only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.

[G_j]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow


Sunday 18 August 2013 19.33 EDT

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours
David Miranda, partner of Guardian interviewer of whistleblower Edward Snowden, questioned under Terrorism Act

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David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.

The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.]/b]

Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.

[Egnever]

1. how many in those 2000

have access to stolen classified intelligence documents?

Get back to me with that number.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. So "access" warrants detention?

That's a VERY slippery slope my friend.

[Scootaloo]

3. Funny how these after the fact justifications seem to be rolling forward, isn't it?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. I guess we just make up laws as we go along now.

Its now illegal to travel if you have possibly had access to classified materials.

[Egnever]

8. And I guess you live in a fantasy land where there are no secrets

And there are no laws concerning stealing them.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

9. I didn't say that.

Where does it say the man taken into custody stole secrets and broke the law?

[Egnever]

6. Absofrickenlutley

You think people who are known to have access to stolen government intell should be allowed to roam freely with no questions asked?

You have no idea whats in those documents some of that info could be devastating to US intel on foreign threats. In fact GG and Snowden themselves have suggested it is. Yet you have absolutely no problem with these bozos traipsing it all over the world.

Is there never anything the american government is allowed to do to gather intel that you wouldnt be willing to share with our adversaries?

[Downwinder]

4. What access?

Would you share sensitive documents with your SO?

[Egnever]

7. Are you kidding me?

From the story all this nonsense is based on.

While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Snowden files with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights

Yea he has no involvement whatsoever...

[G_j]

10. I see, the problem was meeting with

a film maker...
As others have stated, this at least appears to be an act of deliberate intimidation toward Greenwald & certain types of investigative journalism.

[Egnever]

11. A filmaker working on the release of stolen classified documents

You act like they are making a film about bunnies or something.

These folks are playing with fire and they know it. The poor me act is bullshit.