"Ummm who wants to bet this DID have something to do with US pressure???"

Without a doubt.

Okay here's the article...not sure what the email request thing is about...

Snowden journalist threatens UK after partner’s arrest

By Hannah Kuchler, Helen Warrell and agencies
In this undated photo released by Janine Gibson of The Guardian, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, and his partner David Miranda, are shown together at an unknown location. Miranda, the partner of Greenwald, a journalist who received leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, was detained for nearly nine hours Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport, triggering claims that authorities are trying to interfere with reporting on the issue©AP

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, and his partner David Miranda, who was detained at Heathrow

The reporter who revealed mass surveillance by the US authorities warned the British government on Monday that he would expose its spying secrets after it detained his partner under the Terrorism act.

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who interviewed Edward Snowden and revealed the US National Security Agency’s mass monitoring of phone and internet use, said the UK would be “sorry” for the detention.

Speaking from Brazil, where he met David Miranda, his partner, off a plane from London, he said the incident would only make his reporting more aggressive.
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“I am going to publish many more documents. I am going to publish things on England too. I have many documents on England’s spy system. I think they will be sorry for what they did,” he told the Brazilian press.

Mr Miranda said he was quizzed about his “entire life” while detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow airport on Sunday and had his mobile, laptop and other electronic equipment confiscated.

“I remained in a room. There were six different agents coming and going. They asked questions about my entire life, about everything,” he said.

The detention has been condemned by the Brazilian government while the UK’s Labour party has called for an investigation into why terrorism powers were used.

In June, the Guardian published a series of stories by Mr Greenwald based on interviews with Mr Snowden, a former contractor for the NSA. Mr Snowden went on the run and has since found temporary asylum in Russia.

Mr Miranda was returning from visiting Laura Poitras, another journalist working on the story, in Berlin, and the Guardian said it had paid for his flights. But a spokesperson for the newspaper said he was not an employee of the Guardian.

The newspaper said it was “dismayed” at the detention and was “urgently seeking clarification from the British authorities”.

On Sunday, Brazil said it had “grave concerns” about the detention of one of its citizens under the Terrorism Act.

The country’s foreign ministry said it was “unjustifiable” to use terrorism legislation in this way and hoped the incident was not repeated.

Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, said any suggestion that terror powers were being misused must be investigated urgently.

Keith Vaz, a Labour MP and chair of the Commons’ Home Affairs Committee, on Monday wrote to Scotland Yard asking for a “clarification” of its use of the terrorism act and also whether the act had been used “at the behest of another government”.

“I am concerned about the message this sends out to all those who transit through the UK,” Mr Vaz said. “Our legislation needs to be used proportionately.”

Mr Vaz’s letter, addressed to Met police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe, asked whether the German authorities were aware of the decision to detain Mr Miranda and also why he had his personal effects – such as a computer – confiscated.

The Metropolitan Police said a 28-year old man was detained at Heathrow at 8.05am on Sunday under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He was not arrested and was later released at 5pm, it said.

Home Office figures show more than 97 per cent of examinations under Schedule 7 last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people is held for more than six hours.

A spokesperson for the US embassy in London said: “This was a UK operation and we refer you to the British authorities.”

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