[Krankor]

If the U.S. attorney's office handed me a subpoena for information allegedly relating to a murder case in Ireland or Great Britain, then I'd tell them to stick it up their @sses.


So, if officials at Oxford University had known where bin-laden was hiding, you would have had no problem with them telling British prosecutors to stick it up their ass?

[Alberta's Child]

Absolutely -- and let the British prosecutors deal with them. If Osama bin Laden was hiding out in Great Britain and he was not wanted by the British government for any violations of British law, then I'm not sure what legal jurisdiction the U.S. would have outside of a formal extradition process. The U.S. government has no right to demand the cooperation of foreign citizens in a foreign country over a murder case (even a U.S. murder case) in Britain, and vice versa.

This is exactly why Osama bin Laden wasn't pursued by the U.S. Justice Department, was never served an arrest warrant, and was never subject to a criminal proceeding . . . and why the Obama/Holder plan to try the 9/11 masterminds held at Guantanamo Bay in a U.S. Federal court was abject idiocy.