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Beckham family making room for baby No. 4
LONDON - A spokeswoman for Victoria Beckham says the former Spice Girl and her husband David Beckham are expecting a child later this year. Jo Milloy gave few other details Sunday, but it would be baby No. 4 for the Beckham family, whose celebrity is well-entrenched on both sides of the Atlantic. There was no confirmation of whether the latest addition to the Beckham brood would be a boy or a girl....
Beckham family making room for baby No. 4
LONDON (AP) - A spokeswoman for Victoria Beckham says the former Spice Girl and her husband David Beckham are expecting a child later this year. Jo Milloy gave few other details Sunday, but it would be baby No. 4 for the Beckham family, whose celebrity is well-entrenched on both sides of the Atlantic. There was no confirmation of whether the latest addition to the Beckham brood would be a boy or a girl. ...
Beckham family making room for baby No. 4
A spokeswoman for Victoria Beckham says the former Spice Girl and her husband David Beckham are expecting a child later this year. Jo Milloy gave few other details Sunday, but it would be baby No. 4 for the Beckham family, whose celebrity is well-entrenched on both sides of the Atlantic. There was no confirmation of whether the latest addition to the Beckham brood would be a boy or a girl. Journalists urged caution after Ft. Hood, now race to blame Palin after Arizona shootings Rep. Gabrielle Gi...
Victoria Beckham Pregnant: To Have Fourth Child With Soccer Star David Beckham
LONDON — Team Beckham can soon expect another player.
The former Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham and her husband David are expecting a child later this year, said Jo Milloy, a spokeswoman for Victoria Beckham.
Milloy gave few other details Sunday, but it would be baby No. 4 for the Beckhams, whose celebrity is well-entrenched on both sides of the Atlantic.
David Beckham, a former England captain, played for Manchester United and Real Madrid before moving his sporting career to California when h...
Victoria and David Beckham expecting fourth child
David and Victoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child in the summer, Victoria Beckham's spokeswoman confirmed on Sunday. The couple's three sons - Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 5 - were said to be "very excited" about having a new brother or sister. Jo Milloy, spokeswoman for Mrs Beckham, confirmed the baby news but declined to give a more specific due date or confirm how far the Pregnancy was advanced. Former England captain David, 35, and pop star-turned Fashion Designer Victoria, 36...
Beckhams expecting fourth child
Football superstar David Beckham and his former Spice Girl wife Victoria are expecting their fourth child this summer, a spokeswoman said on Sunday. The couple's three sons Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five, were "very excited" about having a new brother or sister, Victoria's spokeswoman Jo Milloy said. Milloy would not confirm the due date or what stage the Pregnancy has reached. Former England captain David, 35, and pop star-turned Fashion Designer Victoria, 36, married in 1999 and li...
Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details
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Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks volunteer, who is now fighting a US Justice Department attempt to get hold of her private messages on Twitter
A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former Wikileaks volunteer says the US Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wa...
Iceland Summons U.S. Envoy Over Demand for MP's Twitter Details (WikiLeaks)
Source: Guardian UK
Iceland summons US Envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details
Reykjavik calls for explanation of Justice Department's move to access account of politician caught up in Wikileaks inquiry
Dominic Rushe
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 January 2011 18.44 GMT
The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks collaborator.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, ..
Iceland Summons U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks Probe
Like this Story? Share it: (AP) LONDON - 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...
Iceland Summons US Envoy Over Moves Against Pro-WikiLeaks MP
US Ambassador to Iceland Luis Arreaga has been summoned by that nation’s Foreign Ministry to answer questions about the Justice Department’s attempt to Subpoena secret information from MP Birgitta Jonsdottir’s Twitter account.
Icelandic MP Jonsdottir
Jonsdottir is an outspoken free Speech supporter and has past ties with Wikileaks. It is assumed that the efforts to Subpoena her account information, as well as that of a number of other people, is related to the Justice Departm...
Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details
Source: The Guardian
A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former Wikileaks volunteer says the US Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, ...
Iceland summons US envoy
Birgitta Jonsdottir - Iceland MP and former Wikileaks collaborator. The US Justice Department is seeking access to her Twitter account as it tries to build a criminal case against Wikileaks Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks collaborator. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, revealed last week...
Beckhams expecting fourth child in summer
The England Soccer star and his Fashion Designer wife are based in Los Angeles, where he plays for LA Galaxy. They have three sons -- Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 5.
"David and Victoria Beckham are delighted to confirm they are expecting their fourth child in the summer," Jo Milloy said in an emailed statement. "Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz are very excited about the arrival of their new brother or sister."
Milloy said there were no further details available.
The announcement came on the same ...
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Who's to blame here? (The old accountability problem.)
Let me get this straight. The State Department, our government -- over a period of years, maybe decades -- has been careless with classified information. Some of that information was allowed to another government (Military) employee who found it interesting enough to turn it over to the media. Our definition of "media" these days includes anything from the august grey lady in New York to websites like "Wikileaks" to inane upstarts like Twi...
DOJ Secretly Subpoenas Private Twitter Information On Suspected WikiLeaks Associates
, describing how Birgitta Jonsdottir learned that was the target of a DOJ Subpoena:
A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former Wikileaks volunteer says the US Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
She said she was start...
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...
U.S. Demands Twitter Release Details of WikiLeaks Accounts
Dec. 1: The Twitter homepage of Wikileaks is shown in this photo taken in New York. WASHINGTON - Investigative documents in the WikiLeaks Probe spilled out into the Public Domain Saturday for the first time, pointing to the Obama Administration's determination to assemble a criminal case no matter how long it takes and how far afield authorities have to go. Backed by a magistrate judge's court order from Dec. 14, the newly disclosed documents sent to Twitter by the U.S. attorney's office i...
Iceland summons US envoy over WikiLeaks subpoena
Source: Bloomberg
LONDON (AP) Iceland has summoned the U.S. ambassador to a meeting as Top Officials express concern over the U.S. Criminal Investigation into Wikileaks a Probe that has included a demand to see the private details of an Icelandic lawmaker's Twitter feed.
A court order unsealed this week revealed that American authorities had gone to court to seek data from Twitter about WikiLeaks, its associates, and its alleged source, Army Intelligence Analyst Bradley Manning.
Among those ..
Twitter ordered to pass on WikiLeaks account info
Federal authorities investigating Wikileaks, the organization that disclosed secret details of the Afghan war and other sensitive data, have won a Federal Court order demanding details about Twitter accounts linked to the group.
A Dec. 14 order by Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan directed Twitter Inc. to give Federal Prosecutors in Virginia account information for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst who is suspected of giving WikiLeaks classifi...
WikiLeaks damage will last for years, says Clinton
ABU DHABI: The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has acknowledged it will take years to undo the damage caused by the Wikileaks revelations, likening her recent travels to an extended ''Apology tour'' to reassure allies who suffered embarrassment or worse because of the disclosures. ''I think I will be answering concerns about Wikileaks for the rest of my life, not just the rest of my tenure as Secretary of State,'' Mrs Clinton said as she embarked on a five-day visit of Arab countries, man...
Obamas Anti-WikiLeaks Subpoenas Cast a Broad Net
After an initial effort to keep them secret failed in the wake of an apparent court challenge from Twitter, the Obama Administration’s anti-WikiLeaks Subpoenas are increasingly a matter of public record - and public concern as they appear to cast a ridiculously broad net.
The initial targets include an Icelandic MP, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and others who have past ties with the Wikileaks organization, and Wikileaks says that while Twitter is the first to go public with ...
DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
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.
What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on
Iceland blasts US demand for lawmaker's details in WikiLeaks probe
Source: Deutsche Welle
Politicians in Iceland have hit out at a US request for Twitter to hand over details of a member of the country's parliament because of her connections with Wikileaks.
A Subpoena for parliamentary representative Birgitta Jonsdottir's details was issued as part of an investigation involving several individuals associated with the whistle-blowing website.
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Iceland: Interior Minister Says Wikileaks-case is "Odd and Grave"
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Minister of Interior Ögmundur Jónasson.
In an interview with mbl.is Icelandic Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson said that at first sight the case of US authorities against Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir seems to be "very odd and grave." He said that at this stage he can't express himself on the case but hopes to get information from Jónsdóttir.
Jónasson said: "Of course it is a very serious matter, if a demand has been put forward that she
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