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In reply to the discussion: The game is over. Even Andrew Sullivan has jumped ship of the NSA and GCHQ. In Greenwald's defense [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)The purpose of the law is the detain suspected Terrorists until they can be more positively eliminated. Let's for the sake of argument say that Miranda was in fact transporting the documents that Snowden procured to blow the whistle with. What the hell, since we're going hypothetical, let's go all the way and say he stole those documents. Is the transportation of those documents by an accredited journalist terrorism by any stretch of the imagination?
The obvious, and only answer is no that it is not terrorism. So why bother? Intimidation is the most probable answer. Scare the journalists back into line. Scare the rest of us into line.
Nuts to the excuses to the contrary, because in the end, the event was an abuse of an anti-terrorism statute, and an attempt to intimidate the press into compliance with the authorities.