CIA Sued for Alleged Spying on Lawyers, Journalists in Julian Assange Case
Journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz, and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, are suing the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador's embassy in London.
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Journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz, and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, are suing the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London, reports Reuters. The filing said the journalists and lawyers were required to surrender their electronic devices to Undercover Global S.L., a private security company which at the time provided security to the embassy, before their visits to Assange.
The lawsuit alleged the company copied that information and provided it to the CIA, which was then headed by Pompeo. The CIA is prohibited from collecting intelligence on U.S. citizens, although several lawmakers have alleged that the agency maintains a secret repository of Americans’ communications data.
