Spanish company and the CIA found guilty of violating rights of Julian Assange’s visitors

A court in New York has ruled that UC Global and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) violated the constitutional rights and privacy of U.S. citizens when they met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London.

Four U.S. citizens — two lawyers and two journalists — had sued former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the CIA and David Morales, a former Special Forces soldier in the Spanish military who owned a Spanish surveillance firm that was contracted to provide security for the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Judge John G. Koeltl’s decision acknowledged the violation of the plaintiffs’ rights by the employees of UC Global, who unlawfully photographed mobile phone passwords and contents when the four plaintiffs were visiting Assange in the embassy. However, the judge also ruled that UC Global’s recordings of conversations and photographs of passports at the embassy were not illegal because there is “no expectation of privacy [by the plaintiffs] in that embassy,” which is considered a public place.

The ruling is a win for the plaintiffs and poses a challenge for the CIA, as the plaintiffs will now seek the complete declassification of CIA documentation pertaining to the covert operation through the legal discovery process. An EL PAÍS investigation in 2019 uncovered audio and video recordings, emails and documents about UC Global’s illegal activities that were later presented as evidence by the plaintiffs. The judge decided that the plaintiffs presented “sufficient evidence” indicating Morales acted as an agent or collaborator of the CIA under by Mike Pompeo (who also served as Trump’s Secretary of State). The judge rejected the defendants’ motions to dismiss the entire complaint.

Ever see Lord of the Rings?

Hate to use movie analogies, but the ring is a lot like the powers government has given itself regards intel and even some law enforcement powers.

The government who is actually supposed to be upholding and protecting our constitutional rights, today is one of the biggest culprits in violating your implied right to privacy and concepts such as search and seizure (mass surveillance).

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists Eventually, everyone will come into the crosshairs, even conservatives. Conservatives are all about big government also, just for different causes / reasons. Some of the greatest expansion of government came under Republican, so called conservative governments like George W. They simply have different causes such as defense and law enforcement and are willing to violate basic Constitutional concepts just as much as their most liberal far left commie opponent, as long as you use terms like “national security” or “for the children.”

For many years, the right was OK with pretty much anything, GITMO, torture, kidnapping, the Patriot Act... as long as it supported their defense / national security themes, not unlike the left that is willing to crap on any constitutional right to save the planet of for some egalitarian / equality cause. I wonder how many folks that were interviewed post J6 supported the Patriot Act? hahaha

Is Trump tower, J6, the faux 2020 elections a wake up call for the right?

True conservatism is government minimalism and decentralization.

Big government and centralization is ALWAYS a threat to freedom, it ALWAYS ends up making people into subjects.

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