UK Officials Justify Airport Detention, Destruction of HDDs
Following decision to detain Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner
By Jean Jacques Maleval | August 22, 2013 at 2:38 pmTo read this article from The Verge, click on:
UK officials justify Guardian airport detention, destruction of disk drives
Following the UK government’s decision to detain Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner at Heathrow Airport under the auspices of a counterterrorism law, the country’s Home Office is ramping up the rhetoric, saying that he had "highly sensitive stolen information" and suggesting journalists and critics do some soul searching before pointing fingers at law enforcement.