, the Obama administration allowed the intelligence community to prioritize collection on WikiLeaks, according to Evanina, now the CEO of the Evanina Group. Previously, if the FBI needed a search warrant to go into the group’s databases in the United States or wanted to use subpoena power or a national security letter to gain access to WikiLeaks-related financial records, “that wasn’t going to happen,” another former senior counterintelligence official said. “That changed after 2013.
The Obama administration’s policy was, “If there’s published works out there, doesn’t matter the venue, then we have to treat them as First-Amendment-protected individuals,” the former senior counterintelligence official said. “There were some exceptions to that rule, but they were very, very, very few and far between.” WikiLeaks, the administration decided, did not fit that exception.
By 2015, WikiLeaks was the subject of an intense debate over whether the organization should be targeted by law enforcement or spy agencies. Some argued that the FBI should have sole responsibility for investigating WikiLeaks, with no role for the CIA or the NSA.
The CIA now considered people affiliated with WikiLeaks valid targets for various types of spying, including close-in technical collection — such as bugs — sometimes enabled by in-person espionage, and “remote operations,” meaning, among other things, the hacking of WikiLeaks members’ devices from afar, according to former intelligence officials.
On April 13, 2017, wearing a U.S. flag pin on the left lapel of his dark gray suit, Pompeo strode to the podium at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a Washington think tank, to deliver to a standing-room-only crowd his first public remarks as Trump’s CIA director. Pompeo answers questions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington in 2017.
The NSA believed that, although the leak revealed only CIA hacking operations, it could also give countries like Russia or China clues about NSA targets and methods, said this former official. The immediate question facing Pompeo and the CIA was how to hit back against WikiLeaks and Assange. Agency officials found the answer in a legal sleight of hand. Usually, for U.S. intelligence to secretly interfere with the activities of any foreign actor, the president must sign a document called a “finding” that authorizes such covert action, which must also be briefed to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
We are SO brave! Such heroes! Such supporters of democracy!
Tim Hogentogler/Evie Sullivan! Stay away from me!
Is this enough to present to the UK court to overturn the extradition process? I presume his lawyers are looking at it.
legality dont exist at this point for them, just for you. If you are still alive.
There is a very long list of conspirators responsible for the illegal persecution of Assange. Pompeo would have to be at the top. Who would you place next?
Oh please Isikoff -this article is just sloppy. Completely ignores critical facts about Trump & Assange & also exposes Assange committed perjury in his UK Extradition hearing. Russia was intent on breaking Assange out & whisking him away to Russia- THAT was reason for charges!
Fuck the intelligence community… fuck all of them.
WTH😡
People are going to be quick to forget about this. Nothing will come if it, unfortunately. 😒
Oh wow shocking CIA plotting assassinations
Yahoo JESUS IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE! HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE! CUBA, VENEZUELA, AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA, HONGKONG AND MYANMAR. USA, ISRAEL, NATO AND ASIAN ALLIES VS. RUSSIA, CHINA, NORTH KOREA AND IRAN... END CORRUPTION, DRUG CARTEL, COMMUNISM AND TERRORISM.
FreeAssangeNOW DropTheCharges
The cold war mentality has molten the brains of everyone. Assange should be free and those who used spy tactics on their citizen (as described in Vault7 leaks) should be in jail. Also the war criminals.
MashiRafael Julián Assange es un Ecuatoriano más q sufre las consecuencias d la traición. El denunciante d crimenes d Estado está preso, y los asesinos con pruebas en su contra están caminando libres en Washington y Senado yankee.El mundo al revés. Que ironía mundial.! Libertad para Julián.
If Trump knew about this plan, then Glenn Greenwald’s head may explode. He may have to acknowledge that Trump is indeed reckless and dangerous. ggreenwald
CIA Assange knows too much about Putin/Trump /GOP/ Conservatives conspiracy WorldWarThree as does Snowden Russia needs to keep both of them close at hand. Trump allows it because it keeps him from facing criminal charges for treason, a death penalty crime. IMHO.
MashiRafael World's Irony..!! The whistle blower of State crimes and genocide is in jail without rights, and the plaintiff and denounced real criminals with proofs against them are walking freely in the White House and at the Yankee's Senate. Betrayed by Moreno. Freedom to Julian.!
MashiRafael CIA must be grateful with Moreno, due to his betrayal to Ecuador it was no needed the deployment of such as plans. Moreno is the worst human being.
anyone who believes what yahoo puts out really need do their research or just idiots. TMZ copy They quit the comments only due to they kept getting called out and people showing the truth to stories. Yahoo puts out what they edited the truth out. Google at least puts truth out.
'non-state intelligence service' can be applied to literally anyone with a simple internet connection
Please investigate Lenin Moreno expresident from Ecuador 🇪🇨, his corruption on Julian ASSANJE must be investgate.
And to think Pompeo is considering a run for president.. scary shit.
PRESIDENTE FROM ECUADOR 🇪🇨 LENIN MORENO WAS PART OF THE CORRUPTION AND THE CANCILLERIA, he have to investigate LENIN MORENO EXPRESIDENT FROM ECUADOR 🇪🇨
Trump Pompeo liberals? Hahahaha the right is liberal for the bussines and fascist for the opponents. CubaVsBloqueo VenezuelaSeRespeta, Iraq invation. The only nation that claims the right to kill in someone else's territory. Hahaha fascists and enough.
With help of the criminal Lenin, now in care of the US.
Unity4J FreeAssange NOW! JournalismIsNotACrime
Since when has the CIA let 'legality' stop them?
In a statement to Yahoo News, former President Donald Trump denied that he ever considered having WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange assassinated
Assange didn’t seek and get asylum from Ecuador to avoid the investigation in Sweden. His application, and approval for it, were explicitly to avoid extradition to the United States, which as this article ought to make quite clear, was a key agenda all along.
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