Government Defends Tactics of WikiLeaks Probe

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday dedicated as accepted their efforts to access advice on the accounts of at atomic four Twitter users as allotment of a bent analysis into the absolution of abstruse abstracts by the WikiLeaks website.Lawyers for three of the annual holders, including a affiliate of Iceland's parliament, asked a federal cloister to abandon an adjustment she issued backward aftermost year acute Twitter to about-face over abundant advice on the accounts in question. All of the annual holders accept some affiliation with WikiLeaks.The judge, Theresa Carroll Buchanan, did not aphorism on the lawyers' motions at Tuesday's hearing, and said she will instead affair a accounting cardinal at a after date. Any cardinal she issues can be appealed to a commune cloister judge.The trio's attorneys argued that the government is on a fishing campaign and that the advice approved by the government amounts to an actionable advance on their freedoms of accent and association. They said the advice would about accord the government ceaseless ability of the annual holders' abode by acceptance tracking of the computers acclimated to accelerate the tweets.