Quantum Windbag
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Damn they're good. They knew what Greenwald's boyfriend was smuggling.
Yes, they pointlessly took Miranda's potential copies of these files, just like they pointlessly destroyed the copies of the files in the Guardian's offices in London. Greenwald still has his copies in Brazil and the Guardian has copies in New York. The purpose of the detention was not to stop Miranda from "smuggling" this information, unless they're really really dense, but to try to intimidate Greenwald.
This will not end as the statists might have hoped when they started down this path.
Obama has already given Snowden the best possible defense if they try to charge him with espionage by calling for a reform in the way the NSA does things.