Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say they’re suing the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director Mike Pompeo.
The lawsuit accuses the CIA of recording attorneys’ conversations with Assange and copying the knowledge on their telephones and computer systems.
They declare that the company violated their US constitutional proper to privateness with their consumer.
Assange faces extradition to the United States, the place he’s accused of publishing diplomatic recordsdata concerning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010.
The Australian nationwide has appealed the UK’s resolution to grant the extradition request. The fees in opposition to him may just lead to a jail sentence of as much as 175 years.
The grievance in opposition to the CIA was once filed on Monday by means of attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and newshounds Charles Glass and John Goetz.
They declare that the CIA labored with a safety company employed by means of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the place Assange had taken shelter beneath political asylum, to undercover agent on the WikiLeaks founder, his attorneys, newshounds and others he met.
Lawyer Robert Boyle stated that Assange’s proper to an excellent trial were “tainted, if not nullified” as a result of “the government now knows the content of those exchanges.”
“There should be sanctions, up to and including dismissal of these charges or withdrawal of the extradition request, in response to such clearly unconstitutional activities,” he advised newshounds.
The lawsuit additionally claims that Undercover Global, the Spanish-based safety company, amassed information at the attorneys’ cellphones, positioned microphones within the Ecuadorian embassy, and despatched CCTV photographs to the CIA.
According to the courtroom report, Pompeo “was aware of and approved” of the operation.
