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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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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[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

Well this is some BULLSHIT!

[-] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

Was about to downvote, then saw your username, phew.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 34 points 9 months ago

Whoever Assange's lawyer is has the biggest balls I've seen in a while. Holy crap.

[-] SLfgb@feddit.nl 23 points 9 months ago

This is a case brought by 4 US citizens against the CIA. They are attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass. They all visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the relevant time period ~2017 and claim their 4th amendment rights have been violated. I can't wait to see this trial unfold! The evidence that will come out of this could well mean the end of the DOJ's pursuit of Assange.

[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

If so, finally. It's terrifying that the US government has this much power tbh

[-] RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

(Please Europe unify together when it comes to armies and reconnaissance) - signed concerned american we really after fumbling with the “football” no one wants dropped beside a select few sects

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

It's because they operate in secrecy.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

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?