“I Was CIA Director – We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole” — Mike Pompeo 

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Mike Pompeo admits as CIA director that agency lied, cheated and stole

Former CIA director Mike Pompeo has admitted that the CIA is in the business of lying, cheating, and stealing. 

The now Secretary of State has long accused WikiLeaks of being a “non-state hostile intelligence agency”, usually manipulated by Russia.

Zerohedge.com reports: Since Pompeo first made this claim as CIA Director in April 2017, countless major US news sources from NPR to CNN to the Washington Post have uncritically repeated the line, smearing Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as “Russian agents,” and more broadly using the narrative to stifle independent journalism and government whistleblowers.

But whether Pompeo or any other current or former CIA director makes such a bombastic claim without offering evidence — such as more recently asserting that China and Russia have “helped destroy” Venezuela through faltering investments, should anyone ever believe a high CIA official? Certainly the mainstream media routinely takes intelligence officials simply at their word, but Pompeo himself recently admitted the CIA is in the business of lying, cheating, and stealing

Last week Mike Pompeo spoke at Texas A&M University, itself long known for being a favored recruiting ground of the CIA, considering too that one of the university’s last presidents, Robert Gates, was CIA chief and later served as Bush and Obama’s Secretary of Defense. 

During the Q&A session, Pompeo boasted that in the CIA both the training and culture are geared toward the following:

“We lied, we cheated, we stole.”

Interestingly, a Christian religious news broadcaster was the only media that seemed to pick up on Pompeo’s words last week, and described it as follows: “that’s not the resume of the Secretary of State… that’s the resume of Satan.”

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The former CIA chief and now Secretary of State said the following:

“What’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s —  it was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” — Texas A&M University (April 15, 2019) 

Though some level of deception might be expected of spies placed in foreign settings to commit espionage, it’s interesting that Pompeo framed it in terms “the glory of the American experiment” — as if the CIA and government officials treat lying as a great American past time

Certainly Pompeo’s frank admission is something to remember the next time intelligence officials weigh in on anything in front of the US domestic population. 

Another interesting and worrisome remark concerned Pompeo’s vision of diplomacy as Secretary of State: “Diplomacy and military strike go hand in hand,” Pompeo said. “They are indeed intimately related; each relies on the other.”

Here are Pompeo’s full Q&A remarks at Texas A&M last week:

6 Comments

  1. The CIA was infiltrated long ago and I might even entertain the idea there were ‘non-human’ entities in the CIA over the years..Not my quote but I’ve heard it a few times

    • They never needed to be infiltrated, they were ALWAYS evil and always under the thumb of the Nazis via Bush clan. G H W Bush was in CIA middle management in 1950s and 60s, (during JFK’s presidency, do the math).

      • Is it true that Bush Sr. had JFK killed? Or is that just a rumor?
        I was just curious. I’ve heard the rumors. I don’t wanna believe it, but after what I’m witnessing the DemonRATS & Rinos doing to President Trump, then I can believe it. We have some serious corruption going on in our government.

        • I’ve seen a lot of evidence that he was certainly part of it. There is even a photo of him standing in front of the building that Ozwald allegedly shot from.

        • There is an article in Rolling Stone magazine (before it became compromised) which exposed the truth about G H W B. It is from the 1990s if you can find it. It was very very long and had complete details, documentation and more. It exposed the aforementioned person as being the one who ki lled J F K. Google it, there are books about it, etc. – because of my own personal experience I am certain it is true. That’s all I will say about that. It is a fact that he worked in CIA in late 50s. There is a document which proves it, signed by him. Also, I’m old enough to remember the day JFK was shot and it was horrifying. Older Bush was only person I ever met in my life who couldn’t remember where he was that day. I’ve been all over the world and never met one person, foreign or American, who didn’t remember EXACTLY where they were or what they were doing that day. Bush is only one who doesn’t remember.

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