US Oslo embassy spy case goes cold

[Jan Klimkowski]

Reports that the US embassy systematically spied on Norwegian citizens broke in November after the controversial website WikiLeaks published secret American diplomatic cables.
The round-the-clock surveillance operation by the group of up to 20 SDU (Surveillance Detection Unit) agents, consisting of former police, defence, and private security staff, started in the spring of 2000.
It was set up to monitor Norwegian citizens whom the US embassy alleged acted suspiciously. Surveillance took place from the sixth floor of the Handelsbygningen building, several hundred metres west of the embassy.
SDU personnel collected detailed information about individuals, including video footage. The information was passed on to US embassy staff, where it was disseminated and subsequently stored in the worldwide anti-terror SIMAS database.

That looks like pretty cut and dried illegal, criminal, behaviour by Americans in a sovereign European country.

Um. Perhaps not.

the official enquiry found that no laws had been broken, meaning there was nothing that the Norwegian authorities could do about the scandal.
Norway's Prosecuting Authority now says the matter has been dropped.

So, the global Volkland Security apparatus operating under draconian War on Terror legislation now trumps national sovereignty.

Follow the bouncing ball
Repeat after me
I will do as I am Told....