Greenwald's partner's detention is not convenient, hype or self-promotion.

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149. Well of course he would. Why not?

From the NYT

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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.
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a) it was not for Snowden
b) transporting documents originating from Snowden is not per se illegal
c) the authorities could not have released Miranda if there was reasonable suspicion that he was transporting classified material - but that is not what they detained him for - they used the terrorism act as opposed to detaining him on the grounds of suspected theft of government secrets.

If they had been able to substantiate a claim that Miranda was smuggling classified material they would not have needed to use the terrorism act. So why did they use it?