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It seems reality doesn't work quite like Hollywood movies, where the FBI just walks in whatever country and starts flashing their IDs, while random local citizens soil their pants.

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Here in the UK the FBI are generally seen as a bit of a joke by people in similar lines of work.

Source: relatives and friends who have had to work with them.

There's a hilarious scene in The Guard (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540133/) where all of the Irish Garda are trying to seem very respectful of Don Cheadle's FBI agent, except for Brendan Gleeson's Garda who mercilessly takes the piss out of him. Later he says, "Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, these men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children."

Not sure how I missed that film; that's going on my to-watch list!

An example where the FBI did just that in the UK:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/fbi_indymedia_raids/

Well, that's certainly dimmed my views of Rackspace UK a bit. There would appear to be a rapidly thinning list of UK cloud providers who aren't subject to US interference.

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