Can Bolton Use His Diplomatic Immunity Status Re: Plame\Wilson\Rove ???

[WillyT]

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In fiction, diplomatic immunity is often portrayed negatively with criminals with diplomatic papers brazenly committing the most violent crimes and arrogantly waving their immunity about when the heroes try to stop them. In fact, most professional diplomats are representatives of large, powerful nations with a tradition of professional civil service. They are expected to obey regulations governing their behaviour and they suffer strict internal consequences if they flout local laws. Diplomats who disobey minor regulations or break major laws, or disappear with bad debts are in a minority, and they usually come from small or poor or badly organized countries with no tradition of a professional diplomatic service or of a national civil service. In many of the richest and largest nations of the globe a professional diplomat's career is compromised if he or she (or even members of his or her family) disobeys the local authorities.

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Link (Check out the chart at the bottom of page): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity

I guess, thanks to Bolton and his Boy-King, the above is no longer 'operational'!!!

:mad::rofl::mad:

[Sanity Claws]

1. Diplomatic immunity confers immunity from prosecution

from foreign countries, not one's own.

[shraby]

2. Diplomatic immunity only covers

diplomats stationed in countries other than their own. It wouldn't cover Bolton in this country.

[WillyT]

4. I Understand That, But...

who in this country can come after him now? Can Fitzgerald still indict? Or does the State department, headed by Condi Rice, have to waive immunity first??? If the Executive Branch protects him, what jurisdiction has authority to prosecute???

:shrug:

[Sanity Claws]

5. Sure they can. The problem is not diplomatic immunity

but whether * will pardon him.

[WillyT]

7. So You're Saying That Any Jurisdiction Within The United States Can...

come after the United States Ambassador to the United Nations?

As long as he fucks up within our borders, he's fair game?

DUI in Mobile Alabama? Speeding ticket on the LA Freeway?

What if he fucks with another American? Say... he runs yelling through a hotel hallway in another country, and he's threatening the personal safety of a U.S. Citizen?


:shrug:

[Sanity Claws]

8. Sure he can prosecuted for anything he does here.

As for what you described as fucking with another American, I am familiar with that story. I doubt that rises to the level of a crime. Being an overbearing, intimidating boss is not a crime in this country. If it were, it'd be a lot easier to convict those at Enron, Tyco, etc.

[ThomWV]

6. He Has No Immunity To Wave

Just another common fucking criminal in the Bush Administration. In this case a sexually perverted neo-nazi traitor who was one of the main forces impelling the CIA to support Bush's claims for war.

[In_The_Wind]

3. One can only hope not

but we all know what's going to happen ... same stuff ~ different day.

and ... the crap continues to pour out of the White House

[Disturbed]

9. He perjured himself on a Offical Document.

That is a felony. The only problem with prosecuting him for that is that only Dems &/or Independents are accountable for violations &/or crimes.

[In_The_Wind]

10. yes!

I've noticed that myself.

The answer to many the problems we face today is simply to change the administration away from the republican party.