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US Government refuses to waive employee's diplomatic immunity | Stuff.co.nz
It would appear that the white house has could not care less that their staff in over seas positions are wanted for questioning over alleged misconducts in other countries. Wonderful precedent. America can do what it wants where it wants whenever it wants even if it suspected of something illegal. And trump will back them.
Police want to speak with US diplomat Colin White over an incident in Lower Hutt, but his government won't waive his immunity.
A legal academic suspects the United States' refusal to waive diplomatic immunity for one of its Wellington-based staffers was a decision made in Washington.
The US has been asked to pull one of its embassy officials out of New Zealand in a diplomatic stoush involving an incident in suburban Lower Hutt.
Police were called to an address in the suburb of Tirohanga on Sunday night, which Alabama-born embassy attache Colin White had already left.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has confirmed it asked the US Government on Friday to waive diplomatic immunity so that police could investigate. However, the US declined.
Waikato University Professor of Law, Alexander Gillespie, said it was possible the US was enforcing a blanket rule not waive immunity for any of its staffers - a call likely to have been made by the White House.
"This may be a policy they have across the board, that no matter - anywhere - even with friendly countries, if one of their people are involved in an incident, they won't waive immunity.
It would appear that the white house has could not care less that their staff in over seas positions are wanted for questioning over alleged misconducts in other countries. Wonderful precedent. America can do what it wants where it wants whenever it wants even if it suspected of something illegal. And trump will back them.
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