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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!
... the British also want to issue tax stamps on tea.
Another step in the erosion of the sovereignty of each country. Who needs the "one world government" when you can just pull crap like this, the TPP, etc?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Oh, please, the US has been demanding this same kind of crap around the world since 2001.
This security stuff is now the keys to the kingdom, you can undermine sovereignty and violate laws in secret if you put on your fucking puppy dog face and says "because, security".
The US government is actively involved in doing the shit to the rest of the world, so don't look to us for any sympathy. Because an awful lot of Americans seem to think it's just fine when you do it to the rest of the world.
You're damned right this doesn't happen in a vacuum.
But if you think the US hasn't been demanding the ability to wiretap others, or just going ahead and doing it, you've been willfully ignorant to the last bunch of years.
Only now that it's happening to you, you're suddenly outraged.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Both nations are part of Interpol which was established for exactly this purpose. If they have a problem with the established organization then they need to reform that intermediary body for the betterment of all nations involved. That way it's not just the US you gain better cooperation with, but the other 188 countries as well. If you can't get the other member nations to agree with your proposals, then maybe your ideas aren't that great after all. This "alternative" of sidestepping established practices and micromanaging jurisdictional treaties between every god damn nation under the sun, just because you can't stand criticism from your peers, is nothing short of ridiculous.
Or maybe this has more to do with Interpol's charter forbidding their intervention in political matters #tinfoilhat.