A lawsuit against the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo accusing them of intercepting their phone conversations and copying the contents of their mobile phones and computers was filed on Monday (15/8) by American lawyers of the founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange.
The lawyers and two journalists participating in the lawsuit are all Americans and emphasize that the US spy agency violated their constitutional right to have their private conversations with Julian Assange, who is Australian, protected.
They allege that the CIA worked with a foreign security firm contracted by the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Julian Assange was holed up for seven years, to spy on its founder WikiLeaksthe members of his defense team, journalists and other persons he met.
“There must be sanctions, as well as a dismissal of the charges or withdrawal of Assange’s extradition request”
Julian Assange is at risk of extradition from Britain to the US, where authorities want to try him for ‘espionage’» because of the release of more than 700,000 confidential and secret US diplomatic and military documents, mostly about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to lawyer Robert Boyle, who is representing the applicants, the spying they allege they suffered also means Mr Assange’s right to a fair trial has been “nibbled away” as “the government knows the content of the conversations” that he had with his lawyers, as he pointed out to journalists.
“There must be sanctions, as well as dismissal of the charges or withdrawal of the extradition request, in response to these activities, which were clearly unconstitutional,” he ruled.
The lawsuit, as reported by the Athens News Agency, was filed on behalf of lawyers Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Herbeck and journalists Charles Glass and John Gage.
Assange’s lawyers are targeting the CIA, its former director and ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the security firm Undercover Global and its chairman David Morales Guillen.
According to the lawsuit, Undercover Global, a Spain-based company contracted by the Ecuadorian embassy in the British capital, collected information on behalf of the CIA from the plaintiffs’ devices, specifically their conversations with Mr. Assange, and had placed microphones inside the building, the recordings of which, as well as footage from a closed surveillance system, were also sent to US intelligence.
Mr. Pompeo “was aware of and authorized” this intelligence gathering, according to the indictment, which states that Undercover Global was recruited by the CIA in 2017.
Julian Assange has appealed the British government’s decision to grant his extradition request to the US.
If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison.
Source: News Beast
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