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

[Catherina]

287. I think so too. That sentence is totally unsourced, just sandwiched in there.

Everything that "Mr Greenwald said" came straight from the Guardian article. Except for the sentence "Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald" which came out of nowhere. Mr Greenwald said no such thing in that Guardian article, or the article he wrote that Savage also quoted from. They cleverly sandwiched that inflammatory speculation between two indirect quotes. That speculation doesn't even make sense because Laura Poitras is an expert in electronically transmitting secure, encrypted files. It makes even less sense after the NYT throws in "All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden". Both Poitras and Greenwald have had the full "trove" since Hong Kong. They don't need to send 'Snowden's documents', something they each already have, back and forth to each other trans-atlantically like that.

The Guardian published a report on Mr. Miranda’s detainment on Sunday afternoon.

Mr. Greenwald said someone who identified himself as a security official from Heathrow Airport called him early on Sunday and informed him that Mr. Miranda had been detained, at that point for three hours. The British authorities, he said, told Mr. Miranda that they would obtain permission from a judge to arrest him for 48 hours, but he was released at the end of the nine hours, around 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden. The British authorities seized all of his electronic media — including video games, DVDs and data storage devices — and did not return them, Mr. Greenwald said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/britain-detains-partner-of-reporter-tied-to-leaks.html?_r=1&

What's more likely is that the Five Eyes countries need to intercept, or at least find out, what "dribs and drabs" Greenwald's might make next and so they can pre-emptively lie. Evo Morales plane, Lavabit, Silent Circle, and now this incident.

"They never asked him about a single question at all about terrorism or anything relating to a terrorist organisation," he told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.

"They spent the entire day asking about the reporting I was doing and other Guardian journalists were doing on the NSA stories.

"The principal point, since they kept him for the full nine hours, is to try and send a message of intimation and bullying.

"I don't understand why they don't realise that all it's going to accomplish is the exact opposite effect - I'm going to report more aggressively and with a more emboldened mind," Mr Greenwald told the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23750289