The U.S. authorities require information on Google's partner project WikiLeaks - WSJ

U.S. Department of Justice has demanded from Google, as well as from the local U.S. ISP Sonic. net Inc to disclose the e-mail accounts, Jacob Appelbaum - partner of the infamous site WikiLeaks, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Site WikiLeaks gained notoriety with the publication in November last year, hundreds of thousands of confidential documents of American government. Action by the creators of the site caused a negative reaction from representatives of the U.S. government, which promised to punish those responsible for the leak and publication of confidential information. Ministry of Justice has received court permission to obtain confidential information about the e-mail Jacob Appelbaum (Jacob Appelbaum) in the public investigation of WikiLeaks, says WSJ.
The newspaper said the Justice Department demanded that Google provide information on what it knows about IP- address Applebaum went into his email account Gmail, as well as IP- addresses of users with whom you have corresponded with Appelbaum November 1, 2009. Google declined to comment on the WSJ situation with this request, and therefore it remains unclear whether the company has provided authorities information required.
As the head of Sonic WSJ. net Inc Dane Jasper (Dane Jasper), the Ministry of Justice has requested information on the provider to whom correspondence Applebaum in the last two years. However, it was only an e-mail addresses, no further information ( more detailed personal information or the content of the correspondence ) was not required by a. Jasper is also said that the company is in court trying to challenge the request of the Ministry, but failed.

Applebaum -old is one of the partners' site WikiLeaks, and an active participant in the project to create an anonymous communication technologies in the network The Onion Router. His work has repeatedly become the object of attention of U.S. authorities, but so far no charges brought against Jacob Appelbaum was not, says WSJ.
As a result of leakage -induced site WikiLeaks in November 2010, the network got thousands of confidential documents, among which was the secret correspondence of the U.S. diplomatic staff. Its content has found a very uncomplimentary remarks of U.S. diplomats to address the authorities of many countries and a serious blow to the image of the United States in the international arena, RIA Novosti.