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

[muriel_volestrangler]

206. His existence is now provocative?

"One possibility is that he was acting as a courier between Poitras and Greenwald, since both of them probably now find air travel hazardous."

If they find air flight 'hazardous', it would be a grave cause for concern.

"UK authorities would, of course, suspect this and detain him. "

'Of course' they would if they were authoritarian, and wanted to make air travel hazardous for more people.

"By routing through Heathrow, Greenwald and Miranda could expect this and generate a story out of it."

Routing through Heathrow is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If they did expect this, then they were expecting an authoritarian response. That's what they got, anyway.

"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. "

You appear to have dropped a bit of a spy novel that you're writing into your post by mistake. Your fiction may be a good read, but DU is not the place for it.