The Spectator

Letters | 11 June 2015

Plus: Crazy presidential candidates, the imperial hubris of Brussels, and the mystery of Dear Mary’s blouse

issue 13 June 2015

The long arm of the FBI

Sir: The White House may be less willing than it was to play the role of the world’s policeman in international affairs, but the FBI seems eager to be the world’s cop. No doubt, as Martin Vander Weyer has noted (Any other business, 6 May), the US Attorney General has been ‘careful to assert that many of the allegedly corrupt schemes of the Fifa officials so far arrested were planned in the US, and that US banking and “wire” services were used.’

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