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Assange lawyers sue CIA for spying on them:
Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sued the US Central Intelligence Agency and its former director Mike Pompeo on Monday, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers.
[...] They said the CIA worked with a security firm contracted by the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where Assange was living at the time, to spy on the Wikileaks founder, his lawyers, journalists and others he met with.
[...] Richard Roth, the New York attorney representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said the alleged spying on Assange's attorneys means the Wikileaks founder's right to a fair trial has "now been tainted, if not destroyed."
[...] It said Undercover Global, which had a security contract with the embassy, swept information on their electronic devices, including communications with Assange, and provided it to the CIA.
In addition it placed microphones around the embassy and sent recordings, as well as footage from security cameras, to the CIA.
This, Roth said, violated privacy protections for US citizens.
Anyone knowledgeable on the law who can help unpack all the legal angles here (non-US citizen, US lawyers, in an embassy in a foreign country involving a private company)?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 19 2022, @11:01AM (10 children)
There is only one angle. Julian must be made an example of, and there is no law so holy that we won't bend, mutilate, or spindle it in our quest to crucify Julian.
A MAN Just Won a Gold Medal for Punching a Woman in the Face
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 19 2022, @04:49PM (9 children)
It is possible that he committed a crime. You can make all the unsupported claims you want but we will see what a jury of his peers thinks.
Neither one of us actually knows if he is innocent or not.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2022, @05:47PM (1 child)
Typical democrat fascist. It's possible that he committed a crime, so... lock him up! You people are sick barbaric savages!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2022, @06:54PM
And your mod squad provides catharsis? Feel better now? yeah, this is how you troll.. looks like you won, and he loses.. dirty shame that other people have to suffer for your doing.. no justice in this life.. We can only hope for better in the next one
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2022, @07:48PM
Oops, this [soylentnews.org] was supposed to go here...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2022, @12:42AM
It is also possible that you are guilty of molesting underage monkeys. Shall we extradite you to Borneo to stand trial for monkey molestation?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Mykl on Saturday August 20 2022, @12:50AM (4 children)
It is far more likely that he did not commit a crime.
A non-US citizen, residing outside of the US, broadly identified as a journalist, published information that was provided to them by someone else. If you want to make that a crime, then anyone reporting on any leak from any government department at any time is also criminal. Of course, that's likely the whole point of this.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2022, @05:26AM (3 children)
He offended a democrat administration, a criminal act by definition while democrats are in charge
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2022, @07:39PM
Troll
Yeah, too bad all the moderators are democrats, this is how they troll. This is why such low quality people win elections, they are a true reflection of their constituency
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 23 2022, @07:32PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday August 24 2022, @03:12AM
Trump loved Assange because he made Hillary look bad. I'm not sure why Trump eventually turned on him as well though.