Iceland summons US envoy

Iceland Summons U.S. Envoy Over Demand for MP's Twitter Details (WikiLeaks)
Source: Guardian UK Iceland summons US Envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details Reykjavik calls for explanation of Justice Department's move to access account of politician caught up in Wikileaks inquiry Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 January 2011 18.44 GMT The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks collaborator. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, ..

Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details
© H. Kolbeins/Associated Foreign Press/Getty Images Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks volunteer, who is now fighting a US Justice Department attempt to get hold of her private messages on Twitter A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former Wikileaks volunteer says the US Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages. Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wa...

Iceland Summons US Envoy Over Moves Against Pro-WikiLeaks MP
US Ambassador to Iceland Luis Arreaga has been summoned by that nation’s Foreign Ministry to answer questions about the Justice Department’s attempt to Subpoena secret information from MP Birgitta Jonsdottir’s Twitter account. Icelandic MP Jonsdottir Jonsdottir is an outspoken free Speech supporter and has past ties with Wikileaks. It is assumed that the efforts to Subpoena her account information, as well as that of a number of other people, is related to the Justice Departm...

Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks probe
LONDON (AP) - The American ambassador to Reykjavik has been summoned to explain why U.S. investigators are trying to access the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker's online activity as they try to build a criminal case against Wikileaks. Revelations that the U.S. Justice Department obtained a court order to examine data held by Twitter Inc. on Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian who sits on the country's Foreign Affairs Committee, immediately caused consternation in the tiny ...

Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks subpoena
Source: Bloomberg LONDON (AP) — Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador to a meeting as Top Officials express concern over the U.S. Criminal Investigation into Wikileaks — a Probe that has included a demand to see the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker's Twitter feed. A court order unsealed this week revealed that American authorities had gone to court to seek data from Twitter about WikiLeaks, its associates, and its alleged source, Army Intelligence Analyst Bradley Manning. Among those ..

Iceland Summons U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks Probe
Like this Story? Share it: (AP) LONDON - The American ambassador to Reykjavik has been summoned to explain why U.S. investigators are trying to access the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker's online activity as they try to build a criminal case against Wikileaks. Revelations that the U.S. Justice Department obtained a court order to examine data held by Twitter Inc. on Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian who sits on the country's Foreign Affairs Committee, immediately caused...

Obamas Anti-WikiLeaks Subpoenas Cast a Broad Net
After an initial effort to keep them secret failed in the wake of an apparent court challenge from Twitter, the Obama Administration’s anti-WikiLeaks Subpoenas are increasingly a matter of public record - and public concern as they appear to cast a ridiculously broad net. The initial targets include an Icelandic MP, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and others who have past ties with the Wikileaks organization, and Wikileaks says that while Twitter is the first to go public with ...

Feds go after Wikileaks-Twitter connection
U.S. prosecutors’ demand that the Microblogging service Twitter Inc. hand over data about users with ties to Wikileaks amounts to harassment, said a lawyer for Julian Assange, the website’s founder. The Justice Department Subpoena, approved last month in Federal Court and later unsealed, also violates the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable government searches, Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens said today in a telephone interview in London. ...

Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks subpoena
LONDON (AP) — Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador to a meeting as Top Officials express concern over the U.S. Criminal Investigation into Wikileaks — a Probe that has included a demand to see the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker’s Twitter feed. A court order unsealed this week revealed that American authorities had gone to court to seek data from Twitter about WikiLeaks, its associates, and its alleged source, Army Intelligence Analyst Bradley Manning. Among those ...

DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
© Associated Press U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former Wikileaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament -- announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served a Subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." Several news outlets, including The Guardian, wrote about Jónsdóttir's announcement. What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on

US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on WikiLeaks 635,561 followers
"The fine people of Wikileaks alerted me on Twitter that the Subpoena you sent to Twitter, Inc. demanding all kinds of records, in fact, includes me too," Okke Ornstein wrote on his blog. "I hereby confess that I am one of the 635,561 followers of Wikileaks on Twitter," Ornstein wrote. "Maybe I should thank the US Department of Justice for including me in this 'Criminal Investigation.' It’s not every day that one gets to be part of history, even if it is a flawed attempt at damage control ...

WikiLeaks damage will last for years, says Clinton
ABU DHABI: The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has acknowledged it will take years to undo the damage caused by the Wikileaks revelations, likening her recent travels to an extended ''Apology tour'' to reassure allies who suffered embarrassment or worse because of the disclosures. ''I think I will be answering concerns about Wikileaks for the rest of my life, not just the rest of my tenure as Secretary of State,'' Mrs Clinton said as she embarked on a five-day visit of Arab countries, man...

Civil Stupidity: Wikileaks Connection Gets A Big Fat Subpoena For Twitter
And so it begins. At what level is our activity monitored, and at what level is it protected? How is protection of our information or enforcement of breaches going to be handled? A reader implied in an earlier comment that if you're not a criminal that you shouldn't have anything to hide. Not so. I am completely legal and aboveboard, but I do like having the right to my Privacy. This is one of many similar stories. Not only is it interesting from a legal point of view, but from a social standpoi...

WikiLeaks Demands Google and Facebook Unseal US Subpoenas
© Andy Rain/EPA 'Free Julian Assange' protestors demonstrate in Central London before the Wikileaks founder's court hearing in December. Call comes after revelation that US has tried to force Twitter to release Wikileaks members' private details WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US Subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts on the micro-blogging site by f...

Twitter ordered to pass on WikiLeaks account info
Federal authorities investigating Wikileaks, the organization that disclosed secret details of the Afghan war and other sensitive data, have won a Federal Court order demanding details about Twitter accounts linked to the group. A Dec. 14 order by Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan directed Twitter Inc. to give Federal Prosecutors in Virginia account information for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst who is suspected of giving WikiLeaks classifi...

US turns to Twitter as WikiLeaks chase continues
The Department of Justice makes its first digital move in its investigation, writes Ellie Harvey. IN THE digital haze of zeros and ones, the world's diplomatic relations can be shaken, crimes can be committed and, increasingly, evidence can be sought. The first signs of the US Department of Justice's Criminal Investigation into the Whistleblower website Wikileaks have emerged, having subpoenaed the activity on Microblogging site Twitter of five people, including the Wikileaks editor, Julian Ass...

WikiLeaks Subpoenas Spill Out To Public Realm
Investigative documents in the Wikileaks Probe spilled out into the Public Domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama Administration's determination to assemble a criminal case no matter how long it takes and how far afield authorities have to go. Backed by a magistrate judge's court order from Dec. 14, the newly disclosed documents sent to Twitter Inc. by the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., demand details about the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Pfc. ...

Is the Government Alleging Bradley Manning Loaded Encryption Software onto DOD Computers?
I’ve been revisiting the timeline revealed in Bradley Manning’s charging document. Here’s a short version of what that shows: November 1, 2009: Earliest date for which government Subpoenas Wikileaks related Twitter accounts November 19, 2009: Earliest possibly date for all charges except accessing the Rejkjavik 13 cable (which was dated January 13) November 24, 2009: Per chat logs, Manning said he first started working with WL after release of 9/11 pager messages, which was f...

Justice Department seeks Twitter records on WikiLeaks volunteers
Wikileaks said Saturday that the Justice Department had gone to Twitter to demand account information about co-founder and spokesman Julian Assange as well as other WikiLeaks supporters. "If the Iranian govt asked for DMs of Iranian Activists, State Dept would be all over this violation of 'Internet freedom'," WikiLeaks tweeted late Friday, followed by a tweet simply saying, "There are many WikiLeaks supporters listed in the US Twitter Subpoena." Those included in the quest for information inc...

Iceland: Interior Minister Says Wikileaks-case is "Odd and Grave"
© Althingi Minister of Interior Ögmundur Jónasson. In an interview with mbl.is Icelandic Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson said that at first sight the case of US authorities against Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir seems to be "very odd and grave." He said that at this stage he can't express himself on the case but hopes to get information from Jónsdóttir. Jónasson said: "Of course it is a very serious matter, if a demand has been put forward that she

Who's to blame here? (The old accountability problem.)
Let me get this straight.  The State Department, our government -- over a period of years, maybe decades -- has been careless with classified information.  Some of that information was allowed to another government (Military) employee who found it interesting enough to turn it over to the media.   Our definition of "media" these days  includes anything from the august grey lady in New York to websites like "Wikileaks" to inane upstarts like Twi...

GOP House leadership acts fast on Black Panthers
Editor’s Note: This popular post was first published on January 6 here. Who said the new GOP majority in Congress wouldn’t act to restrain the Obama Administration? Less than 24 hours after the start of the 112th Congress, new Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) has put Eric Holder on notice a new sheriff is in town.  Jennifer Rubin blogging at the Washington Post obtained a copy of a five page letter from Smith to Eric Holder about lawless abuses by the voting section o...

Iceland Summons US Envoy Over Wikileaks Probe
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WikiLeaks: US Demanding Our Twitter Account Info
LONDON — U.S. officials have issued a Subpoena to demand details about Wikileaks' Twitter account, the group announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other supporter...

DOJ Secretly Subpoenas Private Twitter Information On Suspected WikiLeaks Associates
, describing how Birgitta Jonsdottir learned that was the target of a DOJ Subpoena: A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former Wikileaks volunteer says the US Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages. Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?" She said she was start...