Julian Assange sues private security-company for spying on him, violating his privacy.

[DetlefK]

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.html

Undercover Global S. L., the Spanish defense and private security company that was charged with protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London during the long stay there of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, spied on the cyberactivist for the US intelligence service. That’s according to statements and documents to which EL PAÍS have had access. David Morales, the owner of the company, supposedly handed over audio and video to the CIA of the meetings Assange held with his lawyers and collaborators. Morales is being investigated for this activity by Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional.

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The secret probe is the consequence of a criminal complaint filed by Assange himself, in which he accuses Morales and the company of the alleged offenses involving violations of his privacy and the secrecy of his client-attorney privileges, as well as misappropriation, bribery and money laundering. The director of UC Global S. L. has not responded to calls from this newspaper in order to confirm his version of events.

Morales, a former member of the military who is on leave of absence, stated both verbally and in writing to a number of his employees that, despite having been hired by the government of then-Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, he also worked “for the Americans,” to whom he allegedly sent documents, videos and audios of the meetings that the Australian activist held in the embassy. “We are playing in another league. This is the first division,” he told his closest colleagues after attending a security fair in the US city of Las Vegas in 2015 where he supposedly made his first American contacts.

The link to this story can be found in Wikileaks' Twitter-timeline, right after their link to a leaked NASA-document and their link to a leaked document about former french President Jacques Chirac.



Julian Assange lamenting that someone is spreading information about him without his permission. Boo-fucking-hoo.

[2naSalit]

1. HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Good luck with that, sport.



Seems he spent too much time in that embassy with his cat.

[Blue_Tires]

2. LOL

[Backseat Driver]

3. Like a lot of relationships, "It's complicated."

Seems the timing of a release; hence, the damage, but not necessarily the transparency of content, defines what "protections" are granted a whistleblower, no matter where the secrets lie hidden and by whom.

Everybody famililar with Sheldon Adelson's "roots," interests, and political friends??? Looks like the corporate "security" racket's only friend is money that eliminates the CITIZENS UNITED corporate human-brained "duality" of loyalties. Ahhh...the great and singular arbiter...(even I recognize everybody wishes they had more, ha). To Adelson, whose ancestral heritage is Ukrainian Jew and Welch coal-miner) it's probably like a drop in the ocean referral of Global S L, modeled after Blackwater; nevertheless...

I'm not a fan of Julian Assange, an epic publisher of hacked materials, a receiver of stolen "information" that surely shimmers with value like blood diamonds. He makes no friends for long on any side keeping intelligence secrets.

Then again, it's complicated, no? How should this published letter to be interpreted as much different in terms of extorted activities? Because it's American and/or because it's bi-partisan??? Sorry, not trying to be conspiratorial yet, because it's from 2018, yet another head of a rotting head-of-the-fish-administration-approved threat to the little "shithole" brown-peopled countries of the world? I've heard Equador is also a low-cost favored retirement spot for American ex-pats.

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/_cache/files/a/8/a8a63343-fba7-4ea6-8090-5fb3d9f5d3de/7B8CEDB7545C8C99DEDB0AC0931C9873.10-16-2018-letter-from-engel-ros-lehtinen-to-president-of-ecuador.pdf