Besieged Assange hires PR team

WIKILEAKS' Assange signs book deal to tell life story...
Edinburgh-based Canongate Books said it had acquired world rights -- apart from North America where the publisher will be Alfred A. Knopf -- to the Whistleblower's Autobiography. It will be published in Britain in April. Assange, who is on bail in Britain facing Extradition proceedings to Sweden on charges of Sexual Assault, has overseen the release of thousands of US diplomatic cables on the Wikileaks website. The publishers said the 39-year-old Australian would use the book to discuss his phil...

Wikileaks: US Seeks Twitter Data
(NewsCore) - Wikileaks said Saturday that the Twitter accounts of four supporters were subpoenaed in connection with a secret US Grand Jury Espionage investigation into the website. WikiLeaks, which began releasing 251,287 US Diplomatic Cables in November, added it had reason to believe Facebook and Google had also received court orders requesting details on users. "Today [Saturday], the existence of a secret US government Grand Jury Espionage investigation into Wikileaks was confirmed for the f...

Twitter forced to reveal data on WikiLeaks
Social Networking site Twitter has been ordered to hand over account details for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and others linked to his whistleblowing website. • Assange: Book Deal Photograph: PA The United States government has subpoenaed Twitter to try to secure information such as user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. WikiLeaks said it suspected other American Internet companies were also being asked to hand over information about its activi...

US demands Twitter release Assange details
Staff at the whistleblowing website Wikileaks were last night preparing a Legal Challenge after discovering that US officials had issued a Subpoena on their Twitter account to demand private messages, billing addresses and other details. The group suspects that other Social Networking sites and email providers will also have been asked to reveal their private conversations. The site's founder, Julian Assange, was one of four people associated with the group to have a Subpoena on their account....

Nasty rebound for ex-WikiLeak woman
Birgitta Jonsdottir told media the U.S. Justice Department has subpoenaed her Internet records relating to Twitter postings since Nov. 1, 2009, The Guardian reported Saturday. The newspaper said in 2009 Jonsdottir invited Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange to a party at the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik. However, Jonsdottir has since distanced herself from Assange and his project, the newspaper said. Meanwhile, she slammed the U.S. Department of Justice for its bid to obtain her personal postings o...

DOJ Subpoena Of Twitter For WikiLeaks Info Is Odd
Glenn Greenwald at Salon has a good take on the DOJ Subpoena ordering Twitter to give information about Birgitta Jónsdóttir (pictured), a former Wikileaks volunteer and member of the Icelandic Parliament. What hasn’t been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter — which is actually an Order from a Federal Court that the DOJ requested — seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appe...

What the Government Might Be After with Its Twitter Subpoena
After a member of Iceland’s Parliament and former Wikileaks volunteer, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, revealed on Twitter yesterday that Twitter has been subpoenaed for details on her Twitter account, Glenn got a copy of the Subpoena. The subpoena was first submitted to Twitter on December 14, and asked for account information for six people as well as any account associated with Wikileaks, going back to November 1, 2009. Of particular note, they ask for: records of user activity for any connect...

Iran arrests U.S. woman on spying charges
(01-07) 04:00 PST Tehran - -- Two state-controlled media outlets reported Thursday that Iranian authorities had arrested a 55-year-old U.S. woman who entered the country from Armenia for spying, after finding a microphone in her teeth. The accuracy of the accounts - by the newspaper Iran and the semiofficial Fars news agency - could not immediately be verified, and the Iranian government withheld direct comment. The arrest, if confirmed, would be the fourth of an American accused of spying in...

New sentence for convicted pedophile
COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A convicted Pedophile who for years raped a Vietnamese girl he bought overseas could spend the rest of his life in Prison, authorities in Florida said. George Joseph England, 66, was convicted in a Florida Federal Court of multiple counts of moving his young Victim across international and state lines in the 1970s, The (Costa Mesa, Calif.) Daily Pilot reported Thursday. In 1972, England was in Vietnam where he bought a 3- or 4-year-old girl from her mother and...

Why Do Journalists Hate Julian Assange?
Very interesting piece in Vanity Fair about why the News Media has turned on Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange.  The story tells us as a lot about Assange..and the news media.  Part of the falling out has to do with the fact that Assange is incredibly controlling, saying that he believes in transparency-but not acting that way. “Assange’s position was rife with ironies. An unwavering advocate of full, unfettered disclosure of primary-source material, Assange was...

U.S. orders Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks records
WASHINGTON | Sat Jan 8, 2011 11:56am EST 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...

Feds order TWITTER to hand over WIKILEAKS records...
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. 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 i...

US court demands WikiLeaks' Twitter account info
Icelandic lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir poses for this photo Feb. 24, 2010... LONDON (AP) - U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about Wikileaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday—the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he believed other American Internet companies such as Facebook and Google may also have been ordered to div...

U.S. wants Wikileaks Twitter data
WASHINGTON - 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 Dec. 14 Subpoena obtained by the U.S. 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 ...

Justice Department seeks Twitter records on WikiLeaks volunteers
Wikileaks said Saturday that the Justice Department had gone to Twitter to demand account information about co-founder and spokesman Julian Assange as well as other WikiLeaks supporters. "If the Iranian govt asked for DMs of Iranian Activists, State Dept would be all over this violation of 'Internet freedom'," WikiLeaks tweeted late Friday, followed by a tweet simply saying, "There are many WikiLeaks supporters listed in the US Twitter Subpoena." Those included in the quest for information inc...

US court demands WikiLeaks' Twitter account info
FILE - In this June 23, 2010 file photo, a Twitter sign hangs at the offices of Twitter Inc., in San Francisco. Wikileaks said Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 that U.S. investigators have gone to San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of Julian Assange and three people associated with the secret-spilling website. The popular micro-blogging site has declined comment. U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand the details of Wik...

WikiLeaks: U.S. Demanding Our Twitter Account Info
LONDON -- U.S. officials have issued a Subpoena to demand details about Wikileaks' Twitter account, the group announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other supporters, in...

WikiLeaks says U.S. is demanding its Twitter account info
LONDON — Wikileaks' Twitter account details have been subpoenaed by U.S. officials, the secret-spilling site announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being asked to hand over information about its activities. In an e-mail statement, WikiLeaks said that U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of founder Julian Assange and others linked...

Chatty Cathies
Babble on, Babylon! We're watching you! It's that time of week, once again--and more!-- and the question of the hour is: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who can spot the most blathering idiot of them all?" Once again, it COULD be you! But only if you participate by entering your nomination in the comments below. But First! We have TWO winners to announce this week--the weekly AND the year-end winners! We start with last week's contest, which was won by The Big Hurt's nomination of Judith Mill...

Obama, Holdren get your filthy hands off Twitter!
One of the worst things that is bound to happen in the next few years is the inevitable Big Government clampdown on the world’s last stronghold of free Speech: the Internet. It’s one of the many of the reasons I am so suspicious of soap-dodging probable vampire Julian Assange, who strikes me as a malign spirit more interested in wreaking havoc in the relatively free West (just like his great fan George Soros) than he is, say, in the world’s Islamofascist terror states and Com...

U.S. Government Subpoenas Twitter For WikiLeaks Information
Birgitta Jonsdottir Photo: Wiki A U.S Federal Court has subpoenaed Twitter, demanding information for every account registered to Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Rop Gonggrijp, and Birgitta Jonsdottir, according to CNN and Salon. The order asks for user names, screen names, mailing addresses, residential addresses, and private messages, as well as other information about the Twitter users. Birgitta Jonsdottir (pictured), a m...

Amercans want Wikileaks Twitter info
U.S. officials have issued a Subpoena to demand details about Wikileaks‘ Twitter account, the group announced Saturday, adding that it suspected other American Internet companies were also being ordered to hand over information about its activities. In a statement, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other supporters, includin...

Countdown: Julian Assanges Memoir Will Be Out This April
April 11: That’s the day that Wikileaks front man Julian Assange ’s memoir will be unleashed onto the public. Assange previously said he’s writing the book not because he wants to, but because he needs the money to pay for his mounting legal costs and to keep Wikileaks up and running. And, with $1.5 million coming his way, he may be able to do just that. In addition to the U.S. and the U.K, Assange’s book will likely also be published in Italy, Germany, France, Australia...

WikiLeaks Demands Google & Facebook Unseal US Subpoenas
Source: Guardian Wikileaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US Subpoenas Call comes after it emerges that US has tried to force Twitter to release WikiLeaks members' private details guardian.co.uk, Sat 8 Jan 2011 13.50 GMT Wikileaks has demanded that Google and Facebook unseal any US court subpoenas they have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter secretly to hand over details of accounts and use of the micro-blogging site by five figures associated with the gro...

all your tweets are belong to us
the department of justice for some is demanding, demanding they say, to see where the Wikileaks tweeps tweeted and to whom. 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...