Bombshell report on the spying on Julian Assange

New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange

Pompeo outlines the attack on Assange

Pompeo’s first public speech as CIA Director, hosted at the Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank on April 13, 2017, was one of the most paranoid and resentful addresses ever delivered by an agency chief.

The former Republican congressman from Kansas opened his speech with an extended tirade against the “Philip Agees in the world,” referring to the CIA whistleblower who handed over thousands of classified documents to leftist publishers that revealed shocking details of illegal US regime change and assassination plots around the world.

Alluding to Agee’s contemporary “soulmates,” Pompeo declared, “The one thing they don’t share with Agee is the need for a publisher. All they require now is a smart phone and internet access. In today’s digital environment, they can disseminate stolen US secrets instantly around the globe to terrorists, dictators, hackers, and anyone else seeking to do us harm.”

The CIA director made no secret about the identity of his target. “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” he rumbled from the podium.

For the next several minutes, Pompeo ranted against Assange, branding him as a “narcissist,” “a fraud,” “a coward.” The right-wing Republican even quoted criticism of the Wikileaks publisher by The Intercept’s Sam Biddle.

Next, Pompeo pledged a “long term” campaign of counter-measures against Wikileaks. “We have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us. To give them the space to crush us with misappropriated secrets is a perversion of what our great Constitution stands for. It ends now,” he vowed.

Though Pompeo said he recognized that “the CIA is legally prohibited from spying on people through electronic surveillance in the United States,” he seemed to have already put into motion an aggressive program to spy not only Assange, but on his American friends, lawyers, and virtually everyone in his immediate vicinity. Carried out by UC Global, the campaign entailed recording private conversations of US targets, opening their phones, photographing their personal information, and even stealing their email passwords.

The CIA’s apparent attack on Assange had been activated weeks earlier, when Wikileaks announced the publication of the CIA’s Vault 7 files. It would not be long before Adelson’s security team began preparing space for Morales in Las Vegas

This is too long to excerpt properly so I’m just excerpting two issues that stand out.

One camera feed for Ecuador, another for “the American client”

Two former UC Global workers and the ex-business partner said Morales began implementing a sophisticated spying operation at the embassy in London in June 2017. His testimony was corroborated by emails Morales sent to employees who oversaw the surveillance.

Before that point, the cameras in and around Ecuador’s embassy in London were standard CCTV units. Their sole function was to detect intruders. Most importantly, they did not record sound.

To transform the cameras from security instruments into weapons of intrusion, Morales emailed a friend, “Carlos C.D. (spy),” who owned a surveillance equipment company called Espiamos, or, “We Spy.” He informed Carlos that “our client” demanded new cameras be placed in the embassy that were equipped with undetectable microphones.

On the 27th of the same month, Morales wrote to the same employee: “the client wants to have streaming control of the cameras, this control will have to be possessed from two different locations.” He requested a separate storage server that could be operated “from out of the enclosure where the recorder is located.”

By altering the cameras so they could be controlled from the outside, and outfitting them with hidden microphones, Morales put in place the mechanism to snoop on Assange’s intimate conversations with friends and lawyers. He also took steps to feed the footage to a separate, exterior storage server, thus keeping the operation hidden from Ecuador’s SENAIN. His marching orders came from an organization he described simply as “the American client.”

In a world that has a real justice system this information should be enough to get the case thrown out because of how our government got its information on Assange that is being used against him. But since the judge gets her orders for how she rules from the US' lawyers it’s all kabuki theater anyway. This case has already been settled and they are just going through the motions of a fair trial.

The expansion of the patriot act in both houses is just cover for something that has been happening in this country for longer than we know. Even if congress had voted against all of the dissolution of our civil rights the intelligence agencies would be doing it anyway.

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The Liberal Moonbat's picture

This from the guy who admitted "we lied, we cheated, we stole", and laughed about it on broadcast TV.

Basic grammar and spatial reasoning alike demand that anyone above the law be, by equal measure, outside the law - i.e., an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

wendy davis's picture

although i've only made it through a third of it. and not to be a thickwit once again, but did blumenthal ever link to, or otherwise identify which new court files?

what a tangled web of fear, hatred, and deceit. assange has long said that it was after publishing the vault 7 files they'd gone full-metal jacket against him. 'ways to obscure senders' etc.

i hadn't been aware of the Intercept's sam bindle's part in the play, but many of those fearless investigative reporters have trashed and smeared him with lies over the years.

i did admire this profusely, though:

At the end of several such arguments, he said Morales tore open his shirt, puffed out his chest and exclaimed, “I am a wholewhorehearted mercenary!

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All the other related and necessary tentacles that Max mentions without delving into are enough to drive me mad.

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