'U.K. Puppets' Detained His Partner, NSA Leak Reporter Says
The detention for 9 hours Sunday of journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner by authorities at London's Heathrow Airport was an attack "on the news-gathering process and journalism," Greenwald writes on The Guardian's website.
Greenwald, one of the correspondents who in June brought "NSA leaker" Edward Snowden's secrets about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs to light, adds that:
"It's bad enough to prosecute and imprison sources. It's worse still to imprison journalists who report the truth. But to start detaining the family members and loved ones of journalists is simply despotic. Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they felt threatened by. But the U.K. puppets and their owners in the U.S. national security state obviously are unconstrained by even those minimal scruples."