Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, Once a WikiLeaks Fan (like Trump), Attacks It as Hostile Agent

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Mike Pompeo, Once a WikiLeaks Fan, Attacks It as Hostile Agent

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG APRIL 13, 2017



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Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, addressed the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Thursday. Credit Eric Thayer/Reuters



WASHINGTON — In his first speech as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo, the former Republican congressman who once applauded disclosures by WikiLeaks, attacked the group on Thursday as a stateless hostile intelligence unit eager to do the bidding of Russia and other American adversaries.


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Mr. Pompeo’s view of WikiLeaks is hardly unique for a senior American intelligence official. But his decision to focus on the group in his debut on Washington’s think-tank circuit as C.I.A. director was the latest sign that neither Mr. Trump nor many of his most senior officials consider themselves beholden to statements they made or stances they took in the presidential campaign, whether they be on WikiLeaks or on allegations of Chinese currency manipulation.

To be sure, Mr. Pompeo never went as far in praising WikiLeaks as Mr. Trump, who declared in a speech on Oct. 10, “I love WikiLeaks!”

But Mr. Pompeo, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an independent research group, appeared to have no compunction during the campaign about pointing people toward emails stolen by Russian hackers from the Democratic National Committee and then posted by WikiLeaks..............

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