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UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com)
schwit1 writes with this news, as reported by USA Today: British and U.S. officials have been negotiating a plan that could allow British authorities to directly serve wiretap orders on U.S. communications companies in criminal and national security inquiries, U.S. officials confirmed Thursday. The talks are aimed at allowing British authorities access to a range of data, from interceptions of live communications to archived emails involving British suspects, according to the officials, who are not authorized to comment publicly. ... Under the proposed plan, British authorities would not have access to records of U.S. citizens if they emerged in the British investigations. Congressional approval would be required of any deal negotiated by the two countries.
British authorities would not have access to records of U.S. citizens if they emerged in the British investigations.
Riiiiight. They would never do that and hand it over to its Five Eyes brethren in the NSA. That's just crazy talk!
They already do: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa
I remember reading somewhere we had this little disagreement in the 1770's with the State of Great Britain. Part of it had something to do with their overreach in legal processes.
Yes, but you got uppity around 1812 and tried to take the remains of our North American empire away, so we sailed down the Hudson river and burned down the Whitehouse.
We settled on the original borders because we decided you were a lost cause to civilisation.
Wrong. Brittan decided to start attacking US merchant ships trading with France and Africa, and embargoed the US trading with the West Indies, They kidnapped enslaved US citizens by impressing them in to the British navy against their will. They occupied forts inside sovereign US territory in a violation the Jay treaty. Refused compensation for seized US merchant ships, and the British were funding attacks on US outpost in the west by natives. As for the invading Canada the US wasn't really interested in taking territory they sent a militia regiment the idea being that if they could take it they could trade it back to Brittin in exchange for backing down on everything else.
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