US State Dept Tails Assange's Lawyers. Dec. 5, 2010 Julian Assange’s Lawyers are being watched no doubt by the bumbling State Department, CIA, FBI and US military proving that the US pays no attention to the laws of client-lawyer confidentiality.
Julian Assange’s lawyer on the BBC claims he is being followed as he tries to speak or meet with his client the man is under surveillance by the US state department. Again this proves the US has no problems with breaking the laws, protocol or foreign laws for that matter and they are plainly going overboard on their reaction to Wikileaks leader Julian Assange. Already the website has been attacked continuously by cyber attacks from hackers, their funding accounts have been closed with PayPal, their DNS have been shut down with Amazon, and they are still on the internet. Government harassing and intimidating Bradley Manning supporters - Glenn Greenwald. (updated below – Update II) In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized — all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and without even being under investigation, at least to his knowledge.
He was interrogated at length about WikiLeaks, and was told by the detaining agents that he could expect to be subjected to the same treatment every time he left the country and attempted to return to the U.S. Days later, two FBI agents approached him at a computer conference he was attending in New York and asked to speak with him again. To date, he has never been charged with any crime or even told he’s under investigation for anything; this was clearly a thuggish attempt by federal officials to intimidate any American citizen involved with or supporting WikiLeaks.
WL demands Google & Fb. WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts on the micro-blogging site by five figures associated with the group, including Julian Assange.
Amid strong evidence that a US grand jury has begun a wide-ranging trawl for details of what networks and accounts WikiLeaks used to communicate with Bradley Manning, the US serviceman accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of sensitive government cables, some of those named in the subpoena said they would fight disclosure. "Today, the existence of a secret US government grand jury espionage investigation into WikiLeaks was confirmed for the first time as a subpoena was brought into the public domain," WikiLeaks said in a statement.
They include WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Manning, Icelandic MP Brigitta Jonsdottir and Dutch hacker Rop Gonggrijp.