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April 28, 2011 02:45 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/B-YIrNojiQo/fbi-issues-grand-jur.html
FBI issues Grand Jury subpoena presumed to relate to Wikileaks, Espionage Act charges
On April 26, accused Wikileaks source Bradley Manning's friend and supporter David House tweeted "Subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks grand jury. Violations of Espionage Act. No further comment at this time." From the Wikileaks Twitter account that same day: "Fresh subpoenas are being issued in the WikiLeaks Alexandra, VA secret grand jury in relation to the espionage act." Glenn Greenwald at Salon writes that the FBI served at least one subpoena in Boston, and that this was presumably related to the Wikileaks case. Notably, the Subpoena explicitly indicates that the Grand Jury is investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act (18 U.S.C. 793), a draconian 1917 law under which no non-government-employee has ever been convicted for disclosing classified information. And Wikileaks, being Wikileaks, tweeted out the D.A.'s phone number....
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