Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details

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, ..

Iceland summons US envoy
Birgitta Jonsdottir - Iceland MP and former Wikileaks collaborator. The US Justice Department is seeking access to her Twitter account as it tries to build a criminal case against Wikileaks Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images 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, revealed last week...

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. ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details
Source: The Guardian 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 starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, ...

Do NOT Mess with Iceland's Twitterz
Now that everyone in the whole world has gotten a gander at the United States's burn book, the U.S. has created two goals. The first is to apologize to all the Diplomats they secretly called fat, and the second is to find and waterboard every single person who had anything to do with this "Wikileaks" thing. Sure, Assange was the ringleader, but he had loads of other pasty, creepy cronies, right? Though, the ugly Americans may have overstepped yet another legal boundary in their ...

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...

US demands Twitter release Assange details
Staff at the whistleblowing website Wikileaks were last night preparing a Legal Challenge after discovering that US officials had issued a Subpoena on their Twitter account to demand private messages, billing addresses and other details. The group suspects that other Social Networking sites and email providers will also have been asked to reveal their private conversations. The site's founder, Julian Assange, was one of four people associated with the group to have a Subpoena on their account....

U.S. Demands Twitter Release Details of WikiLeaks Accounts
Dec. 1: The Twitter homepage of Wikileaks is shown in this photo taken in New York. WASHINGTON - 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 by the U.S. attorney's office i...

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...

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 ...

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...

Government-created climate of fear
One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about Wikileaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it). At the time, few had heard of the group -- it was before it had released the video of the Apache Helicopter attack -- but I nonetheless believed it could perform vitally important functions and thus encouraged readers to donate to it and otherwi...

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...

Twitter forced to reveal data on WikiLeaks
Social Networking site Twitter has been ordered to hand over account details for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and others linked to his whistleblowing website. • Assange: Book Deal Photograph: PA The United States government has subpoenaed Twitter to try to secure information such as user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. WikiLeaks said it suspected other American Internet companies were also being asked to hand over information about its activi...

DOJ Subpoena Of Twitter For WikiLeaks Info Is Odd
Glenn Greenwald at Salon has a good take on the DOJ Subpoena ordering Twitter to give information about Birgitta Jónsdóttir (pictured), a former Wikileaks volunteer and member of the Icelandic Parliament. What hasn’t been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter — which is actually an Order from a Federal Court that the DOJ requested — seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appe...

WikiLeaks subpoenas spill out into public realm
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 Julia...

US Government Issues Subpoena To Twitter For Wikileaks, Assange-Related Accounts
The noose around the necks of Wikileaks is now tightening at a rapid pace, with the United States finally getting overtly involved. Last night, Icelandic Parliamentarian and producer of Wikileaks’ “Collateral Murder” video Birgitta Jonsdottir stated she had just been notified that the US Department of Justice had sent Twitter a Subpoena for all of her activity on Twitter- and that of Julian Assange , and anyone involved with Wikileaks. Wikileaks fremeny The Guardian, who ...

U.S. orders Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks records
WASHINGTON | Sat Jan 8, 2011 11:56am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of Wikileaks and several supporters as part of a Criminal Investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. The December 14 Subpoena obtained by the Department of Justice and published by online magazine Salon.com on Friday said the records sought from the Microblogging website were "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation...

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. ...