12/29/2014
According to a statement by WikiLeaks on Twitter, on Christmas Eve Google informed the organization that the Gmail mailboxes and account metadata of a WikiLeaks employee had been turned over to law enforcement under a US federal warrant.
WikiLeaks journalist and Courage Foundation acting director Sarah Harrison revealed a redacted copy of the warrant during her presentation on source protection at the Chaos Communications Congress. The warrant was dated for execution by April 5, 2012 by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, part of the continuing investigation by the Justice Department into criminal charges against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Harrison said spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, herself, and other people relating to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks were all subject to U.S. government search warrants served to Google, and that the organization would be covering this more in the new year.
This is at least the second time a U.S. warrant has been served at Google for data from someone connected to WikiLeaks. A sealed warrant was served to Google in 2011 for the email of a WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland. And the Justice Department has also previously sought to get metadata from WikiLeaks-connected Twitter accounts, and won a court battle with Twitter three years ago to force the service to provide that metadata.
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