{"id":143138,"date":"2015-01-26T19:03:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143138"},"modified":"2015-01-26T19:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:03:56","slug":"war-leaks-gone-way-far-journalists-emails-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/war-leaks-gone-way-far-journalists-emails-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Leaks Has Gone Way Too Far When Journalists&#8217; Emails Are Under Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outrageous legal attack on <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/wikileaks\">WikiLeaks<\/a> and its staffers, who are exercising their First Amendment rights to publish classified information in the public interest\u2013just like virtually every other major news organization in this country\u2013is an attack on freedom of the press itself, and it\u2019s shocking that more people aren\u2019t raising their voices (and pens, and keyboards) in protest.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four years, WikiLeaks has had their Twitter accounts <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/privacy-loses-twitterwikileaks-records-battle\">secretly spied on<\/a>, been forced to forfeit most of their funding after credit card companies <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/Banking-Blockade.html\">unilaterally cut them off<\/a>, had the FBI <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/06\/wikileaks-mole\/all\/\">place an informant inside<\/a> their news organization, watched their supporters<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2012\/07\/15\/wikileaks-grand-jury-witness-publishes-first-account-of-prosecutors-questioning\/\">hauled before a grand jury<\/a>, and been the victim of the UK spy agency GCHQ <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/02\/18\/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters\/\">hacking of their website and spying on their readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019ve learned that, as <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/jan\/25\/wikileaks-google-staff-emails-us-government\">The Guardian reported on Sunday<\/a>, the Justice Department got a warrant in 2012 to seize the contents \u2014 plus the metadata on emails received, sent, drafted and deleted \u2014 of three WikiLeaks\u2019 staffers personal Gmail accounts, which was inexplicably kept secret from them for almost two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>The warrant for WikiLeaks staffers\u2019 email is likely connected to <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2011\/may\/11\/us-opens-wikileaks-grand-jury-hearing\">the grand jury the government convened in 2010<\/a> to investigate the WikiLeaks\u2019 publication of leaked State Department cables, along with the Afghan and Iraq war logs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/01\/26\/war-leaks-has-gone-way-too-far-when-journalists-emails-are-under-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outrageous legal attack on WikiLeaks and its staffers, who are exercising their First Amendment rights to publish classified information in the public interest\u2013just like virtually every other major news organization in this country\u2013is an attack on freedom of the press itself, and it\u2019s shocking that more people aren\u2019t raising their voices (and pens, and 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