So the question is ...

[patrick_vecchio]

... why didn't the Brits wait to detain this guy until he was at the airport

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[minnesattva]

I think the police would probably rather have done this in secret, really.

[patrick_vecchio]

How could they possibly have thought that detaining Greenwald's partner would be a secret, especially at the airport after he'd been in England for a week? It would be one thing if Greenwald were an obscure journalist, but he's anything but. The detention story was in the New York Times, the Guardian (with a Greenwald column to boot) and who knows where else. The police blew this one, big time. It just goes to show the attitude, no, the arrogance, of the police in our surveillance state.