Posted on 08/19/2013 4:37:46 PM PDT by Nachum
David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, has accused Britain of a "total abuse of power" for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow under the Terrorism Act.
In his first interview since returning to his home in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Miranda said the authorities in the UK had pandered to the US in trying to intimidate him and force him to reveal the passwords to his computer and mobile phone.
"They were threatening me all the time and saying I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate," said Miranda. "They treated me like I was a criminal or someone about to attack the UK … It was exhausting and frustrating, but I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong."
Miranda – a Brazilian national who lives with Greenwald in Rio – was held for the maximum time permitted under schedule seven of the Terrorism Act 2000 which allows officers to stop, search and question individuals at airports, ports and border areas.
During that time, he said, he was not allowed to call his partner, who is a qualified lawyer in the US, nor was he given an interpreter, despite being promised one because he felt uncomfortable speaking in a second language.
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Miranda has no Miranda rights in the UK.
:-P
Miranda has no Miranda rights in the UK.
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Is EVERYONE Gay??? I am SO sick of GAYS.
This is just plain thug intimidation by our government. So sad to see what we have become out in the open for the whole world to see.
I don’t care about gay, but I sure do care about this man being intimidated because of his connection to the Snowden case and the revelations of the unconstitutional activities of the NSA supported by the leadership of both major political parties.......
Get this man before a congressional committee and John Boehner said: “NOT”
I don’t care about gay, but I sure do care about this man being intimidated because of his connection to the Snowden case and the revelations of the unconstitutional activities of the NSA supported by the leadership of both major political parties.......
Get this man before a congressional committee and John Boehner said: “NOT”
At one time the rest of the world respected America as a citadel of liberty. It was a city on a hill, an example for the nations.
Today, not so much.
Sure Miranda was detained in the UK, but everyone knows the UK is just the MiniMe of the US.
Is EVERYONE Gay??? I am SO sick of GAYS.
You might call them what they actually are: homosexuals.
He’d love it in jail because he would get a lot of love there.
“Mr. Obama, tear down this electronic wall!”
Once upon a time, deviants were not allowed in intelligence services, for reasons that are much more obvious today, when it's not the cause of universal revulsion.
Seems Drudge doesn't have a big enough font to express his outrage.
It’s thousands of times worse than under Billy Clinton. I thought that when they kidnapped Elias Gonzalez and sent him back to a communist dictatorship that America would come to its senses.
I was really, really, really wrong.
Whoops, Elian, not Elias.
Most Americans have now learned to our regret that there is a 5th column in America that wants to destroy the country and will not rest until they have achieved that goal.
Sad, sad, sad.
A lot of people in the world want “the evil corrupt america to get what’s coming to them” and a lot of us sitting here get it and understand them. But we are here. It’s not quite as bad as wanting people to bomb auschwitz while you are in it but its not so far from that scenario that you can’t even imagine it.
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