By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 9 – When jury selection was completed for the retrial of accused CIA Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jesse M. Furman told the jurors, Do not read or say anything about the case. Inner City Press was there, and live tweeted here.
[July 20 denial of access here; Brutal Kangaroo]
On August 15, 2022 after conviction Schulte, a group of lawyers and journalist who visited Julian Assange in the Ecuador Embassy in London sued Mike Pompeo for surveillance in violation of the US Fourth Amendment. They held a press conference, and Inner City Press asked if they will seek emergency relief. Not for now (video here; Complaint here).
On March 20, the US filed its 42 page motion to dismiss, arguing among other things that Plaintiffs Had No Reasonable Expectation in their alleged conversations with Assange, and that the "incident" capture of US Citizen info during extraterritorial surveillance of foreign targets does not violation the 4th Amendment." More on Substack here.
On June 6, the plaintiffs filed a memo of law against the motion to dismiss, among other things quoting from Pompeo's memoir "Never Gave an Inch" that "I was sitting with Susan and Nick... reading an unclassified summary of the US government's rules and guidelines on extrajudicial killings," - Assange was being contemplated? Full memo on Patreon here.
On November 16, 2023 Inner City Press live tweeted the oral argument - the motion to dismiss seemed to stall, with letter due in a week. Thread
Judge: I'll take the motion under advisement. I look forward to the letter.
On November 30, the letter amendment was submitted, including "Plaintiffs hereby amend the First Amended Complaint by adding the following as a new paragraph 36A: - full letter on Patreon here.
On Saturday, December 9 DOJ reiterated its demand to dismiss: "it remains the Government’s position that plaintiffs’ allegations regarding the searches of their electronic devices must nonetheless be dismissed because plaintiffs lack standing to sue the CIA for injunctive relief and because they have not alleged facts demonstrating that the CIA controlled and directed the actions of the foreign persons who supposedly conducted the searches at issue. I thank the Court for its consideration of this submission, and apologize for filing it one day late" - full letter on Patreon here.
More on Substack here
Inner City Press will stay on the case
It is Kunstler, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al., 22-cv-6913 (Koeltl)***
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