US Pressured Britain To Make Arrests Sooner

[eleny]

Did anyone see that on CNN, too? I can't find a thread.

At the top of the 1PM Eastern Time hour, CNN reported that Britain wanted to wait another week before making their recent arrests of the terrorists. They wanted to gather more evidence. But the US pressured British authorities to move up the arrest date.

The report went no further and then CNN launched This Week At War.

[Turbineguy]

1. I wonder just how long

Bush's higher approval ratings will hold if it turns out that the additional evidence the Brits were waiting to obtain turns out to be needed for a conviction.

[eleny]

3. Political expediency was more important than protecting America

[Turbineguy]

2. delete

[MessiahRp]

4. I wonder why they wanted them arrested sooner?

Maybe so they could have announced it before Lieberman's primary....

These assholes make everything political.. and what the fuck do we know about capturing terror plot suspects?

The only one we got was that sham they called the Miami 7. The British law enforcement agents used the law to get legal warrants and had the FBI use FISA to get the wiretaps and probably will have an airtight case against most of these guys. Anyone we catch can get courts to ponder whether or not to throw out the case or conviction because of the illegality of how that information was obtained....

Real smart.

Rp

[eleny]

5. I got the impression the Brits wanted to arrest a week later than they did

But it was a very short piece on CNN at the top of the hour. I hope someone picks up on this and investigates further so it get traction.

[eleny]

6. shameless kick for the night crowd

because peter werbe is talking about it on his radio show tonight.