British Intelligence destroys Guardian computers

[redandguilty]

I'm just getting aware of this thing, but it's remarkable.

David Miranda, one of the British reporters digging through the Snowden documents, was held for 9 hours under "schedule 7" of the UK's anti-terror laws and British Intelligence officers went into the one of the Guardian offices and destroyed harddrives with Snowden documents on them, even after it was explained that the work would continue in other countries.

Apparently, there the British government claimed to have not been involved in the reporter's detention, but the White House made it clear that they were aware when it happened.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...latest-developments?google_editors_picks=true

 

[Michchamp]

David Miranda is not a reporter; he is the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian writer who was one of the two people in HK that Snowden leaked documents too.

Miranda was purportedly held for 9 hours only while passing through London on his way back to Brazil, (where he lives with Greenwald).

Greenwald was a former constitutional attorney/litigator in the US, who previously blogged on his own, then for Salon, and moved to Guardian more recently. he's been doing this a while.

you have a lot of catching up to do... Greenwald was one of the first people to widely break the story of Bush's violations of FISA and domestic spying, and how the NYT buried the story until after the 2004 elections to save Bush (just what you'd expect from the "lib media" right?) This was in 2005.