Assange is facing extradition from Britain to the U.S., where he is charged with violating the U.S. Espionage Act by publishing U.S. military and diplomatic files in 2010 related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Lawyers for WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange on Monday sued the CIA and its former director, Mike Pompeo, alleging it recorded their conversations and copied data from their phones and computers.
The attorneys, along with two journalists joining the suit, are Americans and allege that the CIA violated their US constitutional protections for confidential discussions with Assange, who is Australian.
They said the CIA worked with a security firm contracted by the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where Assange was living at the time, to spy on Assange, his lawyers, journalists and others he met with.
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