Secretary of State John Kerry personally expressed "regret" to the Indian government for last week's arrest of an Indian consular official, in an urgent bid to temper a diplomatic clash which escalated into Wednesday.
The State Department said Kerry personally called Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon on Wednesday to discuss the case. The statement said Kerry understands the importance of enforcing U.S. law but "it is also particularly important to Secretary Kerry that foreign diplomats serving in the United States are accorded respect and dignity just as we expect our own diplomats should receive overseas." ....
Khobragade was arrested by the U.S. Department of State's diplomatic security team and then handed over to U.S. marshals in New York....
Marie Harf, U.S. State Department deputy spokeswoman, said Khobragade does not have full diplomatic immunity. Instead, she has consular immunity from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts only with respect to acts performed in the exercise of consular functions.
If convicted, Khobragade faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for visa fraud and five years for making a false declaration. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/18/kerry-voices-regret-over-indian-diplomat-arrest-as-clash-escalates/
His own State Department arrested her and I am sure he was informed, or least a high ranking official was notified. So, in esscense he is throwing his own State Department under the bus.
Now for they cry baby woman: Prosecutors say Khobragade claimed on visa application documents she paid her Indian maid $4,500 per month, but that she actually paid her less than $3 per hour. Khobragade has pleaded not guilty and plans to challenge the arrest on grounds of diplomatic immunity....
In an email published in India media on Wednesday, Khobragade said she was treated like a common criminal, including with a cavity search -- a detail that had not previously been disclosed.
"I broke down many times as the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping and cavity searches, swabbing, in a holdup with common criminals and drug addicts were all being imposed upon me despite my incessant assertions of immunity," she reportedly wrote....
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Tuesday that it had strip-searched Khobragade and placed her in a cell with other female defendants. It described the measures as "standard arrestee intake procedures."
I don't know what is worse, having lied on her visa application or paying her maid slave wages of under $3 an hour.
I have no problem with the way she was treated- she was treated like everyone else- like crap.
The bottom line: Why hasn't India focused on what this lady has supposedly did? Instead of bitching about the way the slave owner was treated by the cops, why don't focus on what this slave owner supposedly had done- paying a slave maid less than $3 an hour.
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