The White House says US President Donald Trump believes that the CIA's systems are outdated, after WikiLeaks released thousands of documents that reveal the agency’s hacking and spying secrets.
"He believes that the systems at the CIA are outdated and need to be updated," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounced the CIA over its "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets.
"This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said.
"It is impossible to keep effective control of cyber weapons... If you build them, eventually you will lose them," he added.
The CIA, meanwhile, issued a statement on Wednesday, publicly accusing WikiLeaks of "jeopardizing” the US national security and helping adversaries inflict harm on the United States over the leaks.
-PressTV
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