Friends of Assange Sue the CIA

(CASE UPDATE: JULY 20, 2023) Four American attorneys and journalists who allege the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo violated their privacy rights when they spied on their visits with #WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may now have key evidence that proves that the CIA was involved in surveillance against the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The Spanish newspaper El País reported that UC Global director David Morales had a folder on his laptop marked “CIA."

“It was all marked under the initials of the U.S. intelligence agency, according to a new examination of his MacBook, to which EL PAÍS has had access,” the report stated. “The word ‘CIA’ appears several times on a Western Digital-branded external hard drive, on which Morales kept the projects and operations that his company — UC Global, S.L. — was contracted to deliver.”

The revelation came in a criminal case brought by Assange against Morales in Spain’s high court. In the past year, the case has stalled as a result of the U.S. Justice Department’s refusal to cooperate with requests from Judge Santiago Pedraz.

El País journalist José María Irujo, who has closely tracked the case in Spain, further noted, “Morales’ personal files, which were previously unknown to investigators, builds on the allegations and evidence that Morales — a former Spanish soldier — spied on the meetings that the WikiLeaks founder and his lawyers held at the Embassy of Ecuador to the United Kingdom, and sent that information to the U.S. intelligence agency."

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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