Icelandic minister asked “8 or 9” FBI agents to leave country over WikiLeaks
Agents said they were there to stop hackers, were really investigating leakers.
by Megan Geuss - Jun 26, 2013 12:50am EDT
A New York Times article this week recounts some of the major attempts made over the last three years by the US to investigate the activist group Wikileaks and its leader, Julian Assange.
Most notably, Iceland's former minister of the interior, Ogmundur Jonasson, said that he asked “eight or nine” FBI agents to leave Iceland in June 2011 for misrepresenting the purpose of their visit. Jonasson recalled to the paper that the FBI told him they needed entry to the country to stop hackers from executing “an imminent attack on Icelandic government databases.” Upon their arrival, Jonasson found that the agents were there only to gather information on Wikileaks, which has many members in Iceland.
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Last week, two Icelandic activists—well-known Irish-Icelandic developer Smári McCarthy and former Wikileaks member Herbert Snorrason—received from Google newly-unsealed court orders from 2011, granting US authorities access to data from the activists' respective Gmail accounts.
In addition, “A young online activist, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson (known as Siggi), told a closed session of Iceland’s Parliament this year that he had been cooperating with United States agents investigating WikiLeaks at the time of the FBI’s visit in 2011,” the New York Times wrote.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/iceland-a-nexus-for-us-wikileaks-investigations-new-york-times-says/
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