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Last night, Rachel Maddow used the first part of her show on MSNBC to go on an insane rant about Glenn Greenwald's boyfriend (as well as partner in crime) being detained by the British authorities at London's Heathrow airport. Maddow incessantly bellyached that Britain was abusing its anti-terrorism law to try to stop journalistic activity by Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in reporting on NSA activities - which, if Rachel believes is unconstitutional, she needs a crash course in the fourth amendment - disclosed to them by the American fugitive and Russian guest Edward Snowden. "Journalism is not terrorism," Rachel lamented over and over, in the process chiding the United States for not objecting to Miranda's interrogation despite having advanced knowledge of it...
Let me educate Maddow on this, since she doesn't seem to either know or care. Under US law, this is how terrorism is defined - 18 USC § 2331:
(1) the term international terrorism means activities that
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;
Edward Snowden's revelations - and Glenn Greenwald's possible instigation of the revelations, which he himself hinted at, before backpedaling furiously - quite likely have caused danger to American lives as it gave away to terrorists our intelligence sources and methods. That's not all. Greenwald openly threatened the United States, saying that it better hope nothing happens to Snowden, or the things he would reveal would be the "worst nightmare" for the US government. And no one - not even Greenwald, Poitras or Maddow, even claims that these revelations weren't intended to influence the policy of one or more governments (namely the US and UK governments)...
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/dear-rachel-maddow-terrorism-under-veil.html