One year
UK officials detain Glenn Greenwald’s partner at Heathrow, question him about Snowden interviews, steal all his gadgets & data: Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda was detained at Heathrow Airport under an anti-terrorism law that allows the cops to hold terrorism suspects and question them for nine hours without a lawyer. He was held for exactly nine hours, and questioned — but not about terrorism.
Five years
Michael Jackson’s FBI file consists of about 600 pages: I expected the agency would reply saying they didn’t locate any such records, or that there were only a handful on pages on the late entertainer. I was wrong. A letter from the FBI yesterday informs me they’ve located close to 600 pages on him.
Ten years
Stealth Lynndie-ing: In this warped variant of stealth disco, you strike the cigarette-dangling-from-mouth, finger-points-at-exposed-prisoner-genitalia pose made famous by Pfc. Lynndie England in Abu Ghraib torture photos.