detaining him for nine hours? i sure do. i don t want to be unkind, but he was a mule. he was given something, he didn t know what it was, from one person to pass to another at the other end of an airport. our prisons are full of drug mules. glenn s view is, as long as one of the two people on either end of that transaction was a journalist, he can take anything he wants. he could take the nuclear launch codes, the names of our undercover agents. this was paid for by the guardian. wasn t he acting in a journalistjournalist ic capacity? no. he s on a plane with stuff highly classified. it was the extremely classified nsa material. that is not the law. he s being detained under a british uk terrorism act, only supposed to be used to detect
glenn s view is, as long as one of the two people on either end of that transaction was a journalist, he can take anything he wants. he could take the nuclear launch codes. he could take the names of our undercover agents. this was paid for by the guardian. wasn t he acting in a journalistic capacity? no. he s on a plane with stuff highly classified. anything he wants, it turns out it wasn t the names of our undercover agents. it was the extremely classified presumedly nsa material. that is not the law. he s being detained under a british uk terrorism act, only supposed to be used to detect and find people who are connected to terrorists. there s no indication that david miranda, they knew who he was. they knew he s not connected to some terrorist group. great britain has its own laws that are similar to ours but are somewhat different.
thanks, anderson. thank you. let s dig deeper now with jeffrey toobin and jessalyn radek, a former whistleblower who now represents people who do what she once did. jeff, do you believe the british government was justified in detaining him for nine hours? i sure do. i don t want to be unkind, but he was a mule. he was given something, he didn t know what it was, from one person to pass to another at the other end of an airport. our prisons are full of drug mules. glenn s view is, as long as one of the two people on either end of that transaction was a journalist, he can take anything he wants. he could take the nuclear launch codes, the names of our undercover agents. this was paid for by the guardian. wasn t he acting in a journalistic capacity? no. he s on a plane with stuff highly classified.