WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's administration has levelled fresh criticism at the CIA after WikiLeaks published a trove of documents describing the US spy agency's cyber espionage operations.
Hours after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused the Central Intelligence Agency of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets, Trump's spokesman echoed that, branding its systems "outdated."
Trump has "grave concern... about the release of national security and classified information that threatens and undermines our nation's security," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.
"He believes that the systems at the CIA are outdated and need to be updated."
The White House terminology was milder than earlier this year when the president blasted US intelligence agencies over media leaks, and accused them of playing politics with their findings on Russian interference in last year's election.
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