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The judge's ruling can be read here: https://cryptome.org/2023/12/kunstler-v-cia-077.pdf

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[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well this is some BULLSHIT!

[–] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago

Was about to downvote, then saw your username, phew.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's funny, I just got used to the idea that the CIA is not beholden to any laws.

Well, not really funny but ya know...

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago

It's because they operate in secrecy.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean -- this is just a ruling. They still haven't done anything yet. I'm not holding my breath.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Church comitte handed them a new asshole. They can't get away with nearly as much now as they did in the 60s

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd hope so, but it's like every decade we have an article going "wow, look at all the fucked up shit the CIA was doing 20 years ago, isn't it great they stopped?

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago

Oh, they didn't stop being bad. And what they do today is terrible.

But its less bad than what they did in thr 60s. That shit was batshit insane.

[–] xor@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

strange funny, not haha funny..,

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Whoever Assange's lawyer is has the biggest balls I've seen in a while. Holy crap.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a case brought by 4 US citizens against the CIA. They are attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass. They all visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the relevant time period ~2017 and claim their 4th amendment rights have been violated. I can't wait to see this trial unfold! The evidence that will come out of this could well mean the end of the DOJ's pursuit of Assange.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If so, finally. It's terrifying that the US government has this much power tbh

[–] RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

(Please Europe unify together when it comes to armies and reconnaissance) - signed concerned american we really after fumbling with the “football” no one wants dropped beside a select few sects

They will lie, deny, stonewall, and there will be no repercussions nor change.

[–] SLfgb@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

This is a case brought by 4 US citizens against the CIA. They are attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, and journalists John Goetz and Charles Glass. They all visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the relevant time period ~2017 and claim their 4th amendment rights have been violated. I can't wait to see this trial unfold! The evidence that will come out of this could well mean the end of the DOJ's pursuit of Assange.