Before
UK
Detained
Greenwald's
Partner,
Dodged Spy
Critique at UN
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 18 --
The UK
detailed journalist
Glenn
Greenwald's
partner David
Miranda for
nine hours in
Heathrow
Airport,
citing
schedule 7 of
the Terrorism
Act 2000.
At
the UN, we
noted that
when on August
6 numerous
countries
criticized
the global
espionage that
whistleblower
Edward Snowden
has exposed
through
Greenwald,
Laura Poitras
and others, UK
Permanent
Representative
Mark Lyall
Grant in his
statements did
not even
mention
espionage,
focusing on
the Falklands
or Malvinas
Islands:
here,
here
and here.
The
Guardian's
piece today
says Miranda
was returning
from Berlin.
This
Sunday's New
York Times
Magazine in a
lengthy piece
on the
exposure
of the spying
places Poitras
in Berlin
editing her
documentary.
Is
this the
chilling
premise the UK
was operating
on? So far
they
haven't said.
The
NYT Magazine
piece,
strangely,
does not
mention Barton
Gellman of the
Washington
Post, who has
written that
he was
contacted
first by
Snowden but
declined to
commit to
publishing all
of the slides.
Is
that true? Why
did the NYT
piece's author
Peter Maass
not address
it?
Greenwald
on
August 17
highlighted a
tweet by
TIME's Mike
Grunwald that
"I
can't wait to
write a
defense of the
drone strike
that takes out
Julian
Assange."
Grunwald later
deleted the
tweet, and has
gone
silent on
Sunday. (TIME
has said the
tweet does not
represent its
views).
So what
is the
relation
between media
mega-corporations'
correspondents'
on record
and anonymous
trolling
tweets and the
corporations?
Finally
for
now on the UN:
could one
expect the UN of
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon to
speak against
this
intimidation
of a
journalists,
through
the detention
of his
significant
other?
Hardly
- not only
does Ban
Ki-moon not
criticize
Permanent Five
members of the
Security
Council
(unlike his
predecessor),
Ban
has also said,
as quoted by
Icelandic
parliamentary
from a meeting
Ban calls
"private,"
that
Snowden
"misused"
information
and his
position.
What a
position.
Watch this
site.
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