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Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda (left), is set to
take legal action against the British government after he was detained for nine
hours at Heathrow Airport on Sunday. He was traveling to Berlin to exchange
documents with Laura Poitras, a journalist who has been working with Greenwald
(right) on stories based on information from NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Miranda was held under Britain’s Terrorism Act, which allows police to stop,
question and search people without proving reasonable suspicion. “They were
threatening me all the time and saying I would be put in jail if I didn’t cooperate,”
Miranda told the Guardian. The U.S. government has said it knew about the plans.