U.S. not involved in detaining of Greenwald's mule and his stolen highly classified documents

[Capt. Obvious]

The United States was not involved in the decision to detain the partner of a Guardian journalist in connection to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden but the Obama administration was given a "heads up" by the British government, White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday.

"The U.S. was not involved in that decision or in that action," Earnest said during a daily press briefing, referring questions to British authorities. "This is a decision they made on their own and not at the request of the United States."

London police detained David Miranda, the partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation for nine hours on Sunday, the maximum time allowed under the law.

“I stayed in a room, there were six different agents, entering and leaving, who spoke with me,” Miranda said. “They asked questions about my whole life, about everything. They took my computer, video game, cellphone, memory thumb drives, everything.”

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[dkf]

1. but the Obama administration was given a "heads up" by the British government

Don't you know the most important part is AFTER the "but". Geez.

[Capt. Obvious]

8. That's known as the Atlantic High Five

Just a point of common courtesy.

[grasswire]

2. once again.......

the sentence below is not attributed to Greenwald by the NYT reporter. We do not know what Miranda was carrying.


All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden.

[bemildred]

9. That's a very good point.

A very interesting oversight, if that is what it is.

Edit: since the stuff is encrypted, I would not think he would tell them what it is they have confiscated anyway.

[Thinkingabout]

3. The UK is working very hard to make it really hard for terrorism, has lots of surveillance,

and appears to be in the know for those traveling in and through the UK.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Surely they wouldn't lie about such a thing.

[Harmony Blue]

7. Yeah this is like a bad skit

of the Monty Python coming to life...

[leftstreet]

5. LOL well that was quick

[AngryAmish]

6. Hands up: who actually believes this?

[Warren Stupidity]

11. I think the count is approximately 14 on DU.

[BlueCheese]

10. Given the US government's reluctance to deny being involved in the Morales plane incident...

... I'm tempted to believe it when it issues a denial in this case. The UK government is crazy enough to do this on its own, though (speculating) it may have been doing so because it thought the US government would want it to.