public phase in april of 2017 when mike pompeo gave his first talk as cia director at a washington think tank and he referred to wikileaks as a hostile non-state intelligence service. at the time a lot of us thought that was a grabby talking point, click bait line that mike pompeo was using. it actually had significance inside the cia because by designating wikileaks as a hostile intelligence service, it opened the door for the cia to do all sorts of stuff. >> yeah. >> offensive counter intelligence activities that would have otherwise required both the presidential finding and congressional oversight. but free of that designation, they drew up some pretty drastic and extreme plans. >> you have to encourage everyone to read that report. but you bring up an interesting report about that investigation