Straw man. Nobody argues he's above the law. They argue because: - The law is to detain suspected terrorists, nobody thinks the UK believed he is a terrorist,

Straw man. Nobody argues he's above the law. They argue because: - The law is to detain suspected terrorists, nobody thinks the UK believed he is a terrorist, so they were abusing the law; - If, as the UK government now says, they just wanted any electronic devices he had so they could see what he was carrying, that would have taken less than an hour to confiscate them and ask for whatever passwords Miranda had, not the close to nine hours they held him. Nobody is above the law. I am sure the reason Miranda was travelling from Berlin back to Rio and not Greenwald was that Greenwald knew he would be detained and thought perhaps Miranda would not. But just like Miranda is not above the law, neither is the UK government. If they misuse a law to harass and intimidate then they should be held to account. There's always some jackass journalist who thinks they should take the other side, no matter how contrary to the facts, to get some attention. I am just surprised it's at outfits like The Telegraph and Reuters.