Whose lad you will be

The Director of the Central Intelligence Directorate of the United States Mike Pompeo accused the WikiLeaks portal of actions in the interests of Russia. It is reported by The Foreign Policy.

“It is time to recognize WikiLeaks with what he really is - a non -state hostile intelligence service, incurred by such countries as Russia,” said Pompeo, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence and says as a hostile intelligence.”

At the same time, the head of the CIA referred to the conclusions of the American special services that Russian military intelligence used WikiLeaks to publish hacked correspondence of the election headquarters of the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Pompeo said that WikiLeaks could no longer hide behind the "arguments of freedom of speech." “This is over,” the head of the special services said.

In addition, Pompeo again accused the Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad of the use of chemical weapons. At the same time, the head of the CIA noted that Moscow stubbornly adheres to the version that in Khan-Sheikhun the bombs fell into the warehouse of chemical weapons. For this, Pompeo reproached the Russian President Vladimir Putin in non -recognition of reliable evidence of the guilt of the Syrian regime.

At the end of June, Pompeo said that Russia had undermined American democracy for decades. According to him, the intervention in the course of presidential elections in the United States has become only one of the episodes of the campaign conducted by Moscow.

“They have been doing this for a very long time,” the special services chief emphasized. “For decades, Russians have been trying to undermine American democracy.” Therefore, he concluded, Russia's intervention in the American elections - "in a sense is not news." “But it definitely raises on the agenda the question of our ability to find funds to stop them,” added the director of the CIA. Pompeo also noted that the funds used by Russia to influence the results of elections in the United States were "to be honest, not particularly original."