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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."
It ordered Twitter to provide account information on WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst
suspected of leaking Pentagon documents made public last year by WikiLeaks.
The information sought by the government includes all connection records and
session times, IP addresses used to access Twitter, email and residential
addresses plus billing records and details of bank accounts and credit cards.
The subpoena included the accounts of WikiLeaks supporters Jacob Appelbaum,
Rop Gonggrijp and Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks volunteer and
member of Iceland's parliament.
"WikiLeaks strongly condemns this harassment of individuals by the U.S.
government," WikiLeaks said in a statement issued to Reuters by its London
lawyer, Mark Stephens.
Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson told Icelandic media on
Saturday his government planned to lodge a protest on Monday with the U.S.
ambassador in Reykjavik.
Speaking on state radio, Skarphedinsson said the U.S. authorities' behavior
was unacceptable and his government would do everything in its power to
protect Jonsdottir.
The U.S. government is examining whether criminal charges can be brought
against Assange for helping to make public hundreds of thousands of
confidential U.S. diplomatic cables that embarrassed Washington and several
of its allies.
WikiLeaks said three of the four individuals targeted by the Department of
Justice had never worked for WikiLeaks and were private citizens who
supported its public disclosure work voluntarily as activists or politicians.
Two of them were instrumental in helping WikiLeaks make public the Pentagon
video that showed a U.S. helicopter crew firing on Iraqi civilians, the
statement said. WikiLeaks is instructing its U.S. lawyers to oppose the
subpoena, he added.
Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland's foreign relations committee wrote on
Twitter that she was seeking legal advice and had spoken to Iceland's
minister of justice, who was looking into the case.
Speaking to Sky News on the telephone from Reykjavik, she said the U.S.'s
actions were outrageous.
"I have not conducted any criminal activity. I find it to be troublesome
because the vice president of the United States has labeled WikiLeaks as a
cyber-terrorist organization," she said.
The subpoena gave Twitter Inc three days to provide the records and ordered
the San Francisco-based company not to inform the users under investigation.
A federal judge unsealed the order on January 5 after Twitter requested the
right to inform the people involved.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the subpoena but added: "To
help users protect their rights, it is our policy to notify users about law
enforcement and governmental requests for their information, unless we are
prevented by law from doing so."
In its statement, WikiLeaks said the legal step taken by Twitter had made
public the existence of a criminal investigation by the U.S. government into
the website's work.
WikiLeaks called on Facebook and Google to unseal any similar subpoenas
requesting information about its operations.
Stephens said the subpoena showed that the U.S. authorities were having
difficulty putting together a case "criminalizing the actions of a
journalistic source" as they try to identify the source of the leaked
documents.
"What they are trying to do is hoover data up to see if anything can
identify the source," the lawyer told Reuters.
Washington has accused WikiLeaks of acting without regard for the safety of
those named in classified cables containing candid remarks about foreign
leaders and governments.
The State Department said on Friday it has warned several hundred people
worldwide it believes may be imperiled and has helped a handful relocate to
safer places.
Link to subpoena: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf
(Writing by Anthony Boadle, reporting by Stefano Ambrogi in London and Dan
Whitcomb in Los Angeles and Omar Valdimarsson in Reykjavik; Editing by Paul
Simao) | z******0
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