| Assange
Visitors Sued Pompeo For 4th
AM Violations Now US Motion to
Dismissal Stalls
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 16 – When
jury selection
was completed
for the
retrial of
accused CIA
Vault 7 leaker
Joshua
Schulte, U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Jesse M.
Furman told
the jurors, Do
not read or
say anything
about the
case. Inner
City Press was
there, and
live tweeted here.
[July 20 denial
of access here;
Brutal
Kangaroo]
On August 15,
2022 after conviction Schulte,
a group of lawyers and
journalist who visited Julian
Assange in the Ecuador Embassy
in London sued Mike Pompeo for
surveillance in violation of
the US Fourth Amendment. They
held a press
conference, and Inner
City Press asked if they will
seek emergency relief. Not for
now (video here;
Complaint here).
On March 20, the
US filed its 42 page motion to
dismiss, arguing among other
things that Plaintiffs Had No
Reasonable Expectation in
their alleged conversations
with Assange, and that the
"incident" capture of US
Citizen info during
extraterritorial surveillance
of foreign targets does not
violation the 4th Amendment."
More on Substack
here.
On June 6, the
plaintiffs filed a memo of law
against the motion to dismiss,
among other things quoting
from Pompeo's memoir "Never
Gave an Inch" that "I was
sitting with Susan and Nick...
reading an unclassified
summary of the US government's
rules and guidelines on
extrajudicial killings," -
Assange was being
contemplated? Full memo on
Patreon here.
On November 16,
2023 Inner City Press live
tweeted the oral argument -
the motion to dismiss seemed
to stall, with letter due in a
week. Thread:
Plaintiffs'
lawyer Levinson: There is no
doubt that the plaintiffs have
standing, under ACLU v.
Clapper... They would not have
engaged in conversations there
if they thought the CIA was
listening
Judge: Listening
to the government today, if
you made a few more allegation
about the seizure of the
electronic devices, their
objection would fall out.
There should be a simply way
to add this to the complaint
and we can move on. I can
accept a letter amending
Plaintiff's
lawyer Levenson: That's what
we proposed in Footnote 10 - a
letter amendment with
additional allegations. Judge:
When? Levenson: In a week. Oh,
Thanksgiving. Judge: Two
weeks.
Levenson: Mr.
Pompeo wanted to crush Mr.
Assange. The CIA gave software
to UC Global to surveil Mr.
Assange... They filmed, and
video of Pamela Anderson with
Mr. Assange was on David
Morales' laptop. These are
private actors on the payroll...
Judge:
Anything further? AUSA Barnea:
We have no cases on this on
Westlaw. What about police
stations?
AUSA Barnea: A
court concluded even police
don't have an expectation of
privacy in the precinct. Also
the Port Authority, a nurses
office - there was a secret
camera but that was found to
be OK. There are surely
security cameras in this
courthouse
AUSA
Barnea: Last point.
These IMEI numbers, they are
simply written on the phone,
they are not the content
Judge: I'll take
the motion under advisement. I
look forward to the letter.
Inner City
Press will stay on the case
It is Kunstler, et
al. v. Central Intelligence
Agency, et al., 22-cv-6913
(Koeltl)
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