The UK Fairford Airbase Incident
The wildly divergent stories surrrounding the UK Fairford Airbase incident, in which five UK nationals were "detained" near the Fairford airbase in the UK on charges related to explosives and terroriism and subsequently released on bail , raise real questions for me on whether the press freedoms we've assumed were largely equivalent in the UK to those in the US actually exist. Here's the initial version we heard on Sunday : British police arrested five men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences on Sunday near an air base that has been used by the US to strike Iran, after a tip-off that three vans had been seen heading to the military airfield. US President Donald Trump said the suspects had been looking to do "big damage" and had been under investigation by British and US authorities. British counterterrorism detectives leading the investigation said police had received a call about three suspicious vehicles that appeared to be travell...