Friends of Assange Suing the CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency and former CIA director Mike #Pompeo notified a federal court in New York that they intend to push for the dismissal of a lawsuit that alleges that they were involved in spying against attorneys and journalists who visited #WikiLeaks founder Julian #Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy.

Both the CIA and Pompeo maintain that the “allegations in the complaint do not establish a violation of the Fourth Amendment [right to privacy].”

The Agency has tried to delay and dismiss the suit since it was filed last summer.

In August 2022, four Americans who visited Assange in the embassy sued the CIA and Pompeo in his individual capacity: Margaret Ratner Kunstler, a civil rights activist and human rights attorney; Deborah Hrbek, a media lawyer, represented Assange or WikiLeaks; journalist John Goetz, who worked for Der Spiegel when the German media organization first partnered with WikiLeaks; and journalist Charles Glass, who wrote articles on Assange for The Intercept.

On this edition of Maverick News we discuss the invasion of privacy lawsuit against the CIA, and hear from two of the plaintiffs involved.

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