No, this is Special Branch. David's passport is on a stop list. SB have a database that is outside the usual police records that contains information that you w

No, this is Special Branch. David's passport is on a stop list. SB have a database that is outside the usual police records that contains information that you won't get by making an FOI request. They know exactly who is coming through and when. They will have had specific instructions on what to do, and those instructions come directly from the Home Office. Even HMIC don't get to look at this stuff. Stopping someone in transit is pretty unusual. Any tech they seized is now being foresically analysed. He is unlikely to get it back. They probably thought that it was highly likely he was a data mule between Greenwald and Poitras. I'd guess that they were probably right in that assumption. I know a man, who knows a dog. I'll leave it at that.