Marc Champion, Columnist

Detaining Greenwald's Partner Can Only Hurt the U.K.

Governments that misuse special powers granted to fight terrorism need to think about the backlash they risk provoking.

August 20, 2013 at 4:56 PM UTC

Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

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This morning, the U.K. Home Office defended its detention of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda under anti-terrorism laws. This is what officials said:

Let's turn this around: Governments that abuse the trust of their people by misusing the special powers granted to fight terrorism need to think about the backlash they risk provoking.