What’s left if our freedom is sold?

I usually don’t listen to the radio on the way home from work^[1], but because of the attacks in London I did today. Luckily, they aren’t anywhere near the scale of the previous explosions. While listening I heard Matt Cooper talking about some treaty that McDowell has signed, allowing American agents to operate in Ireland. The big talking point was whether or not the CIA would be able to question Irish people, in Ireland.

There is a bit of discussion on the topic over at Back Seat Drivers, and at Irish Eyes, and I’d say elsewhere as well.

Course what I now want to know is will the Gardaí get reciprocal rights to act in the States? Somehow I doubt it?

_{[1] – But I always listen to Ray D’Arcy on the way in. (back)
Oh, and the title is a line from Hey Ronnie Reagan, you can hear a version here (reg req’d), but I prefer the Christy Moore version. Lyrics are here}