08/20/2013 13:23kruijs

The British government broke its silence Tuesday about the detention of a journalist’s partner for nine hours at Heathrow Airport, saying authorities “have a duty to protect the public and our national security.”

Police used a contentious anti-terrorism law to detain David Miranda, the partner of Guardian newspaper journalist Glenn Greenwald, on Sunday. Greenwald has published stories about U.S. and British surveillance programs based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/guardian-editor-uk-spies-oversaw-shredding-of-newsroom-disks-to-keep-secrets-from-chinese/2013/08/19/f36d9cdc-0937-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html

   08/20/2013 13:23kruijs

David Miranda: Partner Of Glenn Greenwald Detained, Anonymous Fires Back By Hacking UK Website In #OpLastResort

http://www.ibtimes.com/david-miranda-partner-glenn-greenwald-detained-anonymous-fires-back-hacking-uk-website-oplastresort

   08/20/2013 13:20kruijs

Media experts and watchdog groups in the U.S. and the U.K. were swift to criticize Miranda’s detention, calling it an attempt to frighten Greenwald and other journalists.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/media-watchdogs-miranda-treatment-95682.html

   08/20/2013 06:00kruijs

Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the news about secret U.S. surveillance programs, said the authorities who took his partner into custody at London's Heathrow Airport "are going to regret what they did."

"I am going to write my stories a lot more aggressively now," the Guardian reporter told Brazil's Globo TV on Monday in Rio de Janeiro.

The White House knew the move was coming.

"There was a heads up that was provided by the British government," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

So the United States knew it "was likely to occur, but it's not something that we've requested and it's something that was done specifically by the British law enforcement officials there," he said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/19/world/europe/greenwald-partner-detained/?hpt=wo_c2

   08/19/2013 19:29Conspiracy2Riot predicted Not before saturday

when does the UK gov't ever say it's sorry???