The WikiLeaks legal team has provided The Gateway Pundit with a new statement asserting that Ecuador allowing the U.S. interrogation of Ecuadorian diplomats is “unscrupulous, lawless behavior” that “is entirely contrary to international norms on refugee protection and press freedoms.”

On Friday, U.S. investigators in Quito began questioning six staff members from the Ecuadorian embassy in London who were stationed there during Assange’s stay as a political refugee. The interrogations are based on a planted fake story in the Guardian claiming that Julian Assange held secret meetings with Paul Manafort in the embassy from 2013 to 2016.

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No reporters have been able to find evidence supporting the claims made by the Guardian, the authors have repeatedly published provably false claims about Assange in the past, the embassy is so thoroughly monitored that it would be very simple to prove if it was true, and all parties involved have adamantly denied the claim.

Still, the absurd tale is now being used as the pretext for an international subpoena.

“Ecuador’s new regime has