Glenn Greenwald: "Detaining My Partner: A Failed Attempt at Intimidation"

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164. Sounds like either a deliberate provocation by Miranda or he was meeting someone at Heathrow

London Heathrow is to be avoided in the normal course of air travel. It is one of the more screwed up airports in the world.

Miranda had been in Berlin with Laura Poitras, and he was headed back to Rio de Janeiro. One possibility is that he was acting as a courier between Poitras and Greenwald, since both of them probably now find air travel hazardous. UK authorities would, of course, suspect this and detain him. By routing through Heathrow, Greenwald and Miranda could expect this and generate a story out of it.

But an even more likely reason to route through Heathrow, instead of Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, or Lisbon, was to meet someone at the airport and drop or pick up something. Scooping him up and interviewing him would disrupt any such plan.