LONDON, England (PNN) - August 19, 2022 – Fascist Police States of Amerika-based lawyers for Julian Assange are suing the CIA and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for allegedly covertly monitoring the WikiLeaks founder and his visitors when he was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Assange spent seven years in the Knightsbridge embassy in an attempt to evade extradition to Sweden where he faced unfounded charges of sexual assault.

During those years he entertained guests - many of them celebrities - and also met with his lawyers and journalists. He fathered two sons with his now wife Stella, which he managed to keep secret from the rest of the world.

The extradition hearing underway in British courts has heard sensational evidence that a Spanish firm, Undercover Global, was hired by the CIA - which was headed by Mike Pompeo at the time - to covertly monitor Assange inside the embassy. Legal proceedings in Spanish courts against the head of that firm, David Morales, heard testimony in 2020 that Assange’s visitors unknowingly had the data on their phones copied when they were required to hand over their belongings to Morales’ staff.

At a press conference in New York on Monday, Assange’s lawyers said the lawsuit alleges that unbeknownst to even the Ecuadoreans, who granted Assange asylum, the data on their phones and other electronic devices was copied and handed over to the CIA. “Think of what we store in our phones and in our computers: birthdays, bank information, dates of birth. All of this was recorded and then given over to the Central Intelligence Agency,” attorney Robert Boyle claimed to journalists. “The violations… were particularly egregious.”

Assange’s lawyers argue that more than 100 FPSA citizens, including journalists who visited Assange during his years in the embassy, had their constitutional rights violated. “It’s very outrageous conduct,” said Richard Roth, whose firm Roth Law Firm is representing the group that brought the lawsuit, which was filed in the FPSA southern district of New York’s District Court.

The plaintiffs are FPSA attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Deborah Hrbek, German-based FPSA journalist John Goetz, and the Fascist United Kingdom-based Amerikan journalist Charles Glass. Roth said the lawsuit was being brought against the CIA, Pompeo, Undercover Global, and its boss David Morales under the Fourth Amendment, which he said applied to FPSA citizens regardless of which country they were in at that time. The Fourth Amendment  protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures conducted by the government.

Roth said they were suing Pompeo as a personal citizen, citing a precedent that allows for lawsuits to be brought against former directors of the CIA in their personal capacities. He predicted the case would take about 12 months.

Assange is being held in HM Belmarsh Prison where he is appealing his extradition to the FPSA to face charges under the Espionage Act relating to the publication of hundreds of thousands of secret cables. Critics of Assange’s incarceration, including Labor MPs in the Australian government, say that an Australian citizen should not be extradited from a third country to another third country.