Throughout the Bush II and Obama regimes, the UK is acting as the lackey... jz
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America's assault on a free press moves into high gear: Detention of Greenwald Partner Clearly Came on US Orders
By Dave Lindorff
It is becoming perfectly clear that the outrageous detention of American journalist Glenn Greenwald's Brazilian partner David Miranda by British police during a flight transfer at London's Heathrow Airport was, behind the scenes, the work of US intelligence authorities.
British police and the British Home Office (the equivalent of America's Department of Homeland Security) are claiming that the action was taken by them on the basis of an anti-terrorist statute, passed in 2000, with the Orwellian name "Schedule 7." The give-away that this was not something that the British dreamed up on their own, however, is their admission that they had "notified Washington" of their intention to detain Miranda, a Brazilian national, before the detention actually occurred.
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Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material
The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroyed the classified documents or handed them back to British authorities. In the building's basement, Guardian editor Rusbridger wrote, government officials watched as computers which contained material provided by Snowden were physically pulverized. 'We can call off the black helicopters,' Rusbridger says one of the officials joked.
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