CIA director Mike Pompeo cancelled a scheduled appearance at Harvard Thursday after the university hired Chelsea Manning, a former Army private and leaker who Pompeo described as an “American traitor.”

The cancellation came hours after former CIA deputy director Mike Morell resigned from his position at the school over Manning’s hiring. The university on Wednesday announced Manning’s appointment as a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School Institute of Politics.

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