of it.
What did they expect?
No, Mr. Pompous of the Central Ignorance Agency….the truth will take the US down. Period!
I think we could maybe easily survive better and longer with the truth , And if the truth takes down the CIA so be it .
No, they are just exposing how much of a criminal enterprise the CIA in general has become ever since its creation. The CIA like most of our top national security state agencies are the unelected dictatorship that really runs our country and the people we elect are just figure heads pretending to serve us but instead serve the NSS and their families interests.
if only it were so, Mike, if only it were so…. or possible
it’s gonna take a lot more than a few or many revelations by wikileaks, which I totally support, to “take down” america
Its the CIA the one taking America down as everything they do is repugnant to a country of law and Constitutional order. They are a society at war with everything America stands for. WikiLeaks is just a messenger.
WoW…..Some great rejoinder……
These bass turds should be happy with the secret billions they bilk is out of. Not to mention the trillions the military donates in aggression
Isn’t wiki’s real problem exposing their crimes, treachery, and deception of The American people…???????
They want to do their dirtywerk in secret. They want to keep their crimes secret. Their budget IS secret… Is there a thinking person who doesn’t recognized that opium production in Afghanistan SKYROCKED when they arrived… But
Wikileaks will publish any leaks, or whistleblower information, that it gets and can verify as legitimate. If some of that ‘takes down ‘the USA, so be it. There are easy solutions – either stop whistleblowing, or give them nothing to leak.
The cia are globalist traitors who adopted the vile tactics of our enemies long ago.
They are a satanic cancer on our house and will be purged completely
If the government hasn’t done anything wrong, it’s got nothing to worry about. Right?
Isn’t it “the People” who are supposed to have the right to privacy and the government that is supposed to be transparent? When did those two ideas get flipped?