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CIA Loses Bid to Throw Out Lawsuit for Violating Rights of Julian Assange’s Visitors at Ecuadorean Embassy: Case Sets Stage for Exposing CIA Clandestine Surveillance of Attorneys and Journalists (www.laprogressive.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SLfgb@feddit.nl to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The judge's ruling can be read here: https://cryptome.org/2023/12/kunstler-v-cia-077.pdf

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's funny, I just got used to the idea that the CIA is not beholden to any laws.

Well, not really funny but ya know...

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago

It's because they operate in secrecy.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean -- this is just a ruling. They still haven't done anything yet. I'm not holding my breath.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Church comitte handed them a new asshole. They can't get away with nearly as much now as they did in the 60s

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd hope so, but it's like every decade we have an article going "wow, look at all the fucked up shit the CIA was doing 20 years ago, isn't it great they stopped?

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, they didn't stop being bad. And what they do today is terrible.

But its less bad than what they did in thr 60s. That shit was batshit insane.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

strange funny, not haha funny..,