The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Twitter to provide all data and information in its possession in relation to a number of accounts belonging to Julian Assange, Birgitta Jonsdottir (Icelandic parliamentary promoter of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative), Bradley Manning ( The soldier accused of having communicated the information to Wikileaks stolen from the archives of the Pentagon) and other activists from Wikileaks.The order, according to what has been learned, would be sent to Twitter last December 14 with the explicit request not to inform either the holders of the account under investigation order. Subsequently, however, January 5, to surrender to the secret account holders would be revoked and they were then informed of the investigation in progress.
According to what we read in the order of acquisition of information from Twitter, the data and information requested would be required in criminal proceedings currently pending. The U.S. Department of Justice, after weeks of waiting and indirect threats, it would seem, then, having broken every now be willing to delay and drag Julian Assange and those who have hitherto supported the dock, although it is unknown which is exactly the crime complained of.
It is, however, allegedly in conspiracy against the United States of America. We are one step away from a true statement of the twenty-first century warfare. The U.S. Justice Department, that of President Barack Obama who had declared their intention to create the most transparent administration in the history of the United States of America, asks a provider of electronic communications to provide data and information relating to ' online activities carried out by a Member of a foreign country.
It is, as already noted the Icelandic Minister of a very serious, especially considering that the crime for which we proceed is, in substance - waiting to hear the formal complaint - in having contributed to the spread of information of obvious relevance for the public, but classified as secret by the prosecuting authority itself.
It 'difficult - but without knowing the rules and rituals of American law - to predict how it will end, and especially whether the U.S. administration is "only" showing the muscles and awkwardly trying to do a scorched earth around Julian Assange, or rather , really believe they can bring to the bar and even the Wikileaks Icelandic parliamentary, guilty, as far we know, have proposed a bill aimed at turning Iceland into a "paradise of information".
E ', however, no doubt blowing wind of war by the U.S. and the war in question, one that could explode in the coming hours, a conflict would be more "intangible" of human history but at the same time the most devastating : this would, in fact, a war of information against blows to the information.
Too hard, sitting on this side of the ocean, to understand who is right and who is wrong according to law, and even whether and to what extent U.S. law that must be used to resolve the conflict, but it is equally difficult quixotic and short-sighted not find the U.S. reaction. Julian Assange and Wikileaks are only the tip of the iceberg of a universe of information that now has been done in the ocean off the Net to silence them - if at all - will not be worth going back in time and to return to the state secret the impenetrability of the past.
It 'easy to predict that the post of Wikileaks and its will be soon taken by others who, perhaps, this time, they will act with his face hidden under a hood and digital exploit the laws, not far ahead, a country which, like 'Iceland has chosen to stand as a paradise of freedom of information and challenge, so U.S.
laws, just as, until yesterday, many countries made up handfuls of sand in the ocean, have challenged the tax systems of the richest nations and powerful. It 's a shame that so much political myopia - unfortunately common in gerontocracy Palace - has also affected the administration of Barack Obama, the one who was a candidate to be the most transparent in history and the protector of whistleblowers and today, by a strange quirk of destiny, is to fight a war against an "excess of transparency", or rather, against an "abuse of the media and freedom of expression."
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