Department Of Justice Spoils The Party
Jónsdóttir and Julian Assange
Jónsdóttir has also worked with Julian Assange as a volunteer for WikiLeaks, and took part in releasing a leaked video of a US airstrike in Afghanistan [see below].
And as the chief sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, she wants to make Iceland a haven for freedom in the press. Which would include asylum for Assange, whom many believe has been set up with false charges of rape to punish him for the government documents he helped release on WikiLeaks.
On the website Assange Watch, Jónsdóttir recently told Jerry Smith:
"Nobody has embarrassed diplomats' entire bureaucratic machine more than WikiLeaks, and so they are seeking ways to pursue him [Assange]. But they are entering an extremely dangerous minefield. I am a member of [Icelandic] parliament, I sit on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and I have a seat in the NATO parliament. Suppose they lay hands on my Google accounts and Facebook information; channels through which I am in touch with other members of parliament! How can they then be critical if China, for instance, tries to lay hands on similar information about American senators who are working for Tibet? But I am not surprised. However, it is quite tiresome that I can no longer travel to the United States. I already could not go to China, so now I cannot go to the United States, either."
I'm not sure about her Google and Facebook accounts, but on January 7th, Jónsdóttir announced on her Twitter page that she had been notified by Twitter that it had been served by the United States Department of Justice with a subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." This would include all mailing addresses and billing information known for Jónsdóttir, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.
Harrassment? Conspiracy? Judge for yourself.
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And as the chief sponsor of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, she wants to make Iceland a haven for freedom in the press. Which would include asylum for Assange, whom many believe has been set up with false charges of rape to punish him for the government documents he helped release on WikiLeaks.
On the website Assange Watch, Jónsdóttir recently told Jerry Smith:
"Nobody has embarrassed diplomats' entire bureaucratic machine more than WikiLeaks, and so they are seeking ways to pursue him [Assange]. But they are entering an extremely dangerous minefield. I am a member of [Icelandic] parliament, I sit on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and I have a seat in the NATO parliament. Suppose they lay hands on my Google accounts and Facebook information; channels through which I am in touch with other members of parliament! How can they then be critical if China, for instance, tries to lay hands on similar information about American senators who are working for Tibet? But I am not surprised. However, it is quite tiresome that I can no longer travel to the United States. I already could not go to China, so now I cannot go to the United States, either."
I'm not sure about her Google and Facebook accounts, but on January 7th, Jónsdóttir announced on her Twitter page that she had been notified by Twitter that it had been served by the United States Department of Justice with a subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." This would include all mailing addresses and billing information known for Jónsdóttir, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.
Harrassment? Conspiracy? Judge for yourself.
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