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Re:Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lie... by lostlogin on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:28PM (#28812045)
> Obviously, I would propose that someone who hacks U.S. interests having never set foot in the United States should be held accountable by U.S. courts.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but where this gets difficult is the inverse. When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US?

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Re:Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lie... by ComputerGuru on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:44PM (#28812630)
> When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US?

If they’re just another Joe Schmoe, they’ll be hung to dry. If they have connections, they not only won’t be extradited, they’ll be smuggled out of the country they committed bald-faced murder in to turn it into a question of extradition when it was not.

(Look up Anne Sacoolas.)

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Re:Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lie... by lostlogin on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:10PM (#28812827)
> Anne Sacoolas

This was front and centre of my thinking, along with some of the war-crimes scenarios that have played out.

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