WikiLeaks: US demanding our Twitter information

WikiLeaks blasted the court order,saying it amounted to harassment. If the Iranian government was to attempt coercively obtaining this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations,human rights groups around the world would speak out, Assange said.

A copy of the court order,dated December 14 and posted to Salon.com,said the information sought was relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation and ordered Twitter not to disclose its existence to Assange or any of the others targeted.

Twitter has declined comment,saying its policy is to notify its users of government requests for information. Others named in the order include Pfc. Bradley Manning,the US Army private suspected of being the source of some of WikiLeaks material,as well as Birgitta Jonsdottir,an Icelandic lawmaker and one-time WikiLeaks collaborator.