US government grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks has for the first time been confirmed as a subpoena was brought into the public domain. The writ, approved by a court in Virginia in December 2010, demands that the San Franscisco-based micro-blogging site Twitter hand over all details of five individuals' accounts and private messaging on Twitter – including the computers and networks used.
They include Julian Assange, Bradley Manning (som laddade ner alla ambassaddokument) , Icelandic MP Brigitta Jonsdottir (drivande kraft inom Wikileaks) and Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp (en av hjärnorna). Three of them – Gonggrijp, Assange and Jonsdottir – were named as "producers" of the first significant leak from the US cables cache: a video of an Apache helicopter attack that killed civilians and journalists in Baghdad.
The legal document also targets an account held by Jacob Appelbaum, a US computer programmer whose computer and phones were examined by US officials in July after he was stopped returning from Holland to America. The court issuing the subpoena said it had "reasonable grounds" to believe Twitter held information "relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation". It ordered Twitter not to notify the targets of the subpoena – an order the company successfully challenged. Här finns hela artikeln. Och här den isländska reaktionen.
Enligt New York Times arbetar dussintals personer med att samla material om Wikileaks: Dozens of Pentagon and State Department officials, among others, have been active for months in investigating the damage done to American diplomatic and military operations. And Justice Department officials have been seeking a legal rationale for charging Mr. Assange with criminal behavior, including whether he actively solicited leaks. Här finns den artikeln.
Of the five individuals named in the subpoena, only two — Mr. Manning and Mr. Appelbaum — are American citizens. The others include an Australian, Mr. Assange, Ms. Jonsdottir, from Iceland, Mr. Gonggrijp, a Dutch citizen. This immediately raised the possibility of a diplomatic quarrel between the United States and allied nations whose citizens were among those covered by the subpoena. They could argue that American laws were being used to stifle free communications between individuals who were not American citizens, and who were not in the United States at the time of the messages that were the target of the subpoena.
Och här en artikel om varför Assange och The Guardian, en av Europas tongivande tidningar, numer är som hund och katt. Här finns alla detaljer.
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