Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

What Did Mike Pompeo Say to the CIA Workforce in his Holiday Message?

Benjamin Wittes
Friday, December 22, 2017, 1:30 PM

I confess that I don't know the answer to this question.

But the grapevine has been buzzing this morning in response to a Christmas letter the CIA director apparently sent to his workforce—a message which has a bunch of agency eyebrows heading skyward about the director's supposedly political and exclusionary words.

This seems like a job for the Freedom of Information Act.

I filed this request a few moments ago seeking both the message itself and any summaries of complaints received in response to it:

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I confess that I don't know the answer to this question.

But the grapevine has been buzzing this morning in response to a Christmas letter the CIA director apparently sent to his workforce—a message which has a bunch of agency eyebrows heading skyward about the director's supposedly political and exclusionary words.

This seems like a job for the Freedom of Information Act.

I filed this request a few moments ago seeking both the message itself and any summaries of complaints received in response to it:


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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