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zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Apr 13, 2017

And so Donald Trump flips on yet another issue.

One day after the President reversed his core stance on a broad range of policies including the US Dollar, interest rates, the futures of Janet Yellen, the Ex-Im bank, the obsolescence of NATO and whether China is a currency manipulator, on Thursday afternoon he took aim at Wikileaks and Julian Assance, when CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, in his first public appearance since taking the top intel post in the Trump administration, called the whistleblower organization a “non-state hostile intelligence service” abetted by state actors like Russia.

“It’s time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia” Pompeo said.

“WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service,” Pompeo told an audience at a Washington think tank, adding that Russia’s GRU intelligence service had used the anti-secrecy group to distribute hacked material during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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