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Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange – Stefania Maurizi

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Wikileaks and the Vault Seven CIA Documents

Julian Zelizer: The vault seven CIA documents show the different tactics that the CIA uses in terms of surveillance but also how governments work with private security firms. He says these technologies had been sold to horrific regimes authoritarian regimes who were using them to persecute journalists and human rights defenders so it was thanks to Wikileaks for exposing this practice. In his new book, he details a case where Saudi officials considered killing Jamal Khashoggi as part of their plan to spy on him.

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