[venomsnake]

That is fun. But they do have the right according to wikipedia.

The treaty has been claimed to be one-sided[3] because it allows the US to extradite UK citizens and others for offences committed against US law, even though the alleged offence may have been committed in the UK by a person living and working in the UK (see for example the NatWest Three), and there being no reciprocal right; and issues about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice-versa.[4]

So basically Toni Blair has bent over, spreaded cheeks and prelubed himself.

[alan_cx]

Exactly, yes.

More over, the US doesn't NOT need to show evidence. It just needs to make the claim and say that it has evidence. No UK court gets to see any evidence at all.

IIRC, it was supposed to be two way, but the US never signed off on it's half of it, while we good little Brits let the legislation sail through.

[kryten]

I think we'd be better off in the UK with Europe and Russia on our side these days.

In fact we'd probably be better off with the Eastern Bloc states if they existed as well...

[voltagex_]

a) Tony, b) hasn't been in power for some time now.

[venomsnake]

The treaty was signed in 2003. He was pretty much in office as a walking rubber stamp for any Bush request back then if I recall correctly.