increasingly high-stakes, international, political, intelligence and media battle over the world s most closely held secrets. he finds himself in precisely that position. he s a brazilian national, partner of the guardian s glenn greenwald, writing stories on edward snowden s leaked nsa documents. this past sunday miranda was detained by authorities in heathrow airport, returning from a trip in berlin where he met up with greenwald s clab raollabor laura poitras. he had his laptop confiscated, a mobile phone, smartdisk and video game console. he was held for seven hours under the terrorism act of 2000. asked about his association with greenwald and the guardian s reporting. miranda s lawyers are threatening legal action over what they and others are calling his, quote, unlawful detention. british government defended its decision to detain miranda in a