Brown is right (say it ain't so)

The papers this morning have reports that Gordon Brown received a chewing out from Obama over the release of al-Magrahi. This is one of the few times I fully agree with Brown, and I think it only fair to say so. The Scottish Assembly is a fully devolved system. It, and it alone had to make the decision to free the al-Magrahi, and the Westminster Government (assuming there was no backroom deal) cannot be held responsible.
To use another example, imagine if Gordon Brown rang up Obama and chewed him out if Texas executed a British citizen. Impossible, right? Because Obama is not responsible for Texas's justice policy. In the same way, blaming Brown for a decision by the Salmond executive in Scotland is just plain unfair.