RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he’ll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner.
London police detained David Miranda, who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday.
A defiant Greenwald, who reports for the Guardian newspaper in Britain, promised he was going “to write much more aggressively than before” about government snooping.
“I have many documents about England’s espionage system, and now, my focus will be there, too,” he said at Rio’s international airport when Miranda arrived. “I think they’ll regret what they’ve done.”
In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. government was tipped off by British counterparts that Miranda would be detained, but that the U.S. had not requested the action. The spokesman didn’t respond to a question about whether U.S. officials may have discouraged British officials from stopping Miranda.
Miranda said he was seized almost as soon as his plane landed at Heathrow.
Agents confiscated Miranda’s computer, Wi-Fi watch, cellphone, DVDs, memory sticks and some paper documents.
British agents oversaw the destruction of an unspecified number of the Guardian newspaper’s hard drives in an apparent bid to keep the fruit of Edward Snowden’s leaks safe from Chinese spies, the paper’s editor Alan Rusbridger said Monday.
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