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[–] gosso920 ago 

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[–] CobraStallone ago 

Diplomatic immunity is not like in the movies, it mostly covers and stops at parking offenses. Countries can rescind it at will, but usually reserve the right for serious crimes like murder or drug trafficking. That's talking about ambassadors and their close aides and immediate family, I doubt some random bodyguard is even covered by diplomatic immunity, to begin with.

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[–] o0shad0o [S] ago 

Diplomatic immunity covers pretty much everything. It's just that the ambassadors of civilized countries usually withdraw protection when one of their underlings does something egregious. There's no way based Erdogan would withdraw it. And it was my understanding most embassy staff brought in are covered, including bodyguards.

According to a fairly standard treaty, if the US isn't allowed to prosecute someone they can declare him 'persona non grata' and deport him. It would've been bad form to eject most of Erdogan's guards and leave him in the hands of foreign personnel, he would've made a lot of noise about it, so it wasn't done.

My personal opinion is that we should tell the Turkish ambassador that we can't assure his protection (from peaceful protests) to his country's demands and send him home to keep him "safe"... Won't happen though.

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[–] guinness2 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, has about $600 million worth of CIA contracts in his IT company.

If he wants more CIA money then they expect him to print what they say...