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There will be no judicial cooperation forthcoming from the United States unless a Spanish judge reveals his information sources in an investigation into alleged espionage against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Judge José de la Mata of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional) has sent a request for judicial cooperation to US authorities as part of his probe into a Spanish private security company named UC Global S.L. and its owner David Morales, on allegations that this firm secretly recorded Assange’s private meetings with lawyers, politicians, relatives and journalists at the embassy, where he took refuge in 2012 to avoid separate legal proceedings against him in Sweden.
Morales was arrested a year ago and released pending trial. According to testimony from several protected witnesses and former UC Global workers who gave evidence in connection with the case, Morales provided the CIA with recordings, video material and reports detailing the activities of the 49-year-old Australian cyber-activist inside the diplomatic mission, where he lived until his eviction in April 2019.
Judge De la Mata, who is heading the probe into UC Global, has asked US prosecutors for the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of the computers or other networked devices that allegedly connected from American soil to a server held by the private security firm at its headquarters in the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera.
WikiLeaks: US demands hinder Spanish probe into alleged CIA ties to security firm that spied on Assange | News | EL PAIS in English
So, although Morales was spying for the CIA, the American prosecutors will not divulge American IP addresses or cooperate with the Spanish court except in exchange for sources and a great deal of other material including proof of Morales' motivation; whether he was working for money or out of loyalty to another country. LOL Without the data from the USA a prosecution might be impossible. Perhaps the Spanish judge should not be surprised.
Judge José de la Mata of Spain’s High Court (Audiencia Nacional) has sent a request for judicial cooperation to US authorities as part of his probe into a Spanish private security company named UC Global S.L. and its owner David Morales, on allegations that this firm secretly recorded Assange’s private meetings with lawyers, politicians, relatives and journalists at the embassy, where he took refuge in 2012 to avoid separate legal proceedings against him in Sweden.
Morales was arrested a year ago and released pending trial. According to testimony from several protected witnesses and former UC Global workers who gave evidence in connection with the case, Morales provided the CIA with recordings, video material and reports detailing the activities of the 49-year-old Australian cyber-activist inside the diplomatic mission, where he lived until his eviction in April 2019.
Judge De la Mata, who is heading the probe into UC Global, has asked US prosecutors for the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of the computers or other networked devices that allegedly connected from American soil to a server held by the private security firm at its headquarters in the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera.
WikiLeaks: US demands hinder Spanish probe into alleged CIA ties to security firm that spied on Assange | News | EL PAIS in English
So, although Morales was spying for the CIA, the American prosecutors will not divulge American IP addresses or cooperate with the Spanish court except in exchange for sources and a great deal of other material including proof of Morales' motivation; whether he was working for money or out of loyalty to another country. LOL Without the data from the USA a prosecution might be impossible. Perhaps the Spanish judge should not be surprised.