Published: 2:09pm, 10 Mar, 2017 Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018
President Donald Trump has criticised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, saying that Trump believes the agency's cyber-defence systems are "outdated and in need of updating". The comments follow the dumping of Vault 7, a cache of documents detailing the CIA's cyber-espionage methods, by WikiLeaks. The president has "grave concern... about the release of national security and classified information that threatens and undermines our nation’s security”, according to Spicer. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, has accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its secrets.