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A Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors (english.elpais.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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More coverage on the case Kunstler vs CIA:

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 https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/cia-slammed-for-violating-rights

Judge Rules Assange Visitors May Sue CIA For Allegedly Violating Privacy https://thedissenter.org/judge-assange-visitors-may-sue-cia-for-spying/

I'm personally not convinced that el-pais got the headline right unfortunately, unless they know something other journalists covering the case don't...

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Assange is a hero for uncovering heinous war crimes by the US. This is obviously a plot to destroy his reputation and get him extradited to a US court. All the Russia stuff people mention came well after he was unfairly persecuted for being a journalist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I mean, if you hold information that would literally get you disappeared without a trace by a US alphabet agency, wouldn't you try to get a nation-state of a similar caliber to try to avoid having that happen?