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CIA director met with NSA whistleblower at President Trump's urging to discuss his conspiracy theory that DNC leak was an inside job

CIA director Mike Pompeo recently met with an NSA whistleblower and conspiracy theorist at President Trump's urging, to discuss his claims that the DNC leak was an inside job.

William Binney insists that the hack on the Democratic National Conference came from with the US - despite the intelligence community's findings early this year that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. 

Binney, one of the 'NSA four' whose revelations and warnings about government mass surveillance predates those of Edward Snowden, has now confirmed that he met with Pompeo on October 24  to discuss research by the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) that suggested the DNC hack was an 'inside job.'

Pompeo opened the meeting with the former NSA employee by telling him: 'The President told me I should talk to you,' Binney told CNN.