{"id":304537,"date":"2017-04-20T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-fbi-launch-manhunt-for-leaker-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:25:36","slug":"cia-fbi-launch-manhunt-for-leaker-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-fbi-launch-manhunt-for-leaker-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt for Leaker Who Gave Top-Secret Documents to WikiLeaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulianAssange\">@JulianAssange<\/a> speaks on Trump\u2019s CIA director threat to \u201cend\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\">@Wikileaks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdQ5eOGh14\">https:\/\/t.co\/xdQ5eOGh14<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/854746573774913537\">April 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CBS News has learned that a manhunt is underway for a traitor inside the Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA and FBI are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in CIA history, which exposed thousands of top-secret documents that described CIA tools used to penetrate smartphones, smart televisions and computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider &#8212; either a CIA employee or contractor &#8212; who had physical access to the material. The agency has not said publicly when the material was taken or how it was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the material was classified and stored in a highly secure section of the intelligence agency, but sources say hundreds of people would have had access to the material. Investigators are going through those names.<\/p>\n<p>The trove was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/wikileaks-cia-tools-could-infiltrate-macbooks-iphones\/\" target=\"_blank\">published in March<\/a>\u00a0by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>In his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pompeo-slams-wikileaks-but-he-and-trump-tweeted-praise-of-wikileaks-during-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">first public comments<\/a>\u00a0as director of the CIA just last week, Mike Pompeo railed against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks has said it obtained the CIA information from former contractors who worked for U.S. intelligence. The CIA has not commented on the authenticity of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/cia-fbi-launch-manhunt-for-leaker-who-gave-top-secret-documents-to-wikileaks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.@JulianAssange speaks on Trump\u2019s CIA director threat to \u201cend\u201d @Wikileaks https:\/\/t.co\/xdQ5eOGh14 \u2014 WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 19, 2017 CBS News has learned that a manhunt is underway for a traitor inside the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA and FBI are conducting a joint investigation into one of the worst security breaches in CIA history, which exposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}