On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
On 12 Sep 2003 at 17:46, J.A. Terranson wrote:
The FBI has been learning to use international extradition over the last two years or so, and are actually getting to be quite good at it from what I hear.
This would greatly surprise me, for government bureaucracies are notoriously incompetent at dealing with anyone they cannot have pistol whipped.
As I understand it, they're simply having similar agencies from other countries doing the appropriate PW, followed by an extradition from those countries willing to do so.
If police bureaucracy X has busted someone for their own reasons, they may well hand him over to police bureacracy Y, but police bureaucracy X is not going to bust someone because police bureacracy Y wants him.
There has been a lot of change in this area over the last two years.
If Professor rat had killed a cop, or seriously pissed off an important politician, the FBI might get its act together enough and swallow its pride sufficiently to manage a successful extradition, but for this sort of minor crap, nothing will happen.
The feebs are in a position right now where it's not a matter of "swallowing their pride", but rather a "corporate mandate" if you will: they have been *ordered* to make these types of extraditions happen. Of course, the next [obvious] question is where did I get this information? From work: we had an incident that resulted in an FBI call and international players from third world countries. If it's just Mattd they're looking for, then I too doubt that he's worth putting the wheels in motion for, but if it's something they consider "real", I have absolutely no doubt that they are now in a position to successfully complete an international extradition
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