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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Cali.) is calling for an investigation into how thousands of secret documents - including CIA hacking tools - ended up in the hands of Wikileaks.

"I am deeply disturbed by the allegation that the CIA lost its arsenal of hacking tools," said Lieu in a statement.

WikiLeaks on Tuesday began publishing what it claims is the CIA's secret "hacking arsenal" that reveals how the intelligence agency transforms smartphones, computers and internet-connected televisions into spying devices.

WikiLeaks on Tuesday dumped thousands of documents it said came from the CIA's cyber espionage department, a catastrophic breach that exposes sophisticated covert tools for hacking everything from computers to TVs to popular social apps.

Once again, we're reminded that Donald Trump is nothing more than an unhinged old person who gets worked up about every conservative conspiracy theory he sees on social media; my phone autocorrected the name of Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to "Sarah Huckster Sanders" while I was texting a friend and I left

A spokesman for former President Barack Obama called President Donald Trump's wiretapping allegations "simply false" on Saturday, saying "neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen."

Several Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee plan to send a letter Monday to White House Counsel Don McGahn, asking him to detail communications between his office and the FBI and Justice Department.