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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeffrey Toobin Likens Greenwald’s Partner To A ‘Drug Mule’ (VIDEO)
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday strongly defended the British government's nearly nine-hour detention of David Miranda, the partner of The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald.
Toobin argued on CNN's "AC360" that British authorities were "justified" in the detention.
"Let's be clear about what Mr. Miranda's role was here. 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 the airport. Our prisons are full of drug mules. Glenn's view is, as long as one of the two people at either end of that transaction was a journalist he can take anything he wants."
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Toobin, who has been one of the most vocal critics of former government contractor Edward Snowden and intelligence disclosures, clashed with Greenwald last month in a tense on-air debate on WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning. In June, Toobin argued in a column for The New Yorker that Snowden "deserves to be in prison."
So the term mule for Miranda is in the talking points after all
Toobin argued on CNN's "AC360" that British authorities were "justified" in the detention.
"Let's be clear about what Mr. Miranda's role was here. 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 the airport. Our prisons are full of drug mules. Glenn's view is, as long as one of the two people at either end of that transaction was a journalist he can take anything he wants."
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Toobin, who has been one of the most vocal critics of former government contractor Edward Snowden and intelligence disclosures, clashed with Greenwald last month in a tense on-air debate on WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning. In June, Toobin argued in a column for The New Yorker that Snowden "deserves to be in prison."
So the term mule for Miranda is in the talking points after all
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Jeffrey Toobin Likens Greenwald’s Partner To A ‘Drug Mule’ (VIDEO) (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Aug 2013
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. And Toobin resembles the south end of a northbound horse.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)2. Toobin went on to say Miranda has nuts the size of cantaloupes
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)3. heh