Assange’s Lawyers And Journalists Sue CIA

Julian Assange's guests were monitored by America's premier intelligence agency. Now, Julian Assange’s lawyers and journalists are suing the CIA.

The CIA and its former director, Mike Pompeo, have been sued by a group of US journalists and attorneys for allegedly violating their constitutional rights by spying on them while they visited WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

The CIA was charged with violating the privacy rights of more than 100 Americans who met with Assange in 2017 and 2018, in the lawsuit (read below), which was submitted on Monday in the US District Court in New York City. The suit claimed that while the persecuted Australian-born editor and activist was seeking asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, the agency—which is barred by law from gathering intelligence on US citizens—spied on journalists, attorneys, and even medics who paid visits to him.

John Goetz and Charles Glass, two attorneys who defende...

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