WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange is hitting back at Trump’s CIA director Mike
Pompeo following a speech last week in which Pompeo accused WikiLeaks
of being a “hostile nonstate intelligence agency” operating
outside of the protections of the First Amendment. “We
can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use
free speech values against us. To give them the space to crush us
with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great
Constitution stands for,”
Pompeo declared, adding an ominous assertion: “It ends now.”
Speaking
from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living since
June 2012, Assange said Pompeo appeared to be issuing a threat. “So
how does he propose to conduct this ending? He didn’t say. But the
CIA is only in the business of collecting information, kidnapping
people, and assassinating people. So, it’s quite a menacing
statement that he does need to clarify,”
said Assange.
Assange
made the remarks during an exclusive interview for the Intercepted
podcast. “The
reason why Director Pompeo is launching this attack, is because he
knows we’re in this series exposing all sorts of illegal actions by
the CIA,”
Assange said, referring to WikiLeaks ongoing publication of secret
CIA hacking documents as part of its “Vault 7” project. Pompeo,
he said, is “trying to get ahead of the publicity curve and create
a preemptive defense.”
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