Iceland summons U.S. ambassador over WikiLeaks

[marmar]

Raphael G. Satter
Associated Press


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 consternation in the tiny North Atlantic nation.

“(It is) very serious that a foreign state, the United States, demands such personal information of an Icelandic person, an elected official,” Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson told Icelandic broadcaster RUV.

“This is even more serious when put (in) perspective and concerns freedom of speech and people’s freedom in general,” he added. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/918726--iceland-summons-u-s-ambassador-over-wikileaks

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Somebody's pushing back?

:wow:

Donde esta el ACLU?

[PDJane]

2. And what they don't know, they will try to get someone

to make up. This is just ridiculous. I would also ask why the US would go to these lengths if they didn't have a guilty concience.

[DCKit]

3. Kind of a ham-handed effort, if I do say so myself.

This is only going to propel the leaks to greater prominence - internationally, at that.