Did the British Have Good Reason to Detain Greenwald's Partner? [View all]

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...So on the one hand, Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, is an uninvolved bi-stander. But on the other Miranda was carrying documents on his trip to Berlin for Laura Poitras, Greenwald's colleague in reporting the Snowden stories. The Guardian - Greenwald's employer - paid for the trip.

And that, fellow traveler, brings us to what could be the real reason Greenwald and his employer are trying to make this an international incident and concentrating fire on the British authorities. In public, they may be focusing on the fact of the detention, but in private, they are soiling their undergarments not over the detention itself, but over this:

David Miranda, the partner of Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, was held for nearly the maximum time authorities are allowed to detain individuals under the Terrorism Act’s Schedule 7, which authorizes security agencies to stop and question people at borders. Greenwald said Mranda’s cellphone, laptops and memory sticks were confiscated.

Now, Greenwald of course claims that this was a blatant attempt to intimidate journalism. Except, what if it wasn't? What if the equipment seized contains evidence of criminal activity?...

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/why-british-may-have-had-good-reason-to.html