Posted on 01/28/2015 6:07:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
A controversial Spanish former magistrate slammed Google in Geneva for handing over emails from Wikileaks staff to the FBI without informing the whistleblowing website.
At a press conference in the Swiss city on Monday, Baltasar Garzón, who heads the legal team working for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, accused the American internet search engine of an “attack on journalism” by providing the emails of three Wikileaks journalists to the U.S law enforcement agency.
He told the Geneva Press Club that the staff members had only been informed in December that the contents of the accounts had been handed over to federal investigators two and a half years ago. …
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Wikileak Communists, like all leftists, think they are above the law.
Why would anyone be surprised when google, a government entity, turns over info to the FBI, a government entity.
They could easily have encrypted their emails if they wanted them to remain private.
Google’s slogan: “... be evil”
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