Interesting. I can't say that it hasn't been in the US press at all, but it is easy to understand that the Bush administration would not have been interested in playing up the failed security aspects of the story when it first occurred. And more recently we've been a little nationally preoccupied with the election results, global economic failure and restoring avenues of international diplomacy and cooperation. It's equally easy to understand why the unilateral nature of the US/UK extradition treaty would be an important "cause celebre" for the UK press to address.
Interesting. I can't say that it hasn't been in the US press at all, but it is easy to understand that the Bush administration would not have been interested in playing up the failed security aspects of the story when it first occurred. And more recently we've been a little nationally preoccupied with the election results, global economic failure and restoring avenues of international diplomacy and cooperation. It's equally easy to understand why the unilateral nature of the US/UK extradition treaty would be an important "cause celebre" for the UK press to address.
ReplyDeleteThe way he brought up "Quantanamo" was quite interesting, I thought
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these are related
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8201188.stm
http://news.discovery.com/space/our-solar-system-might-be-littered-with-alien-artifacts-111109.html
First I've heard of it.
ReplyDeleteThere are certainly no shortage of 'non-terrestrial officer' hits on the net now though.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/183299/british_hacker_loses_another_extradiction_appeal.html
ReplyDeleteIt seems that Gary McKinnon's legal team has started to get to work
also
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6934078.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/06/gary-mckinnon-mps-backing-extradition
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