Two American lawyers have accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of spying on them.
Lawyers Margaret Ratner Kansler and Deborah Herbeck on Monday filed a complaint against the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director Mike Pompeo, accusing them of recording their conversations with their client Julian Assange and copying the contents of their phones and computers.
Two American journalists, Charles Glass and John Goetz, joined lawyers in a complaint in which they said the CIA violated their constitutional right to privacy by spying on their conversations with Australian Julian Assange.
They confirmed that the agency worked with a security company hired by the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Julian Assange resorted to spying on the WikiLeaks founder, his lawyers, journalists and others he met.
The lawsuit is directed against the CIA, its former director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the security firm Undercover Global and its head, David Morales Guillen.
The complaint alleges that Undercover Global, which was contracted by the Ecuadorian embassy on behalf of the CIA, collected information from the complainants’ electronic devices, including exchanges with Assange, placed microphones in the building, and transmitted its recordings and remote monitoring. images to the US agency.
The document said that Pompeo “knew and gave his consent” to the collection of information, noting that the CIA had recruited Undercover Global in 2017.
Assange faces 175 years in prison in the United States for publishing about 700,000 classified documents in 2010 regarding US military activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, on his website WikiLeaks.
Lawyer Robert Boyle, who is representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said the alleged spy operation means the WikiLeaks founder could be denied a fair trial because “the government now knows the content of these conversations.”
And he believed that “there should be sanctions, even the dropping of these charges or the withdrawal of the extradition request, in response to those actions that are clearly unconstitutional.”
Source: AFP.