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CIA Director Pompeo Denounces WikiLeaks As 'Hostile Intelligence Service'

After WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published a defense of his methods in the Washington Post, Pompeo blasted him as a charlatan.

Mike Pompeo, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, slammed WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange in a full-throated public denunciation Thursday before an audience for foreign policy specialists in Washington, D.C.

"WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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