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**Nurse_sero** · 02-01-2007, 03:50 AM

The British do have a constitution, it's just not written down in one place like the US one.

They can wiretap if the law allows it. Of course they wiretap if the law doesn't allow it too but the evidence might not be admitted in a criminal trial and if they were found out illegally carrying out wiretapping there would be a problem for whoever was doing it plus anyone who authorised or knew about it.

Now WarOnIgnorance - you're stretching a long bow. Some cases, especially against the IRA and other Northern Ireland terrorist groups, were fit-ups. And there was some spectacular illegality (allegedly) by the RUC according to a recent report by the NI Ombudsman (I think that was the office which produced it). BUT you cited three examples. Three. I don't think you can validly generalise from three cases.

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Nurse_sero Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 562 Senior Member	The British do have a constitution, it's just not written down in one place like the US one. They can wiretap if the law allows it. Of course they wiretap if the law doesn't allow it too but the evidence might not be admitted in a criminal trial and if they were found out illegally carrying out wiretapping there would be a problem for whoever was doing it plus anyone who authorised or knew about it. Now WarOnIgnorance - you're stretching a long bow. Some cases, especially against the IRA and other Northern Ireland terrorist groups, were fit-ups. And there was some spectacular illegality (allegedly) by the RUC according to a recent report by the NI Ombudsman (I think that was the office which produced it). BUT you cited three examples. Three. I don't think you can validly generalise from three cases.
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