In a Fox News interview today, Joe Miller defended his bodyguards' handcuffing Sunday of Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger. "I answered one question and he kept at it. So I turned around and I left... And after I left the building, the security team that the contract required us to have arrested him because he pushed one of their individuals. But the reason why this whole thing is curious, I have not told any outlet this before, but at the beginning of this event, the blogger, he actually followed me into the restroom... This guy is kind of getting in your personal space, this is just absolutely crossing the line."
Hopfinger earlier told a writer for his online news site that he and Miller coincidentally used the restroom at the same time but that Hopfinger did not feel it was the right time to ask Miller political questions.
And William Fulton, head of the DropZone security firm that provided the bodyguards to Miller, told Talking Points Memo he has received death threats and his employees have been called "hired goons."
Meanwhile, Miller admitted on CNN today that he was disciplined for using computers for partisan political purposes while he was an employee of the Fairbanks North Star Borough.