by Marisa Sarnoff at Law & Crime
U.S. intelligence officials conducted surveillance on lawyers, journalists, and others who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 and 2018 as he evaded international authorities by staying inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to a new lawsuit.
In a 13-page complaint filed Monday, attorneys for Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, both New York-based lawyers who worked with Assange, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass, say that their electronic devices were seized and copied during their visits with Assange, and that the information was provided to the CIA.
The complaint names the CIA, former CIA Director and eventual Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Spanish private security company UC Global — along with founder David Morales Guillen — as defendants.
Attorney Richard A. Roth said that his clients were subjected to actions carried out “under cover of law” that violated their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Specifically, the complaint alleges:…
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