interrogation. meanwhile, the guardian newspaper is reporting it was forced by the british authorities to destroy hard drives containing material leaked to greenwald by edward snowden. joining me now, natasha leonard, assistant news editor at salon. thank you for your time. first, what do we know regarding this legal action being threatened? we know lawyers on behalf of david miranda have written a sort of advanced warning to britain s home secretary and the head of the metropolitan police force demanding a return of all the electronics confiscated and saying that they plan to direct legal action against the government for what they believe was an unlawful use of the terror act in detaining mr. miranda for that many hours under an article that s usually reserved for suspects of terrorist activity. this was a journalist s partner and acquaintance. the allegation, though, is