CIA and FBI to have full arrest powers in Europe

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday April 09, 2003 16:06 by big bro

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CIA and FBI to have full arrest powers in Europe

A Press Release from Statewatch

Statewatch News online, press release, 9 April 2003

Statewatch is publishing today two major stories on EU-US cooperation
and
UK-US cooperation:

1. EU-USA agreements - the drafts on the table

- two agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance being negotiated in secret

- extradition to USA to apply to any suspected offences bringing just a one year sentence

- USA successfully opposed any reference to the International Criminal Court or to Special Courts (Military Tribunals)

- data protection sidelined again: "A broad, categorical, or systematic application of data protection principles to refuse cooperation is.. precluded"

- FBI and other US agencies to operate in EU in joint investigation teams with full powers of search, surveillance and arrest

plus full-text of the draft agreements

see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01Auseuag.htm

2. EU-USA and UK-USA

- UK parliament Committee refuses to scrutinise agreements in secret

- UK agrees new treaty with USA on extradition

- UK and USA prepare for "simultaneous attacks"

see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/07euusauk.htm

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