NSA director says he has ‘no opinion’ of WikiLeaks, ‘I really don’t track them’ [View all]

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National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander said Sunday that he doesn’t track or hold an opinion of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group apparently aiding the travel of Edward Snowden, the man who recently revealed information about sweeping U.S. government surveillance efforts.


“I have no opinion on Wikileaks. I really don’t track them. I really don’t know who Wikileaks are, other than this [Julian] Assange person,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/23/nsa-director-says-he-has-no-opinion-of-wikileaks-i-really-dont-track-them/

Google Handed Over Emails of Wikileaks Volunteers to U.S. Government


On Tuesday, Google sent an email to the two former Wikileaks associates, informing them of the existence of the court orders, which until May 2 were secret. There is no official confirmation that the orders are related to the Wikileaks investigation being conducted by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, but every sign points in that direction.

After receiving secret court orders, Google handed over data from the Gmail accounts of two former Wikileaks volunteers to the U.S. government. The orders, revealed on Friday by the two targets, are a snapshot of the rumored federal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The targets of the court orders are Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, both from Iceland. McCarthy is an Internet activist and computer programmer who worked for Wikileaks until 2010. Snorrason helped manage the whistleblowing's website chatroom for two months in 2010.

http://mashable.com/2013/06/22/google-wikileaks/