CIA sued over spying on lawyers, journalists who met Assange
The CIA, which declined to comment on the lawsuit, is prohibited from collecting intelligence on US citizens.
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The CIA, which declined to comment on the lawsuit, is prohibited from collecting intelligence on US citizens.
Attorneys claim Assange visitors had electronic device data sent to CIA
Suit claims the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador's embassy in London
Lawyers for WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange on Monday sued the CIA and its former director, Mike Pompeo, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers. The attorneys, along with two journalists joining the suit, are Americans and allege that the CIA violated their US constitutional protections for confidential discussions with Assange, who is Australian. 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 Assange, his lawyers, journalists and others he met with....
The US intelligence agency is accused of recording lawyers' conversations with Assange and copying the data on their mobile devices.