Re: Trade deal - test for the UK government
Being a truly Imperial Power, the US will NEVER extradite one of "it's own". An imperial power always sees itself as superior and therefore never subjects those that it sees as "it's own" to justice anywhere else but it's own courts (where, if so desired, the outcome can be controlled). This goes waaaay back - Roman citizens arrested of wrongdoing in the provinces had the right to stand trial in Rome (an incident documented in the Bible, as St. Paul, a Roman citizen, was shipwrecked while being transported back to Rome for trial). The UK kicked off the opium wars in China partly because they refused to turn over British subjects accused of (whatever) to the Chinese.
Any random US citizen, particularly non-white, would be on the next plane out before you could say "extradition". Wife of an intelligence agent? No way, Jose'!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
