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

[JimDandy]

277. It's interesting that the UK detained Greenwald's 'courier'

and confiscated all of his electronic equipment not for reasons of suspected terrorism, nor for crimes against the U.K., but, it appears, solely for reasons that inured to the benefit of the U.S. (Snowden stole U.S. security data, not the U.K.'s ) I wonder if Parliament realized this law could be used to intercept a journalist's material solely at the request of an allied country?

Whether it was Greenwald floating the idea or not, the idea that immunity should extend to someone in possession of a journalist's materials IMO is worthy of a court's review.

As far as intimidation working both ways: Government intimidation tactics have the proven and real ability to threaten someone's life and liberty. That really is no comparison to a journalist trying to protect his (and other's) life and liberty, by informing a government that he has additional material he has not yet published (I'm assuming that's what you're implying by the "both ways&quot .

Do you have a link to those "portents of what will be done" or a link to any of "the GREENWALD/SNOWDEN stipulations"? Easy to see how one could miss those among the voluminous, world-wide stories of the N.S.A. spying on all of us.