Indignation by harm

CIA Director Michael Pompeo said that Russia intervened in the American presidential election long before the 2016 campaign. He is sure that Moscow did this back in 2008.

“Of course, I intervened. Both four years ago, and eight years ago,” Pompeo quotes The Washington Examiner to the question of one of the security forum participants in Aspen.

According to Pompeo, his confidence shares the entire intelligence community. “Everything is not limited to 2008. You can recall the 70s. My point of view is simple: the threat is real. And the American government, including the CIA, should decide how to confront it,” added the director of the CIA.

“We live in a world where the Russians have accumulated a huge nuclear arsenal and firmly entrenched in Syria. They took the Crimea,” Pompeo said. “They like to pile up America. I think when they find a way to somehow make us difficult for themselves, America is simply obliged to fight back.”

According to the head of the CIA, in Syria, Russia can hardly be called an ally of the United States.

As TASS reports , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the words of Pompeo "cross the facets of the rational." “If it is claimed that we intervened in the American elections in 2008 and 2012, then, then, President Barack Obama owes us his victories,” the Foreign Minister noted. “I am leaving this without comment, in my opinion, this passes the face of reasonable.”

At the end of June, Pompeo said that Russia had undermined American democracy for decades . In January, at the hearing in the Senate of Pompeo, being a candidate for the post of head of the CIA, he called Russia a threat to the United States and stated that he considers the assumptions about Moscow’s involvement in hacker attacks on America. He also accused Russia of aggressive actions against Ukraine.