CIA: The American public should be ‘deeply troubled’ by WikiLeaks disclosures

Published March 8, 2017 10:41pm ET



The CIA refused on Wednesday to confirm the authenticity of WikiLeaks’ “Vault7” document dump that claims to offer a look into the agency’s secret hacking program, but did warn that the American public should be “deeply troubled” by the disclosures.

In a statement being circulated to news outlets, a CIA spokesperson said, “We have no comment on the purported intelligence documents released by WikiLeaks or on the status of any investigation into the source of the documents.”

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