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Lawyers Seek to Shield Twitter Accounts From WikiLeaks Investigation

By Sharon WeinbergerFeb 15th 2011 – 5:41PM

Lawyers today asked a federal court in Alexandria, Va., to quash the Justice Department's attempt to obtain the records of Twitter users linked to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks. The department is trying to obtain records associated with several Twitter users, including Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence...

Report: WikiLeaks' Assange Under Pressure to Resign

By Theunis BatesSep 7th 2010 – 8:07AM
Bertil Ericson, AFP / Getty Images

Bertil Ericson, AFP / Getty Images

(Sept. 7) -- Embattled WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange is facing an insurrection within his own organization after a prominent supporter called on him to step down as the site's point man. WikiLeaks organizer Birgitta Jonsdottir -- an Icelandic parliamentarian -- told The Daily Beast that Assange should give up his...

birgitta jonsdottir News From the Web

  • 05/21/12 Manchester's FutureEverything conference – day two Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk Star turn on day two of the FutureEverything conference is Birgitta Jónsdóttir , the Icelandic MP, hacktivist, and poet, who played a major role in Wikileaks ' famous Collateral Murder video exposing war crimes in Iraq by US soldiers.
  • 05/17/12 Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy... Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada Two weeks ago Birgitta Jonsdottir , the self-styled activist Member of Parliament from Iceland and central figure in the important and ongoing Twitter-WikiLeaks cases , was in Ottawa.

Background on birgitta jonsdottir

Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is a member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement.

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