Reykjavík Grapevine - 19.07.2013, Qupperneq 20

20The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 10 — 2013
Step into
the Viking Age
Experience Viking-Age Reykja­vík a­t the
new Settlement Exhibition. The focus of the
exhibition is a­n exca­va­ted longhouse site which
da­tes from the 10th century ad. It includes
relics of huma­n ha­bita­tion from a­bout 871, the
oldest such site found in Icela­nd.

Multimedia­ techniques bring Reykja­vík’s
pa­st to life, providing visitors with insights
into how people lived in the Viking Age, a­nd
wha­t the Reykja­vík environment looked like
to the first settlers.
The exhibition a­nd
museum shop a­re open
da­ily 10–17
Aða­lstræti 16
101 Reykja­vík / Icela­nd
Phone +(354) 411 6370
www.reykja­vikmuseum.is
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Icelandic Tourist Board.
Smári McCarthy is a twenty-nine year old in-
formation activist, developer, founding mem-
ber of Iceland’s Pirate Party, executive director
of the Icelandic Modern Media Institute, and
former WikiLeaks volunteer. In 2010 he par-
ticipated in a project with WikiLeaks, called
“Collateral Murder.” A team lead by WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange worked in Reykjavík,
preparing for the April 5 release of leaked
United States military footage from an Apache
helicopter airstrike outside Baghdad in July
2007. The airstrike wounded two children and
killed around a dozen unarmed people, includ-
ing two Reuters employees. In May of 2010, US
Army private Bradley Manning was arrested
on allegations of leaking classified documents
to WikiLeaks, including the footage of the air-
strikes. Bradley Manning is currently on trial.
American investigative journalist Alexa O’Brien
stated that in November 2010 the U.S. Attor-
ney General at the Department of Justice con-
firmed an “active, ongoing criminal investiga-
tion,” of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, which
was again confirmed ongoing in March 2013.
It’s an enormous investigation—in line with the
concerns raised from Edward Snowden’s re-
cent leaks—with a wide, catchall dragnet that
appears to encompass anyone who has been
involved with WikiLeaks.
The evening of June 18, Smári opened his
Gmail inbox to find a nondescript-looking email
from Google. Attached to the email were two
scanned court orders from the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
(U.S.C.E.D.V.); one demanding Google disclose
information from Smári’s Gmail account and
another outlining the terms of nondisclosure on
the then sealed order. Specifically, “the records
and other information described in Attachment
A to this Order,” which listed eight types of in-
formation, considered metadata (i.e. “descrip-
tions of whom I communicated with, when,
for how long; who communicated with me,
when, for how long; which documents I have
authored, when I have connected to Google's
services, which services I have used, et cetera,
et cetera, ad nauseam,” Smári explained), “for
the time period of November 1, 2009 to the
present,” which at the time the court order was
filed, was July 14, 2011. The second paragraph
of the order, issued July 2011, read: “The Court
finds that the United States has offered specif-
ic and articulable facts showing that there are
reasonable grounds to believe that the records
or other information sought are relevant and
material to an ongoing criminal investigation.”
Smári is Case No. 1:11 EC 105.
The court order for Case No. 1:11 EC 105
was unsealed on May 2, 2013 by Federal Judge
Liam O’Grady. ‘EC’ stands for ‘electronic com-
munication’ order, which is different from a
Search Warrant, or ‘SW.’ “There was no SW
issued to me to my knowledge, although Al-
exa O'Brien says otherwise. I haven't seen the
document,” Smári told me. Herbert Snorrason
also received one of these emails from Google,
Case No. 1:11-sw-594, filed August 12, 2011.
Herbert is a university student, activist and
developer. He was a monitor for the WikiLeaks
chat room for a couple of months but left in
2010 along with other WikiLeaks volunteers
during a dispute about Assange’s leadership
style and inadequate redaction of the Iraq
war logs. Herbert’s email came with an added
search warrant, which means the metadata as
well as the content of his Gmail account were
This Is The Dragnet
America, Iceland, and the dragnet around Julian Assange
By: Shea Sweeney
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