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Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act
hydrofix writes "The partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA), was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through the Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda was stopped by officers and informed that he would be questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000. The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations last under an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours. Miranda was released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. 'This is a profound attack on press freedoms [...] to detain my partner for a full nine hours while denying him a lawyer, and then seize large amounts of his possessions, is clearly intended to send a message of intimidation to those of us who have been reporting on the NSA and GCHQ,' Greenwald commented."
They told me if I voted for John McCain we would see press freedoms abridged around the world to cover up US Government lawlessness. And they were right!
What does the USA have to do with this. This happened in the UK by UK agents using a UK law that was written pre 9/11.
New around here aren't you? In slashdot world, all problems are the direct fault of the United States.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
. . . .has made it to Britain.
"Nice boyfriend you have there, Mr. Greenwald. Would sure be a shame if something happened to him. . . . "
New around here aren't you? In slashdot world, all problems are the direct fault of the United States.
Not really. Certainly more than zero of the world's problems, but that hardly means all of them.
But isn't it strange? an article about Great Britain, and the second post immediately calls the US of A not the land of the free any more. And although my first post has been modified as a "Troll", what I wrote was very true. That's the course of so many topics here. Perhaps someone thought I was being straightforward, I don't knowm but every time something happens in the world, in a few posts, the conversation is changed to some malfeasance - real or assumed - by the United States.
Then again, it is not surprising given that USHaters get mod points that anything not blaming the USA would be modded as troll. Which I'm sure this one will too.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.