A British court today declined to get too seriously involved in the “Terrorism Act” detention of David Miranda, allowing police to continue rummaging through his seized possessions, but issuing an injunction that limits their ability to share details of what they seized or use it in criminal investigations.
Police continue to defend the decision to detain Miranda under a law meant to allow limited detention of terrorism suspects, saying that he had “injurious” data on one of his memory sticks that threatens public safety.
Police appeared not only defiant about Miranda’s unlawful capture, but set to defy the court’s ruling of today as well, saying that the “Counter Terrorism Command” has begun a criminal investigation of Miranda based on the data seized, and intends to continue with it.
Terrorism Act watchdog David Anderson says he is carrying out his own investigation on the apparent misuse of the powers granted under the Terrorism Act to detain someone with no conceivable ties to terrorism, which the Home Office said was his “right” under the law.
What exactly is illegal about having ‘injurious’ data per se?
Is every reader of the Guardian now a terrorist for having a copy of some Snowden leaked documents?
How can they seize his data without charging him with a crime?
They say it is ‘stolen’ data, but besides not being ‘stolen’ at all, rather allegedly ‘copied’ without authorization,
it is not the UK’s data to be potentially stolen in the first place, it is the US’.
And the US have not charged Miranda with ‘stealing’ information, or anything at all.
Snowden allegedly had unauthorized access, committed ‘espionage’ or whatnot,
but how does that translate to a crime for Miranda to possess this information?
He was just carrying data from Germany to Brazil, it was already leaked. thoughtcrime?
Isn’t it about time to say that revealing crimes of the government or lies of the government can never be a crime? If the fact that the government is violating the constitution and multiple laws and treaties and is lying is considered ‘top secret’ for many years, I think something like that is in order.
What does Snowden have on the Government that has them so freaked out? Can't be anything about the past or the present 'cause that all is too easy to spin. It must be the future. I bet its about the next 9-11 style false flag attack designed to get us into a war with Iran. If Snowden and company reveals something like that then the Government can't go out and actually do it.
Quit freaking Government; even without Snowden we the people are on to you!
The legislation used to target Miranda related specifically to acts of terrorism, so real journalism is now terrorism.
Is Cameron Obama’s poodle, or is it the other way around?
Injurious? A copy of one of Greenwald's Guardian articles? A link to antiwar dot com? A picture of Cameron and Obama dressed in clown suits?