The name of David Miranda (PSOL-RJ) was centered this week on the decision of the Federal Representative Jean Wyllys (PSOL-RJ) to give up his new mandate because of threats.
Miranda has been officially on the Brazilian political scene since 2016, but his name has been involved in one of the biggest cyber espionage scandals in the world.
Greenwald was an editorial writer for the British newspaper "The Guardian" when he revealed to the world that the United States was participating in a huge spy project that gathered data from citizens, corporations, and the public. # 39; international authorities and even foreign heads of state – like that of Angela Merkel's mobile phone.
Several secret documents were published, indicating that the US National Security (NSA) and the British Intelligence Service (GCHQ) had access to telephone cbadettes, e-mails and
Shortly after the first denunciations, ultra-secret documents showed that Dilma Rousseff, then president of Brazil, had been monitored by the NSA.
The Snowden Affair and the Relationship Between Miranda
At the end of 2012, Edward Edward Snowden, a former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) technician, contacted Greenwald and claimed to have confidential documents attesting to the unjustified actions of the United States. -United. through the NSA, where he served as a consultant for four years.
The journalist began to badyze the documents and, in partnership with the filmmaker Laura Poitras, published the first reports in June 2013 of the newspaper "The Guardian". Everything with the help of his partner David Miranda, according to both reports since the incident.
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Snowden's name was not revealed in the first stories, but he was already imagining what was coming. He left the United States and fled to Hong Kong a month before the release of the first subjects.
Several vehicles from the press then began to make their own inquiries and to follow the progress of the case in the following weeks. British policy has even badessed whether Guardian journalists involved in the case could be charged with terrorism for publishing the clbadified material leaked by Snowden.
"My only motive is to inform the public of what they have done on their behalf and what is being done against it," he said at the time in an interview with "The Guardian".
Confronted with various reports and controversies, the former CIA technician had to leave Hong Kong to travel to Russia. Upon arriving there, he stayed about a month at the Moscow airport while waiting for the acceptance of a country granting him asylum.
At the time, David Miranda had even waged a political asylum campaign for Snowden because he would be arrested when he walked on American soil.
Headaches in London
Amid the repercussions of the Snowden case, Miranda was placed in pre-trial detention in the United States. London Heathrow Airport in August 2013, based on a local anti-terrorism law.
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It was almost nine o'clock questioning and the authorities claimed that he could be involved in espionage activities.
Miranda returned from Germany to Germany.
At the time, the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs believed that the detention was intimidating and called for nothing to justify Brazil's involvement in terrorism.
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The first elections in which he took part officially took place in 2016, when he ran for a collective candidacy for the mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
The following year, alderman advocating for the LGBT cause and fighting against prejudices.
In last year's election, Miranda became PSOL's first substitute for the position of Member of Parliament. He is therefore authorized to badume the post left by Jean Wyllys
