CIA now allowed to secretly "interrogate" Irish citizens on Irish soil

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Treaty gives CIA powers over Irish citizens
21/07/05
By Dan Buckley

US INVESTIGATORS, including CIA agents, will be allowed interrogate Irish citizens on Irish soil in total secrecy, under an agreement signed between Ireland and the US last week.

Suspects will also have to give testimony and allow property to be searched and seized even if what the suspect is accused of is not a crime in Ireland....

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

so, in other words, welcome to the party

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe now we'll find out who stole our Lucky Charms.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

"So, you expect us to believe that you don't know where this, what did you call it, pot-o-gold is?"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

"2 Deodorants? How is this possible? TELL US??"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I go to London they say "did anyone ask you to bring anything etc etc" and I say "yeah my brother asked me to bring him some black pudding". hilarity ensues.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

See this way there isn't the ruckus when they do it, like in Italy.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Will this finally redress the sufferings American citizens have long endured at the hands of our Irish overlords?!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Another article (in the same paper) rebutting the assertion:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgIl1dKUIWP9csgdL11Zs5FWAE.asp

"“There is no question at all of the CIA interrogating Irish citizens or residents in secret or at all,” he said.

He contended that the establishment of joint investigation teams would in no way “permit foreign security or police services to interrogate persons in custody in Ireland”.

“Only gardaí can do that. And only gardaí can arrest, detain or question suspects in this State."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

maybe they'll have to go into a back room to have a swordfight and truly get this issue resolved.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

The CIA can only detain and interrogate suspects if they do it in a comedy Irish accent. So that we can at least have some feelings of superiority left.

There are apparently great fears that Ireland is being used as a base for training terrorists. Wow! Terrorists in Ireland! What next?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

My irish last name prevents me from using self-check-in at airports.

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

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