The Central Intelligence Agency has accused Wikileaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington’s fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.
A CIA spokeswoman would not confirm the authenticity of the materials published a day earlier by Wikileaks, which said they were leaked from the spy agency’s hacking operations. “The American public should be deeply troubled by any Wikileaks disclosure designed to damage the intelligence community’s ability to protect America against terrorists and other adversaries,” said CIA spokeswoman.