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Fri Sep 15, 2017, 08:59 AM Sep 2017

Hypocrisy/duplicity of Pompeo canceling Harvard talk over Manning and Wiki

Jason Leopold? @JasonLeopold

Pompeo cancels his Harvard talk because Chelsea Manning named visiting fellow



Pwn All The Things? @pwnallthethings 10h10 hours ago
Fine. But Pompeo also praised WikiLeaks during the election campaign for hurting Clinton.


CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politics/kfile-mike-pompeo-wikileaks/index.html

Mike Pompeo, Once a WikiLeaks Fan, Attacks It as Hostile Agent
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/us/politics/mike-pompeo-cia-wikileaks.html

Pompeo slams WikiLeaks, but he and Trump tweeted praise of WikiLeaks during campaign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pompeo-slams-wikileaks-but-he-and-trump-tweeted-praise-of-wikileaks-during-campaign/

CIA Director Pompeo denounces Wikileaks, forgets he used them to attack Hillary Clinton
https://thinkprogress.org/pompeo-wikileaks-cia-9756f59b09af/
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Hypocrisy/duplicity of Pompeo canceling Harvard talk over Manning and Wiki (Original Post) bigtree Sep 2017 OP
It's a Different Flavor of Sexism dlk Sep 2017 #1
But... but... Donnie LOVES Wikileaks. C_U_L8R Sep 2017 #2

dlk

(11,549 posts)
1. It's a Different Flavor of Sexism
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:02 AM
Sep 2017

When a man does it, it can be overlooked and forgiven. When a woman does the same thing, it's a crime forever.

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)
2. But... but... Donnie LOVES Wikileaks.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 09:14 AM
Sep 2017

Are you gonna resign from that job, Mister pompous Pompeo??? Hmmm??

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