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CIA Loses Bid to Throw Out Lawsuit for Violating Rights of Julian Assange’s Visitors at Ecuadorean Embassy: Case Sets Stage for Exposing CIA Clandestine Surveillance of Attorneys and Journalists (www.laprogressive.com)

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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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[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 4 points 8 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 8 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 8 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.