The former CIA director allegedly violated the Fourth Amendment rights of Julian Assange and his guests at the Ecuadorian embassy
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has been served with papers for a lawsuit alleging he directed a criminal conspiracy violating the Fourth Amendment rights of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his guests by spying on them at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Video of a process server handing the ex-CIA director the legal papers last week at a fundraising dinner was posted by Wikileaks to social media on Tuesday. In the clip, a bemused Pompeo can be seen handing over the papers, unread, to an aide.
A group of over 100 US citizens – including lawyers, journalists, and doctors – sued the CIA and Pompeo in August for allegedly violating their Fourth Amendment privacy rights by spying on them when they met with the Wikileaks publisher in 2017 and 2018 at the embassy, where he was under de facto house arrest.
