Obama Admin. Chases After Whistleblower Who Exposed Gross Waste at NSA

19 06 2011

Big article in the New Yorker recently –

The Secret Sharer

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

by Jane Mayer

[snip] “. . . . the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years. . .  “

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer





WikiLeaks’ Users Under Attack

8 01 2011

US Government seeks personal info on twitter ‘friends’ of WikiLeaks, contributors etc.

BREAKING NEWS: Updates on WikiLeaks Twitter account

They want all the stuff on EVERYBODY!

From SALON 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.

ALSO-

Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: “My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act—Here’s Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange”

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/30/son_of_julius_and_ethel_rosenberg

UPDATE [Jan. 10]  –

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 North Atlantic nation… (more)