What a totally strange speech. Why would the Director of the CIA attack Ed Snowden and Julian Assange at some meeting of some outfit called the "Center for Strategic and International Studies?

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What in the world? Why would Pompeo be over there dancing around with these globalists attacking Ed Snowden and Julian Assange? These guys are just people. Ed Snowden believed and I think he was right to inform the American People about a lying government spying on US. We don't want that. Julian Assange is just a smart guy from Australia who came up with a great idea to leak information and keep the sources anonymous, but not just the dribbles you see in the newspaper, but volumes of documents. It's amazing.

No US government official should ever fear the truth. And that is all that Wikileak leaks best I can tell from what little I've seen on it. You can't stand up there and call Julian Assange a "hostile intelligence service" and not call NBC and CNN the same thing when they publish "leaks". Free press means free information. Public domain means you got it you can publish it. It just has to be true. Wikileaks has never published a lie. Can our free press state the same? No.

I'm just stunned by the portion of Pompeo's speech that I listened to, it was so bad I had to change the channel, but wanted to post this news article about it in case others missed it.