Glenn Greenwald's Partner Was Carrying A Stunning Amount Of Sensitive Documents When He Was Detained [View all]

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Source: Business Insider

Glenn Greenwald's Partner Was Carrying A Stunning Amount Of Sensitive Documents When He Was Detained



Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, was carrying a stunning amount of government documents when he was detained by British authorities for nine hours earlier this month.

And a UK national security adviser said Friday that some of those 58,000 documents were extremely sensitive to national security.

The Daily Telegraph's David Barrett tweeted (***) out some of the details from the statement made Friday by Oliver Robbins, deputy national security adviser for intelligence, before UK judges.

Robbins was making the case that national security teams and police needed to investigate the material, which they seized earlier this month.




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***UK Government: Greenwald’s Partner Had a Password Written on a Piece of Paper

David Barrett @davidbarrett

Statement from senior Cabinet Office civil servant to #miranda case says material was 58000 'highly classified UK intelligence documents'

2:58 AM - 30 Aug 2013

David Barrett @davidbarrett

Police who seized documents from #miranda found among them a piece of paper with the decryption password, the statement says

3:03 AM - 30 Aug 2013

David Barrett @davidbarrett

This password allowed them to decrypt one file on his seized hard drive, adds Oliver Robbins, Cabinet Office security adviser #miranda
3:05 AM - 30 Aug 2013

David Barrett @davidbarrett

The material contains personal information that would allow British intelligence staff to be identified, inc some overseas, it adds #miranda
3:09 AM - 30 Aug 2013

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42458_UK_Government-_Greenwalds_Partner_Had_a_Password_Written_on_a_Piece_of_Paper