CIA dIRECTOR Mike Pompeo: "we say potato and potatto"

CIA Director Mike Pompeo: "What did I just say?"


Julian Assange: Global traitor or legitimate publisher? 

He's a grave danger who is not worth thinking about, according to Mike Pompeo.

TruePublica: The UK’s Hidden Role in Assange’s Detention
"... political persecution masquerading as law enforcement"

• Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the extradition case against Assange back in 2013. Why was this not made public? Because Britain persuaded Sweden to pretend that they still wished to pursue the case.
• Ecuador recently notified [UK Foreign Office]  that Assange had received diplomatic status following his successful application for Ecuadorean citizenship [...] And yet the UK continues to ignore its obligation to allow Assange his freedom to leave.

The mainstream corporate media (whose self-muzzling is the reason for the rise of whistle-blowing and crazy bloggers) don't seem to find this issue particularly newsworthy. Consequently, after all these years, just mention Wikileaks to anyone with white hair (in my experience) and you'll hear, "You know, he's a sex offender!"

Allegedly (with charges long since withdrawn), but so is Harvey Weinstein, and people still appreciate his movies.

Meanwhile, the media do only what they are commissioned to do, neither a jot nor a tittle more.

April 2017: According to Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, when speaking to and of the CIA he can't say enough good about them:

• I am today surrounded by talented and committed patriots. These are men and women who signed up for a life of discretion and impact—for a career in service to their country.
• These officers have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution. They have signed secrecy agreements. They quietly go about their work ...

Dec. 2017:

• “If Kim Jong Un should vanish, given the history of the CIA, I’m just not going to talk about it,” Pompeo said in October. “Someone might think there was a coincidence.”

When denigrating the activities of Assange and Snowden, however, he can't find a single redeeming merit. And, as low as they are, they don't even qualify as decent whistleblowers because:

• "True whistleblowers use the well-established and discreet processes in place to voice grievances; ; they do not put American lives at risk."

Does Pompeo even know what a whistle is? Blow into one and you'll hear how discreet it is.

Seemingly on a roll, he strangely then quotes The Intercept as saying:

• "the documents were “not worth the concern WikiLeaks generated".

So is he concerned ... or is he not?

Pompeo doesn't seem aware of his own contradictions -- or does he cynically, like the consummate politician he is, bank on a lack of awareness in his audience?

Assange "is a fraud" he continues:

• "—a coward hiding behind a screen. And in Kansas, we know something about false Wizards."

Oops again. He decried inaccurate movie depictions of the CIA (read the speech), and then used The Wizard of Oz to describe Assange -- and inadvertently himself, a Kansan.

Ahhhh ... according to the BBC he routinely changes gears when necessary to support his own career aims:

• Mr Pompeo also defended the CIA after the 2014 release of a Senate report on torture, which detailed such practices as waterboarding.
• He declared: "These men and women are not torturers, they are patriots."

Pompeo teaches Sunday School kids with that mouth.

When he comes to the end of his road, will he say, as Billy Graham allegedly did, that [...] he wished he had not become as involved in politics [and]

• "looking back I know I sometimes cros­sed the line, and I wouldn't do that now."

Ah well, Billy and Mike and the CIA know who and what they are, and it appears that, although the CIA may have enjoyed Pompeo's glowing praise of them, they were not in the least taken in by it:

​BusinessInsider:

• 'People have to watch him'

In other words: if he fibbed about us, he'll fib to us.

More Reading: A TimeLine of CIA Atrocities

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