WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government

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33. It says nothing that the Center for Constitutional Rights is making these arguments on behalf of

subscribers?

From the OP article:

The letter, written by WikiLeaks’ New York-based lawyer, Michael Ratner of the Center For Constitutional Rights, asks Google to list all the materials it provided to the FBI. Ratner also asks whether the California-based company did anything to challenge the warrants and whether it has received any further data demands it has yet to divulge.

People realize that the Center is acting in our interests under the Bill of Rights, right? Our First Amendment right to know. Our Fourth Amendment right to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures--and googling does not necessarily, in and of itself, make a govt search of our research activities "reasonable?" Letting companies know that getting a warrant for OUR info does not necessarily let them totally off the hook, even if they make no effort to fight it?

ETA: ACLU also involved:

Alexander Abdo, a staff attorney and privacy expert at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the warrants were “shockingly broad” in their catch-all wording.

“This is basically ‘Hand over anything you’ve got on this person’,” he said. “That’s troubling as it’s hard to distinguish what WikiLeaks did in its disclosures from what major newspapers do every single day in speaking to government officials and publishing still-secret information.”