Kirby: ‘[Julian Assange’s Leaks] in the Public Sphere Were Damaging to U.S. National Security’

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REPORTER: “What is your assessment, or what is the National Security Council’s assessment of the harm that was done by the WikiLeaks leak in 2012 that would inform any decision by the Justice Department?”

KIRBY: “I think we — if you go back and look at how the administration responded in 2012 — and of course, President Biden was then vice president at the time — we would — we would maintain that we — that what we said at the time, what was said at the time, that those — that those leaks, those revelations in the public sphere were damaging to U.S. national security.”