The following is a recording of the press conference that was organized by lawyers and plaintiffs of a lawsuit recently filed in the Southern District of New York against the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for alleged spying.
Unlawful surveillance is alleged to have taken place when the journalists and attorneys visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuador embassy in London.
0:00 Introduction - Heidi Boghosian 1:15 Richard Roth, attorney representing plaintiffs 3:00 Robert Boyle, attorney/consultant in the lawsuit 5:50 Margaret Ratner-Kunstler, plaintiff (attorney) 7:15 Deborah Hrbek, plaintiff (attorney) 9:20 John Goetz, plaintiff (journalist) 11:25 Nathan Fuller, director of Assange Defense Committee 13:30 Questions From Journalists 13:55 Joshua Rozenberg (UK) 16:48 Jack Gillum, Bloomberg 19:20 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report 20:51 Joe Lauria, Consortium News 23:30 Mary Kostakidis (Australia) 29:40 Mohamed Elmaazi (UK) 33:55 Kanishka Singh, Reuters 35:07 Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly 36:35 Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press 38:29 Chip Gibbons, Jacobin 41:00 Chat Questions From Journalists 48:00 Kelley Lane (US) 49:40 Shaun Waterman, Newsweek 53:40 Remaining Questions
