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Mike Pompeo & CIA Sued for Spying on Americans Who Visited Julian Assange in Embassy in U.K.
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The Honourable Justice Wyman W. Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada on November 23, 2006 and as a Judge of Federal Court of Appeal on October 5, 2012. He received both a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1982 from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 from Mount Allison University. He was admitted to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1982. He practised law with Patterson Law and its predecessor firms (Patterson Palmer, Patterson Kitz and Patterson Smith Matthews & Grant). He also worked for two years on secondment (under the Interchange Canada program) with Revenue Canada Taxation Rulings Directorate, in the Natural Resources and Corporate Reorganizations sections. His practice expertise was in tax law (including income tax and HST/GST), commercial law and tax litigation. He is a former Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and was a part-time professor of tax law at Dalhousie Law School. He has made presentations at the Canadian Tax Foundation Annual Conference, the Atlantic Provinces Tax Conferences, and CBA tax conferences. Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. Address: Federal Court of Appeal, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H9.
Journalists And Lawyers Who Met With Julian Assange Sue CIA, Mike Pompeo Over Alleged Spying
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its former director Mike Pompeo were slapped with a lawsuit Monday from a group of journalists and lawyers over allegations that the government agency spied on them and hundreds of others while meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
The lawsuit alleges that the CIA under Pompeo violated the Fourth Amendment rights of journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, who have represented Assange.
“The United States Constitution shields American citizens from U.S. government overreach even when the activities take place in a foreign embassy in a foreign country,” Richard Roth, the leading lawyer representing the group, told Daily Wire in a statement.
The filings allege authorities made each visitor surrender any electronic device such as smartphones or laptops during their interactions with Assange, who is currently fighting extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years in prison for publishing classified information. The Wikileaks founder had lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London under political asylum since 2012 until authorities arrested him seven years later.
However, Roth said the journalists and lawyers who met with Assange had their conversations recorded and data from their electronic devices copied by Undercover Global SL, a private security contractor, and passed along to the CIA under the direction of Pompeo.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit have also filed the case again Undercover Global and its Chief Executive David Morales Guillen.
“It is somewhat startling that in light of the Fourth Amendment protection we have in the Constitution, the federal government would actually go ahead and take this confidential information,” Roth told reporters during a press conference.
Monday’s
lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of New York and the plaintiff’s are only asking for
injunctive relief and not money damages.
U.S. law prohibits the CIA from collecting intelligence on citizens. However, Reuters reports that lawmakers have alleged that the alphabet agency keeps clandestine of Americans’ communications data.
“Think of what we store in our phones and our computers — birthdays, bank information, dates of birth — all of this was recorded, and then given over to the Central Intelligence Agency,” Robert Boyle, a New York Civil Rights and constitutional law attorney, told reporters during the press conference. “So the violations of the privacy rights here were particularly egregious.”
Boyle argues that the alleged violations have also “tainted, if not destroyed,” a fair trial for Assange.
Margaret Kunstler, a criminal and civil rights attorney and a plaintiff in the case, called the act by the government agency “terrible,” adding she can’t think of anything worse than the opposition listening in on their plans and conversations.
“Gross misconduct is exactly what has happened here,” Kunstler said. “And I don’t understand how the CIA — I guess through the insanity of Pompeo — could think that they could do this is so outrageous that it’s beyond my comprehension.”
Kunstler visited Assange at the Embassy between January 2017 and March 2018.
Deborah Harbeck, an attorney who has visited Mr. Assange, echoed her fellow plaintiff, saying the violation of her constitutional rights is an outrage.
“I have the right to assume that the U.S. government is not listening to my private and privileged conversations with my clients,” Harbeck told reporters, adding that information about other clients in cases she may have on her phone or laptop is secure from illegal government intrusion.
Harbeck reportedly visited Assange during the relevant period.
John Goetz, the editor of investigations at German public broadcaster NDR, told reporters he worked with Assange between 2011 and 2017. He said he met with the political asylee for editorial discussion about stories at the Embassy.
“I find that quite disturbing that what was essentially a private editorial situation was conceivably or possibly are likely being listened to,” Goetz said. “I thought that we were protected, especially as American citizens, by the Fourth Amendment.”
Nathan Fuller, director of Assange’s defense committee, argued that the journalists tried to publish crucial content for the public interest and its right to know what lengths the government would reach to silence reporters who reveal information “embarrassing to the regime.”
“This should worry anybody who values investigative journalists and journalism and should be aware of the unprecedented threat that this prosecution poses to it,” Fuller told reporters.
According to Reuters, Pompeo and Undercover Global S.L. could not immediately be reached for comment.
The filings allege that Pompeo has said in the past he would target whistleblowers who exposed U.S. government secrets and argued that “the one thing [current] whistleblowers don’t need is a publisher” due to the availability of the Internet. The former CIA director allegedly called WikiLeaks “a non-state hostile intelligence service” while referring to Assange as a “narcissist,” “fraud,” and a “coward.”
Assange founded Wikileaks in 2006 and has since published over 10 million documents exposing war crimes, human rights violations, corruption, and other government misconduct worldwide. He faces 18 counts under the Espionage Act, including a spying charge related to WikiLeaks’ release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables.
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Deborah Hrbek is the firm's founder, focusing her practice on entertainment law, small business law and regulatory compliance for fine art dealers and the cannabis industry. Hrbek represents creative professionals, entrepreneurs and artists, including independent record labels, TV and film production companies, art galleries, collectors, book publishers and digital publications, podcast producers, directors, talent, writers, managers, talent agents, literary agents, spokespersons and influencers, musicians, independent filmmakers, visual artists, animators, graphic artists, photographers and Instagrammers, as well as investors in the arts. Hrbek's Featured Client artist roster includes an Oscar winning film production team, a novelist short-listed for the Booker Prize, and Hyperallergic.com, the digital publication that has become required reading for those interested in the fine art world.
Hrbek is spearheading the firm's provision of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance services for galleries, collectors and dealers in fine art. Working closely with Margaret Ratner Kunstler and TPC Art Finance, Hrbek is developing a unique customized service offering to assist sellers of fine art comply with applicable AML/KYC regulations in London, New York and beyond. Her small business clients include fashion designers, artisans and makers, branding and influencer agencies, art gallery owners, specialty food distributors, venue owners, event planners, marketing companies, beauty product distributors, app developers, multi-media companies, social networking sites and other Internet-based business ventures. With this broad corporate and entertainment industry background, Hrbek has been able to provide effective representation to parties involved in the multi-platform, transmedia deals that fuel the new media industry.
An established voice in drug policy reform advocacy in New York City since the early '90s, Hrbek has represented and advised investors in cannabis grows, CBD and hemp product distributors and medical cannabis patients. Hrbek is a co-founder of New York Cannabar and an active member of the NYC Cannabis Industry Association.
Born in Princeton, N.J., Hrbek was raised in Palo Alto, California and London, England. She received her law degree at King's College, Cambridge University, and went on to qualify as a barrister in England. Hrbek argued cases and conducted trials in London's Magistrates' Courts, the High Courts and the Old Bailey, and completed pupillage at 1 Dr. Johnson's Buildings (now Doughty Street Chambers) and Tooks Court under her maiden name of Deborah Weich. After an initial stint in New York City starting in 1990, Hrbek moved to the British Virgin Islands and practiced law at a BVI-based international corporate law firm for two years. It was the height of the dot-com boom, and most of the firm's clients were in the technology business. Hrbek prepared investment agreements and other financing documents for international technology companies raising capital through IPOs and private placements, and handled international corporate litigation. She chaired the BVI Association of Registered Agents' e-Commerce Working Group (1999-2000) and drafted that group's Report and Recommendations to the BVI Government.
After transferring back to Manhattan to work at Beck & Arad LLP, the New York tech law firm affiliated with her BVI employer, Hrbek started her own law firm - HRBEKKunstler - in Manhattan in January 2002. She is a proud member and past co-president, of the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Hrbek currently serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Media Analysis (IMA), a New York based non-profit organization whose mission is to conduct and support research and dissemination of information on government activities and the media.
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Civil rights attorney Margaret Ratner Kunstler has spent her career providing movement support and protecting the rights of activists. She is a powerful speaker on human rights issues, a consultant to Wikileaks journalists and other activists, and an author of numerous legal books and essays. Together with Tariq Ali, Kunstler edited the anthology In Defense of Julian Assange (OR Books, 2019). Kunstler's Hell No: Your Right To Dissent In Twenty-First Century America co-authored with the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is the leading handbook for activists today.
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Kunstler represents Sarah Harrison, and has advised Anonymous and WikiLeaks in connection with grand jury subpoenas, encounters with the FBI, and overcoming fundraising hurdles in the face of corporate obstruction and governmental suppression. She was also the attorney for Jeremy Hammond. An advocate for street protesters and other activists utilizing more modern tools for getting their voices heard, Kunstler fights to protect constitutional rights of demonstrators online and on the street.Together with her late husband, William M. Kunstler, subject of the Oscar short-listed documentary, Disturbing the Universe, Margaret Kunstler worked on high profile matters that included the Virgin Island 5, Attica, and Wounded Knee. Kunstler is the founder of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, established to work to combat racism in the criminal justice system, which spearheaded the successful fight for the reform of New York State’s Rockefeller Drug Laws and helped hundreds of nonviolent first-time drug offenders get out of prison.
Kunstler was a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild NYC Mass Defense Committee, formed to coordinate representation for those arrested during the 1968 Columbia University Protests. To this day, the NLG-NYC Mass Defense Committee provides legal observers at demonstrations and pro bono criminal defense representation for arrestees at protests. After working as public defender at the Legal Aid Society in New York City, Kunstler went on to represent grand jury resisters nationwide and became recognized as a leading expert on grand jury law. She was director of the Grand Jury Project Kunstler and edited Representing Witnesses Before Federal Grand Juries, the authoritative practice manual in the field. Kunstler worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as an attorney and educational director. At CCR, she originated the Movement Support Network, work for which she was named ABC Person of the Week, and authored the now famous pamphlet, If An Agent Knocks.
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