Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell said on Saturday that he’s convinced a CIA insider is the reason why WikiLeaks got access to organization’s hacking and espionage information this week.

Morell appeared on CBS This Morning where he was asked about how the CIA’s surveillance methods got leaked and whether it would lead to problematic consequences. During this conversation, Morell said that the leak has prompted a lot of concerns about how the CIA might have missed “red flags” from an employee who would want to put out the organization’s secrets.

When asked if he believed the incident happened because of an inside job, Morell’s response was, “Absolutely.”

“It’s on CIA’s top secret network, which is not connected to any other network. So, this has to be an inside job,” Morell went on.

Earlier this week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that his organization showed the CIA’s “devastating incompetence” for failing to stop the leak from happening. Assange also said he would share his findings with companies so that they could devise countermeasures to prevent their technology from getting hacked for CIA surveillance.

Watch above, via CBS.

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