CIA Director Seeks Stronger Counterintelligence Against Spies and Leakers

At a conference last month, Pompeo said, “one of the things I have put an enormous amount of my personal attention to is counterintelligence.”

He said allowing CIA secrets to be “re-stolen” is unacceptable and the agency has a duty to protect its secrets and “to go after those who stole them and to prosecute them within the bounds of the law in every way that we can.”

“I sometimes hear comments from WikiLeaks and [WikiLeaks founder Julian] Assange thinking that those who have provided him classified information are safe and secure,” he said. “He ought to be a bit less confident about that because we’re gonna go figure out how to make sure we protect this information—we owe it to the American people and our officers are dedicated to it.”