White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
Braces for the down votes but.....
a) He was his partner but he was also acting as a paid employee of the Guardian correct? I read they paid his flight at the very least.
b) Assumption by said governments would be "He's traveling from Germany from Laura Poitras back to Greenwald in Brazil. He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"
c) The governments still believe that is highly classified, stolen documentation. So they pull him aside to see if they can intercept it. It's not clear if they have or not - we do know they took a lot of his equipment.<p>Now I'm not <i>supporting</i> what happened. I'm just trying to point out that there might be a <i>logic</i> to it and it's not the one that's making the rounds much of today "Oh they just targeted my boyfriend to bully/humiliate us" It sounds like to the government's he was a paid willing member potentially carrying what they believe to be stolen sensitive material and they intercepted him to get it back.<p>Just like many other efforts in this saga the outcome is another huge PR coup for Snowden/Greenwald and yet more political pressure and controls will be brought to bare on government secrecy.<p>EDIT: I'd point people to this new comment further down. Fascinating but not surprising: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239847" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239847</a>