U.S. subpoenaed Twitter information linked to WikiLeaks!!

U.S. officials have subpoenaed information on the social media website Twitter about Julian Assange and several other prominent supporters of WikiLeaks, an Icelandic lawmaker named in documents said Saturday. A federal court in Virginia has ordered Twitter to provide information for each account registered to Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, Rop Gonggrijp, a reported computer hacker from the Netherlands, and Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of parliament in Iceland and a former volunteer with WikiLeaks, according to documents sent to CNN by Jonsdottir.The order asks for subscriber names, user names, and screen names, mailing addresses, residential addresses and connection records along with other information related to the accounts. CNN could not independently verify the documents and attempts to reach the Justice Department were unsuccessful Saturday. The legal notification read: "We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account @birgittaj. The legal process requires Twitter to produce documents related to your account.? Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said she would not speak about the specifics of the WikiLeaks case. The court documents provided by Jonsdottir show that the original order for Twitter to supply the information was given and sealed on December 14. Judge Theresa C. Buchanan unsealed it January 5, authorizing Twitter to disclose the order to its subscribers and customers.Jonsdottir said the Twitter legal team sent her an e-mail at 7:30 p.m. Friday informing her that the company would respond to the U.S. order in 10 days unless it received notice that a motion had been filed to quash the legal process. Gonggrijp also posted the notification he received on his website.Moreover, Jonsdottir who met Assange a year ago and worked with WikiLeaks until last summer, called the U.S. demand for private information "unacceptable" and said that she is consulting with lawyers in the United States on how to respond and added that she had no idea why her Twitter account was of interest. "I hope they don't think I am so naive that I would be doing any sort of messaging through the Twitter board of any significance or (that would be) incriminating.. This shows how nervous the U.S. government is." she said. "I think this should be handled better. I have done nothing illegal."Jonsdottir was once a spokeswoman for WikiLeaks and worked on the website's release of a classified video last April that showed a U.S. Apache helicopter firing at and killing civilians -including two Reuters? news service journalists -on the ground in Iraq.WikiLeaks said the video "clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers." Public airing of the video forced the Pentagon to defend the actions of its troops in a report that concluded the Apache crew had no way of knowing the journalists were among suspected insurgents on the street.The CNN also reported that following the publishing of hundreds of thousands of pages about confidential U.S. military and diplomatic documents, the Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department is conducting, since November, an "active, ongoing criminal investigation into the WikiLeaks disclosure of the U.S. secret documents.?

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