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Miranda, 28, was detained for nine hours on Sunday under a UK anti-terror law. He spent a week in Berlin visiting journalist Laura Poitras, who has been working with Greenwald to publish stories based on leaked information from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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"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.
After the exchange aired on CNN, Greenwald took to Twitter to slam Toobin's comments:
Most amazing feat of US Govt is to get journalists to take the lead in demanding the criminalization of journalism http://t.co/sDvbVHYfnk
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 21, 2013
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