JEFFREY TOOBIN: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Was Like A 'Drug Mule' Carrying His Information

[FarCenter]

Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN and New Yorker legal analyst, compared Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda to a "drug mule" ferrying information, which Toobin said led to Miranda's lengthy detention on Sunday by UK authorities.
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CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Toobin Tuesday night — after Greenwald and Miranda made a joint appearance on the show — whether he thought the British government was justified in its nine-hour detention.

"I sure do," Toobin said.

"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 — for one person to pass to another at the other end of an airport. Our prisons are full of drug mules..."

Toobin went on to say that Greenwald's view of the situation — that because he is a journalist at one end of the exchange — means Greenwald thinks that Miranda could have taken "anything he wants." Nuclear launch codes, names of undercover agents, and more.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-toobin-david-miranda-drug-mule-glenn-greenwald-2013-8

[FourScore]

1. What hppened to Jeffrey Toobin? He used to be a good guy.

There must be something that happens to these "talking heads". They seem to lose their perspective.

[Scootaloo]

2. Nuclear launch codes?

Oh for fuck's sake.

[snappyturtle]

3. Toobin is a coward. He doesn't want to be classified as one of

"those" journalists who threaten the establishment, therefore
safe to keep reporting non-news...in this case a critique of
David Miranda. imho

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. Jeffrey Toobin is like an ass.

[City Lights]

5. Stay classy, Jeffrey! nt

[Luminous Animal]

6. He got his disgusting talking points from DU.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Toobin reads DU?

How do you know this?