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: 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.