WikiLeaks Backers Lose Bid to Keep Twitter Accounts From U.S. Prosecutors

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WikiLeaks Backers Lose Bid to Keep Twitter Accounts From U.S. Prosecutors

By Tom Schoenberg
January 05, 2012 2:22 PM EST

Three WikiLeaks backers lost their bid to keep information on them collected from their Twitter Inc. accounts from being turned over to U.S. prosecutors who are investigating the group’s publication of classified information.

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The subscribers challenging the order include Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of the Icelandic parliament; Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher who represented WikiLeaks at a 2010 hacker’s conference in New York; and Rop Gonggrijp, described in court papers as a Dutch activist and businessman.

The three subscribers argued that the U.S. subpoena to Twitter violated their privacy and their rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

“We’re obviously disappointed by this ruling and we think the judge got it wrong,” said Aden Fine, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who represents Jonsdottir. Fine said his client is considering her options, which include asking the appeals court to delay turning over the data.

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[sabrina 1]

1. I'm a twitter subscriber to Wikileaks which is a great news site, btw. They have nearly a million

subscribers last I looked. I hope this gets them more.

What a horrible Orwellian society we are living in. I remember when this started and Wikileaks got more subscribers as a form of protest to this egregious violation of rights by the US Government.

The only way to fight is to do what people did when Bush set up his number for people to turn in their neighbors to. Airc, thousands of people started calling claiming they had seen something suspicious and eventually they had to give it up. TIA the Orwellian sounding 'Total Information Act' was the law under which he claimed the right to have Americans turn in their neighbors.

[Octafish]

2. His stance on ''Torture and War'' put Santorum at odds with the entire New Testament.

Thank you for an outstanding article, Hissyspit.

When the late Pope John Paul II warned against the invasion of Iraq, Santorum vocally championed the war.