Extradition proceedings had been launched earlier this month.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Seiger said the latest move had been "factored it into our planning and strategy".
"The reality is that this administration, which we say is behaving lawlessly and taking a wrecking ball to one of the greatest alliances in the world, they won't be around forever whereas that extradition request will be," he added.
"We will simply plot and plan for a reasonable administration to come in one day and to reverse this decision."
"A denial of justice"
The Home Office said the decision appeared "to be a denial of justice".
In December 1943, George Orwell wrote an 'As I Please' essay in which he observed: "...it is difficult to go anywhere in London without having the feeling that Britain is now Occupied Territory.'
Orwell continued: "Before the war there was no popular anti-American feeling in this country. It all dates back from the arrival of the American troops, and it is made vastly worse by the tacit agreement never to discuss it in print... As a result things have happened which are capable of causing the worst kind of trouble sooner or later."
And he adds: "An example is the agreement by which American troops are not liable to British courts for offences against British subjects - practically 'extra-territorial rights'.'
In these circumstances, the current decision to block the Anne Sacoolas extradition request by the US would merely seem to be business as usual.
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On August 27 2019, 19-year-old, Harry Dunn, was driving his Kawasaki motorcycle when he collided with car being driven by Anne Sacoolas, which was being driven on the wrong side of the road. She stayed at the scene of the accident. The following day, she was interviewed by the police and claimed to have diplomatic immunity because she's married to a U.S. intelligence official. The interview was suspended and the day after, the UK Government filed for an immunity waiver from the United States. Several weeks later the UK Government were told the United States had declined the immunity waver and that Anne Sacoolas had been taken back to the U.S. The UK Government are now seeking to extradite her to the UK to stand trial for death by dangerous driving. Mrs Sacoolas does not have diplomatic immunity but the US Government is refusing to send her to the UK.
Bammy says that US troops who were stationed in Britain during the last war were not under British jurisdiction for crimes they committed while in this country and he makes a comparison with the case of Anne Sacoolas. US troops did commit crimes against both US and British citizens and were tried by court martial and unlike Sacoolas, were punished. According to the Home Office, American GI's, committed 26 murders, 31 manslaughters, 22 attempted murders,and more than 400 sexual offences, including 126 rapes, in the three years between their arrival in Britain and the end of the war. Some of the GI's convicted of these offences, were hung at Shepton Mallet prison by Britain's hangman Thomas Pierrepoint or shot by the Americans.
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