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It should be pointed out that Miranda was detained under a terrorism statute and was only questioned regarding Greenwald's journalism which is obviously not terrorism.
It should be pointed out that had Miranda been allowed to pass unhindered into Britain with the U.S. national security secrets he held in his possession, every foreign nation from Russian to China to Iran to to North Korea to fricken Venezuela would have been trying to hack into his computer and/or steal the files from him. Do you naive children honestly think the Russian or Chinese spy agencies do not have the capability to hack into a fucking journalist's computer? We may have won the cold war but our frenemies to the east aren't total morons.
You fail to consider the full realm of possibilities when secret data is held in the wrong hands. Would Miranda have release information on that disc that would put U.S. lives directly at risk, such as the identities of secret agents? I doubt it! What you folks need to worry about is the information that is stolen off those discs by foreign governments!
I can guarantee you the intelligence agencies in Russia and China are laughing their assess off at how naive the American public is about what is to them - a bonanza of U.S. secrets for the taking.
You literally can't guarantee anything. Regardless, Miranda was going directly to Brazil from Heathrow. Were China and Russia going to steal his encrypted information directly from his home in Rio?