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[StephanieVanbryce]

Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Detained at Heathrow Airport, Massive Freak Out Ensues

Here we go again
LMAO! .. . mmmhm . .play with the big boys . .& and what? ...could go wrong ..lolololol ..

Charles Johnson
1 hour, 24 minutes ago

Now why would the UK detain someone who lives with Glenn Greenwald, who’s been leaking top secret UK documents? Wow. That’s a real head-scratcher.

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours [ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow ]

The real question is how Greenwald and his partner could have been so out of touch with reality that they didn’t expect something like this to happen, when David Miranda was returning from a visit with Greenwald’s collaborator, Laura Poitras. And Greenwald has stated openly that his partner was given copies of the documents stolen by Edward Snowden.

While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Snowden files with Greenwald and the Guardian.

Glenn is totally losing it over this, of course.

“This is a profound attack on press freedoms and the news gathering process,” said Greenwald. “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. The actions of the UK pose a serious threat to journalists everywhere.

“But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue to report aggressively.”

This is shaping up to be an emoprog outrage of epic proportions — and just in time to distract attention away from the interview in which Julian Assange came out as a supporter of the US extreme right wing.


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42413_Glenn_Greenwalds_Partner_Detained_at_Heathrow_Airport_Massive_Freak_Out_Ensues