Snowden reporter: Won't be silenced by detention

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By BRADLEY BROOKS and DANICA KIRKA

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner.

London police detained David Miranda under anti-terror legislation as he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday. Miranda, who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with the journalist.

A defiant Greenwald, who reports for the Guardian newspaper in Britain, promised he was going "to write much more aggressively than before" about government snooping.

"I'm going to publish many more things about England, as well," he said in Portuguese at Rio's international airport when Miranda arrived. "I have many documents about England's espionage system, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they'll regret what they've done."

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130820/DA89C6K01.html

[underthematrix]

1. well he is truly a dumbass because

he does realize that he is now considered a terrorist.

[AgingAmerican]

7. Define terrorist

"Systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. "

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorism

Er, um....yeah. That's what he did....sure.

[delrem]

15. I'm sure he's frightened that wackos like you will come at him with a knife. heh

[struggle4progress]

2. "I have many documents about England's espionage system"

I've never thought him a particularly good columnist

But now I'm beginning to suspect he was never a particularly good lawyer either

[Thinkingabout]

3. Just who in the hell does he think he is going to scare, the Brits, the NSA, just who will it be.

This is like the little kid years ago in the playground saying "my daddy can beat up your daddy" or "I am going to take my toys and ho home". The NSA is operating within our Constitution and obtaining warrants from the FISA, GG continues to get people in trouble while he remains behind the re-enforced barrier. GG is a coward.

[Andy823]

6. Just hype for his book

With Greenwald it all seems to be about him and his ego. He needs attention and now he has it. I am still waiting for all the other "earth shattering" stuff he promised some time back! He makes threats and it just gets his followers all worked up, and they seem to forget all about the fact we are still waiting for the information he promised months ago!

[AgingAmerican]

8. Probably true

But it is fun to watch everyone squirm over it.

[madrchsod]

4. is`t his 15 minutes of fame about over?

[Andy823]

9. Not as long as he can help it

Seems like when things start dying down, Greenwald comes up with something like this new detention thing to get back in the spotlight. As long as he can keep promising "groundbreaking" releases of information, and as long as his followers fall for the BS, he will keep on doing it, at least till the book comes out and then if you really want so see all the information he keeps promising to release, well you just have to "buy" the book, which of course all his followers will. One thing his followers did have right though, it never was about Snowden, nope it was all about Greenwald!

[George II]

5. This just proves what his "motives" really are. What an arrogant, stupid SOB.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. Yeah he was probably just hoping that authorities would take his partner

just so he could pretend to get angry and promise to do his investigative journalism even more!
He should just shut up and take it like a good little sheep. Maybe write a column about flower arranging instead. Doesn't he know that journalism is the new terrorism?

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Good for him.

[pocoloco]

13. Ain't it funny how many

panties he can get in a wad here!

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. It's always been that way . . .

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.

It just appears worse because we got a lot more panties here than we did 10 years ago.



CC

[Demeter]

20. Ain't THAT the truth! Most of them are Synthetic, too, instead of natural fiber.

If you get what I mean. I am developing a new cant to foil the NSA.

[dawn frenzy adams]

11. Finally!

There are people on this thread who see Greenwald for what he is. The man nearly endorsed Ron Paul. Obviously Paul's racism, sexism, and homophobia didn't bother him. That alone should have told you that his interest in what's good for America is narrow and narcissistic. Though he is no progressive, when the shyte hits the fan, progressives will be blamed.

[midnight]

12. Is it that Greenwald nearly endorsed a Republican, or is it that the Republican was Ron Paul?

[AgingAmerican]

14. How do you 'nearly endorse' someone?

Is that like almost endorsing them?

[delrem]

16. He's just saying that there's more to come.

Snowden entrusted him (and others) with vetting the documents for true NS matters, and this incident just rededicated him to doing just that.
Why *wouldn't* it?

Oh yes, there's a "liberal" contingent that wants to kill the messenger.
Well, tough luck for them.

[George II]

24. Then why did he essentially say he's releasing the documents BECAUSE of this incident????

[JI7]

18. it seems like he is always saying there is more to come

and he only thinks it's worth reporting because of what happened ? so it wasn't worth reporting on before that ?

[Kolesar]

21. British police can tap one's phones without a search warrant

It's been that way since the invention of the telephone, about one hundred years.
Ooops, did I just release a scoop that the petty Pelosi hater was sitting on???

[bonniebgood]

22. Wow! an anti Snowden, anti Constitutuon pro Cheney-bush thread. nt

[Omaha Steve]

23. I didn't write it

I just posted it.