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Renegade:
"David Miranda, partner of Guardian interviewer of whistleblower Edward Snowden, questioned under Terrorism Act."
...This whole "free press" and "free speech" thing is just a thing of the past.-dr_andus (August 18, 2013, 04:49 PM)
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Shameful. Just goes to show that it's not just the US that is thoroughly corrupt. The US just has more freedom than most places and needs to be "dealt" with more.

Renegade:
This is rather long, so I won't post a quote, but it's a list of non-stop surveillance insanity:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/you-wont-believe-whats-going-on-with-government-spying-on-americans.html

Renegade:
"David Miranda, partner of Guardian interviewer of whistleblower Edward Snowden, questioned under Terrorism Act."
-dr_andus (August 18, 2013, 04:49 PM)
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Glen has an article about the incident:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa

Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation
The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended

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They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.
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I wonder what kind of fallout there will be. This is an obvious abuse of power.

Carol Haynes:
This is rather long, so I won't post a quote, but it's a list of non-stop surveillance insanity:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/you-wont-believe-whats-going-on-with-government-spying-on-americans.html

-Renegade (August 18, 2013, 10:28 PM)
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This says it all:

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter … in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta.
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See http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-carter-kritisiert-usa-a-911589.html

Good old Peanut.

wraith808:
^ Yeah, I posted that earlier, and not too many people had nice things to say about him.  :-\

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