re: #1 Dark_Falcon

GGT has a page on this well, but I think her write-up was better.

I couldn’t find ggt’s page on this. Could you link, please? Meanwhile, here’s mine.

As for the strip search, even though the US Marshals arrested the suspect the lockup was run by the NYPD and strip searches are SOP for NYPD lockups. This is to prevent someone from retaining a weapon or drugs. Exceptions are not made for white-collar criminals.

Law enforcement has discretion. As I suggest in my page, the question is why discretion was not used for this diplomatic representative of a major friendly power.

re: #7 Randall Gross

I’m going to ask where everyone saying this is awful was when the Saudi incident similar to this one occurred a couple years back. I don’t recall people castigating the US then, so what’s the difference?

The Saudi woman, a member of the very large royal family, was apparently here on a tourist visa, not as a diplomat.