Glenn asked Pompeo if he would classify Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to be a "journalist in a media outlet, or a hostile intelligence entity."

"So I came to believe that they were, in fact, one of the first, non-state, hostile intelligence entities," Pompeo answered. "They weren't engaged in even crappy reporting, like Isikoff does. They were engaged in active efforts to steal secrets themselves, and pay others to do the same in a way that violated the central understandings that I think the American people get, and second, violated U.S. law as well. We're always careful. I'm all about a big, bold, strong First Amendment. But these folks were acting in ways that were deeply inconsistent with that."