Posted on 08/18/2013 5:36:50 PM PDT by Nachum
The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.
David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.
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 under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.
Since 5 June, Greenwald has written a series of stories revealing the NSA's electronic surveillance programmes, detailed in thousands of files passed to him by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Guardian has also published a number of stories about blanket electronic surveillance by Britain's GCHQ, also based on documents from Snowden.
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The list, Ping
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Clear evidence that the TSA is homophobic!
Obie may regret agetting the Brits to poke the hornet’s nest.
Oops. getting...
Of course, not. This is meant to harass and intimidate.
They've surely got surveillance of all kinds everywhere in these two men's lives.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.
"Security" guys tend to be digital hobbyists, eh?
Are all these leakers gay?
A most curious phenomena.
Apparently, they did.
“Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden. The British authorities seized all of his electronic media — including video games, DVDs and data storage devices — and did not return them, Mr. Greenwald said.”
Note that in that snippet, Greenwald is the source. Mr. Miranda was a data mule, basically. I’m not entirely sure if these guys are the journalistic version of the Apple Dumpling Gang or Inspector Closeau. This was a dumb move.
Is Snowden a perv? I thought he had a gf somewhere along in this drama.
They can’t get Snoden, so they will intimidate anyone else they can. We need to watch and learn quickly.
Probably not. Most journalists are though.
Yeah, but he dumped her like an old soup can.
This is weird.
Actually all the news is so weirdly horrible that if it was written as a novel it would be so unrealistic and clealy made up fantasy everyone would hate it as being way too contrived.
You are correct.
It all smells to high heaven.
According to ABC news the thumb drives were stuffed encrypted information relating to Berlin.
they’re messing with fags?
now they’ve done it... we’ll never hear the end of it.
no one whines louder then a drama queen
Did they read him his Miranda rights?
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