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That message being, apparently, that playing news reporter is all fine and dandy if you quote what we want you to say, but it is terrorism if you find information we didn't give you.
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Remember way back, in the twentieth century, when we had a freedom of the press? Wasn't that quaint. Wasn't that was so last-century, bill-of-rights. What were we even thinking back then? Damn hippy forefathers.
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The Guardian reported, and UK authorities subsequently confirmed, that David Miranda, Greenwald's Brazilian partner, was detained by British authorities under an anti-terrorism law as he was in transit from Berlin to Brazil and was changing planes at London's Heathrow Airport.
One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday that while the United States did not ask British authorities to detain Miranda, British officials had given the United States a "heads up" about the British government's plan to question him.
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