WASHINGTON: Another major leak of top secret materials has again put America's top spies in hot water -- while delivering a coup for anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, reports AFP.
The group left the Central Intelligence Agency heavily bruised with the publication Tuesday of nearly 9,000 documents it said were only part of a huge trove of records, plans and malware code in its possession -- purportedly the entire CIA hacking arsenal. Adding insult to injury, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange scolded the agency as extremely careless to have lost control of the materials -- WikiLeaks said they got access to it via the circle of private contractors to US intelligence.
"This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said.
President Donald Trump said the leak shows the agency's operations are "outdated" -- and notably did not criticize WikiLeaks for baring US secrets.