{"id":1609676,"date":"2022-08-17T05:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609676"},"modified":"2022-08-17T05:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:34:02","slug":"cia-pompeo-sued-by-julian-assange-lawyers-journalists-over-alleged-spying-at-ecuadorian-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-pompeo-sued-by-julian-assange-lawyers-journalists-over-alleged-spying-at-ecuadorian-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA, Pompeo Sued by Julian Assange Lawyers, Journalists Over Alleged Spying at Ecuadorian Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcia-pompeo-sued-by-julian-assange-lawyers-journalists-over-alleged-spying-at-ecuadorian-embassy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cia\">CIA<\/a> and its former Director Mike Pompeo have been sued by a group of journalists and lawyers who claim the agency\u00a0spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-julian-assange\">Julian Assange<\/a> while he was living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22136088-margaret-ratner-kunstler-et-al-v-cia-et-al-complaint\">lawsuit,<\/a> which also names Spanish security firm Undercover Global as a defendant, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, who have represented Assange.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that the\u00a0agency violated their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States Constitution shields American citizens from U.S. government overreach even when the activities take place in a foreign embassy in a foreign country,\u201d said Richard Roth, the lead attorney representing the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, the plaintiffs were required to surrender their electronic devices to Undercover Global prior to visiting\u00a0Assange at the embassy\u00a0between January 2017 and March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that \u201cunbeknownst to each of the visitors\u201d and \u201cwithout their consent\u201d\u00a0Undercover Global, acting without the knowledge of the\u00a0Ecuadorian government,\u00a0swept information on their electronic devices, including communications with Assange, and provided it to the CIA, which was then headed by\u00a0Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs say the sweeping of the data from phones was authorized and approved by\u00a0Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI5G0BE-FILEDIMAGE-1200x738.jpg\"><\/a> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a police van, after he was arrested by British police, in London on April 11, 2019. (Henry Nicholls\/Reuters) \u2018Extensive Surveillance Program\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the lawsuit alleges that the CIA approved and\u00a0Undercover Global implemented an \u201cextensive surveillance program\u201d in the\u00a0embassy through which they placed microphones around the building that\u00a0converted video surveillance of Assange to audio-video surveillance. It also claims those recordings were handed to the CIA and \u201censured that the CIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA and its former Director Mike Pompeo have been sued by a group of journalists and lawyers who claim the agency\u00a0spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. 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